RADIOAugust 04, 2022

CEO: Our ammunition deliveries go MISSING with UPS

Patrick Collins, CEO of The Gun Food, has lost thousands of dollars worth of ammunition. Why? Because customers’ orders don’t always seem to make it to their doors — especially when delivering with UPS. Collins joins Glenn to detail the issue, the lengths his company has gone to work with the delivery service, and the lack of detailed response or explanation from UPS. Where IS the ammo?!

Transcript

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GLENN: So yesterday, I read a story about The Gun Food. TheGunFood.com is a quick process ammunition supply company. And it is very active in supporting gun rights, to local state and national levels. They supply ammunition to regular people. And people who protect our society. Individual consumers, to ranges, to police departments and instructors. And this article was about how UPS seems to be losing a lot of their packages. They claim, that UPS is behind their missing packages, leading only one-third of their orders being delivered. The rest, gone. They can't seem to get a real answer, from UPS. Patrick Collins is the CEO of the Gun Food. Welcome, Patrick, how are you?

PATRICK: I'm great today. How are you?

GLENN: I'm good. So can you tell us a little bit about your business. You're fully licensed. No crackpot business. Fly by the seat of your pants. This is a legitimate gun and amnesty business. And you've done business with UPS for how long?

PATRICK: We've been doing business with UPS for approximately three years now. And unfortunately, we do not sell firearms. But we sell plenty of ammunition, we supply to plenty of different ranges. Et cetera. And so on.

GLENN: And, Patrick, how many packages have been lost?

PATRICK: Oh. I would say, approximately 14,000 dollars' worth over the course of the business. But however, recently, we just received a hit of about 8,000-dollar loss.

GLENN: So there is -- you know, I've done business with UPS. I don't lose packages like that. What are they saying to you, when you're like, wait a minute. It didn't arrive to where I was shipping it? What do they say?

PATRICK: Well, they try to blame it on sometimes the packaging itself. Et cetera. And so on. However, for the most part, we ship all of our ammunition insured. So it requires either a signatures, or depending on the value, it's always going to be insured for that value. However, the problem that we run into, is when it doesn't make it to our customer, and the customer calls us back, we have to provide that ammo. A lot of times, lives are on the line. Lives and livelihood, I would say. Whether it's an structure or police department. When they don't receive their ammo. There are issues happening.

GLENN: So we reached out to UPS. And I want to read what we wrote to them. UPS, I'm reaching out on behalf of the Glenn Beck Radio Program. Glenn will be interviewing an Atlanta had much based ammunition distributor, who alleges UPS is behind the reason these packages are not getting delivered to these customers. He states out of 18,000 rounds of ammunition, he shipped only 6,000 -- I'm sorry. He shipped 18,000. But 6,000 were actually delivered.

Additionally, it's being reported that Brownells, a large firearms and ammunition seller has had their UPS account canceled, and UPS is no longer listed as an option for shipping carrier.

Can you please provide some background information on why ammunition and gun sellers are having issues with their package delivery? They said, dear Glenn Beck Program, these are two separate issues. Regarding your question about shipping ammunition, quote, as a common carrier, UPS transports ammunition that constitutes cartridges, small arms, as defined in federal regulations. UPS has safety protocols, to help ensure the safe transport of ammunition in our network. We work with our customers to address their concerns. Including those with packaging. You can find out more about how to ship your ammunition section, UPS.com. It includes packaging requirements. So they didn't answer the question. They're just saying, again, they're alluding that your packaging is not compliant with them. That doesn't answer the question, where is the ammunition? And I would assume, you have tried to follow every single protocol that they have.

PATRICK: Yes. Every protocol was met. And exceeded, even. Because I actually have -- I have pictures of how the packages are packed, within the packages that are -- that they're sent in. So they asked me, how -- you know, what type of materials did I use? How was it marked or labeled? And I have all of that information. In fact, we change our protocol here, at TheGunFood.com to have our drivers, when they drop off the packages at the centers, they have to actually take a picture of it, on their conveyor belt when UPS takes possession of our packages.

GLENN: Do you have to do this with anybody else?

PATRICK: Well, unfortunately, the other major carrier for ammunition, they have their own issues. Which have been brought to light, probably about two years ago. So we unfortunately have stopped and not considered using them for our business. So we stuck with UPS.

GLENN: So now, when you have -- when you have UPS, you call them. And you say, look, I have the pictures. We packaged it right. We put it on your conveyor belt. Here's the receipt. What do they say to you?

PATRICK: Well, they say, provide the same amount of information, as if I were to lose a family heirloom. Or, you know, some other package, that could have been shipped. That's not involving ammunition. And at that rate, we're sitting here fighting it. I know quite a few other folks, that are -- have well over $300,000 of ammunition gone missing. And it's really changed the way we have to do our business now.

GLENN: 300,000 dollars' worth of ammunition? Those are a lot of bullets, that are just, what? Spilling out of their truck, because they're not packed right? And do they say, here's spoiled boxes, and here's the ammunition that we could save? I mean, they just don't explain where that ammunition and that defective box went to?
PATRICK: Exactly. To them, it's just a write-off. However, it's becoming a very expensive write-off. I would like to thank you for bringing a lot of attention to this. Because it really is a big deal. And it impacts people on multiple levels. More so than your average citizen would think. Imagine if the police department doesn't receive their ammunition, that they need to serve their civic duties -- civil duties.

GLENN: So -- well, imagine -- imagine if you got sloppy with ammunition, and you were just kind of losing some from time to time. What they would accuse you of. The -- UPS is part of this great reset. They're very, very deeply involved in that. I would like to think that this is just incompetence. Because it can't be excuse -- if you you do indeed have the pictures, and you're shipping them the right way. Which I believe you are. But please sends my office the pictures. Because we would like to follow this up.

There is -- there's no excuse. It's either theft. From their own employees. Or it is part of a -- of a hidden policy, that is disrupting the flow of ammunition. And that's -- that's -- I would -- I hope it's the theft from their employees. But I bet it's not.

PATRICK: Yes. And I 100 percent agree. Unfortunately, ammunition boxes are easy to identify. With the markings we need to put on them. And we try to hide them in ways, that is not as obvious. However, a lot of times, people know what they're grabbing, once they grab the box. Or perhaps even shake it.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. Way too heavy. Ammunition in a big box at least is very heavy.

All right. Well, we'll follow up. I would like you to reach out to my producers. If you do indeed have names of people that have lost 300,000 dollars' worth of ammunition, the same way you have. There's something going on here. Because all of a sudden, all of you guys are starting to just pack it wrong. It's either a -- their stonewalling here bothers me. Because there should be an answer. What happened to it? What happened to it? Okay. You didn't pack it right. Well, where did that box go? It's not like if I shipped diamonds through UPS. They're going to say, you know what, your box fell apart. Okay. Well, where are the diamonds? Well, you just write it off. That means, they're either keeping it, doing something with it. Or they have a theft problem.

UPS, which one is it? And then why is this happening, and you don't seem to care? Thank you, Patrick, I appreciate it. God bless you.

PATRICK: You have a good one.

GLENN: You bet.

Rich elites WHINE about Trump's tax cuts?!

A leftist millionaire is furious over President Trump’s tax cuts because it will … SAVE her money?! Glenn Beck gives her a newsflash: She can give that money to whatever charity she wants! Or, thanks to PayPal and Venmo, she can now give it straight to the government. Plus, Glenn reviews the latest example of New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani acting like a communist.

RELEASE the Epstein Files … with a caveat

Glenn Beck wants EVERYTHING in the Epstein Files to be released … BUT with a caveat. Glenn warns that America will have massive problems if the files are released and people don’t actually READ the report. If we only listen to X posts and the media, we can be easily manipulated.

Transcript

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GLENN: Somebody asked me. Might have been you, Stu. Said, why do you think they're putting up a stink about releasing the files?

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: I can guarantee you, that Donald Trump's name is in the Epstein files.

STU: You said that at the very beginning.

GLENN: Years ago.

STU: Even with that -- more recently when Elon came out with his tweet. And we all said, of course, he's in the files. He was friends with this guy for a long time, but before people knew.

GLENN: Right, and he broke up with him, if you will.

STU: Before his initial arrest.

GLENN: Right, before the initial arrest. And he broke up with him, because it's like, hey, you treat women like crap. Okay. So, yeah.

He is in the filing. I can almost guarantee it. So why wouldn't you want that out?

For the same reason he's saying, you know, there's a lot of people in here, whose names are going to be involved, who may not have done anything.
That's not just protecting him. You know what that is? That's a comment on us. Because here's my stance on this. The whole thing should be released.
Every bit of it should be released. However, there is a competing argument in my own mind that says, not responsible enough for that. What do I mean by that?

This system of our government is wholly inadequate for an immoral and non-religious society.

And I don't mean, well, our society has got to go to church.

I mean, you have to have the underpinnings of things like the Ten Commandments.

Don't lie!

Don't cheat. Don't steal.

Don't smear your neighbor. We don't do any of those things. Okay?

We can't even do ten simple laws. Okay?

And they're all good safety tips. I don't know occasion if I renamed all of these things.

If I didn't use the religious context, every American would say, yeah. Well, that's a good thing.

Hey. You shouldn't worship your car.

Yeah. That's a good thing. You know, you shouldn't -- you shouldn't look at the image of somebody, and go, that's -- that's who I serve.
That's my God. No! That is a bad thing.

Don't cheat on your spouse. Don't lie.

Honor your mom and dad. All of these things, we would all agree, we can't do that as a society! We can't even agree on eight of the ten!
So how are you going to remain free? Let me bring this back to the Epstein file.

All of this information should be public. It should be out there. There should be no secrets.

Unless it is in our national interests.

And I don't mean, well, it could go badly for the CIA.

Good!

Let it go badly for the CIA. If they did something wrong, or they were doing something nefarious. Or they were doing something that the American people just wouldn't like. I want that exposed.

Okay?

But are we responsible enough to have all of the information?

I contend, no!

That doesn't make me say. I'm still saying, release it all!

But I'm telling you, the consequences will be ugly.

STU: It could be a mess.

GLENN: A mess.

STU: That's okay. Probably.

Because we're talking about -- if there's information in there, that the American people need.

GLENN: I think we are approaching a place to where it's -- it's not just a mess.

And here's why I say that.

STU: What do you mean?

GLENN: So you get all this information. How is this information going to be used?

Of course, Donald Trump's name is in there.

Is Donald Trump -- did he -- was he messing around with young girls?

No. No.

STU: Is there even an accusation.

I mean, there's a lot of things they accused Donald Trump of.

GLENN: Not that.

STU: Is this even an accusation that he was interested in underage girls?

GLENN: No. No. No.

And all they're saying is, he's in the file.

Well, there will be a lot of people in the file. Okay?

A lot of people in the file.

And some of them might be guilty.

Some of them, you -- I worry, because I want to know their names. But I want to hear, why were you with him?

Oh, it was before you knew.

Oh, it was this or that. You were getting money as a scientist, for your thing. From him. Okay.

But it wasn't about underage girls. As a society, we will not read the Epstein report.

We won't.

STU: No. Of course not. Right?

We won't read it. It doesn't matter if it's ten pages! The vast majority will not read it. What they will do is they will go to Twitter and X. And they will look for what name is in there.

And somebody will say, Donald Trump. And you know what you know this means? He was diddling with little girls.

And that will just become their opinion, not based on fact, not based on anything.

Except, somebody who has ill will on anyone or is just as stupid as the rest of the public.

Yesterday, this -- last week, this file came out from Tulsi Gabbard. And what do you say this is, Stu?

One hundred fifty pages, maybe. One hundred pages?

STU: Yeah.

GLENN: Okay. My staff read it. We read it. You know why?

Because you weren't going to read it. And my job is to make it easier for you to understand what is going on.

My job really is not to tell you, what is going on.

I'm -- my job is actually to try to give you perspective on why it's happening, and what it means.

But because nobody -- and I'm not dissing you. This is a very, well-read audience.

In many cases, more well-read on some things than we are.

But generally speaking, the American people don't read.

They don't read these reports.

This one came out yesterday, and what is this?

20 pages, maybe?

And this thing is unbelievable. Because there were only five copies of it.

This was the -- they categorized the highest level of top secret outside of a nuclear weapon in our codes.

Okay. This was in the most top -- this was like the knock list, at the CIA.

Five copies, all in one -- in one safe. Where the most confidential CIA stuff is kept.

And it was released yesterday.

And it's not 30 years old.

It's four!

Did you read it? Did anyone actually -- I contend, very few reporters, very few talking heads on cable TV even read these.

STU: Yeah. And, by the way, it's not an unreasonable expectation for a population to have a media that is going to inform them properly about very lengthy government documents.

GLENN: Correct. Correct.

But once you have seen that that media is not reliable.

And everybody knows that now.

You may not find me reliable.

But the person who doesn't find me reliable, also probably doesn't find CNN reliable.

They might go, well, they're a little better than he is.

But they -- they don't trust anybody.

And they shouldn't.

At this point, you shouldn't trust anybody.

Which means, you have to know it for yourself. So when you're looking at the Epstein files. You're looking at these files.

These files, everyone should care about. Because this shows. This -- it's not new. Some of it is!

But very little of it is new.

It's just authentication that what has been said, all these years, by people like me, is accurate!

And you wouldn't have fought about its accuracy, if it didn't matter.

But you fought -- he didn't know what he was talking about. That's a conspiracy theory. He has to be shut down. Get him off Facebook. Take him off Twitter.

He can't say these things. Why would you say that if it didn't matter? Now you not only that know those things are true, but you now see a pattern of behavior. It's like looking at one murder, and then another murder, and then another murder.

Okay. We've got three murderers, on the loose now.

And then all of a sudden, you realize, wait a minute. Not only did those murders happen, it was the same guy. Now you have a serial killer.

Is a serial killer more -- a higher priority than just one murderer?

Yeah.

Yeah. It is. Because they are -- they are killing people -- I don't know. Out of the love of it. Out of their distorted.

It's not a crime of passion. It becomes something really, really sick.

This is a serial killer.

You now have not just one offs. You see, this is a pattern.

This group has been doing this from the beginning. You know what I said, you know, if they can get away with this. They will keep doing it.

This shows, they got away with it, for so long.

By 2016. They just, they don't care anymore.

They don't care anymore.

But how many people are reading this?

What they'll do is they'll listen to people like me, or people like CNN, and they'll say, oh, well. I heard Jake Tapper talk about it.

It means nothing.

Well, now, Jake Tapper might not mean -- let me leave you with a better example. I really like Andy McCarthy.

I really like him.

I read his work.

STU: It's great.

GLENN: I believe -- I believe his opinion is valid. I don't think it's right.

But I think it's valid.

And I read his work. And I thought, okay.

Wait a minute. If Andy McCarthy is saying this. I really need to examine what he's saying. And see where I disagree with him.

And as I went in, I was prepared to change my mind, if I thought Andy was right.

Now, he might in the end, be right.

But I don't think so.

Because what he is saying is, a lot of this stuff is old news.

Yes, Andy, it is. But it's now a grand conspiracy. You have to look at the through-line.

You're not looking at the one-off events.

You're looking at two things.

One, it's now been verified at the highest sources in writing.

You have whistleblowers, at the time, writing saying, we can't do this.

We didn't have that information. You have on record now, Brennan saying, you don't know what I know. Well, what did you know? We have new information.

What new information?

Because none of it is quoted anywhere.

And he's never answered the question.

What new information?

Most importantly, you have the grand conspiracy line.

We are not going to save the country, unless we do our own homework. Then listen to people and say, let me start at the opposite ends. Let me start with Glenn Beck and CNN.

And let me see what both of them are saying. Okay.

I think they both agree on this one thing. So I know that's true. But I think Glenn is more right. Or CNN is more right on this.

And then you just keep narrowing it in. And all it does is not form your opinion. It helps verify for you what you think is right.

Or it changes your opinion, because you realize, I missed that.

I didn't understand that. So when we're looking at all of this stuff needs to be transparent. We need to know all of the information.

Yes, we do.

But we also are played, every single day by many times, the exact same actors, who do not have a good bone in their body.

They're trying to destroy us. They're trying to separate us and divide us.

And they have proven themselves to lie at any level, without thinking about you or the ramifications.

And we continue to listen to them, over and over and over again.

How California's inevitable FUEL CRISIS could affect YOU

California Democrats have done it again! The state is scrambling to find a buyer for two local refineries which were driven away by the Democrats’ ridiculous policies. Glenn Beck explains how a gas shortage in California would affect the rest of the country.

Transcript

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GLENN: Yeah. Let me talk to you a little bit about Democrats trying to find a buyer for a refinery. After they ran the refinery out of town, the California energy commission is reportedly actively seeking buyers to stop the closure of the Valero Refinery in Benicia, California.

Now, here's what happened: They're scrambling because they have driven all the refineries out of business in California.

They've got so much regulation, and more regulation coming.

They haven't built a new refinery in California, for decades he has

I think it's since the 1970s.

Now, this refinery is closing.

And the Phillips 66 refinery.

How many refineries are there in America? There's not a lot. The Phillips 66 Refinery is closing in -- at the end of this year. Valero is also closing. And they can't find a buyer!

Well, I wonder why, California. I mean, who would want to do that? Who would want to buy a refinery in California? Where they're constantly trying to put you out of business.

So you lose two refineries in California.

Who is going to make the gas?

Now, remember it's a special blend in California.

It's already $8 a gallon.

Because it has to be a special blend.

They have all of these things that are only for California.

So these refineries are making the special blend for California.

You lose two refineries. Two!
In the state of California. There's going to be a gas shortage everywhere else.

Why?

Because now it's going to go to the highest bidder.

Now they'll have to go out of state and say, to these other refineries, that are making our gas.

Can you make up for the loss of these two refineries?

Well, no. I'm providing gas for Texas, and Oklahoma. And New York.

And everything else. No, I can't. Look, we need gas. What would it cost?

Well, I mean, we could do it, but we will have to shut down for other customers. So, you know, I'm not going to charge you, the same I'm charging them.

You will see ten, 12-dollar a gallon gasoline, in California.

Because they will have to pay for it. They will have to pay for the refining, somewhere else.

And everybody else is at the top of their refinery.

Of their refining. So they have to put something offline. Which means, look, I'll do. I'll do a job for you.

You know, you need your house built. Well, I'm building this house over here.

And, I mean, I'm really. I have to take care of this house.

Yeah. What would it take for you, to build my house first?

Well, I mean, I don't know.

I've got to finish this one. I'll pay what it takes.

I have to have my house. That's what California is about to have to do.

I mean, what are you going to pay. And they still don't get it.

They still don't get it. They're still adding more EPA laws. More -- more laws about gasoline, in California.

And refining in California. Two refineries are about to shut down. And these people wonder why.

Oh, it's America. No, it's not.

No, it's not. I want you to -- if you happen to be under 30, I want you to listen to me, carefully.

Don't believe me, don't believe -- don't believe anybody.

Listen to yourself.

You have seen none of this works. And you have seen your older brothers and sisters, and they bought into all this crap that was taught in college. They bought into all of this stuff. And you see how empty it is for them.

Right?

You see it!

Be the exception. Because I believe the hero generation right now is between 12 and 30 years old.

These are the people that are going to change everything.

And I shouldn't design the country for you.

Because I'm going to be dead by the time this is fixed. I'll be dead.

It's your country. It's your future. It's your job.

So find truth.

You know -- you see your friends killing themselves. You see how empty everybody's life is.

You see how this is all falling apart. This is not capitalism's problem.

Capitalism -- we haven't done real, honest capitalism, like Wealth of Nations and moral sentiments.

We haven't done that in a while. This is captured capitalism. This is crony capitalism.

This is corrupt capitalism.

The free market. The free market works.

But what's happening is, you have these ruling classes. That are saying, nope.

I want it this way.

And you have dumb enough people to follow, and to not see, wait.

Those policies are putting me out of business. I mean, In-N-Out Burger.

Gone. Can't do business. It's a California company. Proudly Californian. Can't do business there anymore.

And you wonder why. It's not America's fault. It's not the Constitution's fault. It's your fault.

For voting that way, California. And these are the people like Gavin Newsom, I can guarantee you, they will not take responsibility. When gas is $12 a billion, they will be blaming it on somebody.

I mean, I wouldn't take had it their business as a refinery. Because I know, if I'm producing California fuel, at the top price, because I have to give up somebody else, and so they have to make it worth my while, I'm not going to take that. Because Gavin Newsom will say, you know who it is?

It's the Glenn Beck oil refinery that is charging us.

We have to go after him, because he's gouging us.

I'm not taking your -- no way. I'm not making anything for you.

Because you have no loyalty to the truth, at all.

You will not accept the fact that you put them out of business.

And now, when the people go, I can't afford 12-dollar a gallon gasoline.

You'll say, yeah. You know who is fault it is for him

That refinery with Glenn Beck in Texas.

They're just gouging our eyes. It's price gouging.

Get them!

No way.

You know this doesn't work.

You're smart enough to see what your brothers and sisters. And how miserable their life is.

They went to college.

I hope -- you know, I hope before you went to college. And you were indoctrinated.

But if you're watching your brothers and sisters go through college, and you see how they come back. And they're all screwed up.

And then you see them five years later, and they're empty inside. And they can't find a job.

And they don't have anything meaningful in their life.

You're finding meaning.

You're more conservative than I am.

You are finding God, at a time when God is lost, on most people.

And I'm not saying, finding church.

I'm saying finding God.

You know there's something spiritual out there, and you are searching for it. Don't listen to anyone.

Who is telling you, you're not good enough. Don't listen to anyone who is telling you, you don't get it.

Don't listen to anyone who says, the system is rigged against you!

Don't listen to anyone who says, vote for me, or your life is going to be a pile of dog crap. Only I can solve your problems. Don't listen to them. Don't.

The American dream was never about being rich.

It was about being free enough to make your own choices. Make your own choice. Carve it out. Your brothers and sisters. Who are slightly older than you. They've been convinced, they can't make it. You know what happens when you're convinced of something, and you keep saying it over and over again? It's not my fault.

I can't make it because of these guys. It becomes true.

What becomes true?

I can't make it. They'll never make it.

They'll never make it.

And I know this, because I grew up in a family that was really dysfunctional.

Alcoholics.

No one was successful in my -- in my family.

Nobody went to college in my family.

I didn't go to college in my family.

And believe me, I didn't get any special breaks. I worked my ass off. And I'm 13, 14, 15, 16 years old. And I'm sleeping on the conference room floor, on weekends, because I work six hours on, six hours off.

Six hours on. Six hours off.

From Friday afternoon, until 6:00 a.m. Monday.

And then go to school.

I worked my butt off.

But I knew if I worked hard, and if I could outthink everyone, that was in my business.

And I got a little lucky, I would be successful.

But it wasn't until my 30s, that I realized, no, it's not just that.

You have to be true to you.

You are special! Each one of us.

We're different.

We're born with what we need.

My first half of my career, I imitated.
I imitated. Because I couldn't do. So I imitated others. I took little ideas here and there.

And I pieced them together.

And I thought, that's a good idea.

That's a good idea.

And that worked to some extent, but until you realize, you are unique. You are the only one that can do you!

And in my case, you just don't care anymore, because you know what you're doing is not working. And so you just let go. I'm an alcoholic that lost everything. Believe me.

World is not stacked against -- you're stacked against yourself, when you listen to people who tell you, it can't be done.

You can't do it. System is rigged against you.

You'll defeat yourself every time.
Don't listen to those people.