You know, it's interesting because we were talking about yesterday, me meeting with Deputy Assistant Director of the ATF and the head of the NFA branch.

Their goal, you know, now when you log in and you have your own user ID, they call it, you know, user ID with ATF and your own pen, they're using that as your digital signature.

So their goal in phase two is that they would store your fingerprints there.

And so every time you buy something, it would be there and you wouldn't have to re-send them.

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Hey, welcome into Gun Talk Nation. We are on location in Houston at the NRA show,

but it's pretty cool because it's a big room packed with a lot of great companies and great people.

And so we thought we ought to grab some of these people and have some conversations and do some podcast stuff.

So we've got Brandon Maddox from Silencer Central here.

Welcome in, man.

Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you of us.

Brandon, we've talked to you over the years. Silenceer Central, people, most people know it, probably, but I mean, you guys are one of the big sellers of silencers. But you're also a guy who's kind of on the front lines as far as gun rights and specific to silencers

and the ATF and NFA and probably some other three letter acronym. So, I mean, I guess I'll start off

with this. You just were in D.C. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Tell me what you were doing there.

Tell me what we can tell the audience. Yeah, good question. So we flew out a little early. We're fortunate that U.S. Senator Thune is the majority leader. So we went and met with his office on the first day. Good to kind of, you know, we're tracking the ATF director nomination. We feel like there's going to be a lot of good benefits to have an actual director nominated. So we've been sort of following that. And, of course, you know, the Senate gets to determine when those go through. So meeting there for that. Also, it's just going to have a good relationship with the Senate Majority Leader. Yeah. My daughter's going to work there this summer as an intern. and so I had to get some, you know, it was good to sort of touch base with them.

Then the next day we did visits on the hill, so NSSF, National Shooting Sports Foundation,

guys that do Shot Show, I'm on their board, and even before I was on the board, always fly in

and do their CEO, fly in where we go and meet with legislators and staff.

So it's good to kind of know the staff is very in tune as to what the constituents are saying,

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