Cleared Hot - Powered By BRCC - Full Auto Friday - Round 120

Episode Date: August 26, 2022

Rapid Fire Q and A to finish off the week: Motivation, depression, struggles with life, etc. You know, all the stuff you want to chat about before the weekend kicks off. Enjoy

Boom, we're back. Full Out of Friday number 120. How in the hell do we get this far along? I guess the answer to that would be one week at a time. So, do you fancy some Friday Q&A? I do. We got four questions. Should we get into it?

Yes, we absolutely should. Full out of Friday, number one, two, zero. Coming at you. All right, here we go. I got four, and then I'm going to be out the door. Did you hear what I did there? It was pretty high level. All right, here we go.

I'm a 10-year police officer. I'm 44 years old. Prior to becoming an officer, I had never shot a firearm. My duty weapon is an S&P 9mm, which is a pistol, 9mm pistol. I have never had a problem qualifying, which I have to do twice per year. However, I am not happy with my shot placement grouping and would like to become more proficient and accurate. I don't have the finances to purchase thousands of rounds for training and want to maximize my rounds with quality drills to increase my job. to increase my skill.

I do not get quality training from my department to increase my skills, and I haven't found someone to help me individually. Do you have any dry drills and shooting drills you focus on to help with accuracy? My main weakness is anticipation, which I would say for most shooters is the case. And for a right-handed shooter, what an anticipation looks like if you're aiming at a target is your bullets are going to be low and to the left, traditionally, or on average. You're literally driving the gun in that direction if you're right-handed. As you are working through your trigger squeeze or trigger press, depending on how you want to describe it,

you are anticipating the shots going off and it just drives them low into the left. Left-hand would be the opposite direction. I have solely used iron sights for my first nine years. The past year, I have been using a Tridicon optic. What I'm going to assume is this is just a red dot site that sits on top of your pistol. The optic obviously makes it easy to get a dot on target, point and shoot. I want to be better and train both iron sights and with the optic. I work third shift in the upper Midwest, so I am in the dark 90% of my shift.

Are there any drills that you use for darkness and low light? Another quick question, I work and live in extreme weather conditions, 90 to 100% high humidity in summers and well below zero in the winters. In your military training and career, have you received reliable data as, to one extreme being more dangerous than the other. I prefer extreme hot over extreme cold, but I seem to be in the minority. I have found data supporting heat being more dangerous than cold and vice versa. I'm just curious if you were told as one being more deadly than the other from the military. Working this one in reverse, I can't remember really being told as to whether or not one is more dangerous or deadly than the other, other than being reminded that both.

both can kill you and in ways that are horrendous. Maybe the cold would be a less horrendous way, especially when we were doing the cold water immersion up in Alaska. When our uniform of the day was a pair of running shoes and shorts, and you go out and fully immerse yourself to include donking your head and then hands at the break in your wrist out of the water for five minutes, you're a shit show after that. And it's just you can, it really hurts,

and then you go completely numb and you can easily see how you could drift off. My experience in the heat is that it's just a little bit more of a protracted and miserable expiration as you basically dehydrate yourself to death. And in both of those extremes, I really would like to avoid them. So I don't know as to which one is more dangerous. Personally, I prefer cold over hot. But yeah, I don't know. I'm not really a good resource or reference there other than to say, make sure you prepare yourself for both. It seems like you have a really drastic swing. Make sure you have everything that you would need to survive and thrive in both of those environments during that time of year. You're in the dark. 90% of your shift. Are there any

drills you use for darkness and low light? Well, first off, I would hope that you have a light on your pistol. Being able to shoot is great. Being able to shoot really fast and really accurately is great, but you need to be able to also identify your target. So, yeah, the vast majority of the training that I did or would do in this situation would be in darkness and in low light using the tools as you have them configured to use. I'm assuming you have a rifle as well. You need to have an ability to illuminate. And I don't know anything about your department. If you have NVGs, night vision goggles, you need to have an ability to illuminate and point and aim your rifle under nods. And I wouldn't recommend using an overt light for that. You know, you can get a combination of an

illuminator and a laser. Obviously, this stuff is very budget dependent if money wasn't an issue for your department. Or you guys are onesies, two-sies and off kind of on your own. I hope that they are equipping you well. But you need to have the ability to aim and shoot your rifle in a lit environment and a very dark environment. Those are separate tools. So drills for darkness and in low light.

I mean, let's just. I'm going to talk a little bit about drills that you could do with your pistol. When I'm talking about that, you need to, if you are working in darkness and low light, be illuminating the environment you were in however you were doing so. Whether you're using your offhand with the flashlight or the light is on your gun, you need to practice and manipulate doing that. So in the moment where you need to do this, it is second nature and you're falling back to your training, not trying to create new tactics for yourself in the moment.

One note on a Tridicon or what is often called an RMR, a ruggedized miniature reflex, I think it is, a fucking red dot. I don't know. It's a small red dot that sits on top of your pistol. Oftentimes the pistols will come with it. There's a little screw set on top. You pull that off. You drop it in. And what's cool is it should allow you, hopefully, to co-witness your iron sights.

And what that means is when you present the pistol to the target, you're going to be able to see the red dot. but let's say the red dot fails, right? Because this is, I hate having my life rely on things that have batteries. So you find yourself in a situation. You've gotten so good at this red dot because it does allow you, depending, as long as your presentation angle, which probably is going to be slightly different than it would be with your iron sights because it's a little bit higher off the bore, but you can really work into your training, getting used to drawing and presenting, and it's right there, and you're seeing your red dot. Worst case scenario, you forget to switch the battery. Maybe you don't notice the low battery indicator. You need to use your gun in real

life and you pull it out and you're looking for the red dot and guess what? It's not there. I'd love to say that doesn't happen. Guess what? It fucking happens all the time. I hate my life relying on things that have batteries, which is why co-witnessing or having a setup that allows you to co-witness can be awesome. So if you pull your gun, pull your service weapon, you present, you're looking for your red dot. It's not there. That's okay. It doesn't change anything because you can still see your iron sights just underneath them. I would always work towards having duty equipment that has the ability to do that. If you're going to put an RMR or a red dot on your pistol, please make sure you have a secondary way to aim.

Now, both an RMR and your iron sights are fucking useless in the dark if you don't have an ability to illuminate what it is that you're looking at. Sure, you could put, you know, glow in the dot, or glow in the dark front and rear sights, so you could line up the three dots. But if you don't know what you're shooting at or you can't determine your go-no-go criteria, it doesn't matter how well you can line up your sites. So hopefully, hopefully you have a flashlight on your service weapon, which would allow you to if you needed to. You could aim and illuminate with one hand.

It wouldn't require you to have another hand with a flashlight because what if that hand becomes or arm becomes incapacitated, right? I'm just, I'm hoping that you can set up your gear like this. And the dot, what I was going to say on the Trigon, you're already talking about anticipation. Red dot sites are, I love them. I have them on almost all of my pistols. I have them, I have my daily carry on the table with me in my Black Ruffle Coffee fanny pack. It's a SIG 365 with a red dot site on it. They're awesome. especially once you get used to using them. But if you're struggling with anticipation,

I've actually seen red dots increase anticipation. Because you'll present the pistol and you'll see that red dot right where you want to hit. And you're like, oh, fuck yeah, I'm so good. And you just wanted to go off right there and you smash the trigger down. And you can become less accurate. So deal with the anticipation first. Then we can worry about the sighting optics a little bit later. We've got to go to the root cause of this,

the foundational cause. of this and that's going to be that anticipation. Now, you don't need to have thousands of rounds to train. But what I'll tell you is this, how much is your life worth? How many training rounds is your life worth? Sit down and write down a number for me of your discretionary income and how much you may have. Whatever that number is, let's say it's a thousand bucks. How much of that thousand dollars is your life worth? Is it five bucks? Is it 50? Or you is a thousand. I'm not saying you need to spend all of it, but what I'm saying is you work in an environment and in an occupation that can be ballistic. You need to be trained for that. And if your

department isn't creating that training for you, and they're not giving you the rounds that you need, prioritize and get the rounds that you need to improve. Now, there are ways that you can train smartly. You could buy a thousand rounds and go to a range and just huck lead down range and get absolutely nothing out of it because it wasn't intentional and it wasn't purposeful. You mentioned dry firing. Dry firing is awesome. And it can really, it can highlight those final moments as you have established your grip on your pistol. You've come out of your retention device, whatever it may be.

You've connected your hands. You've presented it to Target. You've gotten your site picture. And you can really focus on that surprise break as you press or pull the trigger to the rear. Can it hide anticipation? a little bit because you know that you're dry firing and you know that there's no chance that the gun is going to go off so there's no real reason to anticipate. So there's a couple things that I would recommend for you. I'd get some dummy 9mm rounds and let's say you have a 10 round magazine.

When you go out to the range and train, I would go to reduce the amount of ammo that you're using, maybe five rounds in a mag, but have one of those as a dummy round. You're going to know real quick whether or not your dry firing is working because you're going to be sitting there and you're going to line up your red dot and like, boom, looking good, boom, looking good. And then click and you'll watch your sites just drift off target because, yes, you're still anticipating

you're compensating in some way in whether how you're aligning your sites or the manipulation of your hand and wrist to compensate for that. And that's not what you want. What you would preferably have is it's like, boom, sites are right on target. Boom, sites are right on target.

Click. And your sites are still there. right on target that's what you should be aiming for so dry firing can really help with that dummy rounds can help with that and like i said maybe you're uh i don't know much about the s mp maybe it has a 15 round mag go five rounds at a time uh with the six being a dummy and put it in there or have somebody else load your magazines for you you know so that's going to be an actual real surprise as to when that comes out that's something that can help the dry firing can really help and another thing i'll do when i want to conserve ammo um and another thing in general

general for people who work with weapons like this is you need to practice as much as possible manipulating your gear. So I would, every day before you go out on shift, at a minimum, I would come out of your clear and safe your weapon, put it back into your holster and practice your draw. I'd practice 10 times before you ever clock on. Practice coming out of the holster and presenting and aligning your sights on target and getting ready to shoot, put it back in the holster. Just that getting used to constantly second nature, knowing where to reach. Another thing you need to practice is your reloads. And when I want to save ammo and I want to work on my reloading and just weapon manipulation, I'll go one round in each

magazine. And I don't know what you carry, but I'll assume you have multiple magazines. Instead of doing 15 in each and burning up 45 rounds and only getting three mag changes, I'd go one round in each. And so that way you're going to present, you know, come out of the holster, present to the target, shoot, you're going to recognize slide lock, hopefully. If it doesn't slide lock, what's going to happen? You're going to present to the target. You're going to pull the trigger a second time, and it's going to go click. And you need to immediately go into your reaction drills from there.

All right. Tap what I would do. If I presented a pistol and I pulled the trigger and it didn't go off, my immediate reaction is going to be tap rack bang, is what I was taught? Smash the bottom of the magazine to make sure it's seated. Rack the slide. If the slide or if the magazine is empty, what's going to happen? You're going to have slide lock. You're like, oh shit, it's empty, drop the magazine, index your second magazine, load it, and get back on target.

And if you only have one round in each mag, that's going to repeat itself. And you're going to get really used to identifying when your weapon is dry, reloading, indexing, getting your gun back on target, and you're not spending a bunch of rounds. So that's the best advice I can give you is be very intentional in your training, lots of dry firing, lots of manipulation with your equipment, and just make sure that everything that you are doing becomes second nature. and don't ever lie to yourself that you don't need to practice something because you'll just rise to the occasion. No, you don't rise to the occasion. You fall to the level of your training. So make your fucking training as solid as it can possibly be. Hopefully that helps.

Question number two. I started BJJ from hearing it on the Jocka podcast, and I also work for the sheriff's office in my county. I've been training for about two years, and I'm a three-stripe white belt. I'm only able to train once a week due to having a family, and my wife only wants me gone one night a week. week. Training BJJ can be a contentious conversation from time to time with my wife because I get time to myself once a week, but she doesn't, hence why I only go once a week. I know I could have made more progress if I was able to go at least twice a week and I can easily get frustrated when thinking about that. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth going only once a week. I guess my question is,

is there any other way to train to get better since I can only go one time a week? I don't think talking to my wife about going twice a week or just going twice a week despite what she says would lead to a positive outcome and be good for us. I know in about 2.5 to 3 years when my kids will be of the age where hopefully me being gone twice a week would not be as problematic, but in the meantime, I'm not getting younger at the age of 41 and I have to be content with going once a week. Why do you have to be content with going once a week? And also, I have so many questions about this email. First off, is it worth your time? Let's just go broadly. Is it worth your time going once a week? Yes. The job that you do, you're obviously in the law enforcement capacity. Your job

requires you to put hands on people. You need to be as proficient as humanly possible in the execution of that, not only for your safety, but for the safety of the people that you were touching. The more capable you are in that realm, regardless of, of how things spin out of control, especially with untrained people who are just freaking out, it's actually so much safer for them when they encounter an officer who is competent and current in their ability to control another human being. So go as go, I don't, only if you can go 30 minutes a week, yes, there's value in doing so. Now, to your email, why doesn't your wife ever have the chance to get time to herself? Dude, fucking step up and make sure.

that you are there to take care of the kids when you can and make sure she's getting that time. I mean, it shouldn't, I mean, your wife, I suspect knows what you do for a living. So she probably has an understanding of what is required, especially if she has YouTube or Instagram or social media where she can see fucking cops going to town and getting the shit kicked out of them by untrained individuals because the cops aren't training themselves. She probably has an understanding of that. And I bet that she wouldn't want you to be starring in one of those videos. So it should be an easy conversation as to why you need to go train.

But if she doesn't want you gone that much because she feels like she doesn't get enough free time and it's a tit for tat type of thing, bro, change your schedule a little bit and reprioritize making sure that your wife has the opportunity to do some things that she wants to. I mean, if you want to go for two hours a week, find a way to give her four hours of free time. And I get it. When kids are super young, you know, they need, they quite frankly need their mom a hell of a lot more than they need their dad. Dads are good for changing diapers and help them with bottles if you're going that route. But if she's breastfeeding or, you know, depending on the age of your kids, like, yeah, that can be, that can be tough to carve out time. But dude, put the effort in and make sure that she has as much time as she wants and needs to do things on her own. And I think you might find that this will become a softer conversation. She may only go have you, she may only want you to go once a week right now.

I'm pretty sure she wants you to come home at the end of every one of your shifts. So if you can articulate to her the value that it has and the importance that it has on your occupation, and that it will increase the likelihood of you coming home every day, in addition to you putting forth this effort to making sure that she's got the time to do what she wants to do, even if that's just take a break, go around the corner, have a cup of coffee, and mindlessly surf on her phone to decompress from the kids a little bit, you know, I think there are easier solutions out there for this. But I would start with really putting in an effort to make sure that she's got that space for herself. Whatever you do, please don't stop. Please keep going and making yourself as dangerous as possible so that everybody that you encounter, counter on the street is safer. Question three. Twenty-five-year-old guy who's considering joining the

military. I want to help others and I think I would find my place in the military. Not sure if it makes a difference or not to my question, but I'm interested in Rangers or special forces. So you're looking at the Army pipeline. After listening to the episodes you did with Eddie Gallagher, Aaron Howard, Keith Barry, and other episodes with people like Sean Ryan have done with the Blackwater guys, I have had a red flag raised. It's obvious the government and military can absolutely railroad you and you have serious legal problems when you are innocent. The flip side of the coin is people can do this in civilian life as well, such as in the case of William Darby. While this may be a red flag, I can only control my own actions and living in fear of what might happen will help no one.

Is this something that I'm making too big of a deal of and shouldn't let way on my decision? given your knowledge now of how the legal process can be twisted to work against innocent people, how it would have affected your decision to join the Navy when you were younger? The short answer to that is it wouldn't. It wouldn't have changed my decision to join the military. I didn't know about some of the things that you had brought up, but it wouldn't have changed my decision. Because, well, I can't say because I can control myself. and only myself, even though that is a true statement.

The military system isn't perfect. The legal system isn't perfect. I was having this conversation, I think the other day on a podcast. You'll hear people say all the time, well, I hate the government. The government is corrupt. I'm like, that's a really nebulous concept. Because the government is an idea that's being executed by individuals. And individuals can be super fucked up and they can do really fucked up things and they can be

malicious and they can just be straight up evil and they can find their way into positions of great influence power and leadership. I've seen it firsthand. I've seen it in the military. I've seen it outside of the military. Does that mean that the system is broken? No. It means that the people who are pulling the levers of power in that system can be broken. And that needs to absolutely be addressed. I don't think we need to throw the government out because it's, you know, well, it's shi-hand democracy. It's not working. Like, no, maybe we need to restructuring. structure the fuckheads we have who are running this democracy. And maybe we need to get a little bit more than 40% of the voting population to actually take action, you know, all these different things.

We're talking about people. I don't know if the systems themselves are necessarily flawed. So was it possible that something like this could have happened to me even though I can control my own actions? Yes. For every, and I don't want to diminish anything that happened to the people I'm about to mention. For every Eddie Gallagher, Aaron Howard, Keith Berry, and the Blackwater guys, there are countless other individuals that serve in the military that don't have those issues. Those people need to have their story told, the eddies, the errands, the Keiths, the Blackwater guys. They need to have their stories told. But it doesn't necessarily paint, you can't paint the entire community with that brush.

Telling those stories, I believe, is essential for the checks and balance to make sure that the people throwing those levers can't get out of control because if you never did and people never had it brought to their attention that these systems and organizations can get out of control, that's where it can become very dangerous and it can become a bear trap for people entering into those worlds. When fucked up things happen, first off, in my opinion, when it comes to the, I can only speak about the seal community. The number one way for the seal community and I think any other community, law enforcement, would be another great example.

The more transparency you have, the more integrity you're going to have. anytime that you hide things and try to obfuscate what's going on behind the scenes, it makes people really uncomfortable. And it should be because it makes it seem as if you are hiding something. And a lot of times people do that is because they are hiding something. So don't do that shit. Be transparent. And that's why having people on like Eddie and Aaron and Keith is essential.

It is a step that I can take to try to increase that transparency so people can make a better decision in totality when it comes to joining the military like you're looking at doing. I don't think that it's something that you are making too big of a deal of. It's something that you should consider in your decision process. But just like you mentioned, this can happen in the civilian world, just like in the military world. I think the odds of it happening are probably going to be about the same depending on the community or career that you go down. so it's not something that you are going to 100% be able to avoid, but by controlling your behavior, now flipping back to something that is in your control, by controlling your behavior

and your actions, there's a good chance that you can actually avoid that. If you encounter something like this, hopefully you have the ability to fight your way through it. And hopefully you find somebody or have a group of people that wants to swing that spotlight on something that is wrong, which is what should be done. In these organizations, when something is breaking, it shouldn't be pushed into the shadows. It should be ripped out of the shadows, spotlight on it, magnifying glass on it, so it can be fixed and improved, and then the overall health of the ecosystem or organization can be improved. Probably a little bit off tangent on your question right now.

It's possible. It's not probable. No system is perfect. civilian or military. So I'm glad that you're paying attention to these things. Have it as a part of your decision-making process, but I wouldn't have it as the foundation of your decision-making process. So hopefully that helps. Last question for today. Long-time listener, first-time caller. Well, listen to your Florida Friday, as you often suggest caring for people as a second or first in question mark parentheses, line of self-defense, beyond martial arts.

As a Canadian who loves guns, has rifles and shotguns, but is legally prohibited from carrying pistols and thus has zero understanding of gun carry culture, can you break down the logistics of how it works? Not the legality state by state, but more the day to day. So there's some bullet points here, and I'm just going to answer them one at a time. Do you have to check your sidearm at the door of certain establishments? I have never encountered an establishment, and maybe there are some out there, and I just haven't encountered them, where there is an individual or a mechanism where you can actually

offload a firearm to that establishment. What you're going to have are establishments that regardless of the conceal carry laws in that state either allow or prohibit carrying inside of the building. A federal building would be a good example. A courthouse, and I see a sticker when I go to the post office, it says no firearms in this building. So when you know you're going to be going into one of those buildings, if you are going to meet the letter of the law, what you need to do is to not carry into that building. There's not going to be like a checkpoint where you get a coat tag and I, sir, please hand me my sig back. I'm number 17. It's not the way it works. You're going to leave it in your car or somewhere along the way where you have the ability to securely store it. So you take care of that

before you go into those establishments. Question two, how do you store it at the gym? Are you comfortable leaving it in a locker while you train? Great example. I'm going to use of this is my very good friend. Dan Hart has a gym Alpha BJJ in Woodstock, Illinois. He has a man who trains there who's been on the podcast. Mickey, who just dominated people at the Chicago Open, Blue Belt Division. I'm not sure of the validity of that statement, but that's how I like to talk about my friends. There were many who came at him and he fucked them all up because of the training that he got from Dan. And I'm totally off topic on your question right now.

But what they have in their gym is a small safe because Mickey teaches firearms training. His Instagram is carry trainer. He teaches firearms training, and I suspect he probably had something to do with figuring out what's safe that they wanted to use. But when they carry to the gym, they securely store their firearms in the safe while they're training. Why is that a great idea? Because there's kids that hang out at the gym as well. So would I feel comfortable leaving it in a locker while I train? If I had the ability to positively lock that locker, and only I knew the combination to it and there was no way that somebody could get access to it, I'd probably be okay with that.

Would I appendix carry into a gym and, you know, just throw my t-shirt over the top of my shorts or pants that I had just taken off and leave that there? Absolutely not. So you also have the option. You could put it in your vehicle before you went into the gym or talk to your gym owner. I guess in this instance, I'm only talking about Jiu-Jitsu gyms. Talk to your gym owner about, hey, getting a very small safe. They're not that expensive. And it really helps solve these problems.

Number three, do people have a pistol on their hip in their car and stashed in various places? places in their house. Broadly, the answer to this question is yes. People have guns everywhere. Sometimes people carry it on their hip, so that would mean if you're talking the side, you know, you're three or nine o'clock. Not my favorite carry position. It kind of prints, meaning you can see the, if your shirt is up against the side of the

pistol, you can see that you have something there. Appendix carry, I think, is a lot more common. So if you're looking at your belly button as a 12 o'clock on the clock, say it's somewhere between 12 to 2. I've seen people carry at the 6 o'clock in the middle of their back, and I've watched them just get into their vehicles with it still there, and now they're pressing it up against their seat. So, I don't know, food for thought. If you're somebody who enjoys that, maybe think through that if you ever needed to pull your gun while you were in a car. And it was at the 6 o'clock position.

Some people do keep them in their car. There are safes, biometric safes that can go right into the center consoles. There are magnets in my, I'm not going to really discuss what I have as far as actual firearm set up in my truck. Let's just say there are magnets that allow you to maybe remove your carry weapon and put somewhere else in the vehicle that would be a little bit easier to access as opposed to trying to need to clear fabric and worry about your seatbelt. There's a variety of options. And when it comes to places in people's houses, I've seen everything from shit sitting on counters on top of shelves. and I'm not recommending either of those because I think it's wildly irresponsible. Personal opinion.

But usually safes is what I recommend. Not usually, always. Small biometric safes. I mean, it takes a quarter of a second for that thing to pop open and you have access to your weapon. Safe storage is, I believe, should be a requirement for gun owners. Next question. How many mags do you carry every day and what dictates the type of round one carries? people fall in love with calibers and I could care less what caliber people shoot as long as they are current competent and responsible with that round some rounds carry more ass behind them some have the ability to penetrate well through and beyond their intended target and as long as you're considering your backdrop and you are very aware of what your round is capable of doing go with whatever you like some people like 45 38 9 millimeter 40 10 mil like

whatever float you about you know some people like cherry on top of their sunday some people like caramel some people like chocolate syrup whatever you're into just be current and competent and how many mags do you carry every day i generally have uh the sig that i carry is a 12 plus one meaning 12 in the magazine one in the chamber so that's 13 and i'll have an additional mag on me uh so what would that be i need glover here carry the one 25 total rounds is generally what i carry on me If I can make it to my vehicle, I have access to more, and I'll leave it at that. And that could also change. Right now, I'm often carrying a fanny pack because it's the summertime.

I like to wear board shorts, and I find that a waist carry, traditional waist carry with like a kidex holder in board shorts is a little bit more difficult. Fanny pack is kind of awesome. Plus, I can keep my special things in there. I call it the fanny pack of justice. And right now, it's full of cough drops. you know, in addition to my boom stick. How does it work crossing state lines? Do you need to research legality in other states before you cross?

Conceal carry permits have reciprocity in some states. And it should be researched. If you're going to carry, you need to research rules, regulations, and laws. When it comes to crossing state lines, I'm not actually an expert on this. I've flown with my firearms. obviously you separate the firearm and the ammunition. They can be in the same box, but you're not going to, you know, loaded mags or any of that. You separate the two.

You lock them. You declare it to the TSA. I don't actually have a lot of experience driving weapons across country. That's going to be a question for Mickey because I know he does a bunch of that stuff. And I will ask him that and have to actually circle back to this because I'm sure I'll get some more firearm-related questions for future Full Out of Fridays. I will circle back and answer that once I can get a better answer. because right now I really don't know. I think you can transport,

but I don't know the rules. Let's say you're coming from Montana where there's no limit on capacity of magazines and you're going traveling through a state that has a magazine capacity law. You'd be in violation of it if you go into that state, but I don't know how it works if you're passing through. That's really something I'm going to need to research.

So I appreciate that question. And the last question, can you bring firearms in checked luggage? If not, how do you deal with that situation? Just go with it and deal with it? No, you don't just go with it and deal with it. And you don't put it in the carry-on, even though it's amazing how many people forget that. This I have done quite a bit. A hard case, I go with pelican cases, lockable.

And it can get a little weird with TSA agents. Because, again, there's the TSA, and then there's the people who work for the TSA. I've seen people who are comfortable with one lock, and I have seen people, a lot of the cases will have multiple openings where you can slide in TSA-friendly locks or TSA-unfriendly locks if you want. I've seen agents who are comfortable with just one lock on a case and others that every single one of those holes has to have a lock in it. So I actually usually carry extra locks in the gun case. I start with two if it's a rifle case, two on each side, so there's no ability for them to pry one side open. But yeah, you need to declare it. It needs to be in your checked luggage.

It needs to be in a lockable container for ammunition. I believe it has to be in its original container, meaning for pistol caliber rounds or even rifle, they're going to come in usually cardboard boxes. They will ask you to see the container with which you're going to have the firearms in. You generally will open it. You will sign a disclaimer or disclosure saying what it is and also declaring it. You put it back in.

You lock it up, and oftentimes they'll have you take it directly handwalk, it over to like an oversized bag, check in or handed directly into an agent that will then screen it, put it on the aircraft. And it will be hand carried in my experience, hand carried directly to, you know, you go to a luggage carousel. You know, where do you go? When your bag doesn't come out, you go find the office where there's a representative from the airline, you talk to them. And what they will do is instead of obviously bringing it out onto the carousel where any fuckwood could grab it, they will hand walk into that agent. You go talk to the agent, show your ID, and you're off and running.

I haven't had any, I haven't had any bad experiences flying weapons all throughout the U.S. I've had great experiences at the airport, never had an issue. Sometimes I've opened a box in somebody who is unfamiliar with weapons who is asking me to show them the weapons. This is like, oh my God, why would you have that thing? I'm like, hey, you know, don't worry about it. This is what it is. This is where I'm going. Here's your forum.

Boom. And you're off and running. So it's, you end with, I realize this is kind of a strange esoteric question. It's not really. And if you ever come to the U.S., maybe you're going to do some shooting, maybe you're going to travel with people who want to do so. And now you're a little bit more familiar with the rules. And that's it. I'm going to shut my face.

Hope everybody has a good weekend. See you all on Monday.