RADIOOctober 30, 2023

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.

THE GLENN BECK PODCAST

Why Your Actions Matter More Than Words in the Eyes of God

Glenn Beck and Eric Metaxas expose the spiritual crisis gripping America’s churches — a moment they compare to Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s warning before World War II. As the culture descends into moral confusion, too many Christians retreat into silence, claiming faith while refusing to act. Together, they argue that true belief demands courage — that “faith without works is dead” — and warn that neutrality in the face of evil is itself a form of complicity.

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Is Socialism replacing the American dream?

The American Dream used to mean freedom and the chance to build your own life through hard work, faith, and independence. But today, it’s been replaced by comfort, consumption, and debt. Glenn Beck breaks down how America traded liberty for lifestyle, why socialism is gaining ground, and what it will take to reclaim the real American Dream before it disappears for good.

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GLENN: I don't know if you saw the visualizing the American dream, Stu.

You know, what the American dream actually is, is that you can forge your own way.

You can -- you know, you can have a scrap of land, and grow your own food if up.

You can, you know, go to school. Not go to school.

You can find a job. If you're qualified for it, you have an equal chance of getting it, you know, based on merit.

But the percentage of Americans who say the American dream is retirement is 86 percent. Health care, 86 percent. Owning a home, 85. Raising two kids, 78. Owning a car, 72. Vacations, 71. Pets, 66. A wedding, 55 percent. That's the American dream, I can get married.

The American dream, if that's what you think, they've now estimated, the cost per household over the cost -- over the lifetime, retirement is $1.6 million. Owning a home now, 30-year mortgage, 20 percent you want to, is $957,594. Owning a car, buying and finance to begin with new cars every ten years is now $900,000 over your lifetime. Raising two kids to 18, plus four years of public college, $876,092. Two kids. Health care, over your lifetime, spending from ages 22 to 85, $414,000. Vacations, annual vacation from '22 to '85, $180,000. One dog and one cat for 11 to 13 years is $40,000!

That's more expensive than a wedding. The engagement ring, the ceremony, and the reception is now estimated to be $38,200.

There's a reason socialism is doing well. You look at that, and you're like, wow. I mean, if that's the American dream. And for a lot of people, that is the American dream!

That's not what the American dream is supposed to be, but, you know, once -- you know, once Woodrow Wilson and FDR got a hold of us and they started advertising, it became stuff instead of freedom. It became stuff. And, you know, when there's a new report out. Let me see if I have that.

There's a new report out now that shows, first time home buyers made up just 21 percent of the home purchases. That's the lowest on record.

The typical age of repeat buyers hit an all-time high of '62. The median downtowns, reaching 23 percent.

The highest since 2023.

And also, where is it?

The last one is -- the median age for first time home buyers, in 1981, it was 29 years old.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Twenty-nine years old. In 2021, it was 33 years old.

What is it this year?

Median age, first time homeowner, forty.

You're 40 before you can buy any kind of home. That puts these things that people want, dream about, out of reach, until you're 40?

You know, 29 is one thing. But if you're not seeing -- you're not seeing your life really kind of settling down until you're 40, I -- I can understand why you're like, you know what, this system doesn't work.

Because you've never seen it work. It's betrayed you.

Or so you've been sold. It's betrayed you.

And everything is being pushed out of your reach. And when you're young, the one thing you're not is patient.

And at 40, I can see why people are not, you know, yeah. Well, socialism is neat because capitalism isn't working. How would you respond to that?

STU: I mean, it's more lengthy than we have time for. But I would say that the response to, you know, you thinking that you want a home is not to embrace an ideology that murders 100 million people.

That's not -- that's not a good answer to the problem that you think you have.

GLENN: But they're not learning that anywhere.

They're not -- that is our responsibility! To teach those things. Because they're not learning it anywhere.

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The world is about to realize the DEADLY enemy we face

"The world doesn't understand yet. We're already in World War III," Glenn Beck warns. "That foe is not China. That foe is militant Islam." Glenn explains the battle we're currently facing and what's to come if we don't wake up soon...

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GLENN: From New Jersey, it's Brian. Hello, Brian.

CALLER: Hello!

GLENN: Hey.

CALLER: Yeah. Thanks for taking the calls today.

GLENN: Sure.

CALLER: Yeah. I'm worried that we are headed towards another French Revolution-style because we have entire generations. Or actually people just not being heard by their representatives.

GLENN: Hmm.

CALLER: And it's not just here. It's around the world.

GLENN: Uh-huh.

I -- actually, I had scheduled for this time, I'll just do it some other time. Talking about what's happening in -- in England.

I think England is headed for a Civil War. And -- and it's very close.

I mean, you can't put 4,000 people. 4,000 people, in jail, or try them for hate crimes. And speech crimes.

You can't -- you can't do it. In England!

You can't do that in one year. And expect people to just put up with it!

You can't -- you know, we're -- we're -- America doesn't understand yet.

The world doesn't understand.

We're in World War III. We're already in World War III.

I don't know when it becomes a hot war. Or even a war that we on our side recognize. But we are in World War III. And that -- that foe is not China.

That foe is militant Islam, period. And, you know, when we have a situation to where people are -- when the government is just like, no. It's not a problem.

It's not a problem. You know. You've got illegals all over.

It's not a problem.

It's not a problem.

It is a problem. Don't tell me what -- what the problems are not!

Because we're the ones living it!

You're the experts, who keep telling us, no. It's going to work out fine.

And it doesn't work out fine. And it just gets worse and worse.

Oh. We can spend this money. No. It looks like we can't spend this money. Oh, we can afford this. No. It looks like we can't afford this.

You know, if we do this with Ukraine, it will work out fine. No, it didn't, did it? These endless wars, all of this stuff, don't tell me what the problem is. Listen to the people and start talking to the people. Honestly, this is the reason why I'm doing this today. I -- I need to hear from you.

I need to know what's on your mind, so I stay focused and -- and clear on what America is saying.

Because I don't think -- look, you know, me taking phone calls is -- is not a true representation of anything, but it does give me a sense of -- of where you are, as an audience. Maybe not as America, but as an audience. And there are lots of things that concern me. But I want to hear it from you.
But I think you're right! We're headed for real, real trouble. All you need is real economic trouble.

You start getting real, true economic trouble. 1930s kind of depression stuff. And we're in Civil War.

Dan, Oregon. Welcome!

CALLER: Hello, Glenn. How are you?

GLENN: I'm great!

CALLER: Yeah. Good. It's been a long time.

I guess it's been over ten years, since I've had a chance to talk with you. I was one of your first insiders. I was listening to you, since you were in Florida.

GLENN: Wow. Wow.

CALLER: So it's been a long -- yeah. It has been. And I can't say I've enjoyed all of it.
(laughter)

GLENN: Neither have I!

STU: I can't say that either, I'll be honest with you.

CALLER: You know, you were talking on yesterday's show, reminiscing with Stu about how you guys started. And I remember those old shows. And, you know, at the end of the -- the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment.

STU: Hmm.

GLENN: Right.

CALLER: And there was a lot more entertainment. I remember I laughed a lot.

GLENN: Oh, yeah. I know. I know. Those days are long dead.
(laughter)

STU: There's nothing to laugh about now.

CALLER: Yeah. I -- I'm 78. I still work 40 hours a week. I love my job.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: Been married for 55 years. I have seven kids.

GLENN: Good for you.

CALLER: I've got a daughter -- I've got a daughter who is in her 40s. And she has severe TDS. She -- we don't -- I mean, we're not cutting each other off. She hasn't done that at all. We're still very close as a family. But she was down visiting the other day, and got into a conversation with my wife. And I wasn't in the room. But Kathy said it was just like listening to one of those young people out on the street that was being interviewed by the news media. And she was -- and she was in tears about it. My wife and my daughter both.

And, I mean, I love her, and I continue to support her. She's a single woman, not by choice. She just never found the right guy.

GLENN: Yeah.

CALLER: And I really think that's part of the problem. Because she started reading -- back when Trump was first running, she started reading all of this stuff about him being misogynistic and all of this stuff.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah.

CALLER: And it's just gotten worse. I -- I'm at a loss. I really am. Because I -- like, I see the country doing better. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop. But I still feel like that at least right now, we're doing better as a whole. But what do we do about -- what do we do about our kids about -- she went to Portland State University for the last two --

GLENN: Oh, jeez, for the love of --

CALLER: Well, yeah. For the last two years, she went to -- she went to a little college in Idaho called Ricks for the first two years, and Utah State.

GLENN: Oh, yeah.

CALLER: And then she served a mission for our church in Brazil and came home, but then she went to Portland State University. And it just seems to have gone downhill from there.

GLENN: Yeah. Yeah. So, Dan, I think you are suffering from the same thing that almost all parents are suffering from. If you're not suffering from this, then, I mean, God bless you. You know, get on your knees and thank God. Because you are a lucky, lucky family. Everybody has in their family. I have it in my family.

And you have to ask yourself, what is your goal?

My -- what is your goal with your daughter? Your real goal?

CALLER: My real goal is for us to be united eternally. That's my goal. That's my goal as a father and has been to teach her --

GLENN: And how -- and how is that going to happen with politics?

CALLER: We just stay together as a family regardless of what politics does.

GLENN: That's exactly right. Exactly right.

I think we're in a place now where as parents, you can ask your kids, but it has to be honest. It cannot be trying to win. It has to be honest. How did you get there?

I mean, I remember. You know, we've talked about this before. And you didn't believe that before. What has changed?

Can you help me with that?

I would like to see what you're reading, or what that was.

And just ask questions. But they have to be honest. They can't be, you know, because I'm setting you up. Because I want to change your mind.

But keep a dialogue open with them. And just love them!

Just love them!

Because if you do anything else, you're going to drive them away. And then they're really lost. So just love them.

CALLER: Oh, I know that. Glenn, when she was young -- when she was young, I considered her one of the elect. And the Scripture says, that in the last days, even the elect are going to be deceived. And that's what I'm seeing. But everything you've said, I -- I am doing. I'm doing it that way. Because I know --

GLENN: Okay. Good. Then you didn't need to -- I appreciate it. I'm so glad you called me. But you didn't need to -- my advice, you already have it down. You're a very wise man.