On this episode of RUMBLE, we pay our respects to the victims of the devastating 4th of July floods in Texas, including young children, counselors and counselors, who lost their lives in the floods. Also, CEO Mark Namati is taking a gun company public on the New York Stock Exchange on July 16th.
00:06:33.000I hope you got to enjoy it with your families.
00:06:35.000I hope everyone still has all of their fingers.
00:06:37.000This one definitely felt bigger and better than ever before.
00:06:42.000So I had a little bit of a crazy travel schedule, so I'm pre-recording this over the weekend.
00:06:46.000It'll air Monday night as usual, but had to do this on Saturday because I'm all over the place.
00:06:51.000I'm on the road, but I still want to get you all of the great news that happened from the end of that last week.
00:06:57.000We had the passage of the One Big Beautiful bill.
00:07:00.000We had record low border crossings and more record high Democrat delusion.
00:07:05.000So we'll get into all of that shortly.
00:07:08.000Also, later in the show, we'll be joined by my friend, CEO of online firearms retailer Grab a Gun, Mark Namati, which is listing on the New York Stock Exchange on July 16th.
00:07:20.000I've been involved in this one for a while.
00:07:22.000We're going to be ringing the bell on the New York Stock Exchange with a gun company, an online gun retailer.
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00:09:08.000So guys, first off, we send our prayers to the victims and their families at Camp Mystic in Texas as the search continues this weekend for victims of the catastrophic Texas flooding over the 4th of July weekend.
00:09:22.000The floods killed dozens of people, including young campers and counselors.
00:09:59.000It's a picture that was taken down at camp.
00:10:03.000They were camp mates and they were best friends here in North Texas and a friendship that continued till their last moments here on earth.
00:10:18.000Eloise was literally friends with everyone, says her family, telling Fox 4 this.
00:10:24.000She loved spaghetti, but not more than she loved dogs and animals.
00:10:30.000She passed away with her cabin mate and her best friend.
00:10:35.000She has a family who loved her fiercely for the eight years she was with us, especially her mommy, Missy Peck.
00:10:45.000My father signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr County and we'll visit later this week along with Governor Greg Abbott of Texas.
00:10:54.000But sadly, the left wants to, as usual, politicize another tragedy, one where children were killed, people.
00:11:04.000I have a lot of friends down there, know a lot of sort of degrees of separation of people that were tragically affected by this disaster, and it's just a shame.
00:11:12.000So to watch the left try to politicize this act of God, this terrible, terrible instance is truly sick.
00:11:20.000For example, though, multiple Democrats have lied and claimed that emergency response officials didn't put out the proper warnings.
00:11:27.000However, warnings were issued about the potential for flash flooding hours before the waters reached their peak, but the waters rose literally in under an hour.
00:11:39.000The NWS forecasting offices were operating normally at the time of disaster and at normal staff levels.
00:11:46.000As one Texas meteorologist told the Texas Tribune, and I quote, we have seen absolutely nothing to suggest that current staffing or budget issues within NOAA or the NWS played any role at all in this event.
00:12:00.000But, of course, sadly, the hate and rage of the left gets even worse.
00:12:05.000A far-left lunatic pediatrician made a vile post on Saturday suggesting that those who were killed were Trump supporters and got what they voted for.
00:12:26.000But this is what Trump derangement syndrome does to these freaks.
00:12:29.000She needs to be fired and shouldn't be allowed to practice medicine anymore.
00:12:34.000As I said, we continue to pray for the victims, their families, the first responders, all those people involved in so many of the brave and harrowing tales that we've seen come out, and the state of Texas as they recover from this tragedy.
00:12:50.000And we will continue to call out the lies and the hate being spewed amidst this tragedy.
00:12:55.000And meanwhile, back in Washington, my father signed the one big beautiful bill on the 4th of July Holiday, and it was quite a scene at the White House.
00:13:03.000A B-2 bomber from Whiteman Air Force Base is escorted by two F-35 fighters for a little bit of a special flyover.
00:13:12.000We hail at the twilight's last gleaming.
00:13:41.000Two twice as fights us through the perilous fight for the past peace be and the rockets reckoning,
00:14:02.000the bombs bursting in air gave proof to the night that our flag was still there.
00:14:15.000Oh, save us that star spangled and yet wave for the land of the free and the home of the free now,
00:14:42.000of course, again, Democrats have also been lying about what's actually in the bill.
00:14:47.000Most of them probably haven't even read it.
00:14:49.000I doubt that any of them have actually read it.
00:15:20.000Permanently decreasing the child tax credit for more than 40 million families.
00:15:25.000Permanently securing our borders by finishing the border wall and hiring thousands of new ICE officers and border patrol agents.
00:15:33.000More American energy independence and so much more.
00:15:38.000And as far as Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP, there seems to be a lot of false information going on around that one as well from the left about the so-called cuts.
00:15:48.000I know you're shocked that the media has lying to you all along, but I guess if you're still shocked, you haven't been awake for the last 10 years.
00:15:57.000Now, there are more work requirements with increased oversight, right?
00:16:02.000People can't just get on it, claim disability, not actually do anything, not actually have any disabilities, have you pay for them and their families and everything like that forever.
00:16:09.000And the work requirements can even include part-time and volunteer work.
00:16:14.000And there are exceptions for those who are actually disabled or actually unable to work, which has not been the case in the past.
00:16:21.000And most importantly, illegal immigrants aren't going to have loopholes to exploit the programs anymore.
00:16:38.000Very simply, the one big beautiful bill will deliver the strongest border on earth, the strongest economy on earth, the strongest military on earth, and ensure the United States of America will remain the strongest country anywhere on this beautiful planet of ours.
00:16:56.000165 days into the Trump administration, America is on a winning streak like, frankly, nobody's ever seen before in the history of the presidency.
00:17:06.000But once again, guys, Democrats are completely outraged over mass deportations and helping American workers.
00:17:14.000Here's a new thought leader for the Democrat Party, Jasmine Crockett, asking, if I quote, how would it feel if countries sent people to your country?
00:17:28.000I mean, I don't know, Jasmine, it seems like that's exactly what's going on, and it doesn't feel awesome.
00:17:50.000As far as I'm concerned, you randomly kidnapping folk and you throwing them out of the country against their civil rights, against their constitutional rights.
00:17:57.000And frankly, how would they feel if some other country decided that they were going to just start throwing people randomly in our country?
00:18:07.000So, yes, all I got to say is y'all need to get these fools out of here.
00:18:13.000And beyond the Democrat dysfunction, we're seeing more and more evidence of outright corruption because we also recently learned more about the fake Intel assessment into the Russia meddling back in 2016 and that election.
00:18:29.000We all do because many of them are still running with it.
00:18:32.000The new information revealed that it was actually Obama, not surprising to anyone who's been paying attention, who pushed the Intel community to launch the Trump-Russia witch hunt.
00:18:43.000According to the findings, on December 6, 2016, then President Obama directed Clapper to conduct an assessment on Russian activities related to the election.
00:18:56.000Obama also put a specific timeline on the task, requiring both the classified and unclassified versions of the report to be published before the 2017 presidential transition.
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00:19:50.000So, this is the same playbook, guys, that we've seen time and time again on how the deep state bureaucracy works to undermine the will of the people.
00:19:58.000And we'll continue following this as far as the facts take us.
00:20:03.000But coming up in just moments, we'll be joined by CEO of Grab a Gun to give a little breather from All Things Washington.
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00:21:14.000Okay, guys, joining me now, CEO of Grab a Gun, Mark Namadi.
00:21:28.000So it's a great sort of middle finger to what's going on in corporate America for so long where, you know, you couldn't fund these kinds of things, even if it's a fundamental tenet of American freedom and the Second Amendment and all these things.
00:21:41.000You know, can you walk us through the journey of Grab a Gun that sort of led to this really pivotal moment where people are sick of what's going on?
00:21:53.000What were some of the key milestones and perhaps the biggest challenges you faced bringing an online firearm retailer to this level of prominence?
00:22:09.000And back then, we knew there had to be a better way to buy a firearm, right?
00:22:13.000So back in the day, I was a software developer for IBM, doing a lot of retail development, e-commerce stuff, creating a bunch of cool different things for all sorts of Fortune 500 companies.
00:22:23.000But there wasn't an easy way, especially online, to purchase a firearm.
00:22:29.000So we decided that we could solve that problem.
00:22:33.000There are definitely regulatory steps from buying a firearm online versus buying whatever it is you're buying on Amazon.
00:22:42.000So we knew there's more than just having a good e-commerce experience, but understanding all the regulations between there, reducing friction.
00:22:49.000So that way when people do purchase firearms from us, all laws and regulations are followed, which I do think is still kind of a misunderstanding.
00:22:57.000A lot of people think, oh, buying a gun online is going to my house.
00:23:00.000But no, I think you've talked about it several times.
00:23:03.000Like there's obviously extra steps, extra regulation for that.
00:23:06.000So we've invested a lot in software for streamlining that user experience, making sure everything stays compliant while reducing overall friction to the consumer so they can exercise their Second Amendment right while still doing it online.
00:23:20.000Because the younger demographic, people like me, we buy everything online.
00:23:23.000So why shouldn't we be able to buy a firearm which is protected by the Second Amendment in the same vein?
00:23:29.000So what sort of sets grab a gun apart from its competitors?
00:23:33.000Obviously, I know this because I'm involved, but I know a lot of the usual suspects, it's like you get a link and then you get email to the guy that's selling it and it's all of a sudden this wild and crazy sort of transaction.
00:23:48.000I mean, what do you guys do differently that sets you apart from those competitors, particularly obviously in this online firearms space?
00:23:56.000Yeah, the main thing I think is we have a really good pricing because of a lot of the software we've built on the back end, so a lot of the supply chain, building an e-commerce front end and making it good for consumers is step one.
00:24:09.000But there's a lot that happens behind the scenes, as you're well aware, of obtaining that product and giving people the options so they can buy products.
00:24:16.000So we source products kind of different than a lot of our competitors do.
00:24:20.000We have a lot of different options when it comes to finding that product for that customer.
00:24:25.000Typically, we're buying at volume so we can get a big savings, pass along to that consumer.
00:24:30.000Buying online, there's several different types of styles to purchase online.
00:24:34.000We've kind of focused more on that Amazon-esque style because that's what the new younger consumer is used to.
00:24:39.000It also streamlines the whole workflow.
00:24:42.000So in terms of differentiation, we spend a lot in that user experience to make sure that people understand the product they're getting, all the various steps along the way that they have to do to pass a background check, making sure we're transparent about that information, giving them a lot of options to picking a dealer in their area.
00:24:59.000We have over 40,000 dealers that we leverage on our website.
00:25:03.000So it's kind of like a buy-on line pickup and store style, but allows for the customer anywhere in the continental United States, pretty much within a few mile radius to go do their background checks.
00:25:22.000So obviously, I mentioned it a little bit earlier, but the gun space has been sort of one of the spaces most attacked by woke corporate America.
00:25:32.000Obviously, I think by taking us public on the New York Stock Exchange next week, I think we're doing what we can to do that.
00:25:40.000But what have been some of those biggest hurdles that you've underwent in this journey?
00:25:45.000What does going public mean for the trajectory going forward, in your opinion?
00:25:48.000Yeah, I mean, we're no stranger to a lot of those woke policies over the last decade and a half.
00:25:52.000I mean, you're well aware of operation choke point of things of that nature.
00:25:56.000So, you know, we've had to deal with some of those banking issues, software issues.
00:26:02.000There has been obviously a change over the last few months, I think, culturally, in terms of how people want to operate businesses in the space.
00:26:08.000So, we had City, I guess, came out, what was that, a few weeks ago, talking about how they're now going to lend into the space.
00:26:14.000Whether they do it or not, I think is a whole different scenario.
00:26:18.000Yeah, by the way, we always have to differentiate for the viewers.
00:26:20.000There's those that did this stuff when it wasn't popular, and then there's those that will show up at the last second after fighting tooth and nail against it and be like, okay, well, if we can make some money here, we're going to do it, I guess, but like reluctantly, like just sort of they feel where the wind blows and then go accordingly.
00:26:35.000So you got to always be a little bit leery with that, I guess.
00:26:56.000Again, another example is Meta came out a few months ago saying they're going to play in the space.
00:27:02.000Still having issues with people like that, you know, blocking some stuff on our Facebook page and things of that nature.
00:27:10.000So what actually happens with that stuff over the next handful of years and how people actually, how comfortable they are with Second Amendment and promoting it on platforms or lending money in the space, it's kind of TBD, but that's not stopping us either way.
00:27:25.000We're going public, regardless of those kind of larger institutions and what they do in the space because we know that we have the ability to do this right now.
00:28:04.000Obviously, there's an infusion of capital that you're going to get.
00:28:07.000What are you going to use that money to sort of build out the rest of the space to become more competitive so they can sort of see the idea of the investment strategy there?
00:28:16.000So the beauty of doing it with the Columbia team and going via SPAC is so, yeah, step one is we're going public, but really also it's adding a bunch of cash infusion.
00:28:24.000So ideally, we're going to see over $100 million that we can go use to really expand our business within the industry.
00:28:31.000There's a lot of people in the space that never had an opportunity really to exit.
00:28:38.000Now with us kind of in the driver's seat, having this access to capital, having access to a public stock that we can also use as a public currency.
00:28:47.000There's a lot of good businesses within the industry, whether those are other retailers of firearms, or really if you want to vertically integrate wholesale or distribution or even software plays, whether that's more regulatory software to help guide a lot of these smaller businesses to make sure that they're always providing by regulations with software, applying a lot of AI.
00:29:08.000So again, I'm a technology guy by training.
00:29:14.000So now with the AI race kind of speeding up, there's a lot more that we can do to leverage a lot of the data that we have, being a large retail-facing customer or large customer, a lot of customer base that's retail-facing.
00:29:28.000We can get a lot of data, how the customer shops, how to behave, pass information down to manufacturers or wholesalers of the like to really make smarter decisions when it comes to using purchasing product and selling product, filling inventory, helping manufacturers know when is the right time to start turning on this product line for this demographic or this geography of the United States for,
00:29:54.000let's say, hunting season, because some special ad ran and all of a sudden you're selling three times the amount of a SKU that you would initially thought of.
00:30:02.000We do a lot of data aggregation with AI to really make smarter and better decisions.
00:30:06.000And then as we consolidate a lot of the players in the space, we get even more and more data.
00:30:11.000So we're becoming even more wise, I guess, when we're making a lot of these purchasing decisions, a lot of these automated decisions.
00:30:20.000So us working with a lot of these various companies that we can acquire, really bringing them into our ecosystem is good for the industry, but also really good for the consumer.
00:30:33.000Obviously, the tech stack, the ability to use that, using AI to really find best kind of pricing.
00:30:38.000I mean, when people are going online, I mean, a lot of that's going to be about convenience and pricing.
00:30:43.000What's Grab a Gun doing differently to make sure that those people are having the best opportunity to save as much money as possible while finding what they're looking for in a space that can at times certainly be challenging to find what you're looking for?
00:30:54.000We've all gone through the ammo shortages of the early 2020s and we've seen it all.
00:31:00.000Yeah, so us applying AI and creating all the decisions allows us to make sure that we have the inventory available for when those customers really want it, making sure we have the products that customers are really looking for, the hard-to-find products, making sure that we're buying them at the correct prices so that way we can offer those discounts to those consumers.
00:31:38.000It's not necessarily that difficult of a process, but sometimes finding the right parts to go in your build.
00:31:44.000So leveraging AI for a lot of that data to make sure that if you're buying this lower and you want to buy this trigger set or this stock or whatever, making sure that it's working on your build is a good way to use that AI too.
00:31:58.000So one of the things it's sort of interesting, you touched on it a little bit, your generation, younger people, a lot of women, everything's really going online.
00:32:07.000So you're really seeing an interesting trend with Grab a Guns outreach to younger buyers, also a female demographic that sort of saw this 2020 Summer of Love and said, maybe we need a gun, maybe we don't need to be so woke.
00:32:21.000You're also going to be catering to a demographic that's relatively new to the space in the way that they're used to being catered to across all other retail platforms.
00:32:30.000So what insights have you gained about that sort of younger and or female market in the gun space?
00:32:37.000Yeah, so really all commerce is, I think, trying to get that younger, that newer generation into their e-commerce funnel.
00:32:43.000So, firearms are really no different than that.
00:32:46.000It's like things like 47% of new firearm gun buyers are either millennial or Gen Z. They're the largest growing group of first-time buyers and repeat buyers.
00:32:57.000I think definitely 2020 was a big awakening for those people.
00:33:00.000The Summer of Love, as you so nicely put it, really, you know, defund the police.
00:33:05.000If you have any of that stuff, then if somebody actually thinks this is going to happen, how are you going to protect yourself?
00:33:19.000So giving them an opportunity to purchase the way that they know how to purchase everything else is what we've done and how we've built Grab a Gun.
00:33:28.000And those people are going to continue to come back.
00:33:30.000I think they're very loyal to an experience that's catered to them and to their generation.
00:33:38.000So we're definitely learning a lot on the kind of products that they're buying.
00:33:42.000We're seeing a lot more of the conceal carry self-protection kind of thing with that younger demographic.
00:33:49.000I think that's kind of a funnel into then kind of the hunting and stuff like that as they become more aficionados with the firearm.
00:33:56.000But definitely the entry point is that self-defense piece.
00:34:00.000What's your long-term vision for Grab a Gun?
00:34:02.000Where do you see the company in five or 10 years down the line?
00:34:05.000You know, what impact do you hope to have in the space?
00:34:07.000Yeah, I really think with this transaction with Columbia and, you know, going public and all that access to capital, we're really going to, I think, revolutionize the space.
00:34:16.000It's always been kind of difficult to be, I don't understand why there has been really a slow adoption modernizing anything within this industry.
00:34:32.000We're making sure that we're staying ahead of the curve.
00:34:36.000Our plan is to revolutionize this whole industry from top to bottom.
00:34:40.000Obviously, we offer a really good e-commerce experience right now.
00:34:43.000I think there's a lot of growth for how we can do that in a lot of different ways.
00:34:47.000There's a lot of good businesses out there that we can acquire to help us grow and expand quite quickly to revolutionize that space.
00:34:55.000We have a lot of different companies, manufacturers, other retailers, wholesalers that since we announced back in January that they're very excited about this whole opportunity.
00:35:04.000They want to find a way to be part of our ecosystem because they know that this is kind of the future, that modernization of this industry that hasn't really modernized much over the last few decades is going to change and we're going to be the ones to make that change.
00:35:18.000So five, 10 years, I think we're going to be definitely the biggest behemoth in the space, offer really good products and services to our customers, to manufacturers, really everybody within this industry to make sure that no matter at what point in the supply chain you are, that we're here to help you and help defend that Second Amendment right for everybody.
00:36:50.000I look forward to seeing you up there next week at the bell ringing.
00:36:53.000But listen, I think it's an awesome thing to be able to be out there, to be able to go back into the heart of New York City and still be taking a gun company public.
00:37:02.000We've been talking about these things for years, people being able to essentially vote with their wallets.
00:37:07.000The guys that are pushing these trends, not just sort of jumping on the capital bandwagons now that perhaps some of the tide has shifted against those woke policies, but the people who were doing it when it wasn't popular, guys like you left the tech space to be able to develop this kind of stuff is really important.