T.Rex Talk

By T.Rex Arms

What's T.Rex Talk about?

The official podcast of T.Rex Arms. Weekly thoughts and conversations between various team members discussing equipment, training, history, politics, and of course, the behind-the-scenes stuff regarding the business and technology of developing and making tactical gear. Produced by Isaac Botkin.

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What Makes a Strong Community?

09.27.2023

We in the "Gun Community" talk about community a lot, and it's time to dig into that on this podcast once more! This episode compares on-line and real-life community groups, and discusses six community building blocks (in no particular order):Shared ...

T.Rex Talk episodes:

09.27.2023 What Makes a Strong Community? We in the "Gun Community" talk about community a lot, and it's time to dig into that on this podcast once more! This episode compares on-line and real-life community groups, and discusses six community building blocks (in no particular order):Shared ...
09.18.2023 The Statism Behind New Mexico's Gun Ban When New Mexico's Governor banned firearm carry in Albuquerque last week in a sweeping executive action, she admitted that crime would not be affected by it, she bragged that the constitution forbade it, and she complained that law enforcement wouldn't ...
09.09.2023 How Political Tribalism Destroys Meaning Deeper analysis of the conflict in Tennessee over gun rights reveals some deeper problems. The ideological differences and separations between our different political tribes has made even basic conversations really difficult. Fortunately, there is a way out. Check out our ...
08.25.2023 Special Session's Anti-Gun Drama Tennessee's Special Session didn't have quite as many as protestors as planned, but there is still a lot of drama going on internally! We've got news, fun stories from behind the scenes, and lessons for other states who are going ...
08.24.2023 Live Updates to TN's Gun Laws The Tennessee Special Session is just wrapping up its second day. We've got an interview with Jody Barrett, the infamous 7th courageous rep, clips of moral outrage from people who aren't into solutions, and more. See the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=W7Q4KeSY3es ...
08.23.2023 The Future of Gun Control We're doing livestreams on YouTube again, because even as we speak, Tennessee Lawmakers are discussing various "public safety" measures that include various forms of gun control, including Red Flag Laws. We will be doing daily shows for a while to ...
08.18.2023 What Should This Podcast Be? We are 178 episodes in, and it's time for you guys to chime in and let us know what YOU want from this podcast! Quick update on all the action that is unfolding here in Tennessee: Next week, gun control ...
08.11.2023 Four Technologies that will Shape Your Future The tech world is highly focused on "disruptive" technology, especially in places like Silicon Valley, where that focus is largely business. But technology has the ability to disrupt far more than just the economy, and there are four big technological ...
08.02.2023 What Will Happen with Red Flag Laws in TN? With only a few weeks until the Governor of Tennessee calls a special session so he can try to pressure the legislators to pass a Red Flag law, you should check out our latest YouTube video "Everything Wrong with Red ...
07.28.2023 The Fundamental Flaw with Government Schools A surprisingly animated Instagram conversation sparks some thoughts about the last 40 years of homeschooling and the last 150 years of government schooling. Stay connected to us here: trex-arms.com/newsletter/
07.19.2023 Take Control of Your Own Data Take control of your own data, don't just rely on other people to preserve it for you, and share the information that should not be lost. The Official T.REX ARMS 3D Scan Library The New Radio Scan Files From Sigint.systems ...
07.12.2023 Why We Open-Sourced All of our 3D Scan Data We just released all the of 3D scans of all of the firearms and weapon lights that we have used to develop holsters for the last 5 years. We also released a bunch of new Sidecar files and a nylon ...
07.04.2023 Setting up a Drone Department - with Nathan Wood Commercial drone pilot Nathan Wood stopped by the shop for a conversation describing how he has been able to serve his community and adjacent counties in a dedicated drone department. Check the department out here (drone-50.com) to learn more about ...
06.20.2023 True North vs Magnetic North in Communication Isaac has a new hairbrained metaphor for talking about communication, moral standards, and community involvement. It involves cardinal directions and land navigation! Stay connected to us here: trex-arms.com/newsletter/
06.10.2023 The Night Vision Industry - with NocturnalityGear Scott from Nocturnality Gear is in the shop to talk night vision. We're talking about how he got into using, building, and selling the gear, the overall state of the industry, and why fudds may be one step ahead of ...
06.03.2023 The USC's New Firearm Directives for Hollywood USC, the world's premiere film school, just released instructions on how to more responsibly show firearms and firearm usage in movies and television. What have they decreed? What are they trying to accomplish? Where did they get their ideas? Trigger ...
05.29.2023 Should Communities be Large or Small? Fuzzy or Defined? We believe there's a clear need to grow the large and fuzzy online "Gun Community" in order to educate and inspire people to take their 2A responsibilities more seriously. But we also believe that one of those responsibilities is to ...
05.22.2023 Building Foundations and Frameworks We are all familiar with how to identify the building blocks of certain physical skills, but what about other important foundational stuff? Keep in touch with us here: https://trex-arms.com/newsletter/
05.10.2023 The Bill of Rights and Biblical Rights - with Dr. Kayser A continuation of the conversation with Dr. Phillip Kayser, a pastor and theologian who has written extensively on the topic of rights, history, and resistance to tyranny. We talk through the concept of limited government, and the justification of the ...
05.04.2023 Gun Control is Actually Impossible There's a lot of big talk about gun control, but as it is generally discussed it is literally impossible, for three main reasons. Firstly, privately-owned weapons are unbelievably numerous; secondly, modern firearms are really easy to make with modern tools; ...
04.28.2023 A Conversation with Terminal Armament Isaac and Vlad begin discussing the many practical applications of SDR radios and the new ruggedized SDR-STK from Terminal Armament, but they quickly end up talking about the more philosophical ramifications of decentralized communications equipment, building for the future, and ...
04.20.2023 The False Dichotomy of the RESTRICT Act There is a new piece of legislation that would grant the US government more control over the internet in order to protect us from the Chinese government's control over the internet. What is the best way to discuss this kind ...
04.02.2023 School Shootings and Political Blackmail What is political blackmail? The aftermath of the Covenant Presbyterian school shooting is still unfolding in Nashville. Never Pay the DaneGeld Keep in touch with us here: https://trex-arms.com/newsletter/
03.24.2023 How T.Rex Arms Invents New Products Over the last few years, T.Rex Arms has grown in size, and with that growth has come a need to completely change how we do product development and design. What are some of the lessons that we have learned through ...
03.15.2023 How Big is Your Community? And how small a disaster can you handle? We learned a few lessons about disaster responses over the weekend, and we reveal an ulterior motive behind the original T.REX business plan... Keep in touch with us here: https://trex-arms.com/newsletter/
03.03.2023 New Tennessee Gun Bills, Progress, and David Hogg There a bunch of Firearm Freedom bills being heard in Nashville on March 7th, and we will be there. The process of legislative change is difficult and confusing, but there is a lot of progress going on, so much so ...
02.21.2023 Artificial Intelligence vs. Natural Dumbness Are AIs getting smarter faster than we are getting dumber? Will they lift us to higher plane of human evolution, or send killer robots to terminate us? It is becoming increasing clear that futurists of the past were very bad ...
02.14.2023 Braces, Balloons, and Gun Rights for All! It's time to revisit the ATF's Brace Ban Rule, now that it has been entered into the Federal Register and is already being challenged in court. We're also talking about spy balloons, and of course, the latest bit of internet ...
02.07.2023 The Digital Night Vision Review of the SiOnyx Opsin has Arrived! There is a lot of interest in the new digital night vision device from SiOnyx, and we published a pretty in-depth review on YouTube. Here are some things that we didn't have time for, and some good points from the ...
01.29.2023 Book Review: Larry Correia's "Defense of the Second Amendment" Larry Correia, multiple Award-Winning and frequent New York Times Bestselling author, has just released a new book on gun rights and you should know about it. In Defense of the Second Amendment by Larry Correia Semi-preview of the book from ...
01.21.2023 The ATF's Final Pistol Brace Rule is a Trap Is it final because it's the last one? SHOT Show was a great place to hear lots of discussion on the most recent egregious ATF rule, one that claims that 10-40m Americans are felons and have been for some time. ...
01.08.2023 What the Gun Industry can Learn from Coca-Cola Over a year ago, Open Source Defense published an article on Coke, guns, and product value, which was sparked by an old Andy Warhol quote. It was thought-provoking enough that we are still talking about it. As we are gearing ...
12.30.2022 Manufacturing: The Secret Weapon Amateurs talk strategy, but professionals talk logistics, according to General Omar Bradley. Manufacturing capability will almost always be the limiting factor OR the driving force behind the adoption of new ideas or invention. Check out this great Forgotten Weapons video ...
12.24.2022 Rights and Responsibilities - with Dr. Kayser Today's conversation dives deeply into the question of Rights. We in the 2A community are quick to bring up our rights, to affirm them as pre-existing, to appeal to them as unlimited... but what exactly are these human rights, how ...
12.13.2022 The Time Isaac Provided Legal Testimony in a Gun Case It was a long time ago... this morning! Thanks to Gun Owners of America, Isaac was able to be a witness in one of the hearings opposing Ballot Measure 114 in Oregon. This is what it was like. Read hearing ...
12.08.2022 A Quiet Conversation with Jay of PewScience Today's conversation is with Jay of PewScience! While PewScience has primarily worked to develop rigorous laboratory testing standards for suppressors and develop a single Suppression Rating for easy comparisons, this chat had less to do with combustion events and pressure ...
11.29.2022 The Fallout from the Bruen Decision (so far) In late June, the Supreme Court handed down the Bruen decision, which has already had a significant impact on firearm laws and freedoms across the country. To hear Matt of Fuddbusters talk about this from a legal standpoint, check out ...
11.22.2022 Black Friday Sale Logistics and Thanksgiving Take a peek behind the curtain of our Black Friday Preparations, some of the lessons we've learned, logistical hurdles we've had to overcome, and learn how you can get in on the sale early. Spoiler alert, it's by signing up ...
11.15.2022 Red vs. Blue: Mid-Term Deathmatch Now that it's been a week since the mid-term elections, there's enough data to talk about. However, the big takeaways are more likely lessons from the last few years than the last few days, and some reasons not to have ...
11.05.2022 How Powerful Tools can Cause Complacency The more powerful a tool or a weapon is, the easier it is for its users to get lazy when using it. As more and more tools get automatic features, it gets easier for us to be lulled into a ...
10.31.2022 How to Level Up Your Knowledge The 21st Century is still the Information Age... but there is so much more information floating around today, and it is so much more accessible, that it's actually hard to find real knowledge, and turn it into usable knowledge that ...
10.15.2022 The Glock AR-15 and the Return of Ryan Busse So, a bunch of random internet news about old guns, new guns, gun control, and folks from the old gun industry all coalesced into an article on The Daily Beast! Let's find out more about what is happening with the ...
10.08.2022 A Discussion with Open Source Defense A conversation that ranges from how tech companies are able to qrow so quickly, to why social media companies have adopted certain policies, to what we need next in the gun industry. Open Source Defense is one of our favorite ...
10.01.2022 Our AR-15 video is Going Viral! Two weeks ago, we published "Why EVERYONE Needs an AR-15" on Youtube, and it has generated a lot of conversation and commentary. Isaac reads some of those comments, addresses some controversy, and talks about a few important points that didn't ...
09.25.2022 American Food Production - Past and Present After a road trip to the family farm in Iowa, it's time to talk about modern American agriculture, and compare it to the way things used to be. As a bonus, Isaac talks to his kids about the lessons they ...
09.16.2022 Flintlocks & Old-school Skills w/ Ethan Yazel A couple of weeks ago, we shot a YouTube video about the history of firearms technology, with the help of Ethan Yazel from ilovemuzzleloading.com. The final video is more about freedom, gun control, and the Assault Weapon Ban of 2022 ...
09.10.2022 Why You Need More GPS Devices As we learn more about all the new satellite and internet communications technologies coming in the future, perhaps we should go back to the humble handheld GPS devices for certain things. This conversation is about GPS devices, mass surveillance, jamming ...
08.25.2022 The All-New T.Rex Ironside Holster! We launched a brand-new holster today! Actually, it's a bit of a throw-back to a much earlier T.Rex design, but it's also the result of some of our newest processes, equipment, and strategies. It builds on the tooling we made ...
08.19.2022 Death and Taxes Last week, our Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act, which will reduce the impact of inflation by hiring $80 billion dollars' worth of new IRS agents to squeeze more tax revenue out of the people affected by inflation.hand IRS Special ...
08.13.2022 State-Level Politics with Grant Henry With so much attention being focused on Federal laws, the Supreme Court, and the current President's administration, it's easy to forget about local politics. Grant Henry, a private Tennessee lobbyist, comes on the show to talk about why he is ...

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T.Rex Talk episodes:

What Makes a Strong Community?

The Statism Behind New Mexico's Gun Ban

How Political Tribalism Destroys Meaning

Special Session's Anti-Gun Drama

Live Updates to TN's Gun Laws

The Future of Gun Control

What Should This Podcast Be?

Four Technologies that will Shape Your Future

What Will Happen with Red Flag Laws in TN?

The Fundamental Flaw with Government Schools

Take Control of Your Own Data

Why We Open-Sourced All of our 3D Scan Data

Setting up a Drone Department - with Nathan Wood

True North vs Magnetic North in Communication

The Night Vision Industry - with NocturnalityGear

The USC's New Firearm Directives for Hollywood

Should Communities be Large or Small? Fuzzy or Defined?

Building Foundations and Frameworks

The Bill of Rights and Biblical Rights - with Dr. Kayser

Gun Control is Actually Impossible

A Conversation with Terminal Armament

The False Dichotomy of the RESTRICT Act

School Shootings and Political Blackmail

How T.Rex Arms Invents New Products

How Big is Your Community?

New Tennessee Gun Bills, Progress, and David Hogg

Artificial Intelligence vs. Natural Dumbness

Braces, Balloons, and Gun Rights for All!

The Digital Night Vision Review of the SiOnyx Opsin has Arrived!

Book Review: Larry Correia's "Defense of the Second Amendment"

The ATF's Final Pistol Brace Rule is a Trap

What the Gun Industry can Learn from Coca-Cola

Manufacturing: The Secret Weapon

Rights and Responsibilities - with Dr. Kayser

The Time Isaac Provided Legal Testimony in a Gun Case

A Quiet Conversation with Jay of PewScience

The Fallout from the Bruen Decision (so far)

Black Friday Sale Logistics and Thanksgiving

Red vs. Blue: Mid-Term Deathmatch

How Powerful Tools can Cause Complacency

How to Level Up Your Knowledge

The Glock AR-15 and the Return of Ryan Busse

A Discussion with Open Source Defense

Our AR-15 video is Going Viral!

American Food Production - Past and Present

Flintlocks & Old-school Skills w/ Ethan Yazel

Why You Need More GPS Devices

The All-New T.Rex Ironside Holster!

Death and Taxes

State-Level Politics with Grant Henry