How the Firearms Industry Drives Innovation

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🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Isaac goes on a long weapons development rabbit trail after reading a gun control suggestion from activist Michael Cogbill. Not only do we have a right to self-defense, and a right to keep and bear arms, but the incredibly high value that civilization has placed on the availability of weapons has resulted in weapons technology driving a huge amount of all other technological development. Naturally, Jeff Bezos is mentioned as well.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another podcast exclusive episode of T-RX Talk. My name is Isaac Botkin, and
0:06.5	we've been a little bit busy recently. That's why you may have missed out on one or so of
0:13.4	these podcast episodes. I'm assuming it's only one, but I can't say for sure, so I'll just hedge
0:18.7	my bets. One or more. You've missed out on one or more podcast exclusive because we're busy doing a bunch of stuff. I can't say for sure, so I'll just hedge my bets. One or more. You've missed out on one or more
0:21.1	podcast exclusive because we're busy doing a bunch of stuff. I can't comment on any of it, of
0:25.9	course, but I can merely say that some changes cannot be made quietly. Our IWB holsters are
0:32.0	temporarily unavailable for purchase while we finish the last major steps in retooling our
0:36.4	production line.
0:43.2	Now today I want to talk about a news article that I read last week. It's kind of interesting on a couple of levels. As usual, gun control activists are recommending different types of gun
0:48.7	control and people like me are thinking that these are dumb ideas because they're demonstrably dumb ideas.
0:55.9	But I want to talk about one person in particular named Michael Cogbill. He's not a legislator. He is
1:01.0	just a writer. He's a gun control activist who works for a couple of groups and he wrote an op-ed
1:05.6	in Pennsylvania. And his idea for stopping gun crime is a 20-year ban on all production and importation of guns.
1:14.3	No confiscation, it's just a temporary ban on sales because we have, quote, too many guns, unquote.
1:21.0	So let's kind of break this down. In the first place, I actually do want to say kudos to Michael
1:26.3	Cogbill for having what is kind of a
1:28.5	fresh idea in some ways. I mean, if it is in fact true that there are too many guns, then just
1:34.9	turning off the tap for a few years is kind of an interesting idea. It doesn't confiscate stuff.
1:40.5	It doesn't eliminate certain types of things from production or from use.
1:44.7	It's just stopping production for a while so that supply and demand can kind of, wait a minute,
1:50.0	no, that's not how that works.
1:51.9	Supply and demand work together.
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