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Aug. 8, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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All right folks, welcome to Brighton Broadcast News for Friday, August 8th, 2025.
Of course, I'm Mike Adams.
Thank you for joining me today.
And as I promise, I've got chapter five for you today of my new audiobook called The Financial Big Bang.
And chapter five is about practical steps and things that you can do to prepare for what's coming as I've laid out in chapters one through four all this week.
So next week, we're going going to release the book as a standalone.
You'll be able to just watch each chapter.
We'll have a list on healthranger.com.
But if you miss it this week and you want to listen to it, just go back to my Brighttown Broadcast News episodes Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and now today, Friday.
There's a chapter of my book in each one of these episodes this week.
And then the following week, I've got another new audiobook to bring you.
that's also very cool.
I was actually recording that audiobook first, and then I got to the chapter on financial survival and that chapter became this current book you know it expanded to a whole book by itself five chapters itself so now that I'm done with that I'm going to get back to the original book and hopefully I don't get caught in any more recursive book loops before I can finish this thing so anyway I thought I would start off with a really cool list that was posted by Dr. Simon Goddick who's
on X He asks the question, here are 20 things I believe make people lose their minds.
And he asks, how many of these do you agree with?
So the list is pretty interesting.
Let's go through it.
Number one, taxes are legalized theft.
Yes.
Number two, there was no deadly pandemic.
Qualified, yes.
We should say it was not deadly for the virology reason, but it was deadly for the bioweapons jabs reason.
Okay, so that's a qualified yes.
Number three, he says Zionism is an anti-Semitic death cult.
Number four, human-caused climate change is a hoax.
Well, that's clear.
Number five, public schools are indoctrination camps, not education centers, obviously.
Number six, mass migration is a weapon to destabilize the West.
Yes, just listen to Michael Yan.
Number seven, COVID vaccines were part of the depopulation agenda, obviously.
Number eight, the UN is a globalist scam to strip nations of their sovereignty.
Yeah, I think we would mostly agree with that.
Number nine, he says, the world would be better off without Israel.
A little bit of a contentious one there.
You know, there was a group that filmed just the bombed out Gaza.
It's been turned almost entirely.
to rebel.
Just bombing and bombing and bombing by Israel, obviously, just turned it to rebel.
And Netanyahu was asked about this by a journalist.
And he said, now I'm paraphrasing, he said, Israel didn't bomb Gaza.
That's not Israel's fault.
He said Hamas set their own booby trap bombs that went off, and that's why all the buildings in Gaza are destroyed.
It wasn't Israel bombing Gaza.
I mean, can you believe the lies?
of this guy just shameless lying like we didn't bomb them and i tweeted out i said that's the historical equivalent of hitler claiming the Jews gassed themselves.
So that means Netanyahu is a Holocaust denier, of course.
So anyway, what do you think?
Number nine, would the world be better off without Israel, or I guess modern-day Israel?
We're probably going to find out pretty soon because it seems to be on a path of total suicide.
We'll see.
Number ten, the CIA has staged more coups than it has prevented.
Yes.
Number eleven, the food supply is being poisoned on purpose, obviously.
Number 12, the banking system is modern-day feudalism.
True.
Number 13, Epstein's cli a good point.
I would say the real puppet masters, you know, the globalist controllers.
Number 14, child trafficking is the glue that holds the global elite together.
Ugh, yeah, sickening, but probably true.
Number 15, elections are theater.
The outcome is decided long before you vote.
Obviously, yes.
Number 16, open borders are the end of national identity.
I suppose if there's enough illegal immigration that sticks then yes look at what's happening to Ireland look at what's happening to the UK for God's sake you know Number 17 chemotherapy is a billion dollar scam to keep Kanser profitable.
Yeah, true.
Number 18, the Holocaust is used as political currency to silence criticism of Israel, most definitely.
Always playing the victim card even in 2025 when Israel is bombing the smithereens out of women and children in Gaza, right?
But, oh, you're not allowed to say that because something happened.
in the late 1930s and 1940s about which you know there's still controversy so number 19 let's see mass media brainwashing is the most effective weapon ever invented.
Yeah, could be.
Number 20, transgenderism is a mental illness.
So there's 20.
many of those do you agree with out of out of 20?
And I was kind of laughing at that question because I think I think my AI engine Enoch would score it All right, next topic, the WNBA, which you may not even know what that stands for because no one watches it.
That's a women's bas a women's basketball.
There's a whole new kind of side sport that has begun for the women's NBA, and it is that people who are attending the games, and apparently this is the only reason they go, they are hurling large colorful dildos onto the floor as the women play basketball.
Well, allegedly women.
Not all of them are women.
So maybe the dildo flinging has something to do that.
But apparently, I'm not even going to show you a video because you can imagine it's hilarious.
Apparently there's like green and purple and different colored dildos that are being thrown out onto the floor.
And so the staff at these venues have started to search people's bags for dildos.
And apparently the polymarket betting on the WNBA games now has nothing to do with The betting is about whether a dildo will be thrown onto the floor and what color it might be.
So that's the new game.
It's the dildo flinging and the color.
And how many minutes into the game will the dildo be flung?
So I think this is the perfect metaphor for what our society has become.
It started out as an organized sport.
And it ended up with the crowd hurling dildos and betting on the outcomes.
So, yeah, pretty much perfect.
And it won't take long before some entrepreneurial people realize that they can make money by betting on the flying dildo that they themselves smuggle into the game and fling onto the floor.
So then it becomes profitable to smuggle dildos.
And I would think that certain types of people would have a major advantage of smuggling dildos into a WNBA game because there's one place for sure that you can smuggle that dildo on your person where the security people will not check.
Hmm.
I'm not even going to say because all of you, your imaginations have already gone way too far.
And I've got to pull you back from the edge of that.
So.
So that's the new pastime in America, smuggling dildos, flinging dildos, and betting on dildos while people pretend that women's basketball is a sport.
Imagine.
Maybe we'll have the dildo Olympics flinging instead of like the shot put, you know?
How far can you throw this ball?
How about how far can you fling a dildo for a gold medal?
Now, personally, I don't have any familiarity with dildos because I'm not a customer of Rabbi Shmoudi.
But I would think that if it's too rigid, it could be harmful.
It could be like a weapon, right?
I mean, you don't want to hit a female basketball player with, you know, you don't want to hit her in the head with a, like a rigid dildo that could cause damage.
So you want, I would think you want more of a, you know, like a flexible, something that bounces off of skulls, right?
So it's obviously harmless.
So I'm wondering if there's going to be a market for flimsy dildos.
And I can think of the perfect spokesperson for that.
Obviously that would be Flimsy Graham.
Okay, moving on.
Okay, moving on here.
I wanted to, I want to share a video with you here that reveals how Democrats launder hundreds of millions of dollars if not billions in illegal campaign contributions.
This has all been discovered by some, well, Mark Fincham and some others.
I'm going to play the video for you.
And it involves laundering through sort of proxy home purchases.
that then have these wildly overvalued multi-million dollar mortgages so that wire transfers come through, they get processed through title companies and then distributed to the organizations that fund election theft, which is like paying off all the ballot mules, paying off the judges, you know, paying people to vote, paying off the workers who run the voting machines and who stuff the ballots over and over again.
So I want you to watch a little bit of this video because I think you'll find it really fascinating.
Check this out.
Tell me, magic mortgages.
What in the world is this, Senator?
we have this architecture that when you buy a house, generally it goes into escrow.
You have a title company that handles the escrow and there are a number of documents that go into it.
So Grant Stitchfield buys a house for $200,000 and it's funded by one of the North American banks.
We'll just say Wells Fargo.
Please don't sue me.
All the records, including the mortgage, the deed of trust, the Alta insurance policy, all of those records are recorded in the county record.
Then just a few minutes later, your $200,000 house suddenly has a $200 million magic mortgage that comes through.
It's nothing but a wire that goes through the title company.
There's no lender involved because it's a hard money loan, what they call a cash hard money loan, but because it goes through a title company, there's no notation of who the lender is and it goes on through the system.
Now, what's interesting is, and this is what caught our attention, these are Act Blue officers, corporate officers.
Once we found one, it led to another and another and another and another.
So we have them all over the nation.
And this is just one small fragment of the human map.
You leave this digital dust., if you will.
This is one small fragment.
You have all these gigantic financial transactions.
Now the question becomes, how do they canal that back into the campaigns?
Is that the small dollar donations that we see that show up at some lady's house and she's donated to Act Blue fifty two times and she knows nothing about it?
Well, that's just one small aspect of it.
So James O'Keefe, got to give that guy credit with the whole smurfing piece that he's done.
And we got to be careful about what we're calling this.
This is a research project because we're not licensed investigators.
We want to make sure that people understand that this money is going into organizations that were this architecture was set up by Barack Obama to spread cash around the country and to put money into political action committees, into non government organizations to fund candidates,
to set up the whole architecture for a public relations machine, read basically a propaganda machine to promote the whole concept that we're a team, we've got great funding, it's all behind us.
So here in Arizona, for example, the Arizona Democratic Party, not more than about five weeks ago.
replaced their chairman because their fundraising is 25% of what it was last year.
Where did all the donors go?
So what we're talking about here, Grant, is wholesale fraud where the money is distributed by Act Blue officers.
And now because we're not federal law enforcement, we don't we don't know exactly what where it went, but that's why we've turned it over to US attorneys.
And that brings me to the real news, I guess, is that you have handed this over to the Department of Justice.
What has been their response of taking the evidence?
We'll call it evidence because, you know, nothing's been proven yet.
I'd like to get Act Blue's response on all of this.
But you turn over this evidence to DOJ.
What do they say to you?
We are now engaged in conversations with a number of U.S. attorneys, former U.S. attorneys, lawyers who are not yet confirmed U.S. attorneys.
So there is great interest.
I've got to believe that Attorney General Pambandi has forwarded this out to the folks that are the financial crimes folks.
And by the way, it wasn't just the AG.
We also sent it to the I FBI.
So Director Patel also has this.
So there you go.
There's one of the alleged money laundering schemes, and it's important to note that the origin of a lot of that money was USAID, or USAID, which was one of the very first schemes that the Trump administration shut down, because it was just devastating.
That was a big part of the Democrat money laundering fraud machine.
Of course, all the money sent to Ukraine was also another aspect of that, a large portion of that., probably more than half, was laundered back to the United States to fund all kinds of things, to fund as bribes for certain decision makers or to fund Democrat re-election campaigns, et cetera.
And I've believed for a long time that California is so unbelievably corrupt that if a single honest election were held in California, the Democrats would be thrown out of power.
And probably the same thing is true in Chicago, for that matter, and no doubt even New York City and a lot of other places that we consider to be Democrat strongholds like Seattle or Portland or even Denver, there's no way that Democrats are a majority in Colorado.
That's all been done through massive election fraud.
So one of the interesting things about what the Trump administration is doing, despite the fact that we might be critical of Trump in a lot of areas, they are shoring up the ability to defend against Democrat fraud in the midterm elections, which are now a little more than a year away.
And another thing that Trump is doing is he just ordered a recounting of the United States census.
And in that recount, he is demanding that they do not count illegals.
And Stephen Miller went on mainstream media and said that is going to flip 30 to 40 House seats to Republicans away from Democrats.
Now, that's a big number.
I don't know if he's right about that number, but he may be.
I mean, he's talking about...
And then on top of that, that same apportionment is applied to the number of electoral college votes that each state also receives in the presidential election.
So you can see here that there actually is a long-term election dominance plan from the Trump Party.
and Stephen Miller and others, other strategists.
Some of them really do have a long-term plan here or a medium-term plan.
And they're planning on winning the midterms and also winning in 2028 where J.D. Vance is the runner up here for possibly being the next presidential candidate with Marco Rubio as the VP.
And some of the ways that Team Trump is planning on winning these elections, well, like I just said, number one, recounting the census and excluding illegals from that count.
And then secondly, deporting lots and lots of illegals.
And then third, halting the USAID money laundering.
programs that the Democrats used to fund their massive election fraud infrastructure.
Now do you recall that in the Biden-Trump election the Joe Biden was caught on camera actually bragging about and saying specifically that the Democrat Party has, what did he say, the most elaborate election fraud organization in America's history or something very close to that.
That's my memory of what he said.
And, you know, the media thought, well, he must have mispoken.
No, no, no.
He was bragging.
He was bragging about the fact that the Democrats really do have the largest election fraud infrastructure in place, you know, exploiting the machines and cyber attacks and rerunning ballots and ballot stuffing and making sure there's no voter ID required, making sure the ballots have no serial numbers on them so they can be run as many times as necessary.
And remember how the entire 2020 election result was stolen from Trump.
You know, Trump had won that election until three or four in the morning.
Everybody went home, went, I mean, went to bed.
And then you woke up the next morning and they said, oh, Biden won.
What?
How did that happen?
That was stolen.
That was always fraud.
And if we don't go back and prosecute those people for fraud, then we have a huge problem in our country.
So I wish the Trump administration would stop spending every day at the wailing wall in Israel and pandering to Israel and instead start arresting the traitors right here in America.
Because there are plenty of them.
We know who they are.
They're Democrats and they're deep state people.
And, you know, it goes beyond.
Eric Holder and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, whoever, it goes way beyond that.
There are thousands of local level people who actively participated in engineered vote fraud.
And I bet you that if you arrested and charged some of them, some of them would talk.
They would become whistleblowers.
And that story that they would reveal That should be a priority of the Trump administration.
But I'm not sure that that's going to happen.
I hope it does, but so far it doesn't seem to be the case.
You know, there are a lot of criminals that got away.
In fact, almost everybody got away with everything.
I'm talking about COVID and the whole vaccine depopulation agenda, which Trump actually celebrated, Operation Warp Speed.
Fauci hasn't been arrested.
None of these local officials that locked people down and lied about the science and who fired workers because they weren't vaccinated.
You know, these people should all be arrested.
And on top of that, all of the big tech CEOs and executives who ordered the censorship of the American people over things like vaccines or election fraud or what have you, or even people were censored for their opinions over the Ukraine-Russia war.
But I believe that all those big tech executives who ordered the censorship, they should be arrested and prosecuted for treason because it is treasonous to engage in those actions.
to violate the rights of Americans as protected by the First Amendment, the Constitution.
And the reason I call it treason is because there is a war on America.
And that war has been waged by big tech in part and big pharma.
And of course, the Democrat Party and all the human trafficking involving the NGOs and everything else.
But instead of arresting big tech executives, Trump does deals with them all.
He does deals with Google, with Meta and Facebook, with Microsoft.
They all get rewarded, even though in my view, those executives are treasonous criminals.
you know, many of them engaged in censorship that hurt Trump.
I mean, Google helped rig the 2020 election.
So why is the Trump administration doing business with Google at all?
You know, Google should be shut down because it's such a dangerous company that spies on Americans against their will, against their consent, and then gives back doors to the NSA and then rigs elections and pushes deadly vaccine jabs and helps push depopulation.
But you see, that's probably why Trump likes working with them because Trump also is pushing depopulation.
Trump knows that a certain number of Americans, millions of them, have to die earlier than they otherwise would in order to save trillions of dollars in government spending on things like Social Security, Medicare, pensions, and other entitlements.
So, you see, it's a very complex thing.
I mean, Trump and his people, yeah, they want to defeat the Democrats so that the GOP can stay in power and Trump can avoid impeachment, which means you have to maintain a majority in the House, obviously.
Look what happened last time with Adam Schiff and all those traders.
But at the same time, in order to keep the United States solvent, you have to engineer a way to get rid of millions of people on the older side who are collecting all this money because the U.S. trade.
A $72 billion auction just largely failed a couple days ago.
And the debt is increasing by $5.5 billion per day in the United States.
So you got to sell like $5.5 billion of Treasury debt every single day to break even.
And that's not going to happen.
I mean, we're actually going to go deeper into debt, obviously.
So, again, complex issue.
But it's clear to me that the Trump administration wants people to die younger, but also wants to keep the Democrats out of power.
Both of those things can be true at the same time.
Okay, I've got a special report for you here called The Shocking Real Reason Why Trump is Blocking Imports to the USA.
This is a summary of the debt to GDP racial concept that I covered yesterday.
I wanted to restate it as a separate standalone report to make it very easy for people to understand because some of this can get kind of, you know, technical.
Right?
So I think you'll enjoy the presentation of this material.
Following that, we have chapter five of my book, or I should say most of chapter five.
I might actually add something to it over the weekend, but we're going to have most of chapter five.
And then we've got an interview today.
And the interview is with my friends at Shield Arms, a company I haven't spoken with.
I mean, I haven't interviewed them for a couple of years.
They've got some new things cooking in terms of innovative firearms.
And of course, I carry a Shield Arms custom Glock 40s.
I've been carrying that for several years and I absolutely love it.
It's become my everyday carry firearm.
very reliable and we talk about the controversy over the SIG P320, which some people claim has accidental discharges under certain conditions.
Now, for the record, I carried the SIG P320 for many years, maybe, I don't know, five years or something.
And I never had an issue with it at all.
Of course, I practice safe firearm handling anyway.
So if it had gone off, I mean, it would have been surprising, but it would not have been deadly.
But nevertheless, it never misfired or anything like that, in my experience.
But apparently it has happened forever.
So that's a pretty big deal.
We do get into that in today's interview.
Oh, I also wanted to mention one more thing.
Just as I predicted, Brazil and India are now pushing back against Trump's tariffs by deepening their economic cooperation.
So sure enough, Lula and Modi, the leaders of those two nations, are now joining together where they would not have before.
And it's very clear that Trump's punitive tariffs against both of those countries has really destroyed a lot of the trade friendship or even the political clout among those countries.
It's really hurt U.S. relations.
And it's just encouraging countries like India to embrace BRICS and to abandon dollar-denominated trade and to de-emphasize its exports to the United States and instead focus on expanding new markets in other countries or to other countries.
So again, this is backfiring on Trump.
Because you can't run around the world just trying to bludgeon everybody with a bunch of threats.
Now, I know that that worked in the New York real estate marketplace.
In New York, if you're the biggest, baddest threatening bully, then you get the most traction, you make the most headway.
If you're the biggest boaster, and if you never back down, you always double down anytime you're accused of anything.
You know, you're just bombastic and, you know, your project is always the biggest, best, most beautiful project ever, etc.
That works great as a New York real estate developer, at least on large projects.
And Trump proved that, you know, with all of his projects and his father's projects over all the years and with his mentor, I think Ray Cohn and others who kind of taught Trump this style.
The problem is that Trump is using this on the entire world.
And it doesn't work because the whole world is not New York City, thank God.
So India is like, what are you doing?
And we're like, what are you doing?
Russia is like, you know, what the hell?
This doesn't work with us.
Brazil, same thing.
Like, this doesn't work.
So Trump's training and his blueprint for bullying and threatening and attacking and punishing and saying, I run everything, I control everything, you've got to do what I say, that is not working on planet Earth.
It did work on planet New York City, not on planet Earth.
So that's why...
Turkey is going to leave NATO even.
And Russia, obviously, Brazil, Iran, you name it.
The U.S. is just burning bridges faster than the Russian military is doing.
And as a result, the U.S. is going to find itself economically isolated.
But there's also a reason why Trump is doing this.
There's a shocking real reason, and that's the focus of my special report here, which again, I did briefly cover this yesterday, but I've got more detail on it today, and I think it's a simpler explanation today.
So we're going to jump to that report shortly.
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and all of the ponds are running dry.
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And you know what?
One of my dogs dragged in today like the front leg of a deer.
Like, geez, man.
I mean, it was like the hoof and it was the, I don't know what all the anatomy of the deer is.
It was like everything below the shoulder, okay, with the bone and the skin and the hoof and everything.
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In any case, enjoy the special report and enjoy today's featured interview and then the new chapter five of the book, The Financial Big Bang.
Here we go.
All right, this special report brings you a really critical analysis of why Trump is actually blocking imports into the United States.
It has everything to do with his ability to extend the time before the total debt collapse of the United States of America.
I'm going to explain why.
Now, I've also covered this in my new free audiobook called The Financial Big Bang.
That audiobook will be released shortly, all of it free.
Just download it.
It's five chapters.
You'll be able to find a link for it at healthranger.com, by the way, and also at natural news.com if you click on the audiobooks link up top, but it's probably easier to find at healthranger.com.
Anyway, it'll be live within a week or so, but I'm releasing each chapter, one chapter per day as part of my Brightown Broadcast news that has been going on all this week.
So if you go back to my Monday edition of BBN, Brightown Broadcast news, you're going to find chapter one in the Monday edition, and on Tuesday it's chapter two, et cetera.
So you can go hear it there if you want, or you can just wait for the whole audiobook to come out.
Now, we've all been a little bit mystified as to why Trump is throwing these insanely high tariffs on, let's say, india you know 50 on india and 50 on brazil but he's given china a pass somehow and every time he makes one of these decisions whether it's punishing japan or or vietnam or you know all kinds of other u.s allies taiwan um we're like
what's going on you know trump is harming u.s businesses because he's wrecking global supply chains that u.s that U.S. companies rely on in order to get the parts that they need to build their products.
And this is affecting us.
For example, our turmeric, the organic turmeric that we sell at our store, Healthrangerstore.com, most of that comes from India because India has the cleanest turmeric, whereas a lot of other turmeric from other Southeastern Asian countries is heavily contaminated with lead.
That's why we're about to go through a turmeric shortage at our store.
thanks to Trump and his 50% tariff on India.
People say, well, why don't you buy it from America?
Well, I checked the map and I could not find turmeric town USA.
There was no turmeric town.
So you got to get it from somewhere else because nobody really grows it at scale in America.
Okay?
There might be some small producers in Hawaii, but nothing on the scale that we need.
Anyway, so there's a reason for this though.
There's a reason that just became apparent to me the other day when I was studying the formula for the GDP.
GDP stands for gross domestic product.
And I did not know this or I didn't realize it.
But the GDP is kind calculated by adding together consumer spending and business spending and government spending and investment spending, etc., plus the dollar value of exports, but then minus the dollar value of imports.
That's right.
Imports deducts from the GDP.
So if I'm exporting $1 trillion, but I'm importing $2 trillion, then that's a minus $1 trillion net off the GDP.
Or you could say every $1 trillion of domestic productivity is canceled out.
by every $1 trillion of imports.
Now, exports minus imports is described as a trade imbalance when those aren't the same numbers.
And of course, that's the case with the USA.
So the USA has very strong trade imbalances with countries such as China, obviously, and really most countries.
And as a result, all those imports are taking away from the GDP.
Well, why does Trump care about the GDP so much where he would want to block imports in order to help the GDP look bigger.
The answer is because of something called the debt to GDP ratio.
The debt to GDP ratio is just like it sounds.
You know, you have right now debt in the U.S. of what, thirty seven trillion dollars roughly, give or take, and you got a GDP of, I don't know, something like thirty trillion.
Roughly the debt to GDP ratio is something over one hundred twenty percent and climbing.
I'm just using round numbers here off the top of my head, but you can look up the actual numbers if you want.
But those are pretty close.
So throughout history, anytime a nation has seen its debt to GDP ratio cross over about 125% or 130%, that nation has suffered an economic collapse.
One reason is because nobody wants to buy the debt of a country that has that much debt, according, you know, ratioed to its GDP.
Because foreign investors ask the question, well, how can this country pay back that much debt?
The debt's too large for the size of that country's economy.
And you would typically see these kinds of problems in countries that were much smaller than the United States and were having severe, severe economic problems like Lebanon or, you know, Venezuela or in previous years, you know, Zimbabwe or Thailand or whatever, right?
Lots of examples of this.
Well, right now the debt to GDP ratio is so high for the United States that a recent Treasury auction just this week failed miserably.
It could not find buyers.
for the, what was it, $72 billion that they were trying to auction off in order to raise operating funds for the United States government just to make it through the rest of this year.
I mean, actually, $72 billion doesn't last the rest of this year.
They're trying to find buyers of treasury debt.
And this is going to be increasingly difficult if the debt-to-GDP ratio continues to worsen.
So by blocking imports, listen carefully here, by blocking imports, basically running an economic blockade against the United States of America, Trump can, in effect, manipulate the GDP.
to look higher, which lowers the debt-to-GDP ratio.
And the more imports he can block, the better that ratio gets, which means foreign investors are willing to buy more treasury debt at lower yields, which makes servicing that debt lower cost for the United States.
It kicks the can down the road on the U.S. debt Ponzi scheme a little bit longer, giving the Trump administration a little bit more runway before the total debt implosion happens, which it will.
It's just a question of when.
Now, because somebody farted and you don't want to smell the farts so you strangle yourself with your hands around your own neck.
At first you might think wow there's a benefit here not smelling the farts and then before long you probably realize wait a second no air gonna have to breathe.
A lot of these supply chains are like air to U.S. businesses.
The U.S. companies have to have that air in order to function.
Automobile manufacturers in particular.
But many other types of manufacturers and all kinds of companies, including big tech and all the data centers that Trump is bragging about.
Well, how are you going to build the data centers without copper and aluminum and electronic components, telecom components, microchips, and all these other things that Trump is slapping insane tariffs on in order to block trade to the United States, right?
So you, yeah, you can briefly improve the debt to GDP ratio.
But before long, you run out of air and your economy is gasping for air.
Your economy is being suffocated because of the broken wrecked supply chains.
That's exactly what Trump is doing right now.
So the longer term implications of this are that it will lower the GDP.
Right.
Or it will, let's say, pause the growth of the GDP.
Meanwhile, the debt's continuing to get worse anyway.
So in the long run, the debt-to-GDP ratio is going to get a lot worse.
But in the short term, which is where Trump is focused, a lot of short-term strategies here that will have long-term bad consequences.
But in the short term, yeah, he can make the most numbers look a little bit better and he can maybe renegotiate a lot of the treasury debt with current debt holders such as Japan and China and the EU.
And of course, one of his strategies is that he hopes to renegotiate the conversion of 10-year treasury bonds into 50-year bonds to push the problem down the road for a few decades.
I don't know why any country would accept that deal.
It seems like financial suicide, but whatever.
Maybe he'll bully the EU and von der Leyen into doing something else.
incredibly stupid because she seems to be very open to that.
Now, I cover all of this in much more detail in my book, The Financial Big Bang.
And that book, especially Chapter 2, you need to listen to Chapter 2.
Chapter 2 describes the gold revaluation strategy that Trump is apparently about to invoke within the next year, almost certainly, that's going to revalue gold and thus generate potentially trillions of dollars.
that gets deposited into the Treasury General Fund by the Federal Reserve.
So by revaluing gold, they can create trillions of dollars out of thin air basically and they can use that to improve the debt to GDP ratio by bringing down the debt so you see these two strategies being used at the same time that is revaluing gold in order to raise trillions of dollars to service the existing debt plus blocking imports in order to improve the GDP number that those two things together
will dramatically improve the debt to GDP ratio, possibly bringing it down below 100%.
At which point, there are a lot more international buyers that are willing to hand over money in exchange for treasuries.
Now, what I explain in my book, The Financial Big Bang, which you absolutely need to listen to, if you want to understand what's about to happen, you got to hear that book.
And again, especially chapter two, because chapter two, at the end of it, about the last, I don't know, 30, 40 minutes, whatever, I give you the Federal Reserve documents.
I walk through the so-called Bitcoin Act that
I talk about the Feds notes article by Colin Weiss and I link to other things that show you including the Federal Reserve training manual for its own employees that tells you how this works, how the Treasury creates out of nothing gold certificates that are claims to the value of the gold that the Treasury says it holds, which is two hundred sixty one point five million ounces of gold.
That's a lot of gold if they have it.
And then the Treasury in exchange for those gold certificates, creates just digitally, creates an entry of trillions of dollars, depending on the price of the gold, trillions of dollars in a deposit.its that into the Treasury General account and then the Treasury can use that for whatever it wants such as paying down the debt paying interest on the current bondholders etc now you need to understand that for every $4,000
of value that the government declares gold to be this will generate $1 trillion in essentially free new money for the Treasury And the only reason this is possible is because gold is currently statutorily valued at only $42.22 per ounce.
And it's been that way for decades.
And the current market value of gold per ounce is, what, $3,400 plus.
So that's a huge difference.
But the government could even declare it to be much higher, like $12,000 an ounce, which would generate $3 trillion, roughly, in money for the Treasury.
And if the government valued gold at $24,000 an ounce, well, that would generate about $6 trillion.
Now, $6 trillion, you know, now we're talking.
Because if the total debt is 37 trillion, and if you manage to clobber, let's say, $6 trillion off of that,, what is that about one sixth of the debt that you have erased right there?
So now you have brought the debt to GDP ratio down, you know, very close to 100% just with that one maneuver right there.
And then there are other maneuvers that Trump is attempting to pursue that I also cover in my book, The Financial Big Bang.
So these are the mechanisms that we need to understand.
Trump, of course, is not talking about any of this publicly.
Lutnick, Besent, Powell, none of them are talking about this.
Powell may not even agree with going along with it, so he's going to be replaced anyway.
The next person to come in is going to do this, I believe.
It's clear.
But they're not going to tell you about this plan.
They're just going to spring it on us one day.
You're going to wake up and gold has been revalued to some much higher number.
And then whoever holds gold is going to be instantly much wealthier.
And whoever doesn't hold gold is going to be instantly much more impoverished.
Why?
Well, because this is going to have a devaluation effect on the dollar that's going to be quite significant.
And it's going to cause inflation.
It's going to cause increase in pricing of commodities.
It's going to cause silver to go up, too.
I even asked David Morgan about that and he gave me a detailed answer.
So the bottom line is if you want to stack gold and silver before this event happens, you have a narrow window of opportunity to do it.
Maybe a year, maybe nine months.
It's not clear exactly, but it's something around that is what it looks like.
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Now, just as a disclaimer, I can't guarantee what Trump is going to do.
I mean, I don't even think Trump's own mind knows what he's going to do some days.
So there's always a risk that they may not pursue this plan or they may choose a different price for gold or it may take longer or there may be World War III before this happens.
I mean, we don't know.
There's a lot of stuff that could happen.
So there's no guarantees.
So I encourage you to do your own research.
I strongly encourage you to listen to my book.
because the book gives you the links to the Federal Reserve documents and the Congress.gov document and other documents so you can do research on this and you can confirm everything I'm saying and you you can decide if it makes sense to you.
So definitely do your research on this and then if you agree that gold is going to be revalued then you'd be crazy not to want to accumulate gold before that happens because that's a once in a lifetime event.
I'm getting ready for it.
That's for sure.
I know a lot of wealthy people are getting ready for it.
Why do you think they bought all that gold and brought it back from London?
earlier this year.
I mean, massive amounts of gold.
Why?
Because they're about to do this.
And whoever has the gold, you know, makes the rules.
I mean, whoever owns the gold, if you've got the gold in your possession, then you're going to benefit from this if it rolls out as we think.
But we'll see.
Until then, stay informed.
Thank you for listening.
You can catch more of my interviews and podcasts at Brightown.com.
I'm Mike Adams.
Take care.
Okay, welcome to this addendum, which I'm putting at the beginning of chapter five here, because, well, all the other chapters are done.
And what often happens when I'm working on a book is I will come into some additional information as I'm doing the research and working on the book.
And it just so happen happens that a number of really important documents have surfaced here that are highly relevant to this book.
And I want to go over those with you right here.
And then we'll get to the rest of chapter five, which is really all about action items to take and some pitfalls to avoid, things like that, sort of the action-oriented chapter of the book.
So before we get there, I want to show you something called the Bitcoin Act in the United States Senate.
All right, now this Bitcoin Act, it's not really just about Bitcoin.
It's a clever name.
The short title section, if you scroll down a little bit, Bitcoin is an acronym for Boosting Innovation, Technology, and Competitiveness through Optimize Investment Nationwide Act.
Boy, they had to work hard to come up with that one, didn't they?
They're really working it.
Now, this act is not yet law.
It hasn't passed the U.S. Senate yet.
But it will likely pass this year for lots of reasons, some of which will become obvious here shortly.
If we scroll down to section 9, which is entitled Offsetting the Cost of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve.
Then in Section C, it mentions Federal Reserve System Gold Certificates.
Okay?
Now, even though this is under the subhead of offsetting the cost of the Bitcoin Reserve, this is actually describing the process that I've been talking about here that raises money, trillions of dollars potentially, for the Treasury.
to do anything they want with it.
So here it is.
Let me read this for you.
Section C. Federal Reserve System Gold Certificates.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal Reserve Banks shall tender all outstanding gold certificates in their custody to the Secretary.
That's the Secretary of the Treasury.
Not later than 90 days after the tender of the last such certificate, the Secretary shall issue new gold certificates to the Federal Reserve Banks.
that reflect the fair market value price of the gold held against such certificates by the Treasury as of the date specified by the Secretary on each new gold certificate.
And then upon issue by the Secretary, each Federal Reserve bank that receives a new gold certificate shall remit the difference in cash value between the old and new gold certificates to the Secretary for deposit in the general fund within 90 days.
Got it?
All right, so what does this say?
I mean this is describing the mechanism right here it says that with
That's what's currently on the books.
Okay.
So again, within six months, the Fed surrenders those certificates.
Then within three months, then the Treasury issues new gold certificates.
at the current fair market value price of gold.
That fair market value price can be any price that the government sets because if the government says we're going to start buying gold at $12,000 an ounce then that's the current price because lots of people are going to say sold here you can have my gold for $12,000
an ounce so whatever price the government sets will be the current price that is if the government sets a price higher than you know the current market price If the current market price is $3,500 an ounce and the government says, well, we'll pay $10,000 an ounce, then $10,000 is the new price.
Okay?
So that happens within three months.
New certificates from the Treasury go to the Fed.
Got it.
And then within another three months, the Federal Reserve then deposits that number of dollars, equal to the value on the gold certificates, into the general fund of the Treasury.
note that this doesn't go specifically to buying Bitcoin or specifically to anything.
It goes into the general fund of the Treasury, which can be used to pay off maturing bonds or to issue interest payments on existing bonds or to Or they can send it all to Zelensky in Ukraine.
I'm sure he could use it to buy more cocaine whatever the case may be it goes into the general fund all right so look at the timeline here after this act is passed there's six months for the Fed to surrender the current gold certificates and then there's three months after that for the Treasury to issue new certificates based on fair market value.
So in other words, and then within three months, they get paid by the Fed.
So in other words...
A maximum of nine months.
But it could be sooner than that.
Because the language in here says not later than 180 days and then not later than 90 days.
Well, they could do this in 10 days, you know, or 30 days or whatever.
But no more than nine months.
So if you've been wondering about what I'm talking about in this book, saying, well, is it really possible that they're going to revalue gold in order to raise all this money to fund the government?
Yes.
Look at the evidence so far.
I've shown you the article on the Federal Reserve website from Colin Weiss talking about five other countries that did this exact thing.
I've shown you the Treasury training materials.
That's the Section 2.10 Gold Certificate Account.
That's under a Chapter 1 balance sheet.
under Federal Reserve and it talks about exactly this mechanism.
Quote, when the Treasury monetizes gold, it credits this account in return for deposit credit at the Federal Reserve Bank, etc., etc.
And it goes on.
I covered that in a previous chapter.
I showed you the Federal Reserve accounting sheet, which has a line item for gold certificates.
It's currently at $11 billion.
And then now I've shown you this Bitcoin Act that specifically states the mechanism, exactly how this would work.
the relationship between the Treasury and the Fed and how, you know, the Treasury issues the gold certificates, the Fed then deposits the money in the Treasury.
and the timeline for this so if you're wondering how long do you have to stack gold before all of this happens well all you got to do is watch for the passage of this law the bitcoin act which again is named in a bit of a misleading fashion it's not really about bitcoin it's it's largely about gold and treasury money but also something about Bitcoin.
But if you watch for the passage of the Bitcoin Act, and of course I will keep you posted on this, my guess is this is going to be passed and signed into law.
later this year, then you and I will know that the clock is ticking.
You and I will know at that point with certainty that we have a maximum of nine months to stack as much gold as whatever we can or want because then the revaluation is going to take place.
But here's the thing.
We don't know the fair market value.
that the government is going to place on gold.
And I suppose there is a chance that the government could just say, well, the fair market value, we're just going to call it $3,500..
And in that case, then, you know, that wouldn't be much of an increase in gold.
But why would the government do that when that would raise less than $1 trillion when, as we have seen, the government needs at least $20 trillion over the next couple of years in order to pay off maturing Treasury bonds?
And recognize that for every $4,000 of valuation of gold, It raises about $1 trillion in the Treasury General Fund.
So if you were going to do this, if you're a desperate, you know, treasury official, kind of feels sorry for Bescent at this point, that you got to figure out how to raise many trillions of dollars.
And you realize that if you want to raise, let's say, $4 trillion out of nothing, then you have to value gold at, what, $16,000 an ounce.
If you want to raise $5 trillion, you got to value gold at $20,000 an ounce, et cetera.
Every $4,000 of valuation gives you another trillion of liquidity.
and it delays the financial collapse of the U.S. Empire.
All right, the next really important point that I'd like to explain that nobody is talking about.
Nobody's explaining this.
I actually figured this one out for myself.
You wonder why Trump is blocking imports to the United States.
Now, he's using tariffs as a punitive weapon.
He's punishing India.
He's punishing Japan.
He's punishing Brazil.
He's punishing the EU.
And, of course, trying to punish China and other countries as well.
Vietnam, for example.
And at first, you might be thinking, oh, this is all about bringing jobs back to the U.S. This is about incentivizing factories in the U.S. This is about sanctioning countries that don't have fair trade with us what if I told you that that's not really what this is about what if I told you that Trump is blocking imports into the United States in order to make Treasury debt more trustworthy okay now in
order to lower the yields that the Treasury has to pay on the debt that it auctions off and you might think what what are you talking about what does that have to do with anything Well, let me walk you through this.
Do you know the formula for calculating the GDP, the gross domestic product?
Okay, the official formula.
is C plus I plus G plus X minus M. And we don't have to memorize this whole thing.
C is consumer spending and G is government spending.
What is M?
Oh, wait, I. I is business investment.
There we go.
But X and M are very important here because it's plus X minus M. So X represents the dollar value of all exports and M represents the dollar value of all imports.
Did you know that?
So the GDP is the total domestic production in essence minus the imports.
So the more we import, the lower our GDP goes.
And obviously the less we import, the higher the GDP.
Now, you may be familiar with the concept of the debt-to-GDP ratio.
We've talked about it here in this book.
The debt-to-GDP ratio is really critical because history has shown that When countries have a debt-to-GDP ratio that goes over something like 125, 130% or so, that country heads to financial collapse.
And nobody trusts the debt or, you know, the treasury bonds of a country that's got a debt to GDP ratio approaching 130%.
What's the ratio for the U.S. right now?
It's a little over 120%.
And it's getting worse.
Where does that ratio need to be for treasuries to be more trustworthy and therefore for treasury yields to go down, which means that the treasury would pay lower interest payments on the debt.
Where does that debt to GDP ratio need to be?
It needs to be closer to 70%.
So how do you get the debt to GDP ratio from 120% down to 70%.
Well, in order to do that, you need to reduce our current debt, which let's just call it $37 trillion.
You need to reduce it by about 42%, which is about $15 trillion in debt reduction.
So somehow, you know, you got to bring the GDP back into balance with the debt.
You got to get this ratio.
to 70%.
So you either have to retire $15 trillion in debt or you have to block a lot of imports in order to make the GDP look higher.
So if you can block a couple of trillion dollars in imports, which is exactly what Trump is doing.
And if you can then revalue gold at something like $24,000, then the gold revaluation could raise $6 trillion.
Plus, like we mentioned, the stablecoin gambit might raise another $1 trillion.
That's $7 trillion.
And then if you could block, I don't know, maybe a couple trillion in imports, even if it hurts American businesses, even if it causes supply chain chaos.
But that all goes back on the balance sheet.
Blocking imports makes the GDP look better and it helps.
alleviate the need to raise more money to pay off the debt.
You see what I'm saying?
So because of the way the GDP is calculated, blocking imports makes it easier for the Treasury to sell Treasury debt.
And that's what Trump is trying to accomplish.
Even though this is ripping apart U.S. businesses and retailers, and it's causing huge increases in prices for consumers, which is leading to inflation.
Even though it's doing that, it's saving the Treasury.
It's saving the ability of the Treasury to sell debt with lower yields to make servicing the debt more affordable for the U.S. over the long haul.
So this kind of gets to exactly what Andy Sheckman told me in a recent interview.
Trump is going to sacrifice the dollar, which means we're going to see inflation, we're going to see massive dollar devaluation.
He's willing to sacrifice the dollar in order to save the debt market.
This is another example of that.
So blocking imports is a strategy to alter the debt to GDP ratio so that the classification of U.S. Treasury bonds goes into a less risky category in the minds of foreign investors.
I bet nobody told you that.
I mean, this didn't even occur to me until yesterday.
Now, there's one more thing I want to show you here, which is a document from the U.S. government that confirms that population reduction is another important way to save the U.S. government about $11 trillion over several decades.
This is actually confirmed in this document, which is called FY 2024 Required Supplementary Information.
It's the U.S. government unaudited for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2024 and 2020.
Now in this document, if you scroll down to the bottom of page 20, it's talking about the long-term cost of social security in trillions of dollars based on life expectancy.
And it says there's a high cost scenario and there's a low cost scenario.
In this paragraph, it says the low cost alternative is characterized by assumptions that improve the financial status of the program, such as slower improvement in mortality, in parentheses, beneficiaries die youngerer.
Okay, you got that?
Beneficiaries die younger.
And then it says assumptions under the high cost alternative worsen the financial outlook.
Okay, and the difference between the low cost and the high cost, that is people dying sooner and people living longer, is about $11 trillion.
And so under this chart, this is on page 21, The first bullet point says the average annual reduction in death rates.
If people die at younger ages, Social Security income..
relative to cost would decrease by $5.1 trillion.
Kaboom, there's $5 trillion in savings right there with the vaccine jabs killing people younger, right?
If people live longer, the shortfall would increase by $6 trillion.
So the difference between that, minus $5 trillion versus plus $6 trillion, that's $11 trillion in difference.
So in other words, there is a very recognized financial incentive, which is what I talked about in chapter 3.
There's a financial incentive for our government to figure out how to kill as many people as possible once they stop working, once they stop paying taxes.
So all the retirees, all the boomers, all the seniors, like everybody in that category, everybody who's no longer working, the only way that the federal government can remain solvent is to kill off as many of those people as possible.
That's why I believe Trump is celebrating Operation Warp Speed.
He called it the most efficient and most amazing program in America's history.
What was it efficient at achieving early deaths, thereby saving the government trillions of dollars in long-term entitlement payouts.
And if you don't believe me on this, let me play Trump's statement for you where he is saying exactly this.
You were the driving force behind Operation Warp Speed, these mRNA vaccines that are the gold standard.
Now your health secretary is pulling back all the funding for research.
He's saying that the risks outweigh the benefits, which puts him at odds with your medical community and with you.
What is going on?
Yeah.
Research on what?
Into mRNA vaccines.
Well, we're going to look at that.
We're talking about it.
And they're doing a very good job.
And, you know, that is a past.
Operation Warp Speed was, whether you're Republican or Democrat, considered one of the most incredible things ever done in this country.
The efficiency, the way it was done, the distribution, everything about it has been amazing.
So there you go.
There's Trump bragging about Operation Warp Speed, which we know was the opening chapter of a program that killed 1.5 million Americans.
So if you go back to the Social Security documents here, if people die at younger ages, then Social Security income relative to cost would decrease by $5.1 trillion.
How many billions of dollars has the U.S. government already saved from Trump launching Operation Warp Speed and killing off people at a younger age than?
what they would otherwise experience.
Did you know that COVID vaccines decrease life expectancy by 37%?
That has come out of the new studies.
37% life expectancy.
And, you know, typically the part of the life that is snuffed out is, you know, the elderly years.
Now, granted, some people die in their 20s and 30s after the vaccine jabs.
I don't think that's really the aim of the vaccine program.
What they really want to do is kill off the older people that are collecting social security and pensions and so on.
This is part of the solvency program.
See, you got to understand.
Trump has to raise $20 plus trillion or somehow find savings of $20 trillion.
So he's doing multiple things.
He's blocking imports to affect GDP, like I just described.
He's rolling out vaccines, Operation Warp Speed, mRNA, to kill off the elderly population, which will save trillions of dollars for the federal government.
He's revaluing gold in order to generate trillions of dollars out of nothing.
And he may, well, like he reinitiated student loan payback requirements to generate more revenues from the former students, most of whom cannot afford to pay anything.
But that's four things right there that Trump is doing to try to effectively bring down the debt to GDP ratio.
Now, you know, some of, I mean, those are four highly destructive things in many ways.
I mean, obviously killing off a bunch of people is, that's a pretty evil way to balance the budget.
So is punishing India.
India didn't do anything wrong.
or blocking supply chains for U.S. businesses and U.S. consumers.
But you see, Trump is already in the phase right now.
This is the last chapter that, Trump is in the lifeboat phase of the U.S. Empire.
The U.S. Empire is on the verge of total financial destruction.
And Trump can't tell the public this, obviously, because loss of faith would break the whole system.
In fact, they wouldn't let me say this if I had the audience of someone like Joe Rogan, obviously.
The only way you're able to hear this is because I have a relatively small audience because I've been censored and deplatformed.
So my reach isn't enough to matter to the White House or to the Treasury.
They don't care that I reach this book.
might be listened to by a few tens of thousands of people, whatever.
That doesn't matter to them.
So they can't admit that we're on the verge of a financial implosion.
Trump has to keep saying the economy's great.
It's a golden age.
Everything's awesome.
Prices are going down, even though you know that's a lie.
You go to the grocery store.
Are prices going down?
No.
You see your health insurance rates, your car insurance rates, your home insurance rates.
Are those rates going down?
No, they're all going up.
You know he's lying about that.
But he has to maintain the lie in his mind to try to convince people everything's great.
things great while he's running these emergency operations to do crazy things like exterminate a few million Americans, the older ones, revaluing gold, blocking imports to affect the debt-to-GDP ratio, things like that.
Some of these things are totally insane.
But in Trump's mind and his advisors, these are necessary steps to prevent the total collapse, the fall of the empire.
which will happen anyway, but they may be able to delay it.
In fact, they will delay it.
They might be able to delay it for years.
But it's clear they're sacrificing the dollar.
So yes, everything's going to get more expensive.
You're going to have supply chain disruptions that are totally insane.
The value of your dollars in savings is going to plummet.
Yeah, Trump's sacrificing the dollar, which means he's also sacrificing the middle class.
Middle class is being destroyed by this.
It's all to save the treasury.
or the debt market.
That's what this is all about, to keep those yields under 5%, even better, like 3.5% is what they would want, or even lower for that matter.
That's how they think they can save the empire, but they are sacrificing the American people.
But then again, since when has the federal government ever given a crap about the American people?
Never.
I mean, not in our lifetimes.
So of course they'll sacrifice Americans to shore up their own power.
What do you think 9-11 was all about?
All kinds of operations.
All right, so just to review, what I showed you here today, I've shown you the government FY 2024 document talks about Social Security saving $11 trillion by killing off people at a younger age.
I've shown you the Bitcoin Act document that lays out the specific timeline for the Treasury to issue gold certificates in exchange for new money created and deposited in the Treasury General account by the Federal Reserve.
And now you know that that's maximum nine months from the day that the Bitcoin Act is signed into law.
And I've also explained to you how GDP is calculated, which includes the value of all exports minus the value of all imports, revealing why when Trump blocks imports, he actually positively improves the GDP, which lowers the debt-to-GDP ratio.
You got all that?
Yeah, not everybody's going to track all this, but that's what we're looking at.
So there's actually a secret plan being played out by Trump and his officials, the same people that brought all the gold back from London earlier this year.
By the way, you think that was just random?
No.
It's all part of a secret plan.
There's a secret plan to save the debt market by sacrificing everybody else and sacrificing the dollar.
And they can't tell you about this plan.
So they have to just spout all this public nonsense, just all these fake numbers and everything else and tell you everything's great.
But behind the scenes, they're rolling out lifeboats as the Titanic is sinking.
And you can bet that every single person that is in the loop on this in the Trump administration, every single person is buying gold and silver like crazy right now.
You can bet they're maxing out every possible way to buy gold.
Many of us in the freedom movement, you know, we think that's a wise strategy.
Now, of course, don't take this as investment advice because these plans could change.
I don't know.
We could be in World War III before any of this happens.
Maybe the Senate doesn't pass the Bitcoin Act.
You know, maybe the debt implosion happens before they can save it, right?
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Verify everything I've said here.
I want you to go find the documents.
I mean, I've given you the document titles, and they're easy to find, like Congress.gov is where you can find the Bitcoin Act text.
I've showed you the articles on the Federal Reserve website and the user manual on the Federal Reserve website, etc.
So all these are easy to find, but I encourage you.
Verify everything that I've said here.
In fact, launch a spreadsheet and do the math yourself because that's what I do.
When I listen to somebody.
You know, even like I was watching the video from George Gammon on this.
George Gammon, he's got numbers on the whiteboard.
And I'm just the kind of guy, I'm like Ronald Reagan, trust but verify.
Like, yeah, I think George is being honest, but I'm going to verify these numbers.
I'm going to make my own spreadsheet, run the numbers.
And then sure enough, yeah, George Gammon's numbers make sense.
But I don't trust other people's numbers by default, and you shouldn't either.
You should take everything I've said here, all the prices I've quoted.
You know, $4,000 of gold valuation translates into about $1 trillion in new liquidity for the Treasury, etc 42.22 is the current official gold price the statutory gold price 261.5 million ounces of gold is what the treasury current claims to own currently claims to own 11.041 billion dollars is what the federal reserve claims is the current value etc etc you should take all those numbers and you should check them make sure that i'm right make
sure that i haven't made a mistake in bringing you these numbers And when you do that, when you connect these dots and you're like, yep, check mark.
That's correct.
Boom, that's correct.
Yes, that's what the law says or the proposed law.
Boom, yes, that's what the Fed manual says.
Boom, yeah, that's what Social Security admitted, $11 trillion.
Actually, it's $11.1 trillion.
Check, check, check, check, check.
You're like, holy cow, Mike Adams is right.
This thing's real.
This is their plan.
Okay?
But don't believe me just because I'm saying it.
You do the math.
You check it out yourself.
You do the research.
You back it up.
And when you do that, you're going to go buy as much gold as you can possibly buy is my guess.
Again, do what's best for you, but I think this is a once in a lifetime.
I mean, clearly, it's a once in a lifetime.
It's probably once in the lifetime of the nation.
Well, I guess Roosevelt did this previously, raising gold from $20 to the $42, right?
So I guess maybe it's twice in the history of the nation, but it's certainly only once in our lifetimes, for most of us, unless you were alive in the 30s.
Maybe some of you were.
Congratulations.
But most of our listeners were not.
This is once in our lifetimes, and all the evidence is there, all the signs are there.
In my mind, it's abundantly clear that the number one thing that we all need to do to be prepared for this is to stack gold and arguably silver as well to get ready for the revaluation.
And I don't mean to buy options on gold.
I'm not talking about risky leverage.
I'm not talking about ETFs on gold.
I'm not talking about gold.
Well, I guess they're all ETFs, different funds.
I'm talking about physical because...
if the financial system goes down then I don't know that you can count on you know electronically claimed gold or whatever.
I don't know.
I guess it depends on how bad it gets.
But I know that gold and silver in your hands is hard for the government to mess with.
It's hard for anybody to make it vanish.
It's hard for them to steal it.
You've got the physical gold, then you're in command.
You've got possession of it.
And that's always going to have value in any system, even if the U.S. falls and collapses and then the new states rise up.
They will have to launch their own new currencies and states like Texas will no doubt back them partially by gold.
I have no doubt about that.
And, you know, gold's a tier one asset that's recognized all over the world.
Now, I mean, it's recognized in every culture.
Gold is mentioned over 200 times in the Bible.
It's been around longer than any modern, you know, nation state or most cities, for that matter.
I mean, you know, gold's been here long before human beings ever walked the earth.
So gold's going to be around.
long after we're gone.
It's certainly going to make it through this U.S. debt implosion financial crisis, which is going to destroy the middle class and destroy the dollar.
So think about what I'm saying here, double check everything, and then I'm going to bring you the rest of chapter five in a separate recording, which is about actions to take and some pitfalls to avoid.
We'll talk about also storing physical gold and silver in a safe manner.
vaulting versus taking possession of it what forms of gold and silver are wise to purchase things like that I mean the short version is get the most recognized versions from there's about I don't know, six or seven world mints that everybody recognizes in the gold and silver industry.
Just don't get these weird coins that nobody's ever heard of and weird sizes.
It's like one and five eighths ounces.
No, nobody wants that.
It should be one Troy ounce, period, or a tenth of an ounce or a quarter ounce or a 10 ounce bar.
Stick with normal things that everybody recognizes.
Don't go off on weird coins.
That's just the short version.
But I'll give you more in the next segment of chapter five.
So thanks for listening so far and there's more straight ahead.
All right, for this section of chapter 5, we'll be looking at practical solutions of how to do three things, which is acquiring gold and silver, owning gold and silver, and storing or keeping it safe.
And there's a knowledge set in each of these three areas that's really critical.
Most people, after learning about the information that I've shared in this book, most people realize that they should acquire more gold.
They see what's happening.
They believe that the Trump administration is about to engage in the revaluation.
They also see the collapse of the dollar and the failure of the treasury to sell off all the debt that it needs to sell at rates that it wants to offer, etc.
Not hard to read the writing on the wall.
Not difficult to come to the conclusion that gold and silver are probably the best way to preserve assets through this financial turmoil that we are experiencing at a civilizational level.
But there's a right way and a wrong way to buy gold.
There's a right way and a wrong way to own gold.
And most of you listening are probably not optimizing the best way to own it.
And also, there's a right way and a wrong way to keep it or store it.
So let's go through these very quickly.
For whatever reason, the precious metals retail industry, it tends to attract a lot of shady characters.
There's some shady outfits out there that make a ton of money by ripping people off, especially people on the older side, by offering them these weird coins that are odd and odd ounces, collector's editions and what have you, that are wildly overpriced, sometimes double or triple the price that they should be if they were closer to their spot price.
So one of the things I want to do is warn you about those shady gold operators out there.
some of them have big name spokespeople they do and I was even approached by one of them a while back a couple years ago offering me literally a hundred thousand dollars a month to plug them because then they could rip off people and make hundreds of thousands of dollars a month in profits and of course I said no, because that's, you know, that's stupid.
It's immoral.
I don't want my audience to be ripped off.
I want my audience to get the best deal possible.
That's why I'm always negotiating, you know, discounts, discount codes and deals and, you know, very limited affiliate arrangements that offer great value.
And so when it comes to physical gold and silver, whoever you work with, make sure they are highly, highly reputable.
Now, I routinely interview many different people that are involved in the gold and silver space, like David Morgan or Bill Holter or Andy Schackman, for example.
And all those people are trustworthy people.
They will be honest with you about gold and silver.
And there are other people that I interview in this space as well.
But our official sponsor, which you should always check out and compare prices if you want, is Battalion Medals.
And they're available at medalswithmike.com.
And, you know, check them out, talk to them.
You can trust their integrity.
can trust that their metals are real, that they're not overcharging you, that they're not trying to sell you some weird collectible garbage, etc.
They don't do any of that stuff.
And wherever you get metals, make sure that you get metals that are recognizable by other gold and silver dealers.
So what this means is that for a lot of coins, you know, typically one troy ounce is the size that you want to purchase.
Now, gold is available in other sizes, you know, quarter ounce, one tenth of an ounce, and those are widely recognized as well.
But the one ounce size is the most universal size.
And then there are only about, I don't know, six or seven world mints.
You know, there's a mint in South Africa, there's a mint in Australia, there's a mint in Canada, there's a mint in Japan, there's the US mint, etc.
Just a few world mints that are recognized.
So whether that means, you know, you're you know Britannia's or or whatever or eagles from the US mint make sure it's from one of those main mints so that if you go to any gold dealer and say hey here i've got you know i've got buffaloes are buffaloes legit like, We know what buffaloes are.
I've got kangaroos.
What are those?
Yeah, those are legit.
I've got Krugerrands.
Those are legit.
Yeah, everybody knows.
So get the common forms that are more liquid because then people don't have all kinds of questions like, what is this?
What is this weird thing?
You don't want to buy a bunch of weird things when it comes to gold and silver.
Now, there are other forms that are more spendable like goldbacks, for example.
which I'm an advocate of gold.
backs at some level in your portfolio because it's spendable because it's like here's a thousandth of an ounce of gold in a format that's got high utility But if you're just trying to maximize the total ounces of gold that you get for your dollars, then you're going to want to go to Battalion Medals, medalswithmike.com, and just buy ounces or even bars.
But ounces, again, are the most recognizable.
So I just recommend to keep it simple, buy one ounce coins.
So that's the proper way to buy coins.
Don't get talked into some kind of weird thing.
You know, you should, at the end of the day, when you're about to make a purchase, you should look at how much money are you spending.
Let's say you're spending $100,000 and how many ounces are you getting?
Whatever that is, you should just double check it, do the math, like how much am I paying per ounce?
Period.
Because, you know, for gold right now, you might pay $3,500 an ounce or something, or maybe more, depending on where the prices go.
But if you find out that you're paying like $7,000 an ounce, Because the dealer told you, well, these are collectors' coins or, you know, no, don't do that.
You should be paying the spot plus premium, which is normal for any coin because it costss money to stamp out coins, right?
It costs money to mint coins.
So there's always a premium over spot.
Spot is basically the melt value, right?
So every coin is going to cost you spot plus premium.
And right now in the silver market, those premiums can be very low, like $3.50 an ounce or something.
Maybe even lower.
Whereas when everybody panics and wants silver, those premiums will go up to $12 or more.
So right now, because premiums are relatively low across the board, this is a great time to actually get metal at low premiums.
But you want to make sure you're getting the number of ounces that you should be getting for the dollars that you're spending.
So always do that math.
Same thing with silver.
You know, what is silver right now?
Like 38 plus spot.
You know, plus, let's say, $3 or $4 premium.
You might pay $42 for an ounce of silver right now.
And that's reasonable.
And again, that can go up or down based on the market, depending on when you hear this.
But if you're paying like $70 for an ounce of silver, you're getting ripped off.
So don't do that.
Make sure you're getting a good price.
All right, so that's step one is how to buy it.
And I don't recommend buying ETFs because that's just an IOU for silver or gold.
It's not the real metal.
I recommend buying the real metal.
And if you have it vaulted, which is fine, make sure it's allocated to you.
It shouldn't be pooled gold or silver, which is almost an IOU, really.
It should be allocated.
Or You can also get it segregated, which is a very specific.
Like these are your coins.
These are your bars, segregated in its own cage or whatever in the vault, that's going to be the most expensive storage option, but it's also the most secure.
I'm okay with allocated, which is that you've got the claim to X number of ounces of gold or silver in the vault that is physically there.
That's a little bit different from segregated, but I'm okay with allocated.
I'm not okay with unallocated or pooled.
So try to avoid those, even though the storage costs are much lower.
The second question is, how do you own it?
And you may think that's a weird question.
I mean, what do you mean?
I just own own it?
Well, is it a good idea to own the gold and silver under your name your social security number because what if you have a lawsuit what if there's a tax liability on you then you would have to list that as an asset and it could be subject to confiscation through you know through the courts or through the government or who knows what or you know some financial collapse scenario ends up taking it from people like
some bank bail-in or whatever.
So my co-host for my show called Decentralized TV, his name is Todd Pittner.
He is the expert on a vehicle, it's a tax advantage vehicle called a UNA.
It's an unincorporated nonprofit association or a UNA.
And if you want to watch his video presentation of what this is, because this is an extraordinary vehicle that can save you a lot of money and help you keep what you earn and also segment your assets under its own EIN number.
where it's not under your Social Security number, so it's a firewall that protects those assets from any liability that you might have.
And yet, you still have control over that UNA.
So you can learn about this vehicle at his website.
It's called my575e.com.
My575e.com.
I recommend that you investigate this because this structure called the 575e or a UNA, this is under California law that apparently was written for the California lawmakers and California billionaires and wealthy people so they could keep more of their earnings and it allows you to donate up to sixty percent of your W2 income into your own nonprofit where
you still control it but it's not under your name right you control it but you don't quote own it and you can open bank accounts you can open a crypto account with kraken you can open accounts with you know investment houses you can open vaulting accounts you can vault gold and silver or buy gold and silver and hold it in the name of the UNA so that it's segmented from you.
And it doesn't cost that much money to set these up.
It's a few bargain given how much you save and how much protection you get from having this structure.
It's recognized under California law.
There's all this precedent with the IRS and tax authorities, et cetera.
And it's the vehicle that's used by wealthy people, and almost nobody knows about it.
And most accountants don't know about it.
Now, I'm not an accountant and I'm not your tax advisor, so, you know, of course, do your own research on this and figure out for yourself what's the best for you.
But the way to do the research is to go to my575e.com.
and there's a video there.
I think you can enter an email, you can sign up and you can also pay 150 bucks and have like a one-hour consultation with Todd Pitner and he can answer your questions and describe this to you.
But this is the best way, in my opinion, to legally own gold and silver because it's insulated from you and it gives you all kinds of options that normally aren't available to people.
And especially if you have a substantial amount of gold and silver and if you ever plan to sell it one day, you know, to redeem it for fiat currency, You're going to end up paying massive taxes on the profit of that gold and silver.
But if you own that gold and silver under an unincorporated nonprofit association and then you sell the gold and silver in exchange for currency or cash that also goes into the UNA, then it's not a taxable event.
It's because it's a nonprofit.
Now, again, do the research, learn about this, Find out why that's the case.
This is my understanding of it, but I'm not an accountant, and I'm not trying to give you tax advice.
But my understanding is that that is not a taxable event, and it's kept in the UNA.
So remember, one of the reasons why many people are buying gold and silver right now is because they anticipate the value going way, way up.
You don't want to end up paying massive federal taxes on that when the dollar is losing value, right?
You're trying to preserve your assets, not give them back to the federal government, but you want to do so.
You want to protect your assets in a way that's written into state law.
And even though this is a California law, every American has access to this, even if you're not living in California.
It's just not available to people who are not Americans.
So you do have to be an American citizen in order to take advantage of the structure.
So sorry for those of you in Canada.
There's nothing like this in Canada.
Not that I'm aware of.
But in America, it's readily available.
And the website to find that is my575e.com.
And frankly, I would consider a UNA for owning your home or for owning vehicles or if you have a business that has some risk associated with it like let's say you have a like a jet ski rental company or something well there's a lot of risk you know people can kill themselves on the jet skis or kill each other or cause property damage and accidentally rammed a boat or whatever in my opinion you definitely need that under una because that segments
it and gives you a firewall where there's the liability protection doesn't, you know, the lawsuits don't bleed over into your personal assets because it's all under the UNA.
So check out that information.
Think about that.
If you're going to own or hold or vault, especially if you're going to vault a large amount of gold and silver, you should think very seriously about creating your own UNA.
You can have it be your name.
It can be like your last name, like the Jones Foundation or whatever.
So you make up the name and then you're the secretary on it.
You control it.
but it has its own EIN number.
It's not your Social Security number.
And you aren't technically the owner of those assets.
So if something happens to you and they say, we have to list all your assets.
Well, you don't have to list those because you don't own them.
But again, don't take this as legal advice.
You know, get your own advisors.
I always encourage you to do your own research, get your own advisors and find out what's best for you.
But at least consider this.
It's a very valuable vehicle for this purpose.
All right.
So that's one way to own gold and silver.
Now, how do you store it?
How do you store it safely?
Well, we've talked about vaulting.
you do engage in vaulting, make sure that it's allocated, not pooled.
But what about physically keeping gold and silver well I've talked about this a lot in my previous books like the global reset survival guide you can download that book for free at global reset.news by the way but let me shorten it up here for you give you the thumbnail version number one most thieves expect your gold to be in a safe in your master
bedroom closet.
So that's where most people put their gold and silver because they feel like it's safer if it's closer to them.
And that's a huge mistake because that's exactly where thieves go.
And most so-called home safes are not even technically safes.
They're really just residential security containers.
I think that's how they're designated.
They can be defeated in two minutes or less by a thief with a drill.
So that's the last place that you want to put gold.
I have suggested previously that if you want to buy fake gold, like plague gold, You can go on eBay and you can buy like pirates gold type of like metal coins that are painted gold.
You know, it's just a prop.
You know, it's like a movie prop or whatever.
You can buy that stuff and stick it in your safe so that if the thief gets in your house and gets in your safe, they're going to think they got the gold.
They're going to take that and leave.
But it's not gold.
It's just metal painted gold.
You don't want to put your gold there.
So you need to store it in a place that is very unlikely to be found.
And there's a trade-off for this.
The better the security is of where you hide it, the harder it's going to be to recover when you need to recover it.
So let's take like the typical thing.
People put it in a container and they bury it in their yard.
And then they draw a secret treasure map.
It's 50 paces from the oak tree or whatever.
That's always a bad idea because the oak tree might not be there next year.
Who knows?
That's one way to do it.
The problem is then you have to determine who are you going to trust with the knowledge of where it's buried.
And if you don't tell anybody and something happens to you, then that gold's lost forever, probably.
And the second part is it's going to take some effort to dig it back up.
It's going to take a shovel and a few hours of work, perhaps.
But maybe you like that security.
Gold that is buried, especially if it's buried beneath at least 18 inches of soil, is very difficult for metal detectors to pick up at all.
It's just kind of hard to get to.
So that is one thing to consider.
If you do that, make sure that you bury it in a container that is crush-proof and also water-proof.
So just think about what those might be.
Now there's an easier retrieval method.
I've mentioned this before.
can go out to your Home Depot and you can buy forms for pouring concrete stepping stones or concrete blocks for your walkway.
And what you can typically do is you can take like a roll of gold coins and you can put it into that when you're pouring the concrete.
You know, you get the quick concrete mix and you buy these forms and then you can pour concrete blocks, but you can pour gold in them or other coins or whatever.
And then if you ever need the gold, you know, it's just one sledgehammer away.
Pretty easy to get it.
And very few people are going to suspect that your stepping stones are filled with gold because nobody does that.
So that's something to consider.
And you can also pour other objects such as like a sitting bench, right?
Maybe that sitting bench is worth a million dollars because it's filled with gold inside.
You can probably find a form for that or you can find forms for other things.
And, you know, you can pour gold into concrete and it's pretty easy to get it out with a sledgehammer, especially when you don't have a rebar reinforcement in it.
Just, you know, concrete by itself is pretty fragile.
So it's pretty easy to get out.
So that's something to consider.
An easier way is to just put it in the bottom of a pot of soup that you freeze in the freezer.
But of course, that's a more commonly known hiding place.
place and that could be found out pretty easily so I don't recommend that one another method which is a little more involved is to get a like a rain collection barrel or a storage tank and set it up at the corner of your house where the gutter comes down and have the gutter go into it to fill it with water.
And, you know, it just looks like a water collection tank.
But you bury your gold beneath the water collection tank before you put all this in place.
Now, what does that accomplish?
Well, I mean, first of all, yeah, you put it maybe six inches underground or whatever is convenient for you.
It's hard to move a water tank.
Let's say a 200 gallon water tank.
You know, that weighs well over a thousand pounds.
So people aren't going to move that very easily and if they try to drain it it's going to take time mostly thieves aren't lo looking under water storage tanks for gold Because almost always that would be a waste of time.
So think about objects like that that could be heavy and difficult to move that could sit on top of your gold.
And that would be a great place to hide it where it's still retrievable.
It just takes effort and time to retrieve it.
Now, the extreme example of this, which comes with a warning, is if you have a septic tank, then...
you could you could have a gold container you want to make sure it's large enough that it doesn't get sucked up into a septic vacuum pump and you could drop it down into your septic tank with a you know with a cable or a chain or something to be able to retrieve it this would just be in extreme circumstances because obviously you know once you pull it out it's going to be nasty
um but that's like nobody's going to look for gold in a septic tank.
So that's a very secure way to store it.
But you got to remember to remove it before you have your septic tank pumped out.
Otherwise, your septic guy might find a, you know, a bucket of gold or whatever.
It's like, wow, I thought I got into this business to pump shit.
It turns out I found a pot of gold.
That would be the most amazing discovery.
Now, I know that in the past, people have hidden large amounts of gold in appliances.
You know, they've hidden gold in TVs.
I don't recommend that because TVs get old and they get thrown out.
gold in their walls.
You know, they open up the drywall and stuff a bunch of gold in between the 16 inch 2x4s you know the framing and then they re they put the drywall back in place yeah that's that's not a horrible idea if you can do good drywall and you can cover it up but of course when you need to get to that gold you're going to have to take a sledgehammer to your wall so that might not be convenient now be careful if you live near a river because
all rivers flood sooner or later and when they do sometimes your front yard or your backyard can be just wiped away and there goes your secret buried treasure with it i've heard stories of people who lived in mountainous regions and then they had mudslides basically and wipe out their yard and takes their gold also you know good luck digging through all that it's a whole mountain of mud that just came
down.
problem can happen with your home and you might have a fire in your home now gold doesn't burn nor does silver but it does melt so you could end up with a pool of gold that is less valuable and less liquid than the gold ounces you started with depending on how hot your house fire is.
But these are all good arguments for storing gold outside the home in some way.
I say it's good to spread it around a little bit, reduce your risk.
Maybe you have some vaulted and you have some stored.
Maybe you have a smaller amount that's actually in your home in case you need it quickly and you have a larger amount that's buried or put away in concrete somewhere so you can get to it with some effort.
That's a very reasonable approach.
You have tiers of convenience versus risk.
And you can have a little bit of your metal kind of distributed around in those different methods.
The bottom line is be smart about where you're storing your metal and think about think about risk versus security and think about acquiring it in a way that is honest that you get the most ounces of metal for your dollars and make sure that you have access to it.
So I don't think you should store it in safe deposit boxes at banks because those can be confiscated or banks can have bail-ins.
And I don't believe in owning gold and silver via ETFs because the ETFs are just paper IOUs or promises that may evaporate.
So keep all of this in mind.
Welcome to today's interview on brighttown.com.
I'm Mike Adams and as you know I'm a strong supporter of the Second Amendment and I have long advocated for people to learn how to use firearms effectively and safely and to acquire them.
And a couple years ago I switched from the SIG P320 platform which currently is making a lot of ways for having alleged problems with you know automatic discharge we'll talk about that but I switched to a Glock 43X that was made by a company called Shield Arms and today I have the CEO with me to talk about that.
Brandon Zeider joins us and Shield Arms makes the best, I'll tell you, the best magazines for Glocks.
And I'll tell you why because I have a very important story about that.
But welcome, Brandon.
It's great to see you today.
Thanks for having me, Mike.
Glad to be here.
I'm really glad to have you back.
been too long, I think.
But I just want to tell you, actually, let me, a little I do.
That's your Glock 43X, and it's a fantastic firearm.
I love your magazines.
So thank you for putting that together.
Absolutely.
Happy to do it.
I want to give about your website, shieldarms.com.
And I'd like you to just give a brief overview of what Shield Arms is all about.
I know I think you first got famous from actually the Steel Mags, but tell us what you're all about right now.
Yeah, well, we started the company in 2017 in my barn, and we really didn't do much with it until 2018.
We had our first sort of commercial success in 2019, which was actually we started out with magaz extensions.
I think you've got some of our mag extensions.
And then from there, we launched the folding lower receiver.
We were actually down selected by the US Army for our 9 mm system.
So we submitted to the Army Subcompact Weapons System trials and were down selected to go against B and T and SIG and some other well-known companies.
So that was kind of our first splash on the scene.
People were like, Who's Shield Arms?
We've never heard of them before.
Fast forward, I think it was probably six or eight months after that.
and we announced the S15 magazine and that's really what kind of blew us up a little bit.
So when people hear Shield Arms today, they certainly think about the S15 magazine.
That's by far our most well-known and best-selling product, which is our 15-round magazine for the Glock 43X and the Glock 48.
Okay, is this that mag?
That's the magazine and that has one of our plus fives.
So that's actually a 20-round magazine.
20-round.
Got it.
Yep.
Okay, I just got out of the package.
I actually haven't used this magazine.
But what I like about what you offer is you have a custom size Glock.
Well, let me just show it here.
So here's, you've got this pistol, which has the much shorter grip.
Right.
So it's easy to carry.
And because it's a Glock 43, it's extremely narrow, right?
So easy to carry appendix or outside the waistband, whatever.
And then you carry it with a standard magazine, which is here, right?
And then it doesn't stick out, correct?
Right?
Yeah.
So you can just flush fitting 10-round magazine, but then all of our magazines fit in that same platform.
So your reload could be up to 30 rounds if you want.
That's what I wanted to mention.
So, right.
So if I'm in a firefight and I blow through that, then you can take a much larger magazine and you can pop it in.
And that actually functions.
It does.
No problems.
And then, so, Mike.
I've got some toys to show to you here today, but on that topic, launching soon are these two things.
So the longer the two magazines.
that you see here is a 30 round magazine.
Wow.
And then the shorter is a 20 round magazine.
So without having to put an extension on, we're now going to be bringing two more options in that whole family.
So we have a 10 rounder, a 15 rounder, a 20 and a 30 with mag extensions anywhere from two rounds all the way up to 10.
So, and they're all compatible with each other.
So you can mix and match, play tactical Barbie, but then, you know, configure basically as long of a reload as you want.
Wow.
Those are coming soon.
I'll get these are actually the first time we've shown these, but I'll get you some samples of these soon.
They're we've been testing them and they're running great.
See that's really amazing because I can see a lot of first responders doing something like putting one of those larger stacks on a vest where they do a reload from a vest.
Yeah.
And then wouldn't it be cool if you could use that same magazine in a carbine?
Again, prototype, but your S-15 magazines, S-10s, S-30s, S-20s.
are now going to work in a carbine, one of our folding nine millimeter carbines.
Oh, wow.
Is that the SA nine or is that something different?
The SA nine.
Okay.
We've got currently on the market, we've got the double stack Glock mag variant.
So the standard Glock mags, which would be your Glock seventeen, your Glock nineteen magazines.
And that's, so if you look at our website, that's what we're currently offering today.
Okay.
This is just a standard Glock magazine with one of our extensions on it.
Right.
But launching soon will be those twenty round magazines, the thirty round magazines, and then the SA nine variant that accepts them.
So if you're carrying a 43x.
Okay.
You're carrying a 48, one of our grip chopped S10s.
Those magazines are all cross-compatible at that point.
Okay.
Wow.
Number one, let me know when that's available, because I'll go on your website and purchase it and give you my FFL, et cetera.
Because see, so that opens up a world of possibilities to be able to carry one system of magazines that works both in your pistol and in your carbine.
And the carbine is foldable.
Again, can you show us again the folding mechanism of that?
Yeah.
So this is our, what we call our FLR, and should be able to come through.
Here There we go.
Yep.
But you can see the button here.
Yep.
And it's it's fenced in so you're not going to accidentally hit it.
It is a steel catch and a steel insert.
When you hit this, you can then fold the system for storage.
That's really what it's for.
Throw this in a bag, under the seat in your truck, wherever you want.
You can see how tiny this system folds up.
Yeah.
And then it locks out solid.
Okay, now clearly, because I see the buffer tube still in the buttstock there, so you don't want to fire it in the folded position, correct?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, we tell people not to, of course, and then people do it.
You know, it will shoot once.
Yeah, I've actually done that with your 5.56 rifle.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think you tested it.
So we tell folks not to do it.
It's not designed for it, but we know it's going to happen.
And so, you know, the system is robust, but eventually if you continue to do it, it will probably damage your lower receiver.
But there's not a lot of sort of utility in firing in this position here.
Right.
Utility comes from having an optics and being able to shoulder provide the stability that a rifle gives you and firing in the way it was designed.
Perfect.
Then also another issue that's been resolved is the armbrace issue.
Now that was huge.
And I know that, you know, the ATF madness under Biden, that really hurt the sales of a lot of companies in the firearms space.
That has now been resolved and that would not have happened if Kamala had been elected.
So that's one very positive thing about Trump winning the election.
I mean, we may criticize him on this or that or whatever, but thank God we have our armbraces back, right?
Yep.
So tell us about the armbrace options that you have for some of these platforms.
Also, you have a 5.56 rifle.
Or a six-pistol.
Yeah.
So we offer these in pistol and rifle configuration.
This is the arm brace.
This is one of our SBA 3s.
We've got several options and if customers wanted a certain option, then we could certainly accommodate that.
But this seems to be, you know, a lightweight, great option for folks.
And so we've kind of settled on these as being sort of the one that people tend to like the best.
It's fully adjustable.
And then, you know, it functions as an arm brace.
you know, if that's the way that you want to use it.
But then a lot of people are sticking it up here and using it as a stock.
I can't endorse that, but that's what happens.
Yeah, clearly.
And what's the barrel length on that unit right there?
Is that a 12 inch?
This is one of our 7,5 variants.
Oh, that's 7,5.
Yeah, okay.
Yeah.
I see it now.
Wow.
Okay.
So that's, and is that 5,56?
No, no, no.
This is a 9 mm.
Oh, that's a 9 mm.
Okay.
Sorry.
I'm not, I'm just not seeing it as clearly as I would like.
Sorry.
Okay.
Got it.
Well, that makes more sense on the barrel length then.
Okay.
Perfect.
7,5 inches on a 5,56.
I know some folks do that, but Yeah, I wouldn't like that either.
You think full powder burn and that's not a great option.
No, no, no.
I totally agree.
Okay.
Then, oh, and let me mention too, I always, in full transparency, this is not a paid appearance.
You don't pay us anything.
You have given me some evaluation samples in the past, but most importantly, you have extended a discount code to our audience.
And I want to give that out, and I don't earn anything on that discount code.
It's Ranger.
So everybody, if you go to shieldarms.com and if you use discount code Ranger, then you'll save, what's the current savings, $50 or $100 on certain rifles?
What is it?
I believe so.
I should have booked that up before I came on, but that's been running for a while now.
And from what I understand, it's just running.
I think it's 50 on a pistol and 100 off of a rifle.
And I think it's 10% off of everything else in your store, including the magazines.
Is that right?
I'll make a note to check on that.
Okay.
All right.
Well.
I'll tell the audience.
Use Code Ranger and save some money.
Yeah, use Code Ranger, save some money.
And no, I don't earn anything off of that.
But again, you have in the past sent me some samples for evaluation.
And I very much appreciate that.
But for your new, for your SA9, I will buy that from you so just let me know seriously I mean I'll just go online and order that because I really want to support your company want to keep you in business let me tell you a really important story here talk about Glocks and then we want to talk about the SIG P320 but years ago the reason I stopped carrying a Glock is because the Glock polymer magazines have a problem in my experience and
I want to show the audience this indentation right here this is the mag release catch indentation well it's really more of a just like a hollow point in this steel mag.
Now, when you're using polymer mags, that indentation over time, if you carry your gun every day like I do, everyday carry, no exceptions.
Weekends, everything, you name it, right?
What I found out is on the polymer mags, that thing gets worn out and it wears an angle in it.
And then when you fire your first shot, the magazine drops out.
And I've experienced that myself.
That's why your steel mags are a game changer for me because the steel mags never have that problem.
And I've been carrying your gun for a couple of years.
So for me, your steel mags made a massive difference.
That's when I switched from SIG to Glock was because of your magazines.
It wasn't the capacity for me.
It was the fact that they don't fall out, which is pretty important.
And then since then, there's been a lot of buzz about SIG and the P 320 having an accidental discharge under certain conditions.
Just for the record, SIG has denied that it's any problem at all.
But there are gun ranges banning the P 320s now.
There's a lot of videos about it.
Brandon, what's your take on the SIG P 320 controversy versus the Glock trigger safety?
Well, it's complicated.
What I will tell you is that we don't make any products for the P 320 platform.
We used to make mag extensions, but we stopped doing that years ago.
We don't make any products for that system at all.
So far from an expert, since we don't specialize in that platform, we, you know, we don't tear them apart and study them and do all the things that we do with our engineering team.
But it seems like from the reports that we're hearing that there's something going on.
not really sure what it is, but there's, like you said, there's a whole lot of, you know, there's the Air Force investigation.
There's a bunch of police departments that have put out notices and they're stopping to use a lot of ranges.
Some friends of mine who are firearms instructors.
So I don't know what the underlying issue is, if anything, but there's definitely a lot of smoke.
So people are looking for fire.
Now I've seen a bunch of these, these tests on YouTube I get sent those a lot from buddies or industry people some of them look pretty ridiculous and then some of them look like, well, there may be something there.
So my general take is we're not P 320 experts.
We don't make products for the P 320, nor do we have any plans to.
Okay.
Well, fair enough.
And look, I carried the P 320 for many years and never had an issue with it.
and I carried it hot, right?
And I noticed that in those online videos, I don't know.
Some of those tests look flawed to me.
Again, I don't want to get into the specifics of...
Whatever.
But what I will tell you is that it seems like the design of the P 320 striker holds the striker in the fully tensioned position.
Whereas a Glock does not.
Glock is in a partially tensioned position.
You know, in addition to all of the different internal safeties in a Glock, that trigger pull is what finalizes the striker pulling back into the fully tensioned position.
So not to say that fully tensioned systems are all bad, you know, inherently, that's certainly not something I would ever say.
But I think that that's maybe a contributing factor if it's proven that there is a problem, which to be fair to SIG, I don't know that anybody has proven that yet.
We're going to have to see how this plays out.
Yeah, absolutely.
But I will say that I now have extra appreciation for the Glock trigger safety.
Yes.
It just gives me an extra sense of comfort and safety, knowing that even that trigger can't be pulled back unless that.
trigger safety is depressed.
Is depressed.
Yep.
And since I didn't have the SIG variety that has the thumb safety for the military, it Just like it's an extra thing to remember, you know?
But Glock has the trigger safety, which is absolutely perfect.
So I think you're smart that you're sticking with the Glock platform.
Okay.
Thanks for covering that.
And I guess the conclusion to the audience is let's wait and see what some of these investigations turn up.
Yep.
I mean, I like to think the best of people.
I like to think that if there is a, there was a, is currently, was in the past some flavor, a problem that SAG would have addressed it.
So, I mean, benefit of the doubt, let's see how that plays out.
I would want the same if someone accused one of our systems as being unsafe.
Yeah.
Well, they did have an early recall, I think, on the first P-320.
It was a voluntary recall.
Yeah.
It was a voluntary recall for dropping, which I suppose could be related.
But the issue that we're hearing now, and again, these are all allegations, but what we're hearing now is that this gun wasn't dropped.
Is that the latest?
the the air force gun yeah that it wasn't dropped yeah um but who knows and maybe maybe they got a bunch of weeds stuck up under the trigger with a partial pull.
Because, you know, I mean, I carry my stuff on my ranch and you wouldn't believe how dirty these get.
In fact, I cleaned this up before today's interview because otherwise it was very dusty.
But you know what I always do?
When I go out to my private pistol range, I always fire it dirty.
I fire it the way I carry it to make sure, right?
And then I clean it after that.
And of course, it's never failed to fire.
All right.
The industry, the firearms industry right now, arguably is hurting because we don't have a Democrat president that's trying to ban guns, right?
Right.
So nobody's panicked at the moment about buying guns, which means like this is the best time to actually purchase firearms because they're available.
Can you speak about the industry trends right now?
Sure.
Yeah.
So summer is always a slow time for the firearms industry.
That's historical, virtually year after year after year.
COVID was a little bit of an anomaly.
And then, yeah, we're in Trump's lump 2.0.
I think this was the worst.
This previous quarter was the worst quarter since the last Trump administration.
So yeah, gun sales are down.
That's no surprise to anybody that's following the industry.
If you're in the industry, you know, it's an obvious thing.
Sure.
Yeah.
I was just saying that the industry as a whole is down right now.
And that's, like you mentioned, partially due to the fact that nobody's out there trying to ban guns right now and there really isn't any national emergencies.
And then the other factor is that it's summer.
So it's kind of a, it's kind of a perfect storm right now.
Yeah.
Indeed.
What's your take on the status of the NFA?
Because of course, you know, recently we I know you don't you don't make suppressors, but apparently the $200 tax stamp will be removed starting January.
So a lot of people got to line up to buy suppressors.
But why should we have to go through, why should we even have to get a tax stamp in the NFA and all that garbage in the first place when we're already filling out forms and getting fingerprinted for the concealed carry and all that?
What do you, what do you make of all that?
Well, I think it's nonsense.
It's a law that we are forced to follow right now.
But I saw that the FPC, the Firearms Policy Coalition, recently filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality based on the fact that there's, it's no longer a tax.
That's right.
Tax reduced.
to zero.
It's no longer a tax.
And so what they're calling it is what it is, which is a gun register.
So I am hopeful that that lawsuit is going to have some legs.
I think it will have some legs.
And I think there are other groups beyond the FPC that are either involved in that or planning to join that because, you know, industry wide, imagine if you could just walk into a gun shop with your concealed carry and pick up a suppressor.
Well, I would even go one step further.
Why do we need to regulate them at all?
They're just, they're just doing is it's making your firearm less loud.
Yeah, even better.
It doesn't, you know, this nonsense that it makes them Hollywood quiet, I mean, you know, that's Yeah, that's nonsense.
Yeah.
All it's doing is it's making it so that it's damaging your ears less and the, you know, the noise pollution, you know, you can go on and on and on about the benefits of suppressors.
So why do we need to regulate them at all?
They're just an accessory that So why are we serializing them to begin with?
Well, exactly right.
I mean, let me give you a personal true story about that.
that so I jog with my dog and I've set up a bunch of steel targets along my jogging path and I just I take a big honken 45 auto to keep it subsonic with a with a suppressor on it and so I jog and and plink you know I'm hammering targets and jog into the next one and hammering targets my dog's with me I don't want to hurt my dog's ears You know, and I don't want to have to wear all this hearing protection either.
So I just wear minimal protection.
You know, the report is hardly anything.
I mean, I can still hear it, but it's..
not going to damage my ears and then the 45 rounds are subsonic so i'm just hearing metal you know i'm hearing the metal pinging which is correct like that's what we're supposed to hear um yeah that's another reason why we need suppressors makes your exercise more quiet yeah i agree i don't understand the need to regulate that that product at all.
So, yeah, my steam.
Okay.
Well said.
All right.
So what's next on the drawing board?
You already mentioned the SA9 that will carry the Glock 43X magazines or the Shield Arms magazines that are compatible with the Glock 43.
What else is on your drawing board?
Yeah, so big products.
We got a bunch of them.
Some I can't tell you about yet, but one I'm going to show you today.
Cool.
We started working on our own pistol.
Boy, it's been about two years now.
We've been working on this for a while.
We started with the magazine, the SFT magazine, making them for Glock.
That's actually the backwards way of doing things.
You typically want to develop your magazine and then your frame around the magazine, doing them together.
We took an existing frame on the market, reverse engineered it, made a magazine for it.
It's actually very difficult.
So we started designing our own pistol and what we've come up with is a modular system.
So this is our chassis.
Whoa.
This is the gun.
And then what we have done is we have created our own modular system where the firearm fits into the grip module.
And then you can build it out into multiple configurations.
This is our S-10 variant.
So this is the small version.
This is a 10-round magazine.
You'll notice that it looks very Glockish because the top end is Glock compatible.
Oh really?
Yeah, it goes all the way up to this is our Glock 48 size.
Okay.
So you'll also notice that the last one was plastic and that this one, if it comes through, this is aluminum.
No kidding.
So what we have created, we call the modular pistol system, MPS.
And we will be launching this either late Q4 or early Q1.
And this will be, like I said, Glock top end comp safety component but instead of running Glock magazines it runs all of our s 15 s 10 s 30 s 20 magazines and all of our extensions okay wow so wait a second so 100% compatible with Glock slides um i don't want to say 100 but i think it's i think so
we've gone back and forth on a couple of pieces like the slide stop but for the most part you're going to be able to slap your your Glock top end right on this system okay wow and then can you show us the firearm, the serialized firearm piece again?
Sure.
The chassis.
This is the chassis.
Okay.
So this has a serial number.
This is the firearm that's regular.
This is the firearm.
This is the piece that you need to have, you know, an FFL sell to you and, you know, go through the background check, et cetera.
But then once you've got this, you can take whatever top ends you want and whatever grip modules you want.
So, for example, this is what's going to, this is what our first gun is going to look like.
This aluminum, it's in the raw.
It's not going to be, this color will be black, but this is aluminum wow and um this is what the glock 43x size gun is going to look like with a um with a slide on it of course but then there's going to be all kinds of other options and so a person can just buy these different lowers just online yep these can be shipped right to your door the modules right right the firearm is the is the chassis piece So
a person can also, of course, buy the Glock slides over the counter online, lots of places, and then they can buy these lowers from you, or I'm sure you would, you sell the.
slide components as well.
Yeah.
You'll be able to do the Builder Bear, you know, you'll be able to go out and build one out yourself.
Wow.
So this is a Glock 43x size.
This is our grip module.
This is a Glock OEM top end just slapped right on here.
And you can see that it's got one of the aim point red dots.
And then this is a radian comp on the front.
So lots of aftermarket support for people to build these out however they want.
You still get all the Glock safeties, but you're getting what we believe is to be is much, much better quality.
We're going to launch with aluminum and then plastic will follow after that.
But you can see we've done things like ergonomic improvements.
You've got an improved beaver tail.
Oh yeah.
See, that's one thing that SIG did really well on the 365, for example.
That beaver tail made a huge difference with accuracy.
It does.
This will be compatible with aftermarket Glock triggers.
So if there's a Glock trigger that you really like, throw it in the system.
Works just fine.
We're going to have different grip module si modules themselves will be modular with removable, replaceable back straps, panels, et cetera.
So there's a lot of modularity built into the system.
And then I can't give you names yet, but then there's also a whole lot of third party aftermarket support coming for the same system.
So people from other companies are also building parts for this MPS system.
So there's going to be lots of options for folks.
If you want to just buy a gun and forget about it, we've got you covered.
But if you want to go and mix and match and sort of customize something and make it what you're really looking for, you're going to have a lot of options.
Yeah, and it's also important because in a lot of jurisdictions, it's much more difficult to purchase firearms than it is in Texas where I live.
And so you may want to have the convenience of just having one serialized component, but then one day you might want to carry concealed with a much smaller, you know, profile, and then another day or around your home, you might want to have a much larger frame with a larger capacity.
Yeah, you can go from, you know, these are the same system.
You can go from sort of a full size Glock 48 style all the way down to this very very small 10 round system which conceals quite nicely wow and obviously different barrel length in these as well different barrel length i'm not sure if it's coming through okay but different barrel lengths different grip lengths and then different grip sizes as well okay That's great.
And can you also show us that aluminum grip again?
Because I noticed the stippling on it.
So you've been able to machine this with the textures that are needed for control.
Yep.
So the part that's up against your skin, there's texture here, but it's not, it may, on the camera, it might look sharp.
It's not sharp at all.
So that part when you're carrying up against your body is not going to irritate your skin.
But this front and this back back straps, or I guess they're not back straps, the front and the back though, are much more aggressive.
And so when you're gripping this, it really locks your hand in, feels really, really good.
That's right.
But yeah, I mean, we I think we've worked on this for quite a while.
I think we did a great job on it.
No, I'm looking forward to that because here in Texas, I'm often sweating, you know, when I need to use a firearm and sweat will make it slip.
Can you show it one more time?
Also looks like you have a slightly flared mag well.
Yeah.
There is an inje internally flared magwell.
So you can see when you hit this ramp.
Yeah.
That's going to flow into the.
And then this one has a removable backstrap on this version.
Wow.
We're going to have lots of options for folks.
Okay, I love the ergonomics of it.
I mean, that looks amazing.
Let me ask you about the speed of being, you know, taking down a pistol and taking out that chassis.
How difficult is that for a typical user?
It's one of the easiest systems out there.
So there's a bunch of different modular systems.
We by no means came up with that.
You know, the P 320 we were just talking about is a modular system., 365, there's a bunch of them out there.
This one is, we think, one of the easiest to take down.
So you're going to lock your slide to the back.
I don't have one to show you right now, but you're going to lock your slide to the back.
You're going to pull your locking lever out, pull your slide off, and obviously you have to clear your gun first.
And then from there, you're going to be able to just pop your chassis out.
Okay, wow.
Drop it into the next frame.
Drop it into the next frame.
Okay, wow.
Very cool.
Okay, so you said maybe end of this year or early next year.
is when you're expecting that end of q4 beginning of q1 okay cool and uh you said there's things you can't tell us about also but i imagine you're also working on things in the carbine and the rifle formats that, because you're always innovating, you know?
I appreciate that.
We have some cool stuff coming.
I'm very excited.
Okay, I can't wait.
2026 is going to be a big year for us.
Okay, very cool.
All right.
So what do you make of the fact that, for example, some of the magazine capacity laws in certain states are being thrown out?
or challenged.
know, we already talked about the NFA.
Do you think the overall legal environment for firearms with also some recent Supreme Court decisions is becoming much more amenable for It seems to be heading that direction, which is great.
I would like to see national reciprocity for carry laws.
I would like to see, you know, a lot of the what I consider to be unconstitutional laws struck down.
So I think we still have a long ways to go.
But certainly under the Trump administration, it has been a much friendlier environment to gun owners.
Yeah, that's true.
But the thing is, you won't have another massive surge in sales until there's a the way it always is.
Yeah, but I think so our approach to that is, I don't know if it's unique, but it's just our approach.
We kind of think that innovation outstrips any of that sort of slow time seasonality, if you will, of the firearms industry.
It's been very cyclical in nature.
And our answer to that has always been just been, has always been just make cool stuff.
So we, we've tried to do that.
We're going to continue to try to do that.
And I think, I think the modular pistol system plus the next product that's coming right behind that is they're going to be quite popular.
So, you know, it's it's slow in the firearms industry right now, but we are really looking forward to the, you know, six months from now when that system's on the market.
Are there any other benefits over a Glock for your modular system other than the modularity of it?
And that you already mentioned the aluminum frame.
Is there anything else we should be aware of?
So I would say the big wins are, of course, the modularity, being able to mix and match and carry a different system from time to time if you want.
The ability to put on an aluminum lower.
It's only about a two ounce weight penalty over plastic, but you get a lot more rigidity.
We think that they're softer shooting.
So some folks struggle to shoot these smaller pistols.
Really depends on your grip strength, your hand size and a whole bunch of different factors.
But that extra rigidity seems to really help people present and put rounds on target quicker.
So that's a benefit over the other systems.
And then we think that the ergonomics.
Let me see if I can pull an example here for you.
But, you know, with the increased beaver tails and just the ergonomics of the system.
We think that that's an added benefit as well.
And that's going to, you know, it's going to be up to the individual.
Some people are going to lose.
love the feel of the glock system but that's traditionally one of the things that folks complain about is that glocks feel blocky And then lastly, and this I put this in last place because it doesn't really matter, but to some it does.
You know, aesthetically, they just look cool.
Can you show me?
where your middle finger goes right up under the trigger in the trigger guard.
I want to see that geometry.
Oh.
I think that's so smooth and it's rounded out.
It's an undercut.
Yeah.
So there's room.
I have kind of fatter fingers and there's room for your finger.
Uh-huh.
And there's no pinch.
It's a very smooth, uh, smooth out undercut trigger guard.
Okay, because that's been one of my complaints about Glocks is it's hard to get your hand higher up so that it's more straight behind the slide.
Yeah.
I think you can get a really high grip on this gun.
Okay.
Wow.
Yeah.
Wow, yeah, it looks like it.
And again, okay, well, I'm sold, right?
So as soon as you have one, I'll get one from you and I'll go out and try to do some rapid fire exercises and see about control, you know, recoil control.
That should be really interesting.
Okay, very cool.
All right, so again, the website, folks, is shieldarms.com.
Here it is.
They've got magazines for all Glock models right now.
They've got mag extensions.
They've got the steel mags that I absolutely love.
That's all I carry.
They've got these grip chopped Glocks, or they can chop your Glock.
You want to talk about the Glock Chop service?
Yeah, so it's a cool little service that we launched.
You know, the S15 had a lot of the success, but there are people that do find the Glock 43X to be too big to carry in certain situations.
We live in Montana.
Nobody here worries about printing or, you know, people seeing your gun or whatever it is.
But in some places, that's a real concern.
are certain people that do things around the world that's a that's a real concern and so we had some folks come to us and say love the 43x with the s15 but it's just too big so And then we said, well, we'll just chop this, the 43X down to give people a very small carry package.
So this is one of our grip chopped 43X's.
This is in our Montana mud colorway.
We've got a bunch of different colors and we've got black if people just want black.
But you can buy them like this.
already created from us or you can send your pistol in and we'll do what we call our grip chop service and that's available right right on our website.
It's really easy to do.
And we turn those around in just a few days.
So it's pretty fast.
And that's you'll see that.
That's the same as this one, right?
Yeah, it'll be the same size.
And if you want us to paint it, we can.
But you can see that this one we put a mag well on.
It's got our mag catch.
This one has a Meriglow sights.
And then it's one of our paint jobs.
This is another one of our paint jobs.
We call this one Fallout.
This one's pretty cool.
But paint is not, you know, it's not needed, of course, but it's just something that makes us a little bit unique.
but yeah i like that service has been really popular so i i know you you know you you partner with glock on on a lot of these pistols but why wouldn't glock release their own chopped version of the 43x i mean i'm just wondering yeah so we don't yeah i don't know i don't know why glock doesn't do certain things but um we did okay all right fair enough all right
is what about about, are you going to do pistols in any other calibers?
Are you going to expand into other calibers that you don't currently c plans are 9 mm only and that's because 9 mm comprises depending on which numbers you look at, I've seen estimates up to 90% of the market.
So yes, there are other things in the well, I'll say there are a few 10 mm projects on the on the stack in different various places because that's around that we love but For now, the MPS is going to come out in 9 mil only.
Okay.
All right.
Well, nothing wrong with that.
I think 9 mil is what we've all stockpiled.
And also want to mention that right now is a great time to buy ammo too because Trump just put a 50% tariff on copper imports.
That's going to make many rounds much more expensive towards the end of this year and next year if that tariff stays in place.
And also since the great majority of people are not panicked buying ammo right now, it's a great time to get ammo.
Man, there has hardly been a better.
time to buy ammo.
I don't know that I've seen ammo this cheap since way before COVID.
So right there with you.
This is a great time to buy.
Anybody that's not bought all the ammo that they want to shoot for the next couple of years, I think is silly.
Yeah, absolutely.
And again, the time to buy is when most people aren't thinking about it.
Yes.
It's the same.
You don't want to wait until there's a national emergency or some sort of panic and then try to get lines somewhere.
Do it now.
Buy the ammo you need.
Exactly.
And I do believe also that was it the ninth circuit that overruled the California law requiring ammo to be sent to an FFL?
Yeah, I saw there was some drama about that.
Some of the companies were pulling back and saying they weren't.
We don't sell ammunition online, so that didn't affect us and we didn't have a legal review.
on that, but I don't know if that stayed or not.
Yeah, I'm not sure either, but I saw that there were a lot of ammo companies initially saying, we're going to ship.
We're going to ship to California, ship to your house now.
So I'm sure a lot of Brown Else, I think it was Brown Else came out and said that they were, and then there was, I think they had to pull back.
Don't quote me on that.
I'm not sure either.
Okay.
So Brandon, is there anything else that I haven't asked you about that you want to cover here before we wrap this up?
Oh man, Mike, there's a bunch of cool stuff.
I'm just going to have to come back on in a year, six months and show you, but there's a bunch of things I just can't, I can't I can't release quite yet.
No worries, you've already given us a lot to think about right here and you know can't wait for your new items to come out.
That's going to be great.
You'll see these 20 and 30 round magazines will be first followed by the SA 9 S that accepts them.
So I'll make sure you get samples of those.
And then like I said, the MPS, the full modular system, we're targeting the end of this year or beginning of next year.
Okay.
Any supply chain problems with that?
Are you able to get the components you need?
Yeah, we' have not had any issues.
Okay, very cool.
Let's hope it stays that way.
Yeah.
Brandon, thank you so much for spending time with us and giving us a demo of your latest goods.
And I just want to say to the audience, you know, you're my go-to company for carry pistols for all the reasons we've talked about here.
I've been very happy with what you've been able to make, and I can't wait for what you have coming out later this year or early next year.
Absolutely.
Thanks for having me, Mike.
It's been great to work with you guys.
And like I said, I'll get you samples and we'll be in touch.
All right.
That's awesome.
Looking forward to it.
So everybody, shieldarms.com is the website, and if you use discount code Ranger, you'll save some money on everything they sell.
And no, we don't earn anything off of that.
That's just a discount that extends to you.
But I believe Brandon said he was going to get me samples of some of the magazines, so I certainly welcome that for valuation.
But I will buy your carbine when it comes out, like I said.
So you just let me know.
Or I'll trade you.
I don't know.
I'll give you food credit for carbine credit or something.
We'll swap.
How about that?
I love barter.
We should absolutely do that.
All right.
I'll totally do that.
I'll give you store credit or whatever works.
All right.
That's the economy right there.
All right.
Thank you, Brandon.
And thank you all for watching today.
Mike Adams here, Brightyon.com, interview with SHIELDARMS.com.
And thank you for all your support.
And everybody, my last message is don't just buy a firearm and stick it in the closet and not practice using it.
You need to put, you know, thousands of rounds through it over time.
You need to get proper training, proper, you know, keep your finger off the damn trigger training, you know, that kind of thing.
Be safe with your firearms.
Keep them away from children.
Obviously, all these basic things.
You know, know the four basic rules of firearms handling and safety.
Practice, practice, practice.
You can even do a lot of dry fire practice because when the day comes that you need this, you're not going to be able to go out and practice easily on that day.
You need these to be built-in skills that become second nature.
So get yourself some training and start practicing right now and you'll be ready when the zombies come.
All right.
Thanks for watching.
Take care, everybody.
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