EP054 GunBlog VarietyCast - Special Guest: The Unnamed Trucker from The RoadGunner Podcast

EP054 GunBlog VarietyCast

• Blue Collar Prepping - Duct Tape

• Foreign Policy for Grownups - Venezuela crumbling

• This One Time/Special Guest - The Unnamed Trucker: Who is this Massad Ayoob dude?

• Tech Tips with The Barron - Recommended Routers

• This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Illegal Arms Busts, in the US vs. UK and the Failure of Gun Control

• Our Sponsor - http://www.lawofselfdefense.com/variety

Blue Collar Prepping - Duct Tape

• Starting a fire with duct tape - https://youtu.be/FnxIvZ4hqK8?t=1m40s

• Zip tie uses and tricks - https://youtu.be/WXxQ9WjFWxk

• How to escape from zip ties - http://www.itstactical.com/skillcom/lock-picking/how-to-escape-from-zip-ties/

• How to escape from duct tape - http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/dateline/news-you-can-use-escaping-duct-tape-363042371726

Felons Behaving Badly

• Suspect in Shooting Arrested, Charged Monday - http://www.crimeincharlotte.com/suspect-in-shooting-arrested-charged-monday/#.VeEG0SVVhBc

• Suspect - http://webapps6.doc.state.nc.us/opi/viewoffender.do?method=view&offenderID=0651745&searchLastName=Carter&searchFirstName=Jaquan&listurl=pagelistoffendersearchresults&listpage=1

Foreign Policy for Grownups - Venezuela crumbling

• Long lines, hunger and looting - http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuelas-food-shortages-trigger-long-lines-hunger-and-looting-1440581400

• Venezuela: final stages of socialism - http://www.cato.org/blog/venezuela-reaches-final-stage-socialism-no-toilet-paper

• Venezuela blames CIA for food shortages - http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/sep/26/venezuela-food-shortages-rich-country-cia

• Venezuela corruption - http://www.economist.com/news/americas/21583252-evidence-huge-rip-offs-heart-bolivarian-revolution-has-unleashed-political

• PDVSA oil exec arrest - http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/02/02/venezuela-corruption-idUSL1N0VC1QI20150202

• FinCEN BPA press release - http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/nr/html/20150310.html

Plug of the Week

• LG HBS-730 Headset AKA Tone+ - http://amzn.to/1KhBwMx

• 4 stars, 13,602 reviews

• $55 w/prime (in black)

• also available in orange, white, pink, and mint green

This One Time/Special Guest - The Unnamed Trucker: Who is this Massad Ayoob dude?

• The Roadgunner Podcast - http://roadgunnerpodcast.com/

Fun With Headlines

• Accident teaches a lesson on the perils of valet parking - http://www.stltoday.com/news/traffic/along-for-the-ride/accident-teaches-a-lesson-on-the-perils-of-valet-parking/article_f633fd25-25c3-5971-8202-250944043f1d.html

Tech Tips with The Barron - Recommended Routers

• Wee - TP-Link N600 - http://amzn.to/1JfX5rb

• Not so wee - WRT-1200AC - http://amzn.to/1hXtsE3

• F’kin HUGE! - WRT-1900AC - http://amzn.to/1JfXvOe

The J Block

• The Stuff That Fills My Head At 0130 - http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-stuff-that-fills-my-head-at-0130.html

Upcoming North Carolina LOSD Seminars - $110 per person.

• October 10 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

• Rock Barn Golf & Spa - 3791 Clubhouse Drive, Conover, NC 28613 - http://lawofselfdefense.com/event/law-of-self-defense-seminar-conover-nc-101015/

• December 5 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

• Joe Gibbs Racing, 13415 Reese Boulevard West, Huntersville, NC 28081 - http://lawofselfdefense.com/event/law-of-self-defense-seminar-charlotte-nc-120515/

This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery - Illegal Arms Busts, in the US vs. UK and the Failure of Gun Control

• The U.K.’s Biggest-Ever Gun Bust Wouldn’t Break the U.S.’s Top 10 for 2014-15 - http://www.thetrace.org/2015/08/gun-bust-united-kingdom-england-us-guns-seized/

• The Gun Markets of Pakistan - https://youtu.be/FinRqCocwGE

• vz. 58 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vz._58

• Škorpion vz. 61 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0korpion_vz._61

• Seven charged as UK makes largest ever gun seizure - http://www.breakingnews.ie/world/seven-charged-as-uk-makes-largest-ever-gun-seizure-691007.html

Stuff that grinds my gears

• Sean - What Your NRA Decal Says About You - http://web.archive.org/web/20150826234944/http://dadscribe.com/2015/08/26/nra-decal-danger/

• View from the Porch - http://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2011/08/tab-clearing_24.html