Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - This 4th of July, A Nation Renewed, Plus Interview with Grab a Gun CEO Marc Nemati |TRIGGERED Ep.256

00:06:30.000 Incredible Fourth of July holiday.

00:06:32.000 I know I did.

00:06:33.000 I hope you got to enjoy it with your families.

00:06:35.000 I hope everyone still has all of their fingers.

00:06:37.000 This one definitely felt bigger and better than ever before.

00:06:42.000 So I had a little bit of a crazy travel schedule, so I'm pre-recording this over the weekend.

00:06:46.000 It'll air Monday night as usual, but had to do this on Saturday because I'm all over the place.

00:06:51.000 I'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.

00:06:57.000 We had the passage of the One Big Beautiful bill.

00:07:00.000 We had record low border crossings and more record high Democrat delusion.

00:07:05.000 So we'll get into all of that shortly.

00:07:08.000 Also, 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.

00:07:20.000 I've been involved in this one for a while.

00:07:22.000 We're going to be ringing the bell on the New York Stock Exchange with a gun company, an online gun retailer.

00:07:27.000 Think about that, guys.

00:07:28.000 You want to talk about making a comeback from being de-banked, de-platformed, all these things?

00:07:32.000 We're actually taking a gun company public on the New York Stock Exchange.

00:07:36.000 It's a company I'm a big believer in.

00:07:38.000 I'm invested in.

00:07:39.000 I'm excited for all of you guys to learn more about it.

00:07:42.000 So you're going to look forward to that one.

00:07:44.000 It'll be fun, and it's nice to be taking it back to the man.

00:07:48.000 A little vindication there after the years of, again, debanking censorship and all the other nonsense in the 2A space.

00:07:54.000 So I'm super excited about that.

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00:09:08.000 So 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.

00:09:22.000 The floods killed dozens of people, including young campers and counselors.

00:09:26.000 It's an absolute tragedy.

00:09:29.000 In just under an hour, flash floods raged into Kerrville, Texas, destroying everything in its path.

00:09:36.000 Here's a report from Dallas's Fox 4 News Watch.

00:09:40.000 Lila Bonner and Eloise Peck, they lived here in Highland Park, and they had just finished second grade at Bradfield Elementary School.

00:09:55.000 These two little cuties here. 1.00

00:09:59.000 It's a picture that was taken down at camp.

00:10:03.000 They were camp mates and they were best friends here in North Texas and a friendship that continued till their last moments here on earth.

00:10:18.000 Eloise was literally friends with everyone, says her family, telling Fox 4 this.

00:10:24.000 She loved spaghetti, but not more than she loved dogs and animals.

00:10:30.000 She passed away with her cabin mate and her best friend.

00:10:35.000 She has a family who loved her fiercely for the eight years she was with us, especially her mommy, Missy Peck.

00:10:45.000 My father signed a major disaster declaration for Kerr County and we'll visit later this week along with Governor Greg Abbott of Texas.

00:10:54.000 But sadly, the left wants to, as usual, politicize another tragedy, one where children were killed, people.

00:11:04.000 I 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.

00:11:12.000 So to watch the left try to politicize this act of God, this terrible, terrible instance is truly sick.

00:11:20.000 For example, though, multiple Democrats have lied and claimed that emergency response officials didn't put out the proper warnings.

00:11:27.000 However, 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.

00:11:39.000 The NWS forecasting offices were operating normally at the time of disaster and at normal staff levels.

00:11:46.000 As 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.

00:12:00.000 But, of course, sadly, the hate and rage of the left gets even worse.

00:12:05.000 A 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. 0.85

00:12:15.000 I mean, think about that. 0.93

00:12:17.000 This woman is a pediatrician.

00:12:19.000 Her name is Dr. Christina B. Propps. 0.99

00:12:22.000 This is psychotic. 0.97

00:12:23.000 It's evil. 0.99

00:12:25.000 It's sick. 0.98

00:12:26.000 But this is what Trump derangement syndrome does to these freaks. 0.97

00:12:29.000 She needs to be fired and shouldn't be allowed to practice medicine anymore. 1.00

00:12:34.000 As 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.

00:12:50.000 And we will continue to call out the lies and the hate being spewed amidst this tragedy.

00:12:55.000 And 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.

00:13:03.000 A B-2 bomber from Whiteman Air Force Base is escorted by two F-35 fighters for a little bit of a special flyover.

00:13:12.000 We hail at the twilight's last gleaming.

00:13:41.000 Two twice as fights us through the perilous fight for the past peace be and the rockets reckoning,

00:14:02.000 the bombs bursting in air gave proof to the night that our flag was still there.

00:14:15.000 Oh, save us that star spangled and yet wave for the land of the free and the home of the free now,

00:14:42.000 of course, again, Democrats have also been lying about what's actually in the bill.

00:14:47.000 Most of them probably haven't even read it.

00:14:49.000 I doubt that any of them have actually read it.

00:14:51.000 So here are some facts.

00:14:53.000 This is the largest tax cut in history for middle and working class Americans.

00:14:58.000 Okay, they like to say it's only for the billionaires.

00:15:01.000 They said that last time, even though it was like something close to 90% of people benefited, that was all going to go away.

00:15:06.000 Taxes were going to go through the roof and our economy would go into the crapper.

00:15:10.000 Okay.

00:15:11.000 So again, here are some of the facts.

00:15:14.000 No tax on tips.

00:15:15.000 No tax on overtime.

00:15:17.000 No tax on Social Security.

00:15:20.000 Permanently decreasing the child tax credit for more than 40 million families.

00:15:25.000 Permanently securing our borders by finishing the border wall and hiring thousands of new ICE officers and border patrol agents.

00:15:33.000 More American energy independence and so much more.

00:15:38.000 And 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.

00:15:48.000 I 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.

00:15:57.000 Now, there are more work requirements with increased oversight, right?

00:16:02.000 People 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.

00:16:09.000 And the work requirements can even include part-time and volunteer work.

00:16:14.000 And there are exceptions for those who are actually disabled or actually unable to work, which has not been the case in the past.

00:16:21.000 And most importantly, illegal immigrants aren't going to have loopholes to exploit the programs anymore. 0.90

00:16:28.000 This is all part of border security.

00:16:31.000 No amnesty, no undercutting American workers and their American families.

00:16:36.000 Check this out.

00:16:38.000 Very 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.

00:16:56.000 165 days into the Trump administration, America is on a winning streak like, frankly, nobody's ever seen before in the history of the presidency.

00:17:06.000 But once again, guys, Democrats are completely outraged over mass deportations and helping American workers.

00:17:14.000 Here'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?

00:17:28.000 I mean, I don't know, Jasmine, it seems like that's exactly what's going on, and it doesn't feel awesome. 1.00

00:17:35.000 I mean, you, what a moron. 0.99

00:17:39.000 It's actually impressive. 1.00

00:17:40.000 Like, I don't know whether to be upset or impressed that this person could actually get into Congress.

00:17:44.000 It's truly shocking.

00:17:45.000 You just can't make it up anymore.

00:17:48.000 Watch for yourself.

00:17:50.000 As 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.

00:17:57.000 And frankly, how would they feel if some other country decided that they were going to just start throwing people randomly in our country?

00:18:04.000 Like that, that is absolutely insane. 1.00

00:18:07.000 So, yes, all I got to say is y'all need to get these fools out of here. 0.98

00:18:13.000 And 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. 0.97

00:18:27.000 Remember Russia, Russia, Russia?

00:18:29.000 We all do because many of them are still running with it.

00:18:32.000 The 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.

00:18:43.000 According to the findings, on December 6, 2016, then President Obama directed Clapper to conduct an assessment on Russian activities related to the election.

00:18:54.000 But that's not all.

00:18:56.000 Obama 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.

00:19:08.000 Huh?

00:19:09.000 Wonder why you do that?

00:19:11.000 Why would you do that, guys?

00:19:12.000 Translation.

00:19:14.000 Create the Russia hoax to help Democrats and the swamp undermine the incoming president.

00:19:21.000 Okay?

00:19:22.000 That's what they did.

00:19:24.000 As we said, this all goes back to Obama.

00:19:28.000 Brennan, Clapper, Comey, And others did the dirty work, but Obama was the one who started it from the top.

00:19:35.000 If we had an honest media, this would be wall-to-wall coverage.

00:19:38.000 But we don't.

00:19:39.000 It's why we ask you to like, to share, to subscribe to this so people actually see it, because it will get no other coverage.

00:19:47.000 Make sure you guys are doing your part in getting it out.

00:19:50.000 So, 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.

00:19:58.000 And we'll continue following this as far as the facts take us.

00:20:03.000 But 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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00:21:14.000 Okay, guys, joining me now, CEO of Grab a Gun, Mark Namadi.

00:21:19.000 How's it going, Mark?

00:21:19.000 Good to have you on here, man.

00:21:20.000 Doing great, man.

00:21:21.000 How are you doing today?

00:21:22.000 I'm doing well.

00:21:23.000 Thanks for taking the time.

00:21:24.000 So, you know, this is obviously a big deal.

00:21:26.000 We're taking gun companies public.

00:21:28.000 So 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.

00:21:41.000 You 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?

00:21:49.000 They're sick of the censorship.

00:21:50.000 They're sick of the cancellation.

00:21:51.000 They're sick of getting debanked.

00:21:53.000 What were some of the key milestones and perhaps the biggest challenges you faced bringing an online firearm retailer to this level of prominence?

00:22:01.000 Yeah, sure.

00:22:02.000 So, I mean, Grab a Gun, we've been around now for about a decade and a half.

00:22:05.000 We started this back in 2010.

00:22:09.000 And back then, we knew there had to be a better way to buy a firearm, right?

00:22:13.000 So 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.

00:22:23.000 But there wasn't an easy way, especially online, to purchase a firearm.

00:22:28.000 So why not?

00:22:29.000 So we decided that we could solve that problem.

00:22:33.000 There are definitely regulatory steps from buying a firearm online versus buying whatever it is you're buying on Amazon.

00:22:42.000 So we knew there's more than just having a good e-commerce experience, but understanding all the regulations between there, reducing friction.

00:22:49.000 So 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.

00:22:57.000 A lot of people think, oh, buying a gun online is going to my house.

00:23:00.000 But no, I think you've talked about it several times.

00:23:03.000 Like there's obviously extra steps, extra regulation for that.

00:23:06.000 So 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.

00:23:20.000 Because the younger demographic, people like me, we buy everything online.

00:23:23.000 So why shouldn't we be able to buy a firearm which is protected by the Second Amendment in the same vein?

00:23:29.000 So what sort of sets grab a gun apart from its competitors?

00:23:33.000 Obviously, 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.

00:23:48.000 I mean, what do you guys do differently that sets you apart from those competitors, particularly obviously in this online firearms space?

00:23:56.000 Yeah, 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.

00:24:09.000 But 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.

00:24:16.000 So we source products kind of different than a lot of our competitors do.

00:24:20.000 We have a lot of different options when it comes to finding that product for that customer.

00:24:25.000 Typically, we're buying at volume so we can get a big savings, pass along to that consumer.

00:24:30.000 Buying online, there's several different types of styles to purchase online.

00:24:34.000 We've kind of focused more on that Amazon-esque style because that's what the new younger consumer is used to.

00:24:39.000 It also streamlines the whole workflow.

00:24:42.000 So 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.

00:24:59.000 We have over 40,000 dealers that we leverage on our website.

00:25:03.000 So 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.

00:25:14.000 So we offer a lot of product.

00:25:16.000 We offer ease of availability when it comes to doing that final background check process.

00:25:20.000 And we have great pricing.

00:25:22.000 So 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.

00:25:31.000 Do you see that changing now?

00:25:32.000 Obviously, 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.

00:25:40.000 But what have been some of those biggest hurdles that you've underwent in this journey?

00:25:45.000 What does going public mean for the trajectory going forward, in your opinion?

00:25:48.000 Yeah, I mean, we're no stranger to a lot of those woke policies over the last decade and a half.

00:25:52.000 I mean, you're well aware of operation choke point of things of that nature.

00:25:56.000 So, you know, we've had to deal with some of those banking issues, software issues.

00:26:02.000 There 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.

00:26:08.000 So, 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.

00:26:14.000 Whether they do it or not, I think is a whole different scenario.

00:26:18.000 Yeah, by the way, we always have to differentiate for the viewers.

00:26:20.000 There'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.

00:26:35.000 So you got to always be a little bit leery with that, I guess.

00:26:38.000 Yeah.

00:26:38.000 I mean, the same goes for like Meta.

00:26:40.000 So, you know, capital restrictions definitely been a big issue in the space.

00:26:44.000 We've obviously used software to kind of circumvent a lot of that.

00:26:47.000 So we're, you know, very cash flow positive and very capital light.

00:26:51.000 But then really advertising in the space is very difficult.

00:26:54.000 Social media companies of the world.

00:26:56.000 Again, another example is Meta came out a few months ago saying they're going to play in the space.

00:27:02.000 Still having issues with people like that, you know, blocking some stuff on our Facebook page and things of that nature.

00:27:10.000 So 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.

00:27:25.000 We'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.

00:27:32.000 We're going to do it now.

00:27:32.000 We're going to give the populace the ability to invest in things that they believe in, which we believe in the Second Amendment.

00:27:40.000 It gives them that opportunity.

00:27:42.000 So there have been road bumps in the past.

00:27:44.000 We're doing this kind of as a middle finger, as you would suggest, to some of those larger institutions.

00:27:49.000 But we're going to make this happen one way or another.

00:27:51.000 And we've always been that way.

00:27:54.000 Well, yeah.

00:27:55.000 I mean, maybe tell the audience a little bit about how this all works.

00:27:59.000 I mean, obviously, you're an existing business.

00:28:00.000 You got real revenues.

00:28:01.000 You're doing this.

00:28:02.000 What's the taking it public?

00:28:04.000 Obviously, there's an infusion of capital that you're going to get.

00:28:07.000 What 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?

00:28:16.000 Yeah.

00:28:16.000 So 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.

00:28:24.000 So ideally, we're going to see over $100 million that we can go use to really expand our business within the industry.

00:28:31.000 There's a lot of people in the space that never had an opportunity really to exit.

00:28:35.000 They have good businesses.

00:28:38.000 Now 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.

00:28:47.000 There'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.

00:29:08.000 So again, I'm a technology guy by training.

00:29:14.000 So 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.

00:29:28.000 We 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,

00:29:54.000 let'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.

00:30:02.000 We do a lot of data aggregation with AI to really make smarter and better decisions.

00:30:06.000 And then as we consolidate a lot of the players in the space, we get even more and more data.

00:30:11.000 So we're becoming even more wise, I guess, when we're making a lot of these purchasing decisions, a lot of these automated decisions.

00:30:20.000 So 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.

00:30:31.000 Yeah, talk about that a little bit.

00:30:33.000 Obviously, the tech stack, the ability to use that, using AI to really find best kind of pricing.

00:30:38.000 I mean, when people are going online, I mean, a lot of that's going to be about convenience and pricing.

00:30:43.000 What'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?

00:30:54.000 We've all gone through the ammo shortages of the early 2020s and we've seen it all.

00:31:00.000 Yeah, 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.

00:31:20.000 So definitely AI is leveraging a lot.

00:31:22.000 It's not where the customer is going to see the AI aspect.

00:31:24.000 It's really more on the back end and supply chain.

00:31:27.000 We are working also with a partner on leveraging AI on the front end to help customers find like compatibility.

00:31:33.000 So let's say you want to build an AR-15.

00:31:35.000 I've built several of them.

00:31:36.000 I'm sure you have too.

00:31:38.000 It's not necessarily that difficult of a process, but sometimes finding the right parts to go in your build.

00:31:44.000 So 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.

00:31:58.000 So 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.

00:32:07.000 So 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.

00:32:20.000 It's sort of interesting, right?

00:32:21.000 You'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.

00:32:30.000 So what insights have you gained about that sort of younger and or female market in the gun space? 0.97

00:32:37.000 Yeah, so really all commerce is, I think, trying to get that younger, that newer generation into their e-commerce funnel.

00:32:43.000 So, firearms are really no different than that.

00:32:46.000 It'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.

00:32:57.000 I think definitely 2020 was a big awakening for those people.

00:33:00.000 The Summer of Love, as you so nicely put it, really, you know, defund the police.

00:33:05.000 If you have any of that stuff, then if somebody actually thinks this is going to happen, how are you going to protect yourself?

00:33:09.000 Right.

00:33:10.000 So it's going and buying a firearm.

00:33:11.000 And so there's a lot of that younger generation that are becoming adults, becoming, you know, fathers, mothers, all that.

00:33:17.000 How are you going to protect your kids and your family?

00:33:18.000 And that's with the firearms.

00:33:19.000 So 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.

00:33:28.000 And those people are going to continue to come back.

00:33:30.000 I think they're very loyal to an experience that's catered to them and to their generation.

00:33:38.000 So we're definitely learning a lot on the kind of products that they're buying.

00:33:42.000 We're seeing a lot more of the conceal carry self-protection kind of thing with that younger demographic.

00:33:49.000 I 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.

00:33:56.000 But definitely the entry point is that self-defense piece.

00:33:59.000 Yeah.

00:34:00.000 What's your long-term vision for Grab a Gun?

00:34:02.000 Where do you see the company in five or 10 years down the line?

00:34:05.000 You know, what impact do you hope to have in the space?

00:34:07.000 Yeah, 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.

00:34:16.000 It'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.

00:34:26.000 We're obviously the opposite of that.

00:34:27.000 We've spent a lot of time making sure that we are up-to-date modern.

00:34:30.000 Like I said, we're leveraging AI.

00:34:31.000 We're growing.

00:34:31.000 We're changing.

00:34:32.000 We're making sure that we're staying ahead of the curve.

00:34:36.000 Our plan is to revolutionize this whole industry from top to bottom.

00:34:40.000 Obviously, we offer a really good e-commerce experience right now.

00:34:43.000 I think there's a lot of growth for how we can do that in a lot of different ways.

00:34:47.000 There's a lot of good businesses out there that we can acquire to help us grow and expand quite quickly to revolutionize that space.

00:34:55.000 We 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.

00:35:04.000 They 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.

00:35:18.000 So 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.

00:35:39.000 Talk a little bit about the details.

00:35:40.000 Right now, you mentioned with Columbia, so it's CLBR right now.

00:35:44.000 But come, I guess, next Wednesday, it's going to trade under Pew, PEW on the New York Stock Exchange.

00:35:52.000 So I thought that was a great little ticker to get.

00:35:54.000 Yeah, if we could have doubled it Pew Pew, I think that would have been better.

00:35:58.000 But I think they're going to get four characters.

00:36:01.000 Yeah, so we're going through a SPAC, which is Columbia.

00:36:07.000 So we have the bell ringing next week.

00:36:12.000 We're going to ring that bell in New York Stock Exchange.

00:36:13.000 It's going to transition over to Pew.

00:36:19.000 Yeah, so, I mean, we got about a week out, so that's a lot of stuff happening, but there's definitely a vote going on.

00:36:24.000 If you owned any of the CLBR shares before June 20th, make sure you vote for the transaction.

00:36:30.000 We definitely want to see this commence.

00:36:32.000 And then starting on June 16th, July 16th, we'll ring that bell.

00:36:37.000 We'll start going under as Pew. 0.74

00:36:39.000 We'll have all that access to capital and start revolutionizing this industry and do it in the public market.

00:36:45.000 So everybody can watch and join in.

00:36:47.000 Well, listen, guys, we look forward to it.

00:36:49.000 Mark, thank you very much for that.

00:36:50.000 I look forward to seeing you up there next week at the bell ringing.

00:36:53.000 But 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.

00:37:02.000 We've been talking about these things for years, people being able to essentially vote with their wallets.

00:37:07.000 The 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.

00:37:22.000 So guys, if you can, check it out.

00:37:24.000 Mark, thanks for everything.

00:37:25.000 And guys, go check out Grab a Gun.

00:37:28.000 And I'll see you up there again next week, buddy.

00:37:30.000 Be well.

00:37:30.000 I appreciate it, man.

00:37:31.000 Have a good one.

00:37:32.000 Thank you.

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