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a couple months ago, you guys will recall, I don't even remember how this came up, but we were talking about

the topic of AR-15s. And I said, you know what? I'd love to see what it's like to shoot an AR-15.

Oh, yeah. Mainly born out of, I don't even know if I said this on the podcast at the time,

but the thing that was going through my head was that, you know, as the folks that I traced my bloodline back to were trying to inform the British that they would prefer to rule their own island in the 1970s and 80s.

Yes.

That was their top choice and just this.

Was it really? Yeah just this, like.

Was it really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I would have thought they were Kalishnikov boys.

Yeah.

I mean, I certainly think that. Just that rebel spirit, you know.

Getting guns from America was a big thing for them.

Like that they're, you know, they they I'm sure that there are Irish people in

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