500th Show Extravaganza!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The opinions expressed on today's show are those are the
participants and may not be the views and opinions of
the owners of this station. This is On Target with
Phil and Eric Delbert, the most informative and entertaining gun
show and Columbus sponsored by l EPD Firearms Ranged Training Facility.
Bill and Eric our season gun professionals, current police officers

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in Columbus and owners of l EPD Firearms and Range.
And now here's your host for On Target, Phil and
Eric Delbert.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Good morning and welcome to On Target. I am your host,
Eric Delbert. Long with my father Phil, Sit back for
yourself a cup of coffee, spend an hour with us
before the Bucks game, and hopefully it will be an
informative show today. This show really came about because we
truly felt we had something to offer after fielding questions

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on a daily basis at the store, and we think
that doing a show like this will give the rest
of Columbus an opportunity to have their questions answered and
be able to call in and hopefully learn something you know.
Over the course of a week, we filled hundreds of
questions on CCW training inquiries, people asking about picking out

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their first gun, and really today we have the core
of our business here and hopefully we can shed some
light on those from week to week and give you
something to walk away with. The format is going to
be much like the call in shows on the weekends,
the automotive or home and garden shows that are common

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on the weekends, where we anticipate you being able to
call in ask questions and hopefully our Panelhill will be
able to ask answer them. Just make them easy, Just
make them easy. If there's something that we can't help
you with, we'll post a later time on the website
on Target radioshow dot com and you can always email

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those questions as well to on Target at LPD dot com.
So the first segment here today, we wanted to kind
of introduce ourselves, tell you a little bit about us,
how we got here, the different backgrounds we came from,
and really kind of kind of get you introduced to
what I call the cast of characters. And good afternoon,

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and welcome to on Target. We're broadcasting live from the
studios of l EPD Firearms and Range and Training Facility
that's located at nine nine ninety triple nine Bethel Road.
Is it really show five hundred, Papaul, Yes, here's the problem.
That was the intro to our very first show in
twenty thirteen, and I thought we were good. That was bad?

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I mean, have we been bad the whole time?

Speaker 3 (02:51):
I thought we'd just take that yesterday?

Speaker 2 (02:54):
I mean, were we really that? I mean, well, you
know now I'm in doubt of the last five hundred,
four hundred ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I am surprised we have a following. You know, I
am too.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
I mean, all those times the mom texted me after
the show that we did good, I'm starting to wonder
she was.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Being Mommy, you were so good area.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
I know now I'm beginning to beginning to doubt that. Guys,
we are the owners of LAPD Firearms Range and training
Facility and our active in law enforcement. But for one
hour on Saturdays, we put together a group of firearm
experts to discuss new products in the market, training tips,
and oftentimes political topics surrounding the Second Amendment. Our commitment, though,
has always been to bring you the facts about our
industry and help listeners and customers with safe, responsible ownership

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of firearms. Guys five hundred, today's five hundredth show.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Wow unbelievable. Just at the crowd. Guys.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
We started. It was the twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen, September
of thirteen, which ironically was only four or five months
after we opened the store.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Yeah, April ninths.

Speaker 5 (04:01):
Yeah, we opened the exactly and I did so much
show prep for that. I know now I do none.
Now I feel the authenticity come through. Yeah, guys joining
me today in the LPD studios, I got JC.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Sitting to my right.

Speaker 3 (04:15):
Jac.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I can't believe five hundred. I can't believe it.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
It's unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
It really is, Big Ed sitting beside him. Good to
see Edward. Mister Douglas is not here, probably because he
said five hundred, Come a five hundred. I do that
in a year and a half. But Chuck has certainly
been a part much over the years. Popaul to my left.
You know, I put together some stats for the past
five hundred shows. I just pulled these quickly. Over the
past five hundred shows, JC has spent three years and

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seven days writing the news stories.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Yeah, yes, unfortunately that's not accurate.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Ed has been on probation seventy seven percent of those shows.

Speaker 3 (04:55):
Gotta love it, Gotta love it.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Chuck Douglas five hundred times is thought to himself, what
am I doing hanging with these ding dongs here? And
Paul Paul, Paul Paul has can this is up to
date too. I had to change this right before we
got on. Okay, Paul Paul has consumed one and twenty
two donuts. He's almost up with Chicago stats. There you
go during the life of the show. Most of those

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were consumed during the show as well, which is ironic. Yes,
and guys, I should I should probably introduce our most
popular guests at the table. You may have run across
him on YouTube. You're out there flipping around, you may
run across him and YouTube. Yeah, yeah, probably he's probably
attributed to a few of sleepless nights. I know for me,

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he certainly has. Or maybe you're one of his eight
million followers million. That's close to what we have ed,
but not not you know, not quite there. Mister Hiccock
forty five's with us today?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Hello, right, yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
You know, like you were saying, I was thinking a
second ago, you didn't know how bad you were. You know,
that's sometimes a benefit. I didn't know how bad we
were or still are. But you just keep doing it anywhere.

Speaker 2 (06:06):
Obviously obviously you uh yeah, you must have been doing
something right because eight million followers.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
I don't know, I don't know. There's no accounting for
bad taste. But we appreciate the people to watch.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
We are so so happy you drove up today to
join us. I mean, you've been on the show a
number of times, been at the store. I couldn't believe
it's twenty eighteen when you were here before.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
Yeah, when I visited the store, yeah, happened to be
in the area and watered in. I didn't know anybody,
you know, And did.

Speaker 7 (06:34):
You just happen to be in the area today.

Speaker 6 (06:36):
I was up there for a second Amendment Riley in
twenty eighteen, I think, And I hit a couple of
gun shops like I usually do. And then no, I'm
visiting relatives in Northern Kentucky. Uh well, I wanted to
come up if I could, and so I kind of
planned it so I could spend some time in Northern
Kentucky with relatives, and then and bopped up here this
morning just to you know, on the air, to earn

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your program.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh no, no, we really appreciate it really so nice
to have you here.

Speaker 3 (07:03):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (07:04):
Let's jump to I think we have a caller LS
saying you were on with on target. Maybe not.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Caller, that's a good start, Yes.

Speaker 8 (07:20):
Sir, Hello, Yes, Hey Bernie Marino.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Senator Marino. Hey, so good to hear your voice.

Speaker 8 (07:29):
How's everything down there?

Speaker 2 (07:31):
It is great, It is great. I know you've been
running a bit crazy. I haven't seen you here at
the range for a minute.

Speaker 8 (07:38):
I know, well there was three weeks ago, but we
have you know, I've lived in Cleveland, my son's in Columbus.
I only go to Columbus when we need overnight when
we're driving to different places. But yeah, I miss you guys.
A lot of a lot of work to do around
the state, a lot of work to do in DC.

Speaker 2 (07:54):
Yeah, definitely definitely do a fine job of it.

Speaker 9 (07:57):
Thank you.

Speaker 8 (07:57):
Appreciate that. Appreciate that I will.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, I had an opportunity to be on the call
with Senator Housted this week. I can't believe the schedule
that you both keep. It's amazing. I don't think people
realize how hectic best schedule is.

Speaker 8 (08:12):
Well, you know what, I'm used to it from the
private sector. Honestly, you know, the car business is seven
days a week, as you know, Eric, when you own
a business, it's twenty four to seven. So it's good work.
You can make a big difference. We had a great
event yesterday in Chili Cooffee. There was a private equity
company that was looking to shut down the paper mill.

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We're able to get them to reconsider keep the plant
opens at the end of the year. That gives us
eight months to find a new buyer. Somebody's going to
come in there and keep that plant alive for a
long time, which is great.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yeah, great, great. We appreciate that we were keeping up
with that in the news. Well, I appreciate you calling
in today and being part of the show. Number five hundred.

Speaker 8 (08:54):
Congratulations, that's quite the accomplishment. I'm sure you never thought
that you have the following that you did when you
started this thing.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
No, not at all. We actually I'm very surprised for
that number five hundred, but it's great, and then to
have relatively the same crew for that whole time. I'm
so appreciative. I'm span over twelve years now, so.

Speaker 10 (09:11):
Yeah, yeah, we really appreciate you. Have a lot of
fans here in the audience and the central Ohioway, really
thank you for the what you're doing already jumping into
Senator and carrying on.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
So thank you. Well, I appreciate very much.

Speaker 8 (09:24):
Guys, everybody have a phenomenal eater gre.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
You as wellso Senator Ohio. Senator Bernie Marina, what a
good guy. Solid, always stopping by the store when he's
in town and so good. Good, been on the show
a number of times. So guys, geez, I can't believe,
I mean, five hundred shows and to have Hitcock here
in person. I mean we had a chance to before

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the show to kind of look at a couple of
neat guns back there. Yeah, you know, I'm going to
check the safe to make sure the Jack Ruby gun
is still in house when.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
You leave, you better check. Yeah, make sure everything you're
still here. Large pockets and I like firearms.

Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, and Papa, I don't know if you know this,
but one of the things he really has an affinity
to is J Frame Smith and Wessons.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Well yeah, yeah, you know that's who understood. Yeah, who
would yeah, yeah, anybody with good taste. You like Jay
frames and Kay frames and in frames.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah frames, the X frame.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
What was the one that we saw him shooting there
just yesterday.

Speaker 2 (10:28):
On TV on your It must have been a Smith
and Wesson five hundred or four sixty up close with
the watermelons.

Speaker 6 (10:35):
Watermelons, Okay, that could have been four sixty or five.

Speaker 3 (10:38):
Hundred, and the thing that I was thinking about.

Speaker 4 (10:40):
I shot Eric's one time and it hurt the heck
out of my wrist?

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Does it shooting that?

Speaker 2 (10:45):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (10:46):
And I don't know.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
There is ammo that is so hot that it can
I know a friend who actually broke.

Speaker 3 (10:54):
His hand firing one of those really five hundred with.

Speaker 6 (10:57):
Some seven hundred and fifty grand ammo or but I'd
like to fire those kinds of things. They don't hurt
as much as one would think they might because they're
so heavy. You know, if you had a really heavy firearm, George,
while that recoil. But you can always find some ammal,
I mean, in any firearm that will just set you
back though, you know, set you on fire.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Yeah, but there was those powerful ones. What it did
to the watermelons and stuff, I mean, that makes for
some neat video.

Speaker 3 (11:21):
We were wondering who cleans up the mess? Oh, the raccoons.

Speaker 6 (11:27):
As far as the Yeah, the watermelons and they won't
clean up the plastic though I know I haven't got
them to do that yet. No, yeah, they're not that
smart things. Their union can't try. Yeah, it's not in
their job description.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
What you know, it's amazing, are you. I mean it's
been what since six when you.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Started h O seven.

Speaker 6 (11:49):
I think when we put up the first gun video,
it just some silly things like the year YouTube started,
I guess, just shooting through my car, some dumb things
like that on the range. But the first thing that
you could classify as educational I use that term loosely
of course, as everybody knows, was two thousand and seven,
you know, just showing a couple of guys glock or

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whatever and how it comes apart and shooting it there
on the range, and just real basic a couple of things.

Speaker 10 (12:17):
Yeah, I think I read that for sixty Smith and
Wesson watermelon was your number one video. I think it's
been viewed like forty four million times something like that.

Speaker 3 (12:26):
I think it probably is things like that.

Speaker 6 (12:28):
We've always done a variety of things, you know, just
a little fun things like that, and then got long
thirty minute videos, you know, trying to explain something and
huge stuff. So we just do a lot of different things.
Car pumpkins, smash pumpkins, and you know, shoot, watermelons. Haven't
done any watermelon shooting for a long time. I forget
those are even up. Well it's almost seasoned. So yeah,
pretty sooner harvested and was shooting at the same time.

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We were always That's the thing about YouTube is kind
of weird. You know, that doesn't matter a video I
did we did eight years ago. You know there's people
still watching, of course and sitting in messages about how
them it was or how great was you know, you know,
you can never get away from your history.

Speaker 2 (13:04):
We we did the water melonitude here one time on
the indoor rendoors. Yeah, there's still remnants of yeah, yeah
that in the apple.

Speaker 3 (13:13):
Sit it's better outside.

Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, I wish we'd have known that. I used to
having funding it, having fun. Yes, oh yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
It is. As I've said before, the way we do it,
it's not as much work.

Speaker 6 (13:26):
As it is with some people. They do like forty
segments to get a video done and have to redo
this segment, do that, didn't say this exactly right, that
kind of thing where we just kind of turned the
camera on, and I know what we're going to shoot,
what we're looking at, and kind of some points I
want to make, and it literally is I think.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
Easier that way and more I don't know. I can.
I can keep doing it and enjoying it.

Speaker 10 (13:48):
It's more realistic, it doesn't look stage, and it really
gets into it. We all make mistakes, and when of
those happened, it's nice to know that.

Speaker 6 (13:55):
You most we want to show the real effect of
the guns and if it missed outre malfunctions or my
brain malfunctions, all that's in the video.

Speaker 3 (14:03):
So part of it, Yeah, it's part of it. I
can't pretend I'm smarter than I have there. It is
thirty minutes live.

Speaker 10 (14:10):
You know, you have about twenty seven hundred or twenty
five how many videos you have out there?

Speaker 3 (14:13):
How about some were neighborhood twenty seven hundred. Wow.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
So in addition to you being here, in addition to
our five hundred show JC, it's a monumental day in
US history today, monumental tell us a little bit about
what today is.

Speaker 10 (14:30):
Well, today, April nineteenth, this is the two hundred and
fiftieth anniversary of actually the freedom of this country and
the founding of this country, because this is the date
that armed military of another government being Great Britain, was

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trying to strip the citizenry of its arms and ammunition
in the towns of Luxington and Concord. And this is
the day of the shot heard around the world. And seriously,
freedom was born today, two hundred and fifty years ago,
and it was born thanks to armed citizenry. So it's

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it's incredible. This is, you know, more than a year
before the Declaration of Independence. But this is what God
has going.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
You know.

Speaker 10 (15:20):
The tyranny were the major issues, of course, but the
attempt to seize arms and ammunitions from the citizens to
control them, that's what set everything off. So you know,
one of the ironies, unfortunately, is that this happened in
Massachusetts and just two days ago the Supreme Court actually
apartment the Supreme Court the the yeah, the panel first

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District Circuit Court upheld a law in Massachusetts which basically
would be in the ownership of what they call assault weapons,
which is more than just the AR fifteen uh, and
also ban any magazine that holds more than ten rounds.

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And it's just it followed suit on the First Circuit
Court last year on a case in Rhode Island upheld
there magazine ban which literally was a confiscatory band. You
either major magazine so it couldn't hold more than ten
rounds or you need to turn it in, and it
was a felony. It's a felony offense to even have

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one magazine. And also you have to have a permit
to even buy AMO, and if you sell AMO with
that to someone without them showing that permit, that's also
a felony right.

Speaker 3 (16:36):
Off the bat first time.

Speaker 10 (16:37):
So this is what's happening here and the fighter the
fight continues.

Speaker 2 (16:43):
Jase, I want to hear a little bit later in
the show. I want to get to an amazing story
that came out of that time. That's that's worth repeating.
But first I think we have a caller you're on
with on Target.

Speaker 11 (16:53):
Hey, how are you guys?

Speaker 3 (16:55):
Hey?

Speaker 2 (16:55):
Is this is this cam?

Speaker 11 (16:57):
It is cam coming to you actually from Massachusetts.

Speaker 3 (17:02):
Really, my sympathies you need.

Speaker 2 (17:04):
However, do you need help getting out?

Speaker 3 (17:08):
You know?

Speaker 11 (17:08):
Thankfully I've got to flight out tomorrow, so I'm only
behind in the lines for a short period of time
and I'm here helping out the Gun Owners Action League
fight back against these egregious decisions from the First Circuit,
the unconstitutional actions of lawmakers in Massachusetts. They've got a
big dinner tonight celebrating the tw hundred and fifty anniversary
of Lexington and Conquered, and I'm very honored to be
a part of that. Wow, I'm honored to be a

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part of this five hundredth anniversary show.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
We're honored that you called in. I mean, can we
sit here, and we're kind of kind of a bunch
of ding dongs outside of Hitcock forty five o'clock, the
biggest and and you know, we do this and it's
taken us twelve years to hit five hundred shows. You
probably do that every year and a half. I mean,
you are really on the front lines of doing what
we attempt to do weekly. You do it daily. And

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we're really so appreciative that you're out there fighting for us,
fighting for the Second Amendment, and really our hats off
to you as well.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well.

Speaker 11 (18:00):
Listen, I mean, you guys may do a radio show,
you know, once a week, but you are you're fighting
each and every day for a segment rights, and I
think your audience knows that. So again, I'm really honored
that you asked me to be a part of this.
I think it's fantastic. Hope that we have five hundred
more so we have five thousand more shows from you
guys because you are out there again actively defending our
segment rights. But thank you for everything you guys are doing.

Speaker 7 (18:22):
Now.

Speaker 2 (18:22):
We appreciate it. I thought you wanted to say something, Well, no.

Speaker 6 (18:26):
I appreciate what you do too, Cam. I check your
catch your videos pretty often. Thanks a lot.

Speaker 11 (18:31):
Yeah, well that that is a high honor. Thank you
very much. And I understand you're gonna be in Atlanta.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Next week, right, yes, I'll be there, all right.

Speaker 11 (18:38):
We I'm hoping that you and I get a chance
to sit down and maybe we can have you on
the show.

Speaker 12 (18:42):
Okay, I'll look for you, okay, So yeah, great, great, great, great,
well Cam, thank you so much for calling in being
part of the show, and thank you for the continual
fight out there for us.

Speaker 8 (18:53):
Absolutely.

Speaker 11 (18:54):
Hey, congratulations again, and I'll have you back on Cam
in Company before long. But thanks again for the invite today.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
All right, great, thank you so much, Cam Edwards from
Bearing Arms Cam Company. Jac. You pull a lot of
news from that site. I mean they do a great job.

Speaker 10 (19:06):
Oh yeah, they do. Oh he does a fantastic job. Yeah,
we know him. He's a friend of ours and great, great, great,
great information.

Speaker 2 (19:14):
So, Jac, before cam Quot we were talking about the
anniversary two hundred and fifty years on the shot heard
around the world. There's an amazing story that came out
of that. Hi, you probably remember hearing about the story
and so forth, JC, Why don't you remind us of that.

Speaker 10 (19:29):
It's just when you think back this, the most powerful
army in the world had like seven hundred British soldiers
coming across and again to confiscate arms and ammunition from
the good citizenry. And as they were going across Lexington
was pretty simple. They only had about fifty to eighty
folks of provincials out there, citizens with their musketry and

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following pieces. And at the first volley they lost. The
British fired and eight were killed, nine wounded, and the
small force retreated, of course, in front of seven hundred people.
But when I got the concord, the word had already
gotten out the ball Paul Revere's and DAWs and it
went out on the nineteenth eighteenth party after midnight, so

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hundreds of now citizens came up there with their mustard musketry,
and there weren't new rifles back then. They were all
smooth boards, and they were there. And now this time
the British army had to cross a bridge which was
narrow and they couldn't do the full frontal, so they

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kind of were stimied for a while. And I saw
the great numbers and people were coming in massively to
support the colonists. So two were killed from the British,
two were killed from the citizens. But then they started
to retreat, so they said, hey, we can't go forward,
so we're going to go back to Boston. So but
when they did that, all citizens hundreds pulled out on

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the side and they were caught and crossfires, and people
were so outraged about this that one guy who is
my hero from back at that time, he was about
eighty years old. Some say he was seventy eight, some
say he was eighty one. But his name was Samuel
Whitmore ironically, he was with a British He was with
the British dragoons and then fought French and Indian Wars

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and the seventeen sixty three. But he at that age
got up and his family said, what are you doing?

Speaker 3 (21:25):
You don't do this. He goes, no, I think I
need to go into town.

Speaker 10 (21:27):
They caught him oiling up his two dueling pistols in
his musket and got his French recovered sword put it on,
and this eighty year old Samuel Whitmore went out to
a wall and as the British were retreating, he was
pretty much a point blank range, and he just opened
up on him. And they said he was a robust

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man of strong constitution, and he was tired of what
they were trying to do to the colonists. He ended
up killing three only had three shots. And then as
he was retreating, they sent a group of soldiers out
to take care of him. And so now he was
out of m he was pulling his sword out and
when they got to him, they shot him in the face,
so it took off part of his face.

Speaker 3 (22:10):
And down he went.

Speaker 10 (22:13):
And when he was down they started clubbing him with
the butt sox, and then they bandetted him thirteen times
and leaving this eighty year old man for dead, and
they disappeared. So they once they had left, they went
out and recovered his friends, recovered the body. They took
him to a doctor who said, futile, this man's gone.

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So they did, you know, pick him up and carry
him back to his home and placed him, put him
in his bed, and that's where he died. Eighteen years
later he recovered from his wounds, and relatives say it
took a couple of weeks for him to get back,
but he lived. He died in February of seventeen ninety

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and that is a man. And and the quote that
they had from him, which is worth worth hearing, when
they said, but you know, his face was all messed
up for the rest of his life. And he was
asked that he regret his actions, and no, he said,
he goes, I should do it just so again. And uh,
he wanted to see the complete overthrow of his enemies
and his country enjoy all the blessings of peace and independents.

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And his tombstone is right there and writing spot and
so hats off to uh Samuel Whitmer. Wow, he was
up today fifty years So cool.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
That's amazing. Guys. Where you're listening to the five hundred
show of on Target And if you haven't caught up
by now, thanks to our good friends at WTV in
and Tela the producer. This is a commercial free hour.
I should probably have said that at the top. Yeah,
how about that there's no commercials. I mean there's no commercials.
There's no way I printed the weather out. There's no
If you wanted to know the weather, I just look outside.
But there's no weather. There's no commercials, there's no news.

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So we are rolling until fifty nine, Papa.

Speaker 3 (23:59):
And there's no bathroom breaks.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
Then that that could be a problem for you. It
could be you know, it goes without saying that. We've
been preparing for this show for a minute, Paul, Paul,
so we you know, I got a clean shirt out,
as did you, and then you show up with tape
on your glasses like yourle hercle.

Speaker 3 (24:21):
I didn't show up that way.

Speaker 4 (24:22):
I pulled out my glasses to get ready for the
show and the lens fell out.

Speaker 2 (24:26):
Okay, our esteemed guests who drove thousands of miles to
be here with us today, he too had a glass problem,
huh that he fixed before the show at the eyeglass fixed.

Speaker 3 (24:36):
Before the show. But mine happened a minute before the
show starts. All right, you know always has excuse. I
wish you didn't wear your pocket protector.

Speaker 6 (24:44):
Let you I went to the professionals next door.

Speaker 2 (24:48):
Yes, that was funny. Yeah you did. You get to
get utilized some of our the eyeglass people here, U
s eyeglass. Yeah, all American, American, all American. I got
him hooked up.

Speaker 3 (25:00):
You got your show shout out.

Speaker 2 (25:01):
Oh, definitely, absolutely, they took care of him. Had to
come all this way if you get dry glasses.

Speaker 3 (25:05):
Yeah, I mean it was worth the trip right there. Perfect.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
I saw you leaving after that, actually and yeah.

Speaker 7 (25:12):
Yeah, we have one of our listeners asking a question
and I give them the answer ready, mister hitcock. But
I know they want to hear it from you. Which
is better than nine or the forty.

Speaker 3 (25:21):
Five a week? His name, it ain't.

Speaker 13 (25:25):
I don't beay. You got to ask the questions that
you're not. No guys ever argued that one before. Right now,
what you're doing, you're carrying in your pocket. Nine might
be better if you're not care if you're carrying on
your belt. Maybe forty five is whatever you shoot the best,
that's all right.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
And you've been we talked before the show. I mean,
you've been really fond of these new Ellipsey specials that
we've some of the people in our audience have bottom
actually got to see two or three people the J frame,
the Jay frames and the thirty two each and our magniums.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
Yeah yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (25:55):
Really, I really, I've always liked the J frame and
I like the upgrades on the Jay frames. You been
a big fan of the little six forty two for
a long time, which so many people are familiar with,
the little airweight you know, concealed hammer. Uh, have carried
it for a long time, quarter of a century, off
and on and and uh, you know, the upgrade, your
nine better sights and sound like an ad for the

(26:16):
Smith and Wesson.

Speaker 3 (26:16):
But yeah, and it always goes bang when you pull
the trig or done they have for me? Yeah? Yeah?
And so how many J frames do you have?

Speaker 6 (26:26):
I don't know, eight or nine? Probably really Okay, Well
that's a little bit more than me. I don't know,
really I thought it was going to be more. He
would have you'd have more than him.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Yeah, No, maybe I did it one time, but then
Eric or whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:38):
But you got today, you got the whole kind of
a neat J frame, actually two neat jframes.

Speaker 6 (26:43):
Yeah, the Jack Ruby Yeah, that was pretty cool. That
was pretty cool.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
And then also one of the very very early early
early Jay frames.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
Oh that one I love that was.

Speaker 4 (26:53):
I should have brought in the Lemon Squeeze Lemon Squeeze.

Speaker 6 (26:56):
Yeah yeah, that earlier one. What Decide has made it?
Oh yeah what Geril number like eighties? Yeah, made in
probably what nineteen fifty or nineteen fifty first, so that had.

Speaker 10 (27:09):
The Chief Special year that had the Police Chief's National
Police Chiefs Convention.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
They said, they goes, what do you guys want to
call this? They took a vote, they want to call it.
Why did they call it the Chief Special? Because because
the chiefs they're voted. They said, hey, we want a
name for this gun. And they in honor of or
the banquet or whatever they.

Speaker 10 (27:29):
Had it was the national Convention in nineteenth fifty or
the Police Chiefs National Convention.

Speaker 3 (27:33):
You have something else? I thought it was like one
hundred years? Was it Smith and Weston?

Speaker 2 (27:40):
That was the sal centennial?

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Yeah yeah there you yeah, the Chief Special And that's
all the show prep I have.

Speaker 3 (27:50):
Thank Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:54):
So you know, I look back guys over the last
five hundred shows, I mean we were here, I mean,
do good, bad times, and we were on air live
when the two Westerville officers were shot and killed. Remember
that we were getting that feeded like.

Speaker 3 (28:06):
Happened on my birthday, and it was a sad day
for me.

Speaker 2 (28:08):
We were on the air live for that. I think
back doing the show during the riots and during COVID.
I mean, that was a time, and I'm sure you
remember that. I mean that was a time where we
were every week we were announcing how many guns we
had in the store. You know, typically have a thousand
guns here, and we were literally two weeks from away
from not having a gun in the store. I mean,

(28:31):
that's how crazy I tell people. You know, at that time,
selling seven or eight guns a day was a good
day for us. That was a soliday for us. And
at that time, for that two week period, we were
selling one hundred and fifty guns a day.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Wow.

Speaker 4 (28:44):
Yeah, And you know what we would have done remarkably
well if we had toilet paper also.

Speaker 6 (28:51):
Yeah, right, we all have been in business how many
years where you were around with Sandy Hook, we.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Were getting ready. I actually had ars in my base
in anticipation of opening up this sore and Sandy Hook occurred.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
First day of thirteen.

Speaker 6 (29:06):
Yeah, okay, because there, I mean, there's so many horror
stories in the fire's business here, you lined up around
the building, you know, after Sandy and other similar days
like that. COVID was a weird time for sure.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, definitely definitely.

Speaker 10 (29:19):
Gun Whistled was a Sega four ten. Someone came in
with what and it was like it was amazing.

Speaker 2 (29:25):
So I wish I had that bad Yeah. Yeah, well
you talk about some of the guns. I went back
and looked through that some of the guns we did
for Guns of the Week, and some of these have
come and gone. I mean we thought we were cutting edge.
You know that that smith wasn't super carry, and you know,
and and I mean I went back and do you
guys remember first of all, do you remember the Honor Guard?

Speaker 3 (29:44):
Oh yeah, you.

Speaker 2 (29:45):
Remember that one kind of was kind of a shield.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (29:49):
Things come and go. There's a lot of in the
gun industry.

Speaker 2 (29:52):
How about okay, how about this one, guys, the Taurus Curve.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Oh oh yeah, I remember that. Wow? Yeah that that
came out. We were started.

Speaker 6 (30:05):
I remember we were maybe going to get one of
those who a video, but we just never did. I
guess you couldn't find one now.

Speaker 2 (30:10):
I still can't. I mean, they we never see them
come in the trade, but they actually they gun itself
had a curvature to it, so when you carried it
inside the waistband, it was supposed to curve with your
with your body.

Speaker 3 (30:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (30:23):
If you all known a lot of marketing people in
the industry, I mean, you know, yeah, marketing people are
a lot are great and or smarter than I am.
But you know a lot of things come out because
of marketing. It didn't go so well, and.

Speaker 2 (30:36):
Some of them you look at, I mean, I'm not there.
I mean we love Smith Weston obviously Smith Weston shotgun
it just never it just you never took off. How
about the Thunderstruck twenty two magnum remember that one little
double barrel?

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Yeah I remember that.

Speaker 6 (30:50):
Yeah, Well, you want to be glad, and I appreciate
the fact that the industry is not afraid to try
new things, you know.

Speaker 3 (30:58):
But then again, they came out with some real If
you think.

Speaker 10 (31:00):
Oh yeah, the Leonard which when you bought all that
cobre stuff and was pulling out all sorts of do.

Speaker 2 (31:05):
You remember those there were a single shot, four tens
or forty five long colts, pretty crudely made.

Speaker 3 (31:13):
Very crudely made Tennessee. Yeah. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, my
son had one of those. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
They had some double barrel.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
Aid version of that. Yeah, yeah, they were really there's.

Speaker 6 (31:25):
A retesting I like the bond of arms. Yeah, Grengers.
You probably have some of those here. I don't know,
but I mean they're really interesting firearms and some of
those kinds when things are made really well. Now, whether
you haven't use for another matter, but they're neat.

Speaker 2 (31:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (31:37):
They were something about the dinners and two inch barrel
with shooting forty five seven.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, yeah, you could almost have the bullets sticking out
of the Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:47):
So really certainly some times do you uh, I mean,
is there anything you look back? Is there anything you
you've been hunting, Like anytime you go into a gun store, man,
I'm looking for or is there anything you wish a
manufacturer would come out with?

Speaker 3 (32:02):
Not a lot.

Speaker 6 (32:03):
It's rare that I'm going in looking for something that's
like I just can't find it, or if I really
desperately wanted it, we could probably get someone to run
down for us, maybe a sponsor or somebody to help us.
We've done so many firearms and I'm not as big
a fan of those unicorn guns just because they're unusual.

(32:24):
We kind of focus on things that people are interested
in and ask us about and want us to look
at that we like or whatever. Like I was talking
about earlier, I found a Smith and Wesson. I'd never
shot a model of nineteen fifty, a fourth model forty
four special Military version four inch, which, if you know,

(32:45):
Smith and Wesson's so for me, that's like, I'm excited
about that kind of thing and we'll do videos with that.
And originally bought a forty model twenty four three with
Smith and Wesson. I've never owned one of those. So
things like that I get excited about where I don't know,
maybe the average person who's new to firearms. I see
some gray hair out here in the crowd, they probably
know what I'm talking about, but uh, you know, a

(33:07):
young person interested in getting his first block or something
like that, they don't know what a Model twenty four is,
you know, kind of which is fine. Twenty five We
tried to introduce them to it, you know, or twenty five. Yeah,
six twenty five, Yeah.

Speaker 10 (33:18):
Those old heavy duty outdoorsman's four came up with, Yeah,
you're in the three fifty seven Magna way back in
the day exactly.

Speaker 6 (33:27):
And then again there are new polymer guns, you know,
whether whoever it is, cigare Block or comes out with
a new model that people are interested in, then I'm
kind of on the lookout for one, and we usually
have a sponsor that's not a gun company, you know
that we can get one through that kind of thing.

Speaker 2 (33:42):
Do you have you seen I'm kind of a fan
of the five seven round or have you seen the
celtech that the P fifty seven yet where you strip
a clip loaded from the.

Speaker 6 (33:52):
PU I have seen it. Yeah, I'm not not used it.
I'm not a big fan of the five to seven.
Not too Yeah, I did big Contrary forty five. Yeah,
it's a little bitty bitch. Yeah, yeah, No, they're interesting.
I had most of the P ninety. Yeah, well this
for a while. I sold to a guy that wanted
it badly. I'm really interesting, you know. And in a

(34:15):
handgun in the pretty a secret service carried that, right,
so I mean for a while, yeah, yeah, not whatever.
For whatever, they know, the airport, didn't you.

Speaker 2 (34:24):
Pardon they had it when you were there, didn't the
airport police? They had a couple, like the supervisors had
five sevens.

Speaker 7 (34:32):
I think I don't recall that. I remember the boat
anchor forty that we carried.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
I know they had some because it was supposed to be.

Speaker 4 (34:42):
No wait, wait wait, you know I wanted to get
a four inch barrel and the forty five didn't come
at that time, didn't come with four inch barrels Smith
and Weston, so I bought forties.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
And you'll be happy to know our department just last
year stepped away from the forty fi. We were carrying
forty fives until last year.

Speaker 3 (35:02):
Oh really, which which gun model?

Speaker 2 (35:03):
M and P. Yeah, we went to the f N
five O nine's nine now? So which is which I
still carry?

Speaker 6 (35:11):
The Smith and Wison I like, yeah, forty five is cool.
I like that five O nine a lot though that. Yeah,
I've got the full size, an older one, and then
also the compact, that compact I think they still called
a five O nine, right, But it's a compact size.

Speaker 3 (35:26):
You know.

Speaker 6 (35:27):
That feels about as good as any handgun I hold,
And I don't know why I don't shoot it more
or carry it more. I still always default to ACK
nineteen if I want a gun that size, But that
thing feels so good in your hand.

Speaker 3 (35:39):
Did you?

Speaker 2 (35:40):
Were we talking that you like the reflex as well,
the FN reflex.

Speaker 6 (35:43):
I like it has such a light trigger. I'm not
sure it's the best thing to carry. I don't know
if they're all that that good, but they've got a
target trigger in them?

Speaker 3 (35:52):
Can you hold it with your hand? So yeah, big hands,
so yeah.

Speaker 6 (35:54):
I uh yeah, which I've talked about before. I I
kind of made it a mission of mine when I
saw how how how well or how will I could
actually shoot a glock twenty seven or twenty six back
in the day. I was surprised when I first held
those and shot the Wow. I wouldn't have thought that,
you know, and and and they're so concealable. So I

(36:15):
kind of with Jay frames, I just make it a mission.
Even though I have big, ugly hands, I could do
okay with those guns, and I want to do okay
with them.

Speaker 3 (36:25):
I want to be able to carry.

Speaker 6 (36:26):
There's a big advantage too, if you're like me with
large hands, uh, to not have to eliminate those from
a choice. Yeah, Because let's face it, the reason that
Jay frame is so popular is it's so easy to
conceal those baby glock, the FN, the reflex, you know
their they're small guns. P three sixty five, all those guns.
A lot of people think, well, there's no way I

(36:47):
could shoot one of those, but I've kind of I
don't worry about that little finger. I let them dangle
and I can.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Go and I'm the same way.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
I have to have all fingers on.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
Oh yeah, but I tell you that bodyguard, the Smith
and Wesson Bodyguard three eighty that just came out, that
two point out. You can get your whole hand on
that that thing.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
Yeah, I can shoot that, okay too, as little as
it is.

Speaker 6 (37:08):
Yeah, there's something about the ergonomics of a fire I'm
not even sure what it is. The engineers, I guess
figure that out. But a lot like the P three
sixty five, and in that that bodyguard, as small as
it is, even with large hands, it well, you can
shoot anything.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Basically.

Speaker 6 (37:24):
The problem is if you have large hands with some
of those little bit of guns, you tend you almost
can't avoid pulling the left for them, you know, right right? Yeah,
but those are they're shootable.

Speaker 2 (37:33):
Do you have one yet?

Speaker 3 (37:34):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (37:34):
I do.

Speaker 3 (37:35):
We've done a video with it. I like it. Yeah,
and I always come back to by Jack Frames for pocket.

Speaker 2 (37:41):
Do you I mean, you've been doing this a long
time now, an enormous amount of followers. Do you see
yourself as as fighting for the Second Amendment out there?
Are you just more concerned with having fun showing people?
I mean, you stayed out of the fray. I don't
really so of the politics side of things pretty much.

Speaker 6 (37:58):
We definitely stay out of party politics. And uh, but
I think i'll say you to answer your question. Both,
you know, we talk a lot about Second Amendment and uh,
and just we feel like bringing people through through what
we do is our best approach rather than I mean,
we could put on videos and preach about the Second
Amendment instead of doing what we do, and we'd probably have,

(38:21):
you know, five hundred subscribers instead of the millions.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
Right. Uh, So we feel like we do we do
more by what the way we do.

Speaker 6 (38:27):
It, you know, just kind of like anything setting an
example for safety and that sort of thing. You can
you can preach safety all you want, but if you
said of an example, you.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
Right, right, guys, we have another caller. Let's go to
let's say you're on with on Target.

Speaker 14 (38:46):
Well, hey, there, it's Frank LeRose, I hear that you're
celebrating a five hundredth show today.

Speaker 2 (38:53):
Tell are you, sir?

Speaker 14 (38:56):
I turned forty six and I can feel it.

Speaker 3 (39:00):
I can't remember.

Speaker 2 (39:02):
Yeah, geez, is today your birthday?

Speaker 14 (39:06):
It was actually yesterday, And if you'll excuse the background noise,
I met my thirteen year old volleyball tournament, but had
to call in. This is a big occasion and I
think after five hundred you guys should probably be getting
good at this by now.

Speaker 15 (39:18):
Well yeah, yeah, but you know what, we played our
first show, the intro to it, Frank, it was really bad,
and I don't know if we've been that bad all along.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Now I'm kind of doubting the whole the whole thing.

Speaker 7 (39:33):
New format coming for five oh one.

Speaker 14 (39:35):
Yeah, well, I'm always happy to drop by and help
you with the weather forecast.

Speaker 2 (39:40):
That's right, That is right. Hey, it was great to
see you this week too. Popping off some rounds. Got
to do some neat shooting with the department for in
some manners you don't typically don't get the fire. I mean,
we were on the ground shooting really kind of a
neat scenario.

Speaker 14 (39:56):
It took me back to my Green Breave days as
the Ohio Secretary of State. I'm staying busy keeping the
elections on us and I don't get as much raintime
raintime as I would like. And I really appreciate you
guys letting me come and shoot with you. It was
a lot of fun.

Speaker 2 (40:08):
Absolutely anytime, anytime. Why, I appreciate you calling. Always good
to hear your voice. And you got to stop back
in and do the weather sometime soon you got it.

Speaker 14 (40:17):
Congratulations, got keep on going strong.

Speaker 2 (40:19):
All right, thank you so much. Secretary of State Frank LeRose,
who actually we just shot with this week. He was
in here before the store opened. We were doing some
training with our department, and I don't know if you
saw the pictures. We were doing some neat I mean,
oftentimes at the range you don't get to draw from
the holster and some of that fun stuff, but we
were doing that in the course of the police training.
In addition, we were doing some shooting from the ground.

(40:42):
So if you've never laid on your back and pull
your legs up and shot between your legs, I mean,
it makes you think a little bit about your wholest
placement and everything.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Else, shooting your toes, that is true.

Speaker 2 (40:56):
Yeah, So but yeah, so that that was great to
see him for a very stable position. So yeah, oh absolutely, yeah,
absolutely absolutely. So what else do we have here, JC?

Speaker 10 (41:09):
Well, yeah, and and back to what you know, the
first circuit. What really disturbed me about this Massachusetts and
I is at the week of the of the really
the founding of our second Amendment. But what they based
it on. They had already ruled in twenty four They

(41:30):
had ruled for the state of Rhode Island, which just
had the magazine band. But on this one, they said,
when it came up to it, they goes, look, we've
already ruled on the magazine ban and really the application
to firearms themselves, it's the same thing, and that's what
they ruled.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
So the fight continues. I mean, two and fifty years
and we're still we're still we still have to keep
our guard up on this, JC. Let's go I see,
I see another call coming through, so we probably should
take this real quick. You're wrong with on target?

Speaker 9 (42:07):
You guys there?

Speaker 2 (42:08):
Yes, sir, thank Brian still here, mister Ryan, Lieutenant Brian Steele,
How are you, sir?

Speaker 3 (42:16):
You know, outstanding? How are you guys?

Speaker 8 (42:18):
Fix hundred episodes?

Speaker 11 (42:19):
My understanding just calling and congratulating and thankfu you guys
for all you do.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
I appreciate our five hundredth episode today. We are honored
to have Hiccock forty five drive up two thousand miles
I think, or twenty five hundred miles is that what
it was, you know? Or how many followers we have?
I think twenty five hundred. Well, anyways, no, we're so honored.
I appreciate you calling.

Speaker 9 (42:39):
Yeah, I took a quick breakaway from a soccer game
just just to give you guys a call, and.

Speaker 11 (42:42):
You always give me a platform, and I really appreciate
all you do for our community.

Speaker 2 (42:46):
Now we appreciate you too, and for speaking out and
supporting the officers. I know it's it's constant. There's never
never a dull moment, and we appreciate, especially in the
law enforcement side of things, you standing up and being
vocal out there when we need.

Speaker 3 (43:01):
To be absolutely had. Yeah, I thank you guys.

Speaker 13 (43:04):
Well listen, I'll be honest.

Speaker 11 (43:05):
I got a four year old in the bathroom and
she's screaming for me to come help hersel Well, God
duty today.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
That is great. All right, thank you so much Brian
for giving us a call. I appreciate and we'll talk
to you soon. Yeah, that's Lieutenant brian'steal FP Presidentsident.

Speaker 10 (43:22):
FOP so does a great job. The officers love him,
I mean does he's there when it happens.

Speaker 2 (43:28):
So anything exciting coming up? Anything you want to tease
I mean too that you know that our ten watchers
and stuff.

Speaker 6 (43:35):
I mean, it can go viral. I know about anxiety.
By the way, I want to congratulate you too. I
know it's tough to keep something going this long, you know,
but congratulations on that. H Well, we did some things.
I haven't a shot before. I've got a video coming
up on the Mosburg nine Tactical Shotgun SPX or whatever.

(44:00):
Never shot with others until I guess the last week
or so. And that's kind of interesting. There's so many firearms,
as you know, you know, having the shop here and
they keep coming out and farms.

Speaker 3 (44:09):
A lot of people use that.

Speaker 6 (44:11):
We still haven't gotten around to trying out maybe and
it's and I discover U it's interesting that, well that's
a great gun. The wonder people like that, and it's
been around a while, you know, just like the thirteen
oh one Baretta. I wasn't familiar with that shotgun until
I shot.

Speaker 3 (44:26):
One and then I had to buy one.

Speaker 2 (44:29):
Do you ever have writer's blog Ian Do you ever say, geez,
we got to do a video, I don't know what?
Or do you just have a list of stuff in
the hospital.

Speaker 6 (44:35):
That's the neat thing about it, you know, with what
we do, we don't you know, and you see it
on YouTube for example, people doing videos they got something,
they got to put up a video every day or
every two days, and they got you can you really
didn't have any content, so you kind of had to
have some drama, you know. That's sort of thing this
is about, you know, is to have some more ads
and have drama.

Speaker 3 (44:55):
And there was really nothing. Well, not that we have lots.

Speaker 6 (44:57):
Of rich content necessarily, but there's always another firearm. And
I've got a long to do list of guns that
I own that we've not gotten to yet or other
things we want to do with them. In firearms that
are like on the way in. I've got three or
four that I think are at the shop that my
FFL shop right now I need to pick up this
week when I get home, that we'll do videos with it.

(45:20):
There's just always more firearms.

Speaker 2 (45:21):
You know, you know, speaking of drama, I mean you
really intentional or not paved the way or help fight
against some of the social media stuff that's out there.
You had your own battles or some headaches with YouTube,
I mean, did you obviously got beyond it? Then I
can stuff there.

Speaker 6 (45:40):
They continue to change terms of service, you know, And
for example, the last bout was we were going to
lose I don't know, fifteen hundred and two thousand videos.
They were going to take them down if we hadn't
gone back, and we weren't going to do it.

Speaker 3 (45:54):
It was just going to be an.

Speaker 6 (45:55):
Insurmountable task go back and take out any plugs at
dot coms and things like that.

Speaker 3 (46:00):
That's all it was. Why Yeah, And so I wasn't
going to do it.

Speaker 6 (46:05):
But I got started thinking about that is how much
trouble would it be because you have to use the
online editor and go in here.

Speaker 3 (46:12):
And I did a few videos.

Speaker 6 (46:13):
Oh I hate to see that video come down over
the old nineteen seventeen smith or Westerns or something.

Speaker 3 (46:18):
You know, I'm gonta save that one.

Speaker 6 (46:20):
I got started on it and ended up going I
just didn't have a whole lot of other things. I
had needed to do that month or two whatever it was,
and I just kept doing it, and I went through
each one and edited that out, and so we saved
a lot of videos, but we didn't save about.

Speaker 3 (46:35):
Twenty or twenty five really.

Speaker 6 (46:36):
Yeah, And so we put a new preface on them,
editor them, and we're reposting them. You'll notice it occasionally
want to go up. I think we got most of
those back and I just repost them, you know, let
them know we had to edit this video.

Speaker 3 (46:49):
Some of that stuff. We're not editing a lot of
meat out.

Speaker 6 (46:52):
It's mainly like promotions or plugs that we'd give to
a sponsor.

Speaker 3 (46:57):
Wow. I mean, it's so silly, but it is.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
We got two weeks ago on our live broadcast, we
got shut down in the middle of it. And it
was simply because we typically do a gun of the
week and John went and picked up the gun and
the algorithm hit on something and we're watching all of
our screens and it all goes down right.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
In the middle.

Speaker 2 (47:16):
I'm not supposed to handle a gun on live TV
or on live YouTube. So it's constant. And we've been
taking out on Facebook many times, and I mean it
doesn't get much more. The intentions of the show doesn't
get much more pure than this. I mean, we're reckless
with everything safe. It's you know, safe responsible ownership of firearms.

Speaker 3 (47:34):
Exactly same with us.

Speaker 6 (47:35):
And you know, I mean you think there's lots of
people that could go after of course I see lots
of comments people right all the time. But well they
have a problem with you guys. And look what they allow.
You have to fill in the blank, you know, right,
crazy stuff.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
We did that when we went down a couple of
weeks ago. In frustration, I pulled some videos from YouTube,
some screenshots of you know, how to shoot up heroin
that was on there, and you know where to find
pot in your community, and I mean, all these things
that are allowed. But you know, it goes to what
you were saying, John, is that fight? You know, it's
a it's a death by a thousand cuts, and it's
something we got to keep fighting. Speaking of keep fighting,

(48:11):
I think we've got one more caller you're all with
on Target.

Speaker 9 (48:16):
Good afternoons, gentlemen, Listen, I just had a stop. I
was gonna go for flight on Blue Origin, and I
figured I would give you guys a quick call. I
wish you were congratulations on your five hundred shows.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
You know what, it would have been better if you
called from space?

Speaker 9 (48:31):
Well, I'm always in space. You should know that.

Speaker 2 (48:35):
Is this my buddy, Richie, it is Listen to that crowd.

Speaker 9 (48:41):
You know, I would, you know, just so everyone knows
I would be there. I just found out what was it?
Did you tell me on Monday? Eric, that it was
a five hundred show? Like you didn't give you enough time.
Not that I would stand up mister forty five at all,
but I would love to have been there to celebrate
your five hundred show.

Speaker 2 (48:58):
Hey, I texted Hitcock forty five last night. Okay, I'm
just saying rich you know.

Speaker 9 (49:04):
Yeah, I don't know if I believe you or not,
but listen. I can't thank you guys enough for what
you do and even being a part of the show
coming on every once in a while. But just to
say that I knew you guys when you started and Eric,
you and I go back well over a decade now.
I think our friendship started in two thousand and nine.
But to know where you were to what you've accomplished

(49:25):
all of these years is all I can say is
congratulations for what you've done. You've got a phenomenal group
of guys that come on every weekend, talk about second amendments,
all rights, firearms, you bring on special gifts like Hitcock
forty five, and it is just a pleasure to be
associated with you guys.

Speaker 2 (49:42):
Now, Rick, thank you so much. Rich, And you know
what I mean, we joke a lot, but you're part
of the reason this place is here. I mean, those
all those nights we spent talking and you're trying to
talk me out of opening up a shop and the show.
I mean, we really we spent a lot of time
talking and you were one of those people that we
bounced stuff off of and still due to this day

(50:03):
because you're tied into the industry so much.

Speaker 3 (50:05):
And you're the only one that will wear a pumpkin
on your head. You know.

Speaker 9 (50:11):
Yeah, thanks for the flashback.

Speaker 2 (50:15):
So he could just to bring you up to speed.
Rich is a good friend of ours, known for a
long time for a distributor, and so we've got to
become friends. So he came out one time to be
on the show live. Happened to be around Halloween, so
we were I don't know if we were going to
shoot pumpkins or whatever up and one thing led to another,
and we carved a pumpkin out where he could actually
put it on his head, and we convinced him to

(50:36):
do that. And ever since then it's been circulating around
the YouTube.

Speaker 10 (50:41):
Pictures and now he has his dream job. Though he's
got to be as happy as as anybody can be.
So antique and so yeah, he gets to see things
that he's never seen before.

Speaker 2 (50:53):
What's the name of the house, Richie, sit again, what's
the name of the auction house you worked for?

Speaker 9 (50:59):
It is Amistake Auction Company. And right now, listen to
you guys talk about Smith and Wesson. We're dealing with
this collection from a gentleman by the name of Pete
de Rose. He has the largest Smith and Wesson collection
of the most rarest and unique Smith and Wesson's ever around.
And I've had the chance to touch them, see them,
look at them in awe and I just was like,

(51:20):
I wish I made more money. I wish I had
your money.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Eric, mister Hitcock wants to know if you can give
him the hookup on these You got any ends on
this or I will.

Speaker 9 (51:30):
Most certainly look him up. Absolutely, yep, I will definitely
you give him my information and you will get the
first crack on everything that comes in.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
Great.

Speaker 2 (51:40):
Wow, Well, Richie, we seriously thank you so much for
calling in and being a partyer over the years. I mean,
you're always the voice of reason and you have a
good handle on the industry and what's going on. And
many times my first call is to you to say, hey,
what do you think about what's happening right now? And
you've always guided as well.

Speaker 9 (51:58):
Yeah, well I appreciate that. Listen, I just heard that
Hiccock is going to be down the NRA show and
I was supposed to be there, but I chose not
to because you know, I'm getting a little tired of
doing all these trade shows and traveling and now I
regret not going.

Speaker 2 (52:13):
I know it, I know it. So all right, Well,
good talking to you, rich and uh, thanks for being
a part and calling in today.

Speaker 9 (52:21):
I will see you on your one thousand show. I
actually hope to be on before then, all right.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
And maybe maybe I can get you to come down
on the one thousand show.

Speaker 9 (52:30):
You got a deal?

Speaker 2 (52:31):
All right? Sounds good?

Speaker 3 (52:32):
All right?

Speaker 9 (52:33):
Once again, thank you very much. What you guys do?

Speaker 2 (52:35):
All right? Thank you, Richie, my buddy Richie you're really
a good friend of ours. Good friend of the show
knows a lot and.

Speaker 10 (52:42):
He's really into British World War two stuff. He doesn't reenactments,
he's just people do that.

Speaker 3 (52:49):
Yeah, that's great, that's great.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
He actually a couple of years ago in Kannyac, Right, Kanyak,
they have a big reenactment of D Day every year,
and Countyac is way north easter, Ohio, and we were
talking about He called in from from there. They were
doing their their D Day invasion and stuff, and it's
iron I mean, our signal goes out that far, but
I mean our main listening audience is central Ohio. And

(53:14):
he had two or three people come up to him
and Conyeac and say, hey, I heard you on the
show today. Yeah, and I don't know if there are
people driving up from Columbus throw up. But it's kind
of neat.

Speaker 3 (53:23):
People are listening. You better be more careful what.

Speaker 2 (53:27):
We haven't We haven't been bleeped that many times. Ellen
knows if we tell her to take a break, then
that's when.

Speaker 3 (53:33):
That's when good stuff gets out. Guys.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
I really can't believe five hundred shows and we got
to thank everyone, everyone who listens every week. The sponsors.
I never even got to the sponsors this week. Jackson
Negress Windo has been a sponsors from the beginning. Black
Wing Shooting Center, a store that is just a phenomenal
store up north in Delaware, River's Edge Cutlery one of
the most premier knife stores here in town. US Lost

(53:56):
Shield great great partner with us as well, and of
course our training for So thanks for everyone who has
who has helped us over the over the years. Of course, Ella,
are you there?

Speaker 3 (54:06):
Ella? This is one of her brain bad words. She
went home.

Speaker 2 (54:13):
Ella. We don't give you enough kudos because you really
pull the levers on the backside. You put up with
all those late night texts on hey can we do this?
Can I say this word? How many times have you
got that text?

Speaker 3 (54:25):
More than I can count on my fingers?

Speaker 2 (54:28):
Yes, yes, but we appreciate it because without you we
couldn't do what we do when coordinating everything on the backside.
So if if we do look good, it's because of
people like yourself, So we credit But congratulations, thank you.
Are you going to be there for episode five oh
one next week? Yeah? You're gonna say episode one thousand?
Maybe not, but I've A one, I can do five

(54:49):
oh one. Well, guys, thanks for spending the uninterrupted hour,
Thanks to WTV and for giving us an hour of
commercial free. Maybe they can do this every week. I
don't know, I'm saying. And most of all, thanks to
Hittock forty five for driving up here.

Speaker 3 (55:03):
Glad to be here. Thank thank you. And I don't
care what people say about you. You're a good guy.

Speaker 2 (55:11):
I appreciate that. What a raving endorsement.

Speaker 3 (55:14):
Guys.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
We'll be back next week, same time, same place, and
as always, let's be careful out there.