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Is THIS what the government's 90-day firearm EXPORT BAN is really about?

The U.S. Commerce Department has halted the export of most civilian firearms and ammunition for 90 days, citing the "risk of firearms being diverted to entities or activities that promote regional instability, violate human rights, or fuel criminal activities." But is there more to this unusual move? Glenn and Stu review how this temporary ban could affect gun companies as leftists continue to go after the Second Amendment. Glenn and Stu also review the latest out of Maine after the suspected killer of 18 people was found dead.

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GLENN: Dateline Washington. The Commerce Department is halting exports of most US-made firearms for 90 days, and reviewing its support of the country's biggest gun trade show to ensure such backing does not undermine US policy interests. Steps that could slow two decades of growth of gun sales abroad.

We go to Stu of Steve Burguiere. Our analyst on guns. And regional gun expert, to tell us what he thinks, the government is actually doing here.

STU: Well, Glenn, guns are evil.

And they should be banned. And they not only should be off the streets of America. But be off the streets of the entire world.

The sales, of course, also, help gun companies, and improve their businesses. And since we want them all to go away, and the Second Amendment to be destroyed completely.

We do not support these exports.
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GLENN: Today on the Daily. The government banning gun sales.

It could only harm the gun companies.

Today, we talk to gun enthusiast Steve Burguiere. About what the lack of guns means. In his life.


STU: Do you ask a question. Or do I just start talking?

I don't know how this works.

GLENN: No. You just start talking.

STU: But you didn't ask a question.

GLENN: I just said you were a gun nut.

STU: Guns help protect people from, you know, lawless mobs. That, you know, the left continues to empower.

GLENN: So you're insinuating, that black people on the street, or brown people, are lawless mobs.

STU: I said nothing about anyone's skin color.

Why are you?

GLENN: We're the New York Times. I think we understand what you're saying, gun nut.

Racist.

And that's all the time we have.

STU: I didn't get a chance.
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GLENN: I mean, this is so unbelievable.

They are not tracking. Here's what they say they're doing.

They say they're doing this, because they want to make sure that the guns that are being sold, by manufacturers to gun stores, all around the world, that those guns don't fall into the wrong hands.

But we're sending billions of dollars worth of ammunition and guns, to Ukraine, without anyone tracking any of it!

STU: Yeah. Notably the export ban does not apply to Ukraine. You could apparently send as many guns as you want there.

GLENN: Well, they're the government. The government can sense it. Just gun manufacturers can't send it.

STU: Government doesn't build the guns. They're sending guns from gun manufacturers.

GLENN: They buy them.

STU: Yes. It's just amazing that the weird -- it doesn't make any sense, right?

It used to make sense. Like, the old days. Where generally conservatives were more in favor of a strong, you know, position around the globe when it comes to maybe a hawkish stance on that.

And that implies, with a -- kind of works well, with the position at home, that you should also be able to defend yourself.

You can see that. Now, the left just decided that they're the pro-war people. But they don't want us to be able to protect ourselves against lawless mobs that are -- go through city after city after city.

GLENN: That they encourage.

STU: That they encourage. And solicit donations for.

It just doesn't -- it doesn't seem to work together that well.

GLENN: A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state.

The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

This weekend, we saw more shootings.

Here in the country. Last week, we saw, you know, mass shooting. And we find out now, that that mass shooting up in Maine, there was plenty of red flags that went up. Plenty.

STU: Could have been more red flags. The guy was literally telling people, he wanted to shoot up a military base.

GLENN: Correct. And telling authorities, that he was going to do that.

STU: Uh-huh.

GLENN: So immediately, of course, the regular arguments in the media and the left, why do you say that? Media and the left?

STU: It seems repetitive.

GLENN: Yeah. Also, immediately, usual counter arguments were made by Second Amendment advocates. It's a shooter, not the gun.

The man was unstable. Shouldn't have had a gun.

You know, regulations wouldn't have stopped him.

Bad guys don't observe the regulations. These shootings are not by good guys -- all of that stuff is true.

But none of that is the thing that we should focus on right now.

Whether -- rather, we should realize, that we are living in a very special and unique time. Where all of the original reasons for the Second Amendment, are as urgently relevant as they have ever been. We should probably understand those reasons.

The Second Amendment is not about sportsmen.

Otherwise, they might have put bowling in the Constitution.

You know, the Third Amendment. Hey. You can't touch bowling either.

It was not put there, for sports reasons.

It exists, the most fundamental right, under natural law. Natural law means, it happens in nature.

You walk into a cave with a bear in it. And you're just like, I want a pet little kitty.

Mommy will kill you, because it's a natural instinct and natural right.

You come into my home, and try to do anything with me or my children, I can kill you, if I feel we're in danger.

The right to self-defense.

That would come under the inalienable right to life. By the way.

So this was written by people who had just defeated the former king. This also means, self-defense, against an out-of-control government.

In an age of weaponized government agencies, this is hardly a false concern.

Tellingly, the argument against this, usually is efficacy.

Oh, you're going to need an F15. Not an AR-15. I hate that.

STU: So stupid.

GLENN: I don't know. The Taliban did pretty well. Pretty well.

The history of asymmetric warfare from the Revolutionary War, onwards, would beg to differ.

As would gun confiscation. Would be one of the first acts of every tyrant in history.

But more importantly, the Second Amendment also means simply self-defense against people with evil intent.

That's -- that's where we should really focus. The left essentially argues that that kind of self-defense is irrelevant today.

That's why we have police forces. Really?

The ones that you have gutted, the ones that you said were irrelevant and racist and horrible?

The ones we can't get to respond to any problems, because there's not enough of them left?

Quite aside from truly frightening crime statistics, self-defense has never been more relevant than it is today.

And I think the -- you know, Hamas pogrom, kind of makes that case.

Here's a country that does not lack experience with terrorism and war.

Tiny, tiny little Israel.

Help should arrive fast. But there was shock and surprise on October 7th.

The lesson of how much time and organized response should resound loudly. Not only in Israel. But all around the world. Including America.

Hours past, before help came to many places under attack. Hours.

We've just let ten million people into our country, that we don't know who they are.

We saw what 28 individuals could do. On September 11th.

Are you telling me, you're comfortable, that there aren't enough people to cause real problems in our country?

In multiple places?

It was emergency alert squads. It was civilian gun owners. Single cops. Soldiers who ran towards the sound of gunfire. Undermanned and outgunned.

What would the result have been, if the population of Israel, had been completely disarmed and helpless?

Fully dependent on their security forces. How many would be dead?

Far more than are. This lesson has not been missed in Israel. Which is actually very restrictive on firearm regulations. Not everybody can have a gun. Those who can, usually granted one handgun in 50 bullets, no more.

All fully registered and permitted. I think Israel should adopt a full Second Amendment right.

Now the rules are being relaxed. Gun owners are asked to carry. The alert squads in rural areas are building supported like never before. Squads are made up of former combat soldiers. And are kept armed and trained to defend against terroristic incursions.

During the Hamas pogrom, they made a huge difference. They couldn't stop at all. They took heavy losses.

But where they were kept, in a good state of readiness, casualties were considerably lower. Higher were not.

They blunted the assault. Americans had institutions like this. When we first started. It was the minutemen.

Men armed and trained. Held ready to defend their community. At a minute's notice.

We know of their role in the early stages of the War of Independence. But there were similar local groups meant to defend against whatever the danger might have been at the time.

Indian, for that matter, French, British, Spanish incursions.

We live in a time now, where Jews have to cower inside their homes. Or get locked in libraries, for fear of the mob.

In our own country, we live in a time, when hundreds of thousands of people feel free to openly shout their support. For evil. And genocide.

And their hatred for the culture. That welcomed them into their midst.

A time when open borders had meant 10 million people.

And thousands on the terror list.

That are present right now. In our cities.

Making sleeper cells a virtual certainty.

And that's without mentioning the cartels and the gangs. And the old-fashioned rogue state actors.

Do we really think that things can't happen in rural America with its vast open spaces?

How long for real help to arrive then?

Or in a major city? Or a university campus?

We can't all turn into Navy SEALs. But most of us can help.

And none of us should be helpless.

This is not an emotional knee-jerk rah-rah. This is a lesson that reason and morality dictate. We must learn from these events. I carry a gun. I train with it.

Not because it's fun.

But it is.

But I'm also all too aware that my life and the life of my family. One day, one night, may depend on my ability to use that gun.

I sincerely pray I never have to use that ability.

But I also pray that I always have the ability to use my gun.

Never again doesn't mean depending on somebody else to prevent the next massacre.

Never again means you and your ability to defend and stand for those that you love. I don't know what the Biden administration is doing this time. But their every step has been to erode your rights one way or another.

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INSIDE Trump’s soul: How a bullet changed his heart forever

“I have a new purpose,” then-candidate Donald Trump told reporter Salena Zito after surviving the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Salena joins Glenn Beck to reveal what Trump told her about God, his purpose in life, and why he really said, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, as she details in her new book, “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland”.

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GLENN: Salena, congratulations on your book. It is so good.

Just started reading it. Or listening to it, last night.

And I wish you would have -- I wish you would have read it. But, you know, the lady you have reading it is really good.

I just enjoy the way you tell stories.

The writing of this is the best explanation on who Trump supporters are. That I think I've ever read, from anybody.

It's really good.

And the description of your experience there at the edge of the stage with Donald Trump is pretty remarkable as well. Welcome to the program.

SALENA: Thank you, Glenn. Thank you so much for having me.

You know, I was thinking about this, as I was ready to come on. You and I have been along for this ride forever. For what?

Since 2006? 2005?

Like 20 years, right?

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

SALENA: And I've been chronicling the American people for probably ten more years, before that. And it's really remarkable to me, as watching how this coalition has grown. Right?

And watching how people have the -- have become more aspirational.

And that's -- and that is what the conservative populist coalition is, right?

It is the aspirations of many, but the celebration of the individual.

And chronicling them, yeah. Has been -- has been, a great honor.

GLENN: You know, I was thinking about this yesterday, when -- when Elon Musk said he was starting another party.

And somebody asked me, well, isn't he doing what the Tea Party tried to do?

No. The Tea Party was not going to start a new party.

It was to -- you know, it was to coerce and convince the Republican Party to do the right thing. And it worked in many ways. It didn't accomplish what we hoped.

But it did accomplish a lot of things.

Donald Trump is a result of the Tea Party.

I truly believe that. And a lot of the people that were -- right?

Were with Donald Trump, are the people that were with the Tea Party.


SALENA: That's absolutely right.

So that was the inception.

So American politics has always had movements, that have been just outside of a party. Or within a party.

That galvanize and broaden the coalition. Right? They don't take away. Or walk away, and become another party.

If anything, if there is a third party out there, it's almost a Republican Party.

Because it has changed in so many viable and meaningful ways. And the Tea Party didn't go away. It strengthened and broadened the Republican Party. Because these weren't just Republicans that became part of this party.

It was independents. It was Democrats.

And just unhappy with the establishment Republicans. And unhappy with Democrats.

And that -- that movement is what we -- what I see today.

What I see every day. What I saw that day, in butler, when I showed I happen at that rally.

As I do, so many rallies, you know, throughout my career. And that one was riveting and changed everything.

GLENN: You made a great case in the opening chapter. You talk about how things were going for Donald Trump.

And how this moment really did change everything for Donald Trump.

Changed the trajectory, changed the mood.

I mean, Elon Musk was not on the Trump train, until this.

SALENA: Yeah.

GLENN: Moment. What do I -- what changed? How -- how did that work?

And -- and I contend, that we would have much more profound change, had the media actually done their job and reported this the way it really was. Pragmatism

SALENA: You know, and people will find this in the book. I'm laying on the ground with an agent on top of me.

I'm 4 feet away from the president.

And there's -- there's notices coming up on my phone. Saying, he was hit by broken glass.

And to this take, that remains part of this sibling culture, in American politics.

Because reporters were -- were so anxious to -- to right what they believed happened.

As opposed to what happened.

And it's been a continual frustration of mine, as a reporter, who is on the ground, all the time.

And I'll tell you, what changed in that moment.

And I say a nuance, and I believe nuance is dead in American journalism.

But it was a nuance and it was a powerful conversation, that I had with President Trump, the next day. He called me the next morning.

But it's a powerful conversation I had with him, just two weeks ago.

When he made this decision to say, fight, fight, fight.

People have put in their heads, why they think he said it. But he told me why he said that. And he said, Salena, in that moment, I was not Donald Trump the man. I was a former president. I was quite possibly going to be president again.

And I had an obligation to the country, and to the office that I have served in, to project strength. To project resolve.

To project that we will not be defeated.

And it's sort of like a symbolic eagle, that is always -- you know, that symbol that we look at, when we think about our country.

He said, that's why I said that. I didn't want the people behind me panicking. I didn't want the people watching, panicking.

I had to show strength. And it's that nuance -- that I think people really picked up on.

And galvanized people.

GLENN: So he told me, when he was laying down on the stage.

And you can hear him. Let me get up. Let me get up.

I've got to get up.

He told me, as I was laying on the stage. I asked him, what were you thinking? What was going through your head? Now, Salena, I don't know about you.

But with me. It would be like, how do I get off the stage? My first was survival.

He said, what was going on through his mind was, you're not pathetic. This is pathetic.

You're not afraid. Get up.

Get up.

And so is that what informed his fight, fight, fight, of that by the time that he's standing up, he's thinking, I'm a symbol? Or do you think he was thinking, I'm a symbol, this looks pathetic. It makes you look weak.

Stand up. How do you think that actually happened?

SALENA: He thinks, and we just talked about this weeks ago. He -- you know, and this is something that he's really thought about.

Right? You know, he's gone over and over and over. And also, purpose and God. Right? These are things that have lingered with him.

You know, he -- he thought, yes.

He did think, it was pathetic that he was on the ground. But he wasn't thinking about, I'm Donald Trump. It's pathetic.

He's thinking, my country is symbolically on the ground. I need to get up, and I need to show that my country is strong.

That our country is resolute.

And I need people to see that.

We can't go on looking like pathetic.

Right?

And I think that then goes to that image of Biden.

GLENN: You have been with so many presidents.

How many presidents do you think that you've personally been with, would have thought that and reacted that way?

SALENA: Probably only Reagan. Reagan would have. Reagan probably would have thought that.

And if you remember how he was out like standing outside.

You know, waving out the window. Right?

After he was shot.

GLENN: At the hospital, right.

SALENA: Had he not been knocked out, unconscious, you know, he probably would have done the same thing.

Because he was someone who deeply believed in American exceptionalism.

And American exceptionalism does not go lay on the ground.

GLENN: And the symbol.

Right. The symbol of the presidency.

SALENA: Yeah. Absolutely. And I think that affects him today.

GLENN: So let me go back to God.

Because you talked to him the next day. And your book Butler.

He calls you up.

I love the fact that your parents would be ashamed of you. On what you said to him.

The language you used. That you just have to read the book.

It's just a great part.

But he calls you the next morning. And wants to know if you're okay.

And you -- you then start talking to him, about God.

And I was -- I was thinking about this, as I was listening to it. You know, Lincoln said, I wasn't -- I wasn't a Christian.

Even though, he was.

I wasn't a Christian, when I was elected. I wasn't a Christian when my son died.

I became a Christian at Gettysburg.

Is -- is -- I mean, I believe Donald Trump always believes in God, et cetera, et cetera.

Do you think there was a real profound change at Butler with him?


SALENA: Absolutely. You know, he called me seven times that day. Seven times, the take after seven.

GLENN: Crazy.

SALENA: Talked about. And I think he was looking for someone that he knew, that was there. And to try to sort it out.

Right? And I let him do most of the talking. I didn't pressure him.

At all. I believed that he was having -- you know, he was struggling. And he needed to just talk. And I believed my purpose was to listen.

Right? I know other reporters would have handled it differently. And that's okay. That's not the kind of reporter that I am.

And I myself was having my own like, why didn't I die?

Right?

Because it went right over my head.

And -- and so I -- he had the conversation about God.

He's funny. I thought it was the biggest mosquito in the world that hit me.

But he had talked profoundly about purpose. You know, and God.

And how God was in that moment.

It --

GLENN: I love the way you -- in the book, I love the way you said that as he's kind of working it out in his own he head.

He was like, you know, I -- I -- I always knew that there was some sort of, you know -- that God was present.

He said, but now that this has happened.

I look back at all of the trials.

All of the tribulations. Literally, the trials.

All of the things that have happened. And he's like, I realized God was there the whole time.

SALENA: Yes. He does. And it's fascinating to have been that witness to history, to have those conversations with him. Because I'm telling you. And y'all know, I can talk. I didn't say much of anything.

I just -- I just listened. I felt that was my purpose, in that moment.

To give him that space, to work it out.

I'm someone that is, you know, believes in God.

I'm Catholic. I followed my faith.

And -- and so, I thought, well, this is why God put me here. Right?

And to -- to have that -- to hear him talk about purpose, to hear him say, Salena. Why did I put a chart down?

I'm like, sir. I don't know. I thought you were Ross Perot for a second.

He never has a chart. And he laughed. And then he said, why did I put that chart down?

By that term, I never turned my head away from people at the rally. That's true.

That relationship is very transactional. It's very -- they feed off of each other.

It's a very emotive moment when you attend a rally. Because he has a way of talking at a rally. That you believe that you are seeing.

And he said, and I never turn my head away.

I never turn my head away.

Why did I turn my head away?

I don't remember consciously thinking about turning my head away. And then he says to me, that was God, wasn't it?

Yes, sir. It was. It was God.

And he said, that's -- that's why I have a new purpose.

And so, Glenn. I think it's important, when you look at the breadth of what has happened, since he was sworn in.

You see that purpose, every day.

He doesn't let up.

He continues going.

And it brings back to the beginning of the book.

Where you find out, that there was another president that was shot at in Butler.

And that was George Washington. And how different the country would have been, had he died in that moment.

And now think about how different the country would be, had President Trump died in that moment. There would be --

GLENN: We're talking to -- we're talking to Salena Zito. About her new book called Butler. The assassination attempt on President Trump. And it is riveting.

And, you know, it is so good. I wish the press would read it. Because it really explains who we are, who Trump supporters are. Who are, you know, red staters. It is so good at that. She's the best at that.