T.REX TALK – Details, episodes & analysis

Conflict comes from division, and division can be created along many lines. Geography, heritage, color, or possessions... Marxism, for example, always tries to divide between the haves and the have nots, the oppressors and the oppressed. But there is another metric that usually gets ignored until the gap is too wide to be bridged.

A common theme of the current Democratic party messaging is an urgent need to stop Donald Trump from regaining the White House and weaponizing the DOJ against his political enemies. However, it is obvious that the executive branch has already been weaponizing agencies against political enemies of the DNC. Today's guest on the show is Paul Vaughn, a long time T-Rex friend and ally, who has had direct personal experience with this kind of political intimidation through our own enforcement agencies. You can learn more about his story from his articles on Substack, and the Stifled Cry podcast. 

https://www.stifledcry.com/listen/

https://paultn.substack.com/

After talking to Hoffman Tactical about their firearm projects, and doing some design work on a future fighting pistol ourselves, we wanted to dive a little bit deeper into firearm development. We review David S. Findlay's Firearm Anatomy series, talk about the different ways that physical constraints and political constraints affect how guns get designed and built, and do some Q&A with the comments on the last T-Rex Labs video.

The SCOTUS ruling on NYSRPA v. Bruen has a lot of implications for the future legal battles surrounding gun rights. This weekend Isaac was able to spend some time with Matt Larosiere from Fudd Busters, discussing the ramifications of this decision. It's a pretty wide-ranging conversation on past and current legal theory, but it also gets into what we can expect in the future.

Fudd Busters Initial Analysis on Bruen: https://youtu.be/50qvyP00qws

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As Independence Day approaches, we reflect on the Tree of Liberty. It's a pretty long metaphorical exploration, but it goes over the different branches on the Tree, some very recent Supreme Court Rulings, and ways that different trees have in the past been refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants with very different results.

Additional Reading:

The Origin and Principles of the American Revolution 
By Friederich Gentz   

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Today, Felix and Sasha stopped by to talk about a whole swath of topics, from the economy of training to the lag in military adaptation, from the consequences in Ukraine to the responsibilities of early adopters.

They are producing some of the best gear and training content on the internet, so check them out below:
 
Website: redbeardtactical.com   
Instagram: redbeardtactical.de 
Patreon: RedbeardTactical 

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Ok, so there are LOTS of myths about gun control and gun violence, but here are five that are dominating the current news cycle and undergird a lot of the current thinking about guns.

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A couple of months ago, we talked about lessons from footage of the first defensive fights in Ukrainian. Today we're talking about some larger lessons related to defense innovation. Is the American Military model more like Ukraine's or Russia's? 

War on the Rocks podcast  
The Imagineers of War  

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Wild Arms Research and Developmemt has spent the last few years building destructive devices. Specifically, developing recoilless launchers and rocket launchers like the Panzerfaust and Fliegerfaust, and then publishing the research for public edification. Isaac Botkin and Jonathan Wild have a free-ranging discussion on munitions design, launcher research, and the two books they have produced so far:

Man Portable Air Defense System : Fliegerfaust
Expedient Recoilless Launcher: Panzerfaust

And, check out video of test firings of the Fliegerfaust: https://youtu.be/5fskM6iUSbA

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It's been a while since we did a Q&A episode, so Isaac fired up his much-throttled Instagram account for a live conversation with real people who asked real questions. This included queries about 3D printers, suppressor laws, customer support, and of course, lots of curiosity about new products.

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