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Episode Date: July 16, 2025

Response from the EP Autos review then Luis Valdes from the Gun Owners of America talks their lawsuit just filed to remove the restriction on mailing firearms through USPS.

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or the stator assembly in the distributor itself I dealt with many of those on General Motors vehicles starts runs for a few minutes shut off if she Lets it set it cools off probably starts easy to change and pretty cheap Jim I appreciate you weighing back in we all help each other out with our little issues and Steve, Wild Sam and Steve says, hey Bill, the Hill Holder clutch was not the first in the Subaru. My parents had a 1941 Studebaker that had a Hill Holder clutch. Interesting. I have a feeling that maybe, I do believe though that maybe that's the company that made it popular in the later era. So Subaru made a big deal about that. But point well taken.

Yeah, some of that tech was way back then, right? Those vehicles are a lot heavier too, Steve. Appreciate the email. Bill at BillMeyersShow.com. Did you know that SisQyou pumps are beers? Bill Meyer, Gun Owners of America and the Gun Owners Foundation, along with a Pennsylvania resident are now suing the United States Postal Service. And why are they doing this? I wanted to talk with Louise Valdez, who is the Florida State Director, national spokeswoman, spokesman. I'm having trouble on this one, Lewis.

Sorry about that. Why don't you say you're from GOA, huh? You're definitely a spokesman, not a spokeswoman or a spokesperson. You're a man, all right? So I'm just going to fall on my sword on this one and just make it happen. It's the early morning and the coffee still hasn't reached me. Trust me, I know the feeling sometimes. Yeah, it could be a little too much coffee. I don't know. But anyway, I appreciate you coming off for Gun Owners of America, gunowners.org. And what is this all about? Why are you suing the post office, huh? for close to 100 years, it has been illegal for an American to mail a handgun through the United States Postal Service for the average John Hughes citizen, the law-abiding citizen. You know, you can mail everything else practically through the post office, but you can't mail

a firearm. And last I checked, that goes against the text history and tradition of the Constitution, not just in the sense of the Second Amendment but also in the Postal Service itself which predates the country who Benjamin Franklin had a hand in founding. Now when it comes to mailing firearms are you talking about forgetting factory service because it's like even right now I can't just take a gun and mail it to my friend let's say over in another in another state right you you can't do that or nor can I UPS it yeah I would always have to send it into federal firearms

an FFA dealer right that kind of thing the issue with all of this is comes down to even if you have a handgun that's going back to the manufacturer, you can't mail it. You have to take it to an FFL or you have to use a private contract carrier like FedEx or UPS. But FedEx and UPS and their private industry, they have their own regulations, their own policies and they can ban you. The whole thing of this ban from the US mail, it actually stems back to 1927,

the Non-Mailable Firearms Act, which made it illegal to ship pistols, revolvers and other firearms, quote unquote, capable of being concealed by a person. This was the first step by the federal government to basically completely regulate their attempt to ban concealable firearms. Remember, we're also challenging the National Firearms Act, which regulates short-barrel rifles, short-barrel shotguns, and any other weapons. The NFA's original goal was to outlaw and regulate handguns. That's why you have

short-bill shotguns and rifles. All right. Hey, Louis, I'm having some trouble with your phone line right now. I'm going to take a quick break, get you on a different line, and see if I can get a better connection with you. I want to make sure people hear all of you. Can you hang on here just a moment? Be right back with you. You got it. All right. Be right back with you. You got it. All right. Be right back here with Luis Valdez. I'm Nickomari with Your Money Now. Stocks are currently mixed after a tame inflation

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Very much so. The Mailing Act of 1927 coincides with the National Firearms Act of 1934 which attempted to ban ownership and completely regulate concealable firearms. And that's what the Firearms Act of 1927 is. As a matter of fact, it's really the first federal level of gun control that was enacted against the common people. And under text history and tradition, with the Bruin decision, if it didn't exist historically in 1791 when the Constitution was drafted and the Second Amendment was enumerated, then it's not constitutional. From 1971, from 1791 to 1927, it was completely legal for any law-abiding American to ship

a handgun through the Postal Service. So clearly, this has no constitutional grounds. This is clearly unconstitutional. This is a straight-up violation of our civil rights, because the Postal Service is a government service. It's not a private corporation, it's not FedEx, it's not UPS, they can make up their own rules and their own policies, they're a private company. But the Postal Service serves the people, and you cannot have such a system in place

that basically keeps the people from getting firearms because it's a violation of civil rights, it's a violation of civil liberties, it's a violation of the Second Amendment. It's interesting how you're looking at the Bruin decision here, Lewis, and taking it to its ultimate conclusion. It would seem that if you really look back to 1791, which is what certainly the Supreme Court Bruin decision was all about, it would seem to me that the ATF or the BATFE, even the background check system that we have in various areas, isn't that constitutionally suspect, taking it to its ultimate conclusion, looking at that decision? Very much so. And look, the background check system, the NICS system, in and of itself is even racist to a degree because you have a lot of false positives and a lot of the people that get

a false positive are people of minority, you know, black Americans and Hispanics. As a Latino myself, every time I go purchase a farm, it's okay. Nick's gonna declare that I am ineligible to purchase a farm when I'm a 15 year veteran law enforcement officer, I'm a law abiding citizen. I've never been in trouble period whatsoever, but simply because I have a common Hispanic name, I might be singled out and have my rights denied.

And you know the thing a right to ladies a right denied and banning the shipment of handguns does that because in some locations it's pretty much that or nothing there might not be a gun store within a certain area that's right because of either economically or politically they don't allow it to be zoned. I can concur with your conversation, though, about the background check here. And I don't want to get off too much into that. But my legal last name is Prozac.

It's an ethnic, you know, it's a Czech, you know, Eastern European surname. And there's only a handful of them in the entire country right now. My background checks sail through like nothing. surname, and there's only a handful of them in the entire country right now, my background checks sail through like nothing. It's just like boom, they come right back because there's nobody. But I'll bet if I had a last name of Valdez like you, it's a different story, isn't it? Very much so.

And you know, that's the whole issue. And that's why GOA, with our no no compromise attitude that we challenge all of this. That's why we're challenging the postal ban on mailing handguns. That's why we're challenging gun control in California. That's why we're challenging Florida's open carry ban. That's why we're challenging the assault weapons and magazine ban in Illinois. That's why we've challenged the carry bans in New York. Because it's very simple. We're all Americans. We all have the same inalienable, God-given civil rights. And one of those rights is to keep and bear arms. And the founding fathers completely understood that because when they

drafted the Constitution and they argued about the Bill of Rights, they said, hey, the Bill of Rights doesn't grant you rights, it simply enumerates them. These rights were existing even before the Constitution existed, even before the founding of the country existed, and the founding fathers knew that. But within a 249-year history that has been perverse, that has been completely destroyed, and now you have officials in government for close to a century that think, no, we grant you rights,

and they're really not rights, they're privileges, and we could take them away. Go on fighting that back. All we want is our rights restored. I really appreciate the attitude over at Gun Owners of America. Truly no compromise. And I know that you probably don't say much. Well, I'm just

going to ask you at this point, because I keep getting pestered, but does the NRA have anything going on any longer? Well, our product speaks for itself and we don't talk about other organizations. You don't? Okay. I just had a feeling going to go there. I just know I had a feeling you were gonna go there. I just know I keep getting hit up and I just thought there was nothing there. On the other hand, I've been a member of your organization for a long, long time,

and I appreciate that greatly what you're doing. How can we help out on this lawsuit against the US Postal Service and get them to get rid of this old rule? Well, the best way to help is to go to GunEunters.org and donate. And also with our one big beautiful lawsuit challenging the National Firearms Act, since you will not be paying an NFA tax starting January 1st, 2026, what your listeners could do is if they were going to purchase an NFA item, for instance, a suppressor or short for rifle, short for shotgun, they were going to have

to pay a $200 transfer tax. What they could always do is they could always donate that $200 instead of it going to the governor, to the government's coffers, they could donate it to GOA to help fund these lawsuits. Because again, it's not just challenging the postal services ban, the national firearms act. We're also fighting for gun rights across the country on the state level and on the national level because, hey, we're all Americans and we all have the rights to keep and bear arms. And our national motto says it best,

e plur vis unum, out of many one. Together, we could make this country truly great. We could make the Second Amendment what it is and restore rights for all law-abiding Americans. Wood, repealing the National Firearms Act, the NFA, and that came back in the Great Depression era, right? That's when they brought that forward and that's how they ended up getting the tax on the machine guns and the suppressors and all these other things. Would that then get rid of that late 1980s law that says that machine guns are available

to the government and to our police officers and to the military and everybody else, but they're not supposed to be. Or at least you can't have new firearms, new machine guns, in the hands of actual American citizens these days. That's bad. You can only use them up to what, 1987 or something. They call it the registry. Would it get rid of that or is that a different law, kettle of fish sort of thing? That is a different kettle of fish because you have

the 1968 Gun Control Act in part of that and you also have the 1986 Hughes Amendment which banned the sale of machine guns to law-abiding civilians after May of 1986. So that's a separate legal challenge because, yes, if the NFA was repealed, that means pre-86 machine guns wouldn't be, you know, taxed and registered and all that. But post-86 machine guns, there's still that moratorium on production. So you would still have that issue. So that's the different challenge we're looking at in ways to legally challenge that. And part of that is building a solid constitutional foundation

of court precedence and chipping away at the foundation of gun control. Yeah, because I think you'd have to agree with me that I find it irritating that the government says, well, you know, there are just certain kind of firearms that are just too good, too necessary, and we'll build them for us, but you the people can't be trusted with these sort of things, as if this totally us-versus-them mentality that the FedGov engages in. Yeah, it's completely ludicrous and it's hypocritical. It's just wrong. The idea of the Second Amendment was that the common people have equal access to the same arms and equipment that the government would have. You know, when the Minuteman marched the Concord in Lexington, they didn't do it with

civilian-grade rifles and muskets. No, they did it with the same exact type of arms that the Red Coats were carrying. And that was the mindset of the Second Amendment. Something tells me that the mindset of a lot in the federal government, Louise, are they don't like the idea of people being able to have almost equivalent firepower. That must be what it's all about, right? They really don't like that aspect of it. They like having a monopoly of power and if you remove people from having that power then the people are reliant on those in government. It's all about basically them wanting to keep their own jobs intact.

Lewis Valdes, Florida State Director, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands Director of Outreach, National Spokesman for the Gun Owners of America, gunowners.org. Read up on this one. And you know, I think I'm going to pop a few bucks your way this morning. I'm hoping other listeners do too on this lawsuit against the United States Postal Service and the rest of it too. Thanks for your work, really appreciate it. Thank you and thanks for being a shining beacon of liberty on the airway. All right, that's very kind but thank you. It's a 729 at KMED, 99.3 KBXG. As the chairman's saying now, the end is near and so we face the final discount. Or something like that, I'm not really good with lyrics

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