SPEAKER 03 : 0:02

Welcome to Shooting the Breeze, brought to you by the team at Franktown Firearms, a family-owned, family-friendly shooting range in Franktown, Colorado. Franktown Firearms offers practical, defensive training, as well as an impressive selection of firearms at the lowest tax rate, so you can develop confidence with your firearm. The team at Franktown Firearms believes the only difference between a beginner and an expert is practice. so they equip you to keep yourself and your family safe in a welcoming atmosphere. And now, here are your hosts of Shooting the Breeze.

SPEAKER 01 : 0:37

Hello, hello, hello. Happy Monday, everyone. I can’t believe that March is almost over. Wow. Where, I mean, does it feel like time is just going by so fast, so much faster? I mean, I know that, you know, like they always say that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer you get to the end, the faster it goes. I think that’s what I’m feeling right now. So thank you so much for tuning in to Shooting the Breeze today. My name is Karen Murray, otherwise known as Mama Glock. I am the head instructor at Franktown Firearms. And you guys have to come check out Franktown Firearms. I’m telling you, there’s lots of stuff that you’ve missed if you haven’t been there in a long time. We have classes available all the time. Excuse me. I still have frogs in my throat from my illness a while back. So I apologize for the throat clearing. I’ll try to mute myself when I can. So the classes that I offer, concealed carry classes, I’m going to be talking extensively about this in just a few minutes, but For the most part, they’re on Saturdays, and they’re right now before July 1st. They are now four hours long, soon to be eight hours long. I do have, and this is important, I have one more, and I’m going to be talking more about this later too, but I have one more Pistol 2 class coming up on June 7th. So if you feel the need to get trained up on your holster draw, that would be the time to do it. Otherwise, you’re going to be stuck in a private class situation, which there’s nothing wrong with that. But I’m just telling you, if you want to get in on a class, there’s three spots left in the class on June 7th, and that’s it. That’s all she wrote. So I’m going to be talking a little bit more about that. The shoot house, soon to be furnished. which is so cool. We are soon to furnish this thing. Thank you to my late mother. We’re going to be furnishing the thing as if it were a real home for the most part. So it’s going to be more of a realistic environment. You can immerse yourself in and have true obstacles to work in and around, and it’s going to be amazing. So stay tuned for that. It’s going to be happening very soon. And then there’s private training. Private training is – really ideal for people who are sort of fearful about going into a public class setting. They don’t want to look stupid. They don’t want to feel stupid. You know what I mean? There are no stupid people, but I’m just telling you, a lot of people feel that way. They’re just uncomfortable doing this kind of thing that’s so, so foreign to them in a public setting. So If you want to schedule a private training session with me, it’s only $60 an hour. And just one hour, I can do a lot with you. You can send me an email directly at karen.murray at franktownfirearms.com. And we can get that set up for you. Most of my private training is done during the week. So just so you know that, um, I’m going to talk briefly today about, well, probably not so briefing. You know, I’m kind of long-winded. But I’m going to talk about some things that, or something in particular that many students ask me. And when I say many, I mean many, many. They ask me during, you know, scheduled training or when they’re signing up for a class. And that is regarding cleaning your gun. And why I don’t teach it in my classes. And so I’m going to talk a little bit about that because it is a question that I get a lot. And of course, as I’m a pistol instructor, I’m just going to cover pistols because that’s what I do. That’s what I teach. So this first half of the show probably is going to be talking all about this. If you have any questions for me about this, about cleaning, about anything else, you can call the studio at 303-477-5600, and Luke would be happy to patch you through. Luke is awesome, and I know he’s behind the glass on the other side of which I am not. Hi, Luke. Oh, hello. Hello. Well, it’s, you know, I don’t have you pop in nearly enough. So I wanted to have you pop in and say hello to everybody. Oh, well, thank you. Because you’re awesome. You’re too kind. So first off, one of the reasons why I do not teach cleaning is that every manufacturer of a firearm has a different method of field stripping a gun. Glock, Smith & Wesson, Sig Sauer, Kimber, Ruger, Springfield, Taurus, H&K, Canik, FN, all of them have slightly different methods for disassembly. I believe Shadow Systems and Canik are field-stripped similarly to Glock, and some of them are going to come apart a little bit similar to one another, but like 1911s are going to come apart kind of the same. But sometimes… Well, I can’t even say sometimes. Most often, you have to pull the trigger to release the striker to take the gun apart. Some guns require you to do this during disassembly. Others, like with a Glock, you pull the trigger before beginning the process, or at least that’s how I learned, and that seems to work for me. It’s a really easy method to do it. And the whole argument about Glock, you don’t have to pull the trigger beforehand or you don’t have to pull the trigger during disassembly. It’s personal preference, whatever. But some guns, like the Sig Sauer P365 and others, don’t require a trigger pull before field stripping. And just for your information, so you get your lingo down properly, field stripping is to take your gun apart only as far as you need to take it apart to clean it or lubricate it. You start out by making certain your gun is clear. And I can emphasize that very strongly. Make sure your gun is clear. Rack, rack, rack. Visually inspect. Check the mag well. Make sure your magazine’s out. The whole nine yards, okay? Always check the chamber. Always. You can never be too safe with this stuff. Most handguns are going to have some type of a takedown lever or a little, they’re like, I don’t even know, they’re like rectangular-shaped things that you pull down. Shadow systems and Glock have these. You pull down one on each side to remove the slide, and after the slide is removed, you can remove the barrel and the recoil spring assembly and everything. Some barrels are fixed and don’t come out at all. Some guns with the fixed barrel actually acts as your recoil spring, such as the Sig Sauer P232. So it doesn’t have a separate, you know, recoil spring assembly that you take out. It’s just the… Just the barrel. It’s just a smooth stainless steel barrel with a spring wrapped around it, and that acts as your recoil spring. And I know for some of you, I might be speaking a foreign language, so I apologize. So this is obviously for people who, you know, have questions about taking their guns apart. But the bottom line is you can typically field strip a gun without the use of specialized tools, okay? Okay. Detail stripping, on the other hand, that involves more cautious disassembly, so to speak. Sometimes special tools are needed. The extractor and the firing pin and the trigger assembly are removed, inspected, cleaned, deburred, all that kind of stuff. small springs and other parts usually need to come out as well. So you don’t want to do this while you’re outside in the middle of a field somewhere, you know, while you just don’t want to lose your parts because some of those springs can get away from you and ping, and then you’ve lost it in the grass because they’re very hard, if not impossible, to find unless you have a metal detector and a magnet or something like that. So Since every manufacturer has a different method of field stripping, it’s your responsibility to know how to do this so you can keep your firearm clean and safe to operate. You can find this information in your owner’s manual, okay? So why don’t I teach it? Well, there are several reasons, and as you can probably ascertain by what I just said, there’s a lot to know about every different firearm. And I had an experience once when I first started teaching, and I used to teach cleaning because it was part of the NRA basic pistol class. And I had a student who had a Ruger SR 1911. And at that time, I was teaching the classroom portion of NRA Basic Pistol in my house, in my dining room. So the student had no idea how to take his gun apart. And so we went to YouTube. Since we were in my house, we went to YouTube and I looked up that specific gun and we went to, you know, field strip it and disassemble it for cleaning. And I had to help him. And I struggled even with the video, and I ended up not being able to get the gun back together correctly. It was out of battery just slightly. If you know that terminology, that just means that the gun was out. It wouldn’t close all the way. The slide would not close all the way. So I don’t know what happened, but we tried and tried and couldn’t get it back together correctly. So I had to keep the student’s gun with me. and take it to the gunsmith and have them help me out to try to fix it. And it cost me $80 to have them take it apart, and I had to hand deliver the gun to the student’s home a couple days later. I felt terrible, and I was embarrassed that I couldn’t get the gun back together. But in my defense, I am not a gunsmith. I don’t know every type of gun, and I’m not familiar with how to disassemble every type of gun there is. I am an instructor, yes. but instructors know how to teach people how to shoot, how to be safe, how to do all the right things on the range and practice good range etiquette, knowing all the commands one might hear while shooting at the range, and all of that, okay? For me, since I teach concealed carry classes, I go a step further in the way that I train people. I teach in such a way that I feel comfortable A student will go into the next phase of their training even if they’re an absolute beginner. I’ve created my own curriculum that teaches all the basic fundamentals as well as techniques to build a solid foundation to move forward into those more advanced classes. So that’s my job, and I’m passionate about it. Anybody who knows me knows that I love what I do. Cleaning is something that is important, no doubt, but you don’t need to pay me to teach you something that you can learn on YouTube and something that I might screw up, if we’re being honest. And if you mess up getting your gun back together, that’s not me. That’s not my responsibility. And this isn’t a cop-out. It’s just a wiser use of everyone’s time. So no, I don’t teach cleaning. I know how to take my guns apart, all of them. And even when I first learned the proper way to shoot by taking an NRA basic pistol class years ago, the instructor taught me how to clean because in that class, you’re supposed to do that. But like I said, I don’t teach the NRA class so much anymore. It’s just, it’s my training. That’s where my credentials were obtained was through the NRA. And that’s where I started. So, you know, if the certificate says NRA basic pistol, an instructor is required to teach all of what’s in that instructor’s manual. But that part of the class takes a very long time. And especially if you have the more students you have, the longer it takes. The more different varieties of firearms you have, it takes forever to And if students don’t know how to take their gun apart, and I remember one time I was out, I don’t know if you guys are familiar with Ben Lomond Gun Club. It’s way out east in Ramah. I don’t know how you say that little town, but it’s way out there. And, you know, I had a student lose a piece of his gun. A little spring fell in the dirt, and we couldn’t find it. So it’s just something that I choose not to do, okay? Most of the time, YouTube is going to give you, you know, manufacturer-specific videos. Sometimes, you know, just look for, if you have like that Ruger SR-1911, just look up Ruger SR-1911 field stripping or disassembly for cleaning or whatever, and you will find a great video on how to do it. And you can practice and do it sitting in front of your computer or whatever. But you don’t need me for that, and you certainly don’t need to add two hours to a class so everybody can learn how to clean. To me, it’s not a waste of time, but it’s not a very efficient use of time. So I took the cleaning out for the reasons I just mentioned, as well as, you know, shooting from different positions, standing in isosceles or standing in weaver or sitting, because concealed carry and the possibility of needing to use your firearm in a self-defense situation, it doesn’t really jive with with sitting down using a sandbag for support for your gun in a seated position. It doesn’t really jive. So what I did was I took information from all of the classes that I’m qualified to teach, which are basic pistol, personal protection inside the home, personal protection outside the home, and I combined them. And I only include what I feel is most important to start someone out with in carrying a gun on their body for personal protection. So as it stands right now, I teach Pistol 1, which is the basic concealed carry class. It’s four hours long, give or take, depending on how many students I have. It could be a little longer, a little shorter. In the classroom, we discuss safety rules, rules for owning and storing pistol parts, how they operate, and the different types of actions. We go over shooting fundamentals, like shooting with both eyes open, using proper grip and stance. And when I say stance, I mean that good, tactical, strong, you know, forward, squared-up stance. We do dry fire drills in the classroom, working with dummy rounds, and we aim at small targets on the classroom wall. Obviously, dummy rounds are used here. And then on the range, we put the target out at about 15 feet distance, We work on the most important of the fundamentals, which are aim and trigger control. And I not only teach you how to do something, I teach you why you do things a certain way. There’s always a reason. Students shoot 50 rounds of ammunition, and I would like to see 35 of those rounds hit the paper that they’re shooting at. Yes, I have failed students who can’t place their shots. And that’s just the ethical thing to do. You don’t hand a certificate to somebody who can’t even hit the broadside of a barn. However, I will inject here right now that this is all, of course, going to change on July 1st. But there are people who come into my class who have taken a concealed carry class from someplace else. And the ones that I’m speaking of right now are typically held in the banquet rooms at hotels. Obviously, live fire is not included in those classes. And so the method by which you obtain a proof of training certificate as it stands at this moment in time, some instructors are more diligent, I guess, than others. And I don’t bash anybody. It is what it is because you obviously have to learn the law, too. You know, so these kinds of classes are very law-centric, where mine is very gun handling and safety and shooting-centric. So it all depends on what you want. However, when you attend one of those classes, such as the one I mentioned in a hotel banquet room somewhere, you’re not going to get that experience and you’re not going to feel comfortable carrying a loaded firearm on you because you’re you don’t know what you’re doing kind of thing right so anyway i digress um some students struggle to hit the paper and in which case i’m going to withhold their certificate and we schedule a private training session for them so i can work with them a little bit more closely and do some deeper diagnosis as to why they can’t hit their target And I can tell a lot by watching you, watching your hands, watching your trigger finger, you know, the way you’re standing. I can help you with a lot. So, but there are some things that I can’t teach. There are struggles that students have like, for example, anticipating their shots. That, you know, that has to be corrected in one’s mind. as it translates into their hands. I can’t teach someone not to be afraid or to just forget that recoil even happens or whatever. That’s something that I just can’t teach that. Nobody can. I can’t teach someone not to jerk their trigger. I can’t teach someone’s eyes to focus on the front sight. You know, I hear students say things like, I’m seeing two front sights. And what does that mean? That means that you’re not focusing on the front sight. So that’s all them. That’s their brain. That’s the way that they’re looking at this picture. I can tell someone over and over and over and over to slow down on their trigger press and explain why their shots are landing low and to the left because of the muscles in their hand and all the little tricks that I use to help with these situations, but I can’t do it for them. There are things that come up where the student has to make certain adjustments apart from how I teach people to do things. For example, I have taught amputees. I have taught people with like half their body is paralyzed. I taught a guy with a medical condition that makes him lose consciousness at the drop of a hat. And you don’t even know when that’s going to happen. It just happens. So that’s, I do what I can to help everybody that I can, and I try to do the best that I can to help them learn in a safe way and to be responsible. And I don’t know if I ever told you guys the story. I think I did. Luke, do you remember the story of the guy that wanted to drive in reverse, all that stuff?

SPEAKER 04 : 20:01

No, I don’t remember this one. If you’ve told it, it’s been too long.

SPEAKER 01 : 20:07

I think I told it when I first started doing this show. And this guy came in, and a lady came in one day, and this is a total side note, and this isn’t even part of my show notes, but it’s relatively entertaining and so bizarre that I can share it with you freely at this point in time. I was kind of nervous to share it back then, and I don’t think I even told it all. But this lady came in to me, and she was deaf. And she was asking me if there was a road nearby that people drive fast in reverse. And I had no idea what she was talking about. And she said, they told me to come here and ask you if there’s a road that you drive fast in reverse, that it’s a dirt road and it’s just a thrill and whatever. And I’m like, okay, I don’t even live here. I have no idea. I have no idea what you’re talking about. So maybe you can ask one of these guys that, you know, live locally. I don’t know. I just don’t know. So anyway, we figure I just told her, you know, I didn’t tell her to leave. But I said, you’re kind of in the you’re barking up the wrong tree here. I don’t I don’t know what to tell you. So she she leaves. And about three weeks later, she comes back. I see her walking up the sidewalk, and at the time I was waiting for a student, okay? Now, the student was a man, and he’s kind of a grumpy dude, and I was thinking this isn’t going to be very fun, but I was asking him what he needed to learn, you know, what his objectives were for a private training session, and he said, well, what do you teach? And he was just kind of gruff and just whatever. So anyway, I was standing there waiting for him, and I see this lady, this deaf lady, and walking up the sidewalk, and I see this man behind her, and he’s got one of those white walking canes. And I’m thinking, oh, my gosh, this is not my student. This can’t be my student. Oh, my God. So they come in, and I can’t remember the guy’s name, but I said, we’ll just call him John. I said, are you John? And she was deaf, mind you, and he is blind, okay, completely blind. And I’m thinking, okay, I’m a firearms instructor, and what are we doing here? But in maintaining my desire to help everybody with, you know, things, I decided to take him into the classroom, pull out the dummy rounds, and she, I’m just telling you right now, she was horrified, absolutely horrified at what was going on. And so I’ve got, I just used my gun, which I had cleared, and I put it down on the table, and I’ve got the dummy rounds out. And I’m kind of, you know, taking his hand and showing him where the dummy rounds are, letting him feel them, and I’m kind of guiding him how to put them in the magazine or whatever. And this is going against every fiber of my being at this point in time. And she is looking at me like, you’ve got to be kidding me. So at that point, I’m like, I’m thinking to myself, I can’t take this guy to the range, right? I can’t. I mean, what? No, I’m just, I don’t even know what to say at this point. So I determined that I’m not going to take him to the range, that we’re just going to do this whole thing in the classroom, and that’s going to be it. And she’s looking at me like, God help me. God help you. And She wrote a note on a piece of paper, and she handed it to me, and she said, this is not what I expected. And I’m like, you’re coming into a gun range. What did you expect? You know, that kind of thing. So I wrote down on a piece of paper back to her, and I said, I’m not taking him to the range. We’re just going to do this in the classroom. And I knew at that point in time that, you know, this lesson was going to be very short. And so he, but as soon as he heard me writing on the paper, he goes, what are you writing, Karen? And I said, I’m writing a note to your friend. He said, what’s it say? And I felt like saying, well, it’s kind of none of your business. But anyway, this was the most crazy, bizarre thing that I have ever had happen in my 11 and a half years of doing this. But I digress. I do try to help everyone. I try to help everyone to the best of my ability. So until this new law came down with stricter requirements for training to apply for your concealed carry permit, I would give a student their certificate, and I would strongly encourage everyone to take the next class, which is PISTOL II. And I’ll just add right here, if you have taken my Pistol 1 class, and as I mentioned at the beginning of the show, if you’re interested in taking Pistol 2 to go a little deeper into mindset and situational awareness and learning about cover versus concealment and threat recognition and dealing with aftermath and all that good stuff. Or if you’re already experienced with firearms and handguns in particular, if you want to get that holster training, there are three spots left and one more class before July 1st. The April 5th class of Pistol 2 is full, but there are three spots left in the June 7th class. And that one will still offer a certificate. So if you have shooting experience, and that means it’s not just, yes, I shot my whole life and me and my grandpa used to go out and whatever. It means that you’ve got a little bit of modern training under your belt. You use proper grip. You have good muzzle awareness and trigger discipline, and you can hit the target at 15 feet at least with both eyes open, both eyes open. Okay, that’s what shooting experience means. then I would consider taking PISTOL II just because you get that certificate. If getting your concealed carry is something that you’ve been hashing out and you really want to get done, then you need to take that class. It’s still four hours. Sometimes it’s only three and a half hours. And you can get into that class and your local sheriff’s office will honor the certificate before July 1st. Well, I think even after July 1st because it’ll be less than a year old. But I don’t know because it’s not an eight-hour class, so a lot of questions there. But anyway, you’ve got to turn in your application before July 1st. That would be the best thing to do. And that’s all she wrote. I will still offer Pistol 2 as a private course for anyone who missed out on the public class, but the new concealed carry course at Franktown Firearms is going to be eight hours and will include holster draw in classroom only. So I’m still going to teach it, but it’s not going to be draw and fire on the range. And we kind of made that determination because I get way, way too many brand-new shooters that it’s just too much. It’s too much to take somebody from, you know, never holding a gun before to going to the range and drawing from holster. So live fire will be from bench only, no draw and fire, and pistol tube private class will no longer offer a certificate. We’re going to take a short break. We’ll be back in just a few minutes. And I got some more training stuff and I got some really juicy stuff here later. Be right back.

SPEAKER 04 : 27:55

When a home intruder strikes, you don’t know how you’ll react until it’s real. That’s why you need the best training in Denver. Franktown Firearms and Colorado CQB deliver. They’ve got the most realistic setups around. A massive 2,500 square feet climate controlled indoor shoot house where you’ll face real world scenarios. Their friendly and qualified instructors will help you find your weak spots, sharpen your skills, and train like the pros. This unique and hard to find training is being made available to you. Beginners are welcome and it’s opening soon. Membership is very affordable but limited, and you can receive a special $50 discount on a charter membership just by telling them you heard about it on KLZ. Franktown Firearms and Colorado CQB has the friendly staff, the inventory you want, and the lowest tax rate around. Best of all, it’s fun. Find out more about Franktown on the klzradio.com advertisers page. You’ve made friends at Franktown Firearms. Now see what their new partnership has to offer you. Colorado CQB, come play with us.

SPEAKER 01 : 28:53

And we are back. And I guess on the break, Johnny had called and wanted me to finish my story. And Johnny, I just have to tell you that that was basically it. I mean, I did a little bit more work with him. He couldn’t even get the rounds, the dummy rounds into the magazine. And, you know, after the lady heard that I wasn’t taking him to the range to actually shoot, because I considered it. I considered it. I was going to sit down and have him sit down and hold his arms out with a sandbag. Like I was talking about and have him fire the gun. And then I, you know, just the way he was acting and the way she was acting and the whole thing, I was like, this is just bad juju all the way around. So that was the end of the lesson. And they went on their merry way and I didn’t charge him anything. And that was, that was it. That’s where we parted ways. And, uh, So it was just a very bizarre, just one of those crazy, you can’t make this up kind of situations. And yeah, so that was it. That was the end of the story. So there are still options for you to get your concealed carry permit, but time is running out to do it in the most cost-effective way that’s not going to take eight hours. So As you may or may not know, they are going to start enforcing the high-capacity magazine ban as part of SB3 that you’ve heard me talk so extensively about. They’ve stricken the on or after the July 1, 2025 part of the bill’s text, and now it just says large-capacity magazines prohibited penalties, 13. That’s the number of the line, exceptions. except as otherwise provided in this section, a person who sells, transfers, or possesses a large-capacity magazine commits a Class 1 misdemeanor. So it’s time for everyone who owns high-capacity magazines who haven’t lost them all in that tragic boating accident to go boating and lose them. or ship them all to an out-of-state friend or relative for safekeeping in a state that actually respects your gun rights, unlike this godforsaken place that these lunatics are running. So bottom line, everyone who cherishes their Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms, your lives are about to get more difficult and more expensive. The requirements to allow a law-abiding citizen to purchase one of the banned guns from SB3 are confusing, and they’re very cumbersome. And I know there are people out there that are thinking, well, I just have handguns, so this doesn’t affect me. And I get that. It’s not really going to affect me that much either, because I don’t teach rifles and the semi-automatics and the carbines, and I don’t teach all that stuff, so it doesn’t affect me. But I’m sad and kind of ticked off if we’re being honest, for the people who do. And those who want those guns and are going to have to go through hoops and fire and leaps and bounds and money and classes and time and time off work and everything else to go buy their rights back. So we are finding out that pistols like your Glocks and your SIGs and your Ruger and all the handguns that are blowback operated are not going to be involved and they won’t be affected by this gun ban. Even though I don’t recommend revolvers for concealed carry with the exception of one scenario, that’s a whole other conversation for another day. But I’ll have enough to deal with. Just with the new training requirements to obtain a CHP and all the refresher courses that are going to be necessary to renew an existing permit, this is nothing more than a big money grab situation. That’s all it is, and a way to begin that dreaded gun registry. That’s what this is, plain and simple. The far-left radicals that are controlling this state have completely disregarded what the majority of their constituents want and have taken it upon themselves to decide what’s best for us peasants. Did you guys happen to catch the video that was secretly taken during the third and final reading of SB3 in the House? Somebody took a video from up above, and it showed the leftists. I think I might have mentioned this last week, but maybe not. I might not have gotten to it. It showed a bunch of leftist lawmakers as they scrolled through TikTok or looked through their reels on their phones. One lady was even using a coloring book app. And they’re all sitting back in their chairs and relaxed and just scrolling through the phone. And in the audio, you can actually hear testimony being given by the opponents of the bill. And these lawmakers didn’t even look up. I was told by a reliable source, and I know I hate that word too, but I protect my people that tell me stuff most of the time. But I was told that many legislators weren’t even in the chamber for the readings. They sent aides to fill the seats. And when it was time to actually vote, then they came in to replace the aides and they voted. And to me, in my opinion, they were given their marching orders. That’s it. They were told how they were going to vote, and it wouldn’t have mattered who was speaking or what they were saying. They were voting yes regardless. Period. End of story. When I go off on tangents like this, it probably seems like I think everyone, no matter what, should own whatever type of firearm they want because it’s their right. And to an extent, I do. But I also believe in solid training, obviously. And I believe anyone who owns a firearm that they intend to use, whether it’s for recreation or self-defense or hunting or whatever, should know how to use it safely. And there’s nothing wrong with that versus not. You know, here’s this hotel banquet room, sit down at this table, listen to a lawyer talk about the Colorado gun laws, which are always important. I’m not going to say they’re not, but that’s all they talk about is law, and they give you a certificate, and away you go to the sheriff’s office to apply for your concealed carry permit. And I don’t think that’s ethical, I guess. Okay. I also understand that not everyone feels this way. You know, there are people who have guns that they don’t know how to use, and I see them all the time. I work with them all the time. I liken it, and you’ve probably heard me use this analogy, I liken it to a car. You don’t get into a car and fire up the motor and speed off if you don’t know where the gas pedal or the brake pedals are located and you’re just punching buttons and driving. mashing your feet and doing whatever. If you do, bad things are going to happen. It’s the same thing with firearms. So I understand to a degree where the left is coming from in terms of training. I get it. But my goodness, the red tape that is going to be involved in this whole transition process with these new requirements and this, so the new requirements for obtaining a concealed carry permit, that’s a whole separate law. And then we have this SB3 one that’s going to just, it’s going to make everybody’s lives so difficult. And I feel bad for the owner of Franktown Firearms and for other retailers and the paperwork that they’re going to have to go through. And it’s just going to be insane. And I even spoke with a lady at Douglas County Sheriff’s Office who said, you know, everybody is understaffed, and I don’t even know how we’re going to do this. You know, you’ve got to get your firearms owner identification card, and that requires this and this and this, and then you can make a purchase, but you’ve got to take these classes, and it’s just crazy. I think it all just goes way too far, way too far. And even after all this, you still can’t possess a magazine that holds more than 15 rounds. Somebody had suggested to just glue your magazines in place in your ARs, and I thought, how are you supposed to load it? Unless they redesign the AR-15 and keep the magazines attached, and then you load from the top like you do, well, the shotguns load from the bottom, but you kind of know what I mean. Like loading the magazines themselves, you do it from the top, you know, and just trying to figure out a way that you could do that. with a fixed magazine that doesn’t detach so i don’t know it’s all complete bs and all it’s going to do is make criminals out of people who currently aren’t right and the crime the actual criminals are going to keep their guns and use them and you know use them against us and but that’s okay no they don’t really care about that so Whatever. And how are they going to know if you possess a 17 or a 30-round magazine? Are they going to go door-to-door to verify this? What is possession exactly? Is possession whatever it is, whatever’s on you at the time in your car or at the gun range? Or does possession mean in a range bag in your closet at home? Because you’re not going to be able to possess. You know that. So… I don’t know the many questions and a lot of confusion and a lot of ambiguous language in these bills. And all we can say right now is that we hope that Pontius Polis decides to veto this because he wants to have a political career going forward. That’s all we can hope, but I don’t have a lot of hope for that. So switching gears here, um, this is, I’m going to call this a basics thing. This is a going back to base in my world. Anyway, as you know, my world kind of differs from everybody else’s world, but we’re going to talk about just going back, back to basics for, if you listen to me, you know that I fall down rabbit holes from time to time, right? I always joke about my tinfoil helmet, but I also say that a conspiracy theory is just a six month spoiler. Now, In the world, I place people into four categories. And we’re going to talk about a fifth category here in just a second. But I’m going to tell you these four categories, and then we’re going to talk some more about that. Again, if you want to talk about any of this stuff, please give me a call, 303-477-5600. I’d love to talk to you about this and get your take on it. So the four categories are this. Number one, we have… what I refer to as normies. The normies, they are people who don’t really follow politics a whole lot. They couldn’t tell you who the current Secretary of State or even the Vice President is. They don’t watch the news a whole lot, and when they do, it’s Fox News or CNN or whatever, some pretty typical mainstream legacy media station, and they take what they see and they hear as truth. It’s 100% truth. But they don’t get fired up about anything because they don’t dig and research. They just are kind of there. They work and they have their families and they go about their day and that’s it. That’s what they do. The majority of the people in the world fall into this category, in my opinion. And then we have the woke. And you’ve heard me talk a lot about the woke. They are the social justice warriors. and the climate activists, and the pro-abortion people, and the trans activists, and the violent protesters, and these cretins who are vandalizing Teslas. And when at one time there was like the darling car, like everybody had to have one if you’re a liberal. Now they put stickers on them saying, you know, it’s a pre-Elon Musk Tesla. In other words, don’t key my Tesla. They’re the ones who will answer an ad on Craigslist to appear at a protest and grab whatever sign is available and pretend they know what’s going on. They’ll show up at a march or a pride parade and in a show of solidarity with gay and trans people, and they’re often highly institutionally educated but have little common sense. They believe there are an unlimited number of genders, and believe men can have babies. They cheer for men in women’s sports, but they can’t tell you what a woman is. They use pronouns in their LinkedIn profiles, and they think you’re a racist, no matter what the argument is. They gleefully strapped on their masks and their face shields and gloves during COVID. They stood in line to get injected with an unapproved and unverified experimental vaccine, and they called you a science denier if you didn’t. They are currently either burning Teslas, in Austin, Texas, or if they’re not doing it themselves, they’re supporting whoever is doing it. They have coexist bumper stickers on their non-Tesla EVs, but they’ll flip you the bird or throw something at you if you have a Trump sticker on your car. That’s kind of how they behave, right? So those are the woke. That’s the woke mob, as I call them. Then we have what I call the pre-awakened. These are the people who have started to learn that what they’ve been taught might not be true, kind of. They’re dabbing their toe. They’re starting to realize that the government may not have their best interests at heart. They believe there were irregularities in the 2020 election, but really there’s no evidence of outright voter fraud and voting machine manipulation. They just think maybe there was a little fraud, but Biden still won, you know, probably won fair and square. And that’s where most of the people on Fox News fall into this category. Right. Right. They might occasionally tune in and listen to an alternative podcast like Joe Rogan just out of morbid curiosity or listen to Stu Peters occasionally, and they think he’s a whack job and, you know, gets them thinking a little more, though. You know, just stuff that they hear kind of might get them thinking. They might find the Epstein or the Diddy cases interesting, but they don’t believe these cases are all that earth-shattering, like no big deal, whatever. Nothing’s going to come of it, whatever. So this is kind of what I call the pre-awakened. And then we have the awake. And these are my people. These are the people who question everything. They may or may not think the earth is flat. They don’t watch mainstream media news at all. And they get their information from places like Telegram or Truth Social or They listen to podcasts that talk about things like Q, 9-11, the JFK assassination, the problems with 5G and COVID and the jabs and USS Liberty and human trafficking and adrenochrome and the CIA and Tartaria and the World Economic Forum and the UN Security Council and government programs such as Project Blue Beam and Operation High Jump or MKUltra and the like. Okay. them. They hear names like George Soros and Bill Gates, Anthony Fauci, the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, Klaus Schwab, Larry Fink, and they can recite to you 15 different ways that these people are evil, incarnate, and how they’re attempting to claim global power and enslave all of us. Or they’ll tell you that these people are already gone and you’re seeing actors wearing masks playing a role in the Great Awakening that’s been happening since the 60s. They read books like Fruit from a Poisonous Tree, The Creature from Jekyll Island, and American Jubilee, and they’ll explain to you in great detail where humanity is headed. They typically have a very strong spiritual connection to God. They read the lost books of the Bible. They pick apart everything they see and look through all of that with a highly scrutinizing lens. And then they go research what they find. They dig and they dig and they research and they look at different things. And it’s not confirmation bias. It’s like they just want to find out everything that they can find out. They believe that we are in the last minutes of the last days. And many of them are now studying what’s going on in Israel and the building of the new temple and the red heifers that are to be sacrificed to usher in the Messiah. They’re talking about pyramids and all that stuff, the structure that was discovered beneath the Giza Plateau, which if you don’t know about that, that’s a whole other topic, and you should go look at it yourself. They talk about the Ark of the Covenant, and they don’t believe in coincidences. Now, of course, there are people who… They’re outside of these boxes. I understand that. Not everybody falls into one of those four categories. For example, there are people who claim to be awake, but they are 100% Donald Trump all day, every day, Trump, Trump, Trump, MAGA, no matter what, all the time. They never question him. They never see anything he does as something that is deserving of any kind of scrutiny. There are others who fully believe that Donald Trump is exactly like all the other globalists, that he doesn’t care about you, doesn’t care about me, and that his end goal is world dominance, and he’s every bit as evil as Biden and the rest of the Democrats. Like it’s all like George Carlin, it’s a big club and you ain’t in it kind of thing. So they believe that he’s right in there with the rest of the cabal. And the dividing line between these two groups groups between the people who think that Trump is evil incarnate and the people who are Trump, Trump, Trump is simply one letter, and that is Q. If you fall into the Q camp, your belief system is based on the military sting operation to rid the world of the deep state cabal, in which case you are firmly in Trump’s camp. If you don’t buy into the Q operation, you might think that Trump is the devil and If you are interested in the Q operation, there are two podcasts that I’m going to encourage you to listen to. Number one is Patriot Underground, and number two is X22 Report. If you don’t know anything about Q, you should go back to the beginning of these podcasts and listen to all of them, which will take you a very long time. But you can kind of pick and choose, I guess, which ones you want to listen to, maybe listen to every fourth, fifth one or something. But I’m curious, where do you fall in all of this? I think I fall somewhere between three and four, between the preawakened and the awake. although definitely closer to fully awake than most. And I must admit, for the record, I hold out hope for the Q operation. As I listen to these guys, the dots they connect are very hard to deny. And if, you know, you can sit here and scoff at that, and you can say, not happening, it’s all a psyop. Yeah, it is a psyop, and it’s supposed to be. So, you know, I’m not 100% on board with it, but There’s just things that you listen to and that you hear and then you line it up and you all hear about an ex-post that like Kash Patel put up and the time stamps and the length of the video that was posted or whatever the case may be. And you start just adding things up. I picture this big wall with… all the players, the non-player characters, as we like to call them, but just all the players in Russia, Russia, Russia, and with the raid on Mar-a-Lago, and with just, you know, Jack Smith and Letitia James and all this stuff, and you start connecting things, and when you listen to these to these podcasts, it’s like that, the, the murder board or murder story or whatever they, that detectives use with the strings, you know, to connect things. And they, they do it in a very, very good and informative way. And some of the stuff that they connect, you just can’t, you can’t scoff at. It’s just, you look at it and it’s like, Oh my gosh, wow. I never thought about that, but Holy cow. So super interesting podcast. But I wanted to find out from you where you think you fall in this. The reason why I put this out there today is that it’s all about information gathering and growth. If you find yourself and you think you’re a normie, you should strive to become preawakened. And if you are already preawakened, you should strive to become awake. And After that process, your desire for more and more information will be insatiable. And all that information is out there. You just have to know where to look and who to listen to. of course, with the understanding that you should always question everything, but just to get the information from a certain source, like we’ll just use Mike Adams and Stu Peters as an example. You get the information from them and then you take that and some of the stuff that you hear and then the guests that they have on and then you go to their websites and you look at what they do and what they’ve put out there and then you just start digging. And once you’ve done that, it’s pretty cool. It’s cool to get informed and to learn some of the stuff that not everybody knows and especially not the normies and especially not the woke. So all that said, I would like to read something for you from a post on Facebook that was sent to me by a friend. This person I would consider to be very awake, both the person who sent it to me and the person who wrote this. It says, Doge just exposed Obama and Biden’s massive money laundering scheme, trillions stolen through USAID, FEMA, and USDA to fund Antifa riots and globalist wars. The global elites are losing their grip and they know it. Their system of corruption, rigged elections, endless wars, and psychological manipulation is coming apart. And what exposed it all? Doge. For decades, The Democrats have been running a shadow cartel, stealing trillions of taxpayer dollars, funneling them through government agencies disguised as foreign aid and disaster relief, USAID, FEMA, USDA, BLM. They’re not just bureaucracies. They’re financial weapons used to fund their globalist empire. But their arrogance has caught up with them. Thanks to Doge, their entire empire is collapsing. The Democrat regime, a criminal enterprise masquerading as government. The Democrat Party is not a political group. It’s a criminal syndicate. For decades, they’ve infiltrated every institution to control America, dismantling the economy, outsourcing industries, and destroying the middle class. DEI and CRT were never about unity. They were weapons to tear America apart while the elites continued their theft. Money laundering, digital looting, and the Clinton death trail follow the money, and the truth reveals itself. The aid packages, a lie. The disaster relief funds, a front. The billions for social programs, a slush fund for their operations. Anyone who gets too close to the truth, they end up dead. Whistleblowers, silenced. Investigators, suicided. Journalists, erased. The Clinton’s body count isn’t a myth. It’s a message. Doge wasn’t joking. It was a ticking time bomb. They laughed at Doge. They thought it was just a meme, but Doge exposed them. Through its decentralized system, Doge pulled back the curtain on their vast money laundering operation. Leaks started and the elite scrambled to cover their tracks. Doge revealed the financial fraud behind their global war on America and The radical left’s desperate last stand. The Democrat Party is falling apart. They’re panicking. Antifa, BLM, and radical leftist groups have always been controlled opposition created to create chaos when needed. Now they’ve been deactivated. This is why Tesla dealerships are being attacked, why Republican town halls are disrupted, and why Trump is under constant assault. The globalists fear not Trump, but what he represents, the awakening of the American people. The next section, the final battle has begun. The elites are operating their last, they’re preparing their last card, economic collapse. They will try to break the people with deflation, digital IDs, and centralized banking, but they won’t win. The exposure of their crimes through Doge is only the beginning. The truth is coming, and when it hits, their entire corrupt system will crumble. This isn’t just about politics. It’s about survival. It’s about reclaiming America from the criminals who have hijacked it. The truth cannot be stopped. The final battle is here. Trump is coming. The people are rising. America will win. So what do you think about that? Do you agree? I know it’s too late for a call right now, but If you do, if you agree with this, you might be awake. Right now, the awakened people are talking about gold in Fort Knox and whether or not April 2nd, the Liberation Day, and what’s going to happen with all of that. There’s speculation of U.S. dollar, like the collapse or Civil War, World War III. I don’t know. I don’t know. Nobody knows. April 5th is National Day of Protest. Stay safe out there for sure. 600 locations around the world, including all 50 states and Washington, D.C. So that’s going to get crazy. It’s going to get crazy. It’s getting wild. It’s going to get more wild. And I personally, to quote Bachman Turner Overdrive, you ain’t seen nothing yet. So as for me, I’m just going to keep talking about it because that’s what I do. I hope you guys enjoyed today’s show. Thank you so much for spending the last 58 minutes with me in the fastest hour of broadcasting. Mama Glock is out for now, you guys. Until next Monday, take care, everyone. God bless.

SPEAKER 03 : 56:15

Thank you for listening to Shooting the Breeze, brought to you by the team at Franktown Firearms. Mention that you heard Shooting the Breeze on KLZ when you purchase a gun and Franktown Firearms will waive your background fee. Veterans, first responders, and law enforcement receive a Patriot discount on everything in the store. Get in touch with Franktown Firearms now at klzradio.com slash guns. Franktown Firearms, where friends are made.