hi everyone don't let here what we're doing right now is driving over to a business called concept arms firearm solutions which is a gunsmithing business run by one of my good friends and fellow veteran Brock Travis now the reason I wanted to go talk to these guys is due to current events the media has a lot of things wrong about how easy it is to get a rifle in the background checks and we're gonna talk to someone who has an FFL about the process that you must go through to get one of those scary scary assault rifles while we're driving over there I want to say thank you to everyone who tuned in for live sovereign citizen bingo with angry cops last night it was hilarious and it was very very fun for everyone a little bit about concept arms it is a full-service gunsmithing business which means they can do anything that relates to guns they have their own lathes and mills and I don't know [ __ ] about machining but they have anything they need to make basically any part of a gun let's say if you bring a gun in that has a discontinued part well they can just make a new part for it Brock and his partner James who run the business went to school for several years to learn how to do this stuff one of their final projects where class was to build their own gun from scratch Brock and his partner James just opened the gunsmithing business up within the past year and they're already doing pretty good I'm gonna go ahead and say that they're probably some of the best gunsmiths here in South Carolina I want to go ahead and thank them also for letting me come into their place of business and bother them with cameras today while we were driving over there let's talk about some of the future projects that might be coming up we'll be talking with an arc this weekend I can't show them on camera but we can hear some funny stories it's a guy used to police with I tweeted the black rifle coffee company asking them if I could come hang out they said yeah come hang out so that might happen sometime I think that's probably the thing I'm most excited about they just released a new video showing you know Evan hey for it man best going fishing and it was really really freaking cool now one thing if we start traveling yeah Grizzlies in the back right now in the back like backyard yeah so we have to go to the building we have to link cause because grizzly bites people in the back because I mean somebody walk back here yeah we didn't hear him come in and they walked in then just waltz right in the back the top and your enemy in their face Brock here is just telling me a story about how you don't walk into the back without them because their guard dog grizzly bit somebody in the face all right so I'm joined here by mr. Brock Travis of concept arms firearms specialist and he is a certified gunsmith went to school for a very long time right yeah how long do you go to school to do this two years till hours a day two years 12 hours a day he went to school to do pretty much everything that you can do to a firearm and he said I could come out and videotape his his area take a look at their shop and that's what that's what were here doing right now we're gonna hear some stories about stupid gun owners and he was telling me a few minute ago it's pretty pretty good stuff and we're gonna take a tour of their shop tell us some dumb things that people do to their guns well LLC in the past week we have one guy come in and he brought in a semi-automatic shotgun okay and a semi-automatic shotgun generally has a trigger pull between like four and six pounds right and what he was doing was he's getting this gun ready to give it to his child who is like eight or ten or something it wasn't it and so he said what did he want done to that thing he's wanted it drilled and tapped yeah he wanted like a tactical scope mount like a red dot on it for the girl yeah yeah I'm serious okay so we had we essentially made a custom rail for this thing so that he can mount a red dot on it yeah and when I was I had to take the whole thing apart to mill on everything and drill and tap on the receiver when I was getting the thing back together the trigger kept going off on me I'm like what the hell is going on here and so I ended up finally getting back together and tested the trigger pull the trigger pull is that 10 ounces yeah it's a quite a low sugar pool in this okay let me put it this way if this kid bang bang bang daddy look how good I did set the rifle down and blow his head off yeah if you just tap girlies back it's going on and dad I've done that and so I called that I'm like hey I don't know if you know if this trigger was you know tampered with he's like oh yeah I set that trigger like that I was like a bit okay so you want you want to you want this to be like this he's like yeah you know I wanted to get ready for my kid to shoot and I was like you you you're getting this gun ready for this kid to blow his head off is what you're doing over yours we should reset it he just took some dikes and cut the spring cuz I guess II watched YouTube video so what's the YouTube video about it and uh I saw we put it back to factory on Springs we also had a guy watched another YouTube video hmm he watched a video on how to replace your sear spring on a Smith & Wesson semi-automatic with a spring out of a big pin another one oh so someone on YouTube said that's okay to take a spring out of a Bic pen yes and put Jesus Christ yes we went to school for two years dollars day in the shop Lorne hey learning how to gunsmith our first week of gunsmithing was we had to hand make our own hand tools mm-hmm to five thousand seven ish tolerance in the first week ii was like in planea the first month we were doing two thousands tolerance just with a file and sandpaper that's nuts man so when you start getting into you know dealing with tolerances on seer springs and riggers and connectors and disconnectors and all that jazz it goes into the firearm I mean it's not you can't just go taking a pen apart and put it up let's bring in your gun you've heard it here folks if the youtubes tells you to put big springs in your gun do it oh and by the way I get off the con these are not all pins okay nerd flashlights and stuff do you know what the sharpies good for what when you're doing precision machining if you put sharpie on so that you can touch off and it'll be within a thousands touched off learning and learning some new tricks heck yeah you guys made that ya know they make a bunch of cool stuff that actually used to be a little broad baseball baby kind of got mad at me actually to promote a feel of it yeah okay I said I have to carry that in military solid step one with the sledgehammer yeah I think it was in security training for creating a hostile work environment whatever what about the what about the stubby little shotgun right here that's not shotguns what that is a firearm oh okay it's monsters its Mossberg mosburger remington came up with a way to skirt the hole under 18 inch rule yeah and so they came up with a way to make the receiver and handle and everything some it's important the ATF it's a firearm so that it could be a 14 inch yeah barrel but if you do anything to that thing they're gonna be you're gonna be in trouble yeah [Music] it's hard to keep a gunsmithing shop clean mainly because of James but [Music] we do a little bit of everything from pretty much any type of pain work at our benches a lot of disassembly likely a lot of sanding a lot of discovering things yeah most of what most of what we do most of what we do is clean up after other gunsmiths yeah that do it out of their garage or do it out of their basement from YouTube yeah they're like people welding on bolt handles stuff like well it seems me both sleeves like almost be a ours yeah this is kind of our pride and joy here this is always where we do a lot of the precision barrel work where we'll thread barrels or compensators and suppressors will exchange barrels you know threading a new barrel Tinian our precision chambering most of what we do on our lathe is under 1,000 generally is between under two tenths of a thousandth of an inch so it's if I were to this this lady's level is such that if I were to put my hand or lean on this it would throw off the level about a thousandth of an inch so when we're working on this we kind of let her let her ride drill presses two solvent tank grinders lathe bench stuff oven bead blasters yes that's actually used sandblasters everything and then if we go back here you James you get grizzly getting bit in the face [Music] round every day good boy good boy he wants to bite your face he said he was on death row for fighting people yes that's a perfect shot dog yeah so this looks kind of messy but it should this is a bluing tanks we do one in they call in a machine shop black oxide hmm you're essentially converting FeO to rust to FeO 3 which is what gives your firearm that black finish that's essentially starts out as rust so we have a process that we can blue carbon steel stainless steel we can Parker eyes our anodizing stuffs in there but we can do most firearm coatings and it's just a really messy caustic process it starts out you have to completely decrease everything where there's no oil or anything like that in the middle and then you put it in this tank chemically sterilizes the surface of the metal which then you rinse that off and then you put your bolts which are at 285 to 290 degrees and it's just essentially lie in ammonium nitrate sodium yeah so the exact reason and so then that is what actually blues a firearm after that it goes into a boil out where you boil all those salts off and then you put it in oil and it's just a really nasty messy process and if you walk in here with all the tanks running it'd be 120 degrees and you're faced with your skin would burn yeah so it's pretty good that's why most people don't that's why they came out with cold blue the cold blue sucks and it smells like rotten eggs and it doesn't do a very good job this does a good job it's just hard and expensive yeah yeah so this kind of what we do back here it's just a nasty process so this is a winchester 94 and it's got a serial number this blob of 2,700,000 so it is one that they say is unbel yeah but we can pretty much do anything we're magical and that comes in the form of electrolysis yeah you hear folks are magical yes magic fingers come to concept arms with their magic fingers [Music] that's not the 11 is it ours that's not the 11 is it the no nothing [Music] all this was a bat a box of guns is a gun we just had start sour coated that's nice yeah good boy watch hey buddy don't buy my face easy kind of lunges up at your face though and he does it kind of sneakily growl he just lunged at your face he's got to decide whether he likes you or not which if you're a man generally me advice yeah [Music] sometimes that we get guns that are in boxes and parks because people decide they want to take them apart and pick some more put them back together and it just doesn't go well for most people so we get them in here and fix them and diagnose them and give them back a whole complete gun so that came to youth is that what you say came to us in a box so just that box right there actually someone just took it far in the brought to you and yeah put the whole thing back together did you have to make any parts for it or a new collar for this he thought he was gonna be balls deep in it and he's just not that good these are just gonna die in progress right now some they range from we're gonna be doing a restoration Colt Python this is the same exact model of the the gun that Rick carries on walking dead no coolant here is stainless steel version and this is a nineteen fifties original Python 357 Magnum so we're in a full restoration on that having some repairs and a full restoration on that would include involved completely stripping all the blooming taking out any pitting or rounded edges making it look factory again yeah and essentially trying to make it look like we've never been higher trying to bite my face good boy good boy so we've got stuff like that we've got the German odd German bench res rifle real strange well you guys do that do the bluing on it are you going to what would you have to do to it oh yeah that actually came in as a minor repair or cleaning and then after that the guy wanted to sell it up for kinda how much it's worth so yeah can't blame it is currently on a gun broker that's really cool [Music] oh this is one that we say our code in we can do all the fancy stenciling and process is very intricate for all the prep of the metal which is what sets apart a lot of people from doing professionals their coding job versus not yeah which is metal Club proper be briefing proper itching of the metal so that way the ceramic gets them to actually grab on to doesn't just scrape off with your fingernail interesting stuff like this which once restored well this is this is actually has Damascus barrels on it so if you were to look up what Damascus shotguns look like you would not see something like this but by the time we finish this and will look like that because we can we can card this all off and then re etch the Damascus with some perco ferric acid which electronic and then everything from minor like stock repairs painting a stock people just want their guns clean safety checks repairs all the way up the custom builds what we're doing you know replacing barrels and retain bring four thousand your tutors these stuff like that that is a Thompson Center for 1045 colt it's a [Music] this is needed a screw I think in the rib just a minor repair but a lot of times you can't find parts for guns so you got to take it to a gunsmith because a lot of the difference between a armor and a gunsmith is an armor or can replace the screw a gunsmith it's gonna make this group and for a lot of older firearms you can't buy the stuff anymore so we just make it there's a big difference you know between a gunsmith and somebody who claims to be there's a tack 14 that's the version of the Mossberg shock wave same thing it's just a remington version and then we do a lot of trigger jobs on like revolvers and stuff like this this is a lot of elderly women they buy guns like this because it doesn't have all the bells and whistles like a semi-automatic does and they just want to be able to pull the trigger and so the downside is that most of the time these triggers are really heavy between like 10 and 13 pounds and what we do is we go in take it apart we polish everything to like a mirror finish so that way it's just super smooth so when you pull that trigger when you pull the trigger it's just glass smooth and it we take them down to about 8 or 9 pounds reliably so that way you get really good primer strikes no light brownish like like you could this is I think we set this one to like eight three quarters and nine pounds double action pull and it's just glass smooth and run to MagTek in here and still get I did this talk it takes about generally around 15 hand rub coats to get get it smooth like this where all the pores are filled in the wood and that's you know from shaping like with a rasp another good example like our we've got a couple rifles with these cases right here custom rifles that James and I built where that wood for example was a stick when we got it it was just nothing there we did all the shaping all the in letting African black woods there's a lot of custom with the Baron was a blank when we got it the action was a eighty percent action oh my god so we did all the final fit and finish color case hardening off little bells and whistles on there James made his own peeps i'ts out of just raw raw stock thing which is pretty impressive you guys made these from scratch yeah that's really cool and those are like a custom fit tuxedo it's not like something fits me this was your you said it was your final project yeah okay so this this is this is James and Brock's final projects right here was to build their own rifles from scratch just kind of goes to show how good these guys are at what they do no we do not do bump stocks no they are not good for your gun so when I switch platform is better the AR are they okay I have done I would like I could write your dissertation on that I have studied the Kalashnikov concern in detail in there you should ask plant and there the whole history of the a.k itself yeah I think that it is a I think I'm gonna use James's words it is a it is a piece of farm equipment and that's not a nice thing it's a bad thing but the whole thing is riveted together you can't really take it apart and put it back together yeah it's kind of like it's it's more like a piece of farm equipment I mean yes it's reliable yes it'll shoot area targets but it it doesn't have the versatility as an AR in terms of what it can bring to the fight yeah precision customization ease of customization and also well I know you've got an opinion James I know in muddy climates they actually run more lively than a case because they're sealed design whereas the NK stuff can go right in it just about anywhere and so and there's detailed testing and I've done detailed testing on this as well yeah even with the dust cover open you think that civilians should be able to own a ours that's a big question it's going around well we can have a long discussion yeah yeah I figured people don't need a ours there's a reason right dogs well people don't need cars either yeah well of course got more people you're the baby they need to make a big deal about that guy who freakin stole that Home Depot truck up in New York and ran everybody down with that that's all whether the weapon of mass deduction dam assault trucks and cars are not yeah hmm hmm I think we're gonna need to ban butter knives we've been talking about assault microwaves a lot on the channel cuz this guy threw microwaves at the police you throw a microwave of the police do you're saying no we need to ban assault microwave right now well imagine if he started hitting the YMCA and you know and now we can throw two or three microwaves in under 30 seconds that's a high rate of microwave their business that's a high rate of assault by the way I spit let me do the math real quick 30 miles an hour times 10 pounds seriously difficult is it to actually get a gun there is a lot of there's a lot of thin urges there's a lot of components there just will cut you off right away like your age like your criminal status criminal background all that if if you if you tell us or if we if we know that this is the case it's just no you can't buy a gun if we if we know that you're not going to be owning the gun that you're buying no that's called straw purchase if yeah if we know that this is gonna be used for any sort of nefarious activity no if we don't like your face no yeah we can't get in trouble for discrimination yeah we can get in trouble for not discriminating yes so like have you had people look like sketching people walk in here you've been like no you we can wear that gun for you yeah yeah we've had people bringing we've had people bring guns in here where after they left because they've drilled out there they've drilled out the rifling they've filed off their serial number yeah and they're like oh my guns broken can you fix it we're like and then and then we can call and report illegal firearm so do do people come in here and ask you to do it legal things yeah yeah all the time all the time like Oh like coming in here being like hey I want this fully automatic which you know as fun as it would be this is our livelihood yeah yeah you know we would not be willing to sacrifice we better lives on this yeah the biggest thing that they could do mm-hmm the skirt the system is is individual sales yeah private sales gun shows some lot of time even though even though a gun show you have you still have the same system that we have set up as far as doing background checks everything like that a lot of people they just will perform a private sale which is is not illegal you you if I wanted to sell you all my guns I could sell you one of my guns yeah and there'd be no rough documentation or I could because it's illegal to have a national registration of firearms so one individual can go to another individual on the street and sell their gun yeah so that's one big way that people find the way around it and even if you made that illegal are you still gonna stop it mister people are still gonna sell guns each other if you want a gun get a gun so that's where a lot of it falls on the firearm owners responsibility to make sure they're not selling their gun to somebody that is gonna go you know kill something with it yeah yes we all have responsibilities most people I've met and done private transfers always want to make sure that I have a CWP they wanna Annelle document bill of sale my name address phone number because I remember like the villas parking lot yeah exactly because that's their name if if that gun ends up on a crime scene what ktf is going to do they're gonna go trace the ffs they're gonna go from the manufacturer to the distributor check their Atma felt book find out what FFL the distributor sold that firearm to and go down the food chain and if you bought that from a gun store and you sold it to some guy in a Walmart parking lot and it ends up on a crime scene they're gonna knock on your door first so you want to be able to point them in the right direction and say wasn't me yeah so the there is this large way that you could skirt legally bind like going through the official channels of buying a firearm there's they're still individual integrity here yeah and that's if we can't allow people having integrity yeah I mean it really kind of comes out with people just not being shitty yes not being a crappy human being so this is what I was talking about whenever somebody purchases a firearm we have to receive the firearm from a FBI or ATF registered business and once we receive it we have to have that paperwork from them we have to fill out paperwork to receive it for our business and then once we have received the firearm then there is a six-page little packet of paperwork somebody fills out and I have to get all their two forms of ID essentially in this and then check their check over the paperwork make sure that it's all good fill out three of these pages of paperwork and then double check it to their information then I have to go online FBI a website that we that we go on and check all this information once it's all in these redundant forms of documentation we go on the FBI and give it all to them which then they check over all of it on the FBI at federal the database make sure there's nothing crazy right and then once we get that back then we can finish the paperwork and then transfer it there also a c2 VP certified instructor through slit okay so that took about what 15 20 minutes I'm just paper over 20 minutes 20 minutes of paperwork and ease like I said he's an instructor through slow easy concealed weapons permit instructor yeah and this is everything we still have to go through well so Joe Schmoe comes in here we've got to go through all that 20 minute long process and check online or a call in the FBI and and basically give them all the information that we just wrote in three different places so we just shot some awesome footage with Brock and James from concept arms firearms specialists really good dudes it was my first time using the camera so there were some autofocus issues I think hopefully the sounds good I'm gonna go home and edit this up real quick I talked to them a little bit also about possibly doing a gunsmithing livestream would any of you be interested in that seeing live streaming on possibly my channel are them creating their own channel on Twitch and seeing them work on guns all day I think that would be pretty cool [Music]