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 On the sixth installment of our series on the history of US gun control, we examine the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, which was the result of a Senate investigation in 1982 that detailed the litany of entrapment and malicious prosecution of gun owners and dealers by the ATF.  After finding that 75% of charges it filed were spurious at best, Congress made an attempt to rein the ATF in.  The FOPA revised several parts of the Gun Control Act of 1968, added some protections for travelers, and banned manufacture of new automatic weapons.  Thanks, Feds!

Thank you to all of our listeners and supporters for seeing us through our 100th episode!

Fraudulent Vote https://youtu.be/kxYnxx8cRxghttps://www.congress.gov/bill/99th-congress/senate-bill/49https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/feds-paid-a-teen-to-get-a-neck-tattoo-of-a-giant-squid-smoking-a-joint/282279/THE FIREARMS OWNERS' PROTECTION ACT: A HISTORICAL AND LEGAL PERSPECTIVEhttps://firearmscoalition.org/tag/atf-abuse/https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=osgrd1MPb7I

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV
• Part V

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On this edition of The Statist Quo, we embark on the most ambitions project to date...a history of revolutionary and republican movements in Ireland. Before we get into the meat of our topic, however, we need to go back several hundred years to see how and why the desire for an independent republic developed, which is in no small part the byproduct of British intervention. 

This is Part 1, covering from the 12th century to the middle of 1912. 

Fields of Athenry—Dropkick Murphys

https://vimeo.com/27633199

Jack Spirko on the Dark Side of Adam Smith

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-survival-podcast/id284148583?i=1000482898141

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This is a continuation of our series on the history of US gun control. We pick up in the late 1970s, talking about advocacy groups on both sides, the media war that was taking shape, and several major assassinations and assassination attempts that would change the gun control debate for good.

We also talk about the 1986 Miami FBI shootout where two FBI agents were killed by two Army vets and bank robbers. This changed American policing tactics and weapons forever and resulted in the 1986 Law Enforcement Officers Protection Act. 

Thanks for listening!

Catch UP on Parts 1-4!

• Part I
• Part II
• Part III
• Part IV

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Friend of the show Theo from Crowd Funded Government contacted me recently, with an announcement he wanted to make, about a new direction for CFG.  We spoke about this change of strategy for his organization.

While I may not be involved much in electoral politics myself, I know that some of my listeners are, and that's why I published this episode.  I don't claim to know the best way forward...and if somebody that is more plugged into that world can make use of Theo's strategy, I'm all for it.

Thanks for listening!

 Check out Theo's Awesome Website Crowd Funded Government!

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Today Terry (CDI Tactical), Matt Freeman (Statist Quo Podcast), and Pat Watson (Uncensored Tactical)  rub their big brains together to explain to the uninformed why open source security issues may not be as scary as some people may think. 

This is in response to yet another complaint they got about (gasp) “What if criminals used these techniques”?!?!

Click here to view our *source FAQ article*, which has actually been updated and polished up a little for the first time in 3 years.

Terry: *Instagram CDI Tactical*

Matt: *Twitter StatistQuoPod*


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Today Matt, solo, talks about the death of Elijah McClain and the recent reopening of the investigation of his death, which was preceded by the Aurora CO Police choking him out and a paramedic administering 500mg of Ketamine, an anesthetic dose.  Matt talks about McClain's death and  the use of Ketamine in general in emergency medicine, and the special challenging ethical questions it poses for lovers of individual sovereignty and liberty.

Matt also talks about the recent "report" that made it into a NY Times story about Russia paying bounty money to the Taliban.  A person familiar with the matter claimed it was pathetic garbage.  IF true, this would be just another piece of journalistic malpractice from the failing New York Times.

Enjoy!

https://www.distractify.com/p/elijah-mcclain-body-cam 

NY times archived page--dont give those greaseballs clicks

http://archive.is/ndPGs

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Matt brings on friend of the show Pat Watson from Uncensored Tactical to discuss the biggest problem plaguing Americans today.  It's not thieving, corrupt government.  It's not bloodsucking corporations.  It's not the police state, or tech censorship, nor is it the Fed.  These are all HUGE problems, to be sure, but they all stem from one thing.  A failure of leadership, on the personal level.

What is personal leadership?  It's taking personal responsibility for your own life, and instead of asking "Why won't somebody fix X" or "It's X person's fault", the self-leader asks "What can I do to overcome this problem?"

This country was intended to be ran by people who were leaders in their own lives.  "Self-government", as the founders envisioned, requires self-leadership. We, the individual people, were supposed to be the sentinels of our liberties.  However, Americans have abdicated that responsibility, and instead have decided to follow false leaders, like politicians and celebrities.  Matt and Pat discuss some of the ways that has manifested itself, like in parenting and college debt.  Matt also talks some about his personal story, which is both a story of colossal failure of personal leadership and a story of an individual deciding once again to be a leader in his own life.

Thanks for listening!

Pat's website:  www.uncensoredtactical.com

Discussed on the show:  Divorce Corp documentary https://www.divorcecorp.com/

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This episode is a continuation of our discussion of the history of gun control in the United States.  Part 4 covers the Gun Control Act of 1968 from a different angle than Part 3, and we also talk about the societal and cultural climate of the 1960s and 70s, to see if we can tease out factors that caused people to demand gun control (if what the mainstream says is correct).  We also talk about the Cincinnati Revolt in 1977, marking the NRA's transformation into a pro-gun rights lobby.  We also go over some state gun control efforts, federal bills to ban handguns, the fact and fiction of Saturday Night Specials, and the rise of anti-gun lobbying groups like the Coalition to Ban Handguns (it's still around) and Handgun Control Inc, which would eventually morph into the Brady Campaign.

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The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence - Imagine A Future Free From Gun Violence (formerly Coalition to Ban Handguns)

Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Shows | Lawrence W. Reed

The Argument Beneath the Surface of Gun Control | Kenneth LaFave

The Costs and Consequences of Gun Control

The NRA once supported gun control

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Tonight, in a trial run of his portable digital recorder, talks about how to affordably build an IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit). Links below for referenced products. 

CAT Tourniquet, Gen 7

ARS for Needle Decompression 

Flat Emergency Trauma Dressing (ETD) 

NPA (Nasal Airway)

IFAK pouch, surplus

Kerlix rolled gauze

Cheaper, but still QuikClot hemostatic gauze

The Real Deal combat gauze

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 Matt invites his buddy Brent from Smoke Pit Storytime Podcast on to discuss sundry issues related to the murder of George Floyd, the libertarian response to riots, and many, many other issues surrounding events occurring in America.  We discuss the root cause of why Americans found themselves in this untenable position in the first place, the psyop being perpetrated by the media, and the dialectical devices used by the repeaters to further the agenda of their masters, the state.

Enjoy!

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