Join us in this compelling video as Bryan Zielinski, a seasoned gun shop owner, shares his personal experiences during the BLM protests and civil unrest in Washington. Discover the stark contrasts he observed between Western Washington and North Idaho, particularly regarding gun rights, community support, and the challenges of running a business amidst legal battles.Key Highlights:Bryan Zielinski’s Journey: Listen to Bryan’s firsthand account of navigating his business through the tumultuous times of the BLM protests and how it shaped his views on leadership and community resilience.Gun Rights in Focus: Understand the crucial differences in gun laws between Western Washington and North Idaho, and why Bryan emphasizes the importance of protecting these rights.Legal Battles and Business Impact: Explore the ongoing legal struggle over high-capacity magazine sales in Washington, and its implications for business owners like Bryan.Community and Law Enforcement: Delve into the challenges faced by law enforcement during times of civil unrest and the essential role of community support in overcoming adversity.Preparedness and Self-Sufficiency: Gain insights into the significance of being prepared for emergencies and fostering a self-reliant community.Education and Parental Involvement: Hear Bryan’s perspective on the importance of education, parental engagement, and having meaningful conversations with children.Unity and Advocacy: Learn why Bryan believes in unity among conservatives to safeguard freedoms and the importance of supporting businesses that resonate with your values.
Bryan Zielinski (00:00.11)
And we saw that firsthand with the, when we had the BLM protests that were going on here in Coeur d ‘Alene. And at the same time, it was in Spokane and they were kicking in Nike stores and stealing everything. And all of a sudden it was rumored that they were coming here and they had plans here and you see what happens. So we live through that, right? We live through Western Washington with ATF calling our store and saying, hey, like your store is going to get robbed. We’re like, what?
Yeah, right and it’s because they had assets in the organization they knew they knew what was going on and so you know they had given my former employee a heads up of like you know, hey, there’s an opportunity there’s a chance here that your store is going to get robbed and they were on the roof. Right, they were on the roof waiting and you know, thank God nothing happened. But you know the difference between the two areas.
That was a subtle. That’s a subtle. Sorry. It’s all good. The different it’s awkward. You’re not used to having a large item in front of your face. Like, yes. Yeah. It’s like there’s a submarine joke. It’s like, I don’t know what to do. You know, the differences is like over there. We were held captive to what was going on in the surrounding, right? Like legitimately Capitol Hill was burning legitimately.
Antifa and BLM and I don’t make any excuses for anybody. They’re all as guilty as each other, right? But they told us we’re gonna come wreck shop on in your city, right? And they did, right? And that’s, you know, for everything that I hear like dudes that are like, oh, we’re gonna do this. We’re gonna fight. We’re gonna whatever. It’s like, dude, there’s only one group in my adult lifetime that I’ve ever seen that has said we’re gonna.
I don’t know if I can cuss or not. There’s only one group that said, we’re going to come fuck your shit up that actually did. And that was BLM Antifa. They came through and they destroyed a city. Bellview Mall, Bellview Square Mall, man, they locked that place down. Nordstrom’s closed the metal gates and they started shooting the glass.
Bryan Zielinski (02:15.438)
And they got into the mall, right? And it was like rats and the rats were in there, man. There was no Jordans to be had. They were gone. Yeah. So it was, it was, it was done. It’s so crazy to think about, man, cause Bellevue is such a family that lives, that’s lived there for a long time. They were part of like the tech boom in the eighties and all that.
Man, Bellevue mall is really nice. Like really high end. Bellevue is the high end part of Seattle. So thinking about that, just running rough shot through there is just wild to think about. Well, and then you had the chief of police from Bellevue that like went to the city park and took a knee with them and begged them to stop. And it was like, what the hell are you doing? Right. Like that’s not what you want. You got bearcats parked down the street and you had tack teams spooled up, ready to go. And you got the chief of police on a knee, you know.
sucking these guys off. That’s not cool. Yeah, gross. Right. That pissed off so many cops. I mean, I was working those riots down in Sacramento and at that same time. And it was just like to see what was going on up there. It’s like, and I’m sure the guys that worked there were livid because you know, that’s not in our nature to stand by and watch some crap like that happen. No way. And how do you come back from that? You got to think about tomorrow, waking up tomorrow where you’re asking people to go step in front of this overwhelming force that
I don’t know about you, but they were organized. I have zero doubt in my mind that all of that was orchestrated and organized by somebody that was funded and that had some experience in how to go in and disrupt and dismantle an entire city. You know, we can tell you, we, you know, we were watching from the freeway overpasses, we were watching carloads of dudes pull up. Yeah. Black hood, he’s masks on, right?
and they were just streaming into the mall because it was a free for all. Right. It was, it was a ghetto payday, right? That’s what it was, man. Everybody was, everybody was getting something for free that day. And it was crazy because the police were just standing there like, dude, we can’t do nothing. Yeah. Told to stand down. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the coordination was very apparent where we were at. We’d have guys show up with, you know, rock climbing helmets or some kind of helmet, gas masks. Like they had all the kit. They had shields, homemade shields they would bring. Like they were ready to rock.
Bryan Zielinski (04:25.102)
not their first rodeo. And the same stuff was going on up there. It’s like, there’s something behind that. That’s not just a bunch of knuckleheads, because they’re all knuckleheads really, but they’re not by themselves able to get that together. I don’t know what it is. Now there’s some money somewhere. Yeah, that’s such a somewhere. It’s such a weird thing looking at it like, okay, I’m a cop here. I’m a cop in North Idaho, right? Thinking about being a cop in another city. Truly what you are is you are
You are serving at the will of the people and how they vote. Does that make sense? So a cop here is not the same as a cop there. Your rules of engagement are completely different. Your priorities are completely different. Here, I assure you, we’ll protect your First Amendment rights to go out and protest, regardless of which side you’re on and regardless of my feelings about whatever it is you’re speaking to. But man, it stops when you’re invading somebody else’s privacy or you’re threatening somebody else or you’re threatening their freedom. It’s just different here. And it seems like elsewhere, you end up
on a knee testing with them. You know, and, you know, I’m not a police officer. I’ve serviced law enforcement for years and tried to be friendly with them. But, you know, at the end of the day, I’m a businessman, right? I’m a business owner. And the worst thing in the world is to, you know, the best thing in the world is to create this little bubble that you live in that realistically, I’m seven days a week, you know,
90 hours a week in this bubble trying to create, right? And then for the community leaders to just say, hey, they can come take everything you have and you can’t do anything about it. And not only can you not do anything about it, we’re not gonna do anything about it. And that’s where I think…
a lot of Western Washington has lost faith, not in the ground level police officer, right? Because the boots on the ground police officer at the end of the day is just a dude, man. It’s just a dude. It’s just a gal. It’s just trying to go to do the job and go home and eat dinner and wake up and do it again, right? But the politicians at the top, the leadership at the top, and that’s where you get that systematic failure of leadership, right? And I think that’s…
Bryan Zielinski (06:40.366)
pervasive throughout the entire West Coast. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, think about how you were a business owner. You know, like how wrong you would feel when the cops like I said, I was one of them. It’s not their fault, but they’re told to stand down. They are more than capable. When we’re in Sacramento, we had plenty of numbers to protect the city. It was the mayor of Sacramento put the order out and we’re going to stand down.
Now, CHP was operating, you know, we’re our own, but we work for the governor and the governor of California, as we all know, is a slimy piece of crap, weasel. So same kind of stuff. Stand down. You got one of them too? Gavin, Gavin Newsom. Yeah, we got Jay Inslee over in Washington. Yeah. And hey, but the mayor’s house and Newsom’s property, they’re all protected. Yeah, for sure. But you know, not downtown, not all those business owners. Good enough for me, not for the… 100%. Yeah.
Well, you’re Brian, you’re unique perspective. Part of the reason we wanted to have you on here. We have a lot of people watch us that are talking about either making the move to Idaho or have already made the move to Idaho. So that sucks. You went through some of that, but it’s going to be cool to hear you talk about it. Uh, give a quick intro. Um, this is Brian Zelinski. Zelinski. Yeah. I nailed it. Um, started a new.
Um, gun shop here at state line. You managed one of the largest in Western Washington. Yeah. Yeah. Wade’s East side guns in Bellevue, Washington, home of Microsoft. Spent some unenviable time with, uh, lobbyists and trying to go to the Washington legislature and fight for gun rights back and try to, and then man, not always a winning in that fight, but kind of seeing what Washington’s turned into in the last 10 years. So.
Honestly, I think it’s cool to talk about because you have to recognize some of the you and I talked about it earlier. What are some of these steps that states take in the beginning so that you can nip those early so you can start to say, no, wait a minute. Now I see what you’re trying to do. You’re trying to infringe on it one way or another. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Because a direct infringement, that’s what we’re talking about is like, no, that’s not going to happen. Right. But you know, these little backdoor things of, of whatever taxing ammunition or you have to register to buy ammunition, all this little crap that just makes it harder is.
Bryan Zielinski (08:50.51)
is crazy. Yeah. So if you Brian, give us a little background on you, bro. Yeah. So, uh, you know, Hey, my name’s Brian and, uh, I’m just, I’m here for the party. I like guns. Have you seen my baseball? Um, no. So, Hey, you know, I grew up in Western Washington, um, and I don’t hide that, right. And, uh, the, the outpouring of, of support and people that have welcomed me and my family to, to North Idaho is absolutely awesome. Um, but.
You know, I grew up, played a little college football, and I grew up in retail. I’m good right now. Give me eight minutes. Sure, eight minutes. Yeah, I get the spiel there. The timer’s going. You know, played a little college football, and then got hurt, came home, and all of a sudden, I got what we call golden handcuffs, which is I got a job. And at 20 years old, I was making more money than my dad was. And all of a sudden, my mom’s looking at me like,
What are you going to do now? Big boy. Like you’re, you’re making a bunch of money and you’re, you’re, you’re living at mom’s house, right? Well, as soon as that starts happening, you can’t go back to school. You can’t go back to whatever, right? Cause now all of a sudden you bought a car and you bought a watch and you bought this and right. You got bills and money’s addictive. So I was in retail for 20 some years, right? And, um, um, I ran car dealerships for years. You know, I was a new car manager, used car manager, finance manager, finance director, whatever.
And then it was like, I’m done. Right? Like COVID started to break off and we started hearing like in the car world, we started hearing essential, non -essential, essential, non -essential, right? And sales is non -essential. I’m sitting there and I’m looking at my sales teams and I’m like, dude, we do $3 million a month in profit and we’re non -essential. And so,
I walked away from the car business, man, walked away from the car business. And I, and I was lucky that, you know, I had a buddy who, who owned a gun shop, huge gun shop in Western Washington. And it kind of just worked out where he was like, man, come run my store, come run, come run it for me. And, you know, I was kind of the captain of that ship, very opportunistic ship during coded. During BLM riots, during the mag band, during the assault weapons ban.
Bryan Zielinski (11:14.286)
And then that opened up the opportunity for me to start going to Olympia and start actually sitting in on the Republican caucus and getting to see how the sausage was made. Let me tell you guys, I don’t eat sausage anymore because it’s a dirty world, man. It’s a dirty world. And I’m going to tell you right now that they laid out mag ban, assault weapons ban, FFL restrictions, you know, everything that’s happening in Washington right now.
That was laid out years ago, right? And it’s now come into fruition, right? So when I had the opportunity to move this way and, you know, like I said, and if you guys have seen the Bill Kirk video, the Washington gun law video, my whole family lives over here. There’s like 20 Zolinski’s over here. It’s awesome. So it was a homecoming for me, but it was an opportunity to say, okay, what am I going to do? Right? I really like guns. I’m really into business. You know,
I think I can do something really awesome here and do something a little different, right? But what’s the most important thing? And the most important thing for me is to make sure that Idaho does not turn into Washington. And we hear that, right? We hear that all over the place, right? People are like, oh, there’s so many people moving to Idaho, and it’s turning into California, and it’s whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah. More often than not, the people that I hear that from have been here less than 10 years.
Right. The people that are born and raised here are like, man, wages are up. Yeah, it’s more expensive. Yeah. Traffic’s a little, yeah, man, but wages are up and we’re making more money. My house is worth more. I can do more. Right.
can tell you that what is happening in California, in Oregon, and in Washington, it’s that liberal mindset disease and it is creeping this way, right? And you look at who’s moving into North Idaho. Well, if you talk to the elections office, the elections office will tell you that 90 % of the people that are moving in North Idaho are registering as Republicans. That’s great. Doesn’t mean they’re all conservatives. That just means they don’t maybe agree with Democrats or whatever, right?
Bryan Zielinski (13:21.422)
But can you say the same thing about South Idaho? Can you say that 90 % of the people that are moving into Boise and Eagle and Meridian and wherever that they’re conservatives, right? And I know the church is big down there, but Idaho is changing and it’s changing in a lot of ways for the good. There’s a lot of money coming into Idaho. There’s a lot of technology. There’s a lot of infrastructure coming into Idaho. But with that brings people and you have to deal with the people that move in, right? And so.
Part of moving over here was, I want to open a gun shop and I want to be successful and I want to make a little bit of money and I want to provide for my family. But more importantly, I want to grow something where I can do what I did in Olympia was go down there and fight these anti -gun laws. I can do that in Boise. And the nice part is, I think Idaho is a little bit more receptive. So I think we’re going to be okay. So does it heavy?
had to go into the underbelly of humanity, which I used to think was my job on the street. Yeah. Like dealing with people breaking into cars and using dope. I used to think that was the underbelly. I no longer do. It’s up top. I think it’s an Olympia. That’s where you’re dealing with the underbelly or in Washington DC. Do you take great offense to given your history, the people equating politicians to use car salesmen? Absolutely. I am a used car salesman. At one point I was right. And so, you know, at the end of the day, uh,
Are there bad cops? Yeah, there is. Are there bad car dealers? Yeah, there is. Are there bad politicians? Yeah. But there’s good ones too across the board, right? And there’s some politicians, just like there is police officers and just like there are people that run retail businesses that believe better, right? That literally wake up every morning and they’re like, okay, today I’m going to be better. And whatever I do today is going to make today better and make my surroundings better.
And you know, I try to surround myself with those people. One of the things I can tell you is like my very first caucus meeting I went to in Olympia, you know, we go into this room and it’s weird, right? You go into the rotunda and Democrats go off to one side, Republicans go off to one side, and I’m a guest and so shirt and tie. And we go into this big room, oak doors, close the doors. And they’re like, okay, no cell phones, no cameras, you know, no recording, right? Like we need to have a conversation. And so we start talking about,
Bryan Zielinski (15:47.598)
guns, right, with all these Republicans, whether they be House members, Senate members, whatever. And there’s some pretty high ranking people there from Washington, right? And then I start talking and all of a sudden I get this junior, I call him a freshman, whatever, right? I get this young House of Reps guy from central Washington that pipes up, man. Couldn’t even let me finish what I was saying. Pipes up and he goes, well, I come from a purple district.
Right? And the main Republican guy in Olympia was just like, he cut it off and he’s like, listen. He goes, you’re a Republican in Washington state. There’s two votes that you’re going to have to make at some point in your career that you’ve got to answer for. And that’s women’s rights, abortion, and that’s guns. And there’s an R by your name. So get on the team or get out.
And I was like, damn. I was like, damn, right? And that’s where like the, like the ideology, I was like, okay, man, like I’m on that guy’s team. That’s cool. But I saw an elected Republican who was like, man, I don’t know if I could vote for guns, man. I don’t know if the people in my district are going to like that. Man, you’re, you’re a conservative brother. Like, come on, you know, and then you come to find out, you start talking to some of these dudes and a lot of these guys don’t even know what like an NRA grade is. They don’t even know that like,
You can get money for reelection from some of these pro gun organizations. They don’t even know that because it’s just not even on their, their mental radar at all. So it’s crazy. Dang man. So what has changed since you started running a, um, since you started running wades, what has changed for the citizens in Washington to say, buy a, uh, rifle. Oh, and you said it was COVID that you started that, right? So it’s not that long ago. No.
So let me I’ll give you a real real brief history, right? So. 20 I’m gonna get the days wrong and I know I’m gonna get called on it. Christine Gregoire was the governor Democrat female Democrat governor in Washington state in Washington state. It was legal to own an SBR short barrel rifle. It was legal to own a suppressor. It was illegal to use them. You said it was legal to own them legal to own illegally illegal to use. So I owned SB ours.
Bryan Zielinski (18:14.51)
I had tax stamps on them. I had suppressors, I had tax stamps on them. And man, hypothetically, the only time I could ever use it if I was out in the woods, right, like is what it is. Well, we petitioned to get that law changed. And lo and behold, I get a phone call from Senator Andy Hill, who’s now deceased. He died of cancer a couple of years back. He was a very, very good friend of mine.
We get a phone call, I get a phone call from Andy Hill and he’s like, hey, I’m sitting on the Senate floor and I want you to hear something. And they pass this law and it’s off to the governor’s desk. And I’m like, man, there’s no way she’s gonna sign this. She’s a Democrat, man. There’s no way she’s gonna sign off on short barrel rifles and suppressors. And to her credit, she was like, hey.
I might not agree with this, but it does not violate the Constitution of the United States. It does not violate the Constitution of the state of Washington. And she signed it. And so short barrel rifles and suppressors are legal to own and use in Washington state now. And then they solidified mail -in voting. And soon as that happened, right? So now there’s no more in -person polling. It’s 100 % mail -in ballot.
buddy, you’ll never get a Republican elected in Washington again, ever again. And Dave Riker, the guy who caught the Green River killer, is running for governor right now, right? And I hope to God that guy can pull out a rabbit out of his hat. But I just don’t think the establishment’s going to let him go, right? A little off topic, sorry. But so eight, 10, 12 years ago, we get that little bit of pro -gun legislation passed, right?
So for seven years, they tried to pass a mag ban. Seven years, because obviously, you know, shooting somebody with 10 rounds in your mag versus 11 is way safer, right? So for seven years, they tried to pass this, they tried to pass this, they tried to pass this, right? And it was all under the guise of, you know, public health laws, public safety laws, whatever it is, right? And we would always catch them up in committee. We would always throw monkey wrenches in committee and we would…
Bryan Zielinski (20:28.654)
just, you know, we would play the parliamentary tricks, right, and just get these things beat. And it wasn’t just me, it was lots of people in Western Washington and Eastern Washington that did way more work than I did. But as a group, we always won, right? And then somehow, some way, Bob Ferguson, the attorney general, figured out, and I think it probably came from the Giffords group or, you know, whatever his name is, Bloomberg, whatever, right?
They figured out like, hey, wait a minute, states have the right to regulate commerce. Idaho has the right to say, we don’t allow marijuana in our state. That’s a state’s right. We can regulate that commerce. So Washington goes after, says, well, we’re going to go after gun laws, but we’re going to go after as commerce laws.
So they run the trial balloon up, right? And they go with, they go with mag band, right? So did it start with like safety? They’re like, well, it’s, it’s, it’s always, they, they always tried to pass, um, um, a gun restriction because of safety, right? Because of safety, right? And we got, you know, five 94 and we got 16 93, which got rid of face to face sales. And it got rid of, you know, you got to do background check for everything. And you know, 10 day waits and all these different things. Right. And you know, the one thing I can say is, is once you give one of these.
critters an inch right they’re always going to take a mile right so they start getting these little things in right and of course if we just had this piece of legislation if we just had this law man the world’s going to get so much better and it never does right in fact it only gets worse so they introduce the mag ban and it’s a consumer protection act law and so what that means is and and this is where a lot of people kind of get kerflunked about
the mag ban, right, is they didn’t take any mags away. They didn’t take a single mag away. Nobody knocked on your door, nobody took it away. They don’t confiscate them at the range. What they did is they made it illegal for retailers to sell them. They made it illegal to import them into Washington.
Bryan Zielinski (22:42.958)
So right now we’re, I say we, I’m an Idaho resident, I’m an Idaho businessman, right? But I still, I got my boys over in Washington and I love them, right? But right now there’s an injunction that’s getting ready, hopefully, to hit here in the next, hopefully, like literally any minute. I’m keep looking at my phone, right? And as soon as that happens, I’ve got probably 50, 60, $70 ,000 worth of mags that are prepaid, pre -boxed, pre -labeled.
And as soon as the injunction hits, I’m driving into Liberty Lake to the post office and I’m importing them into Washington and I’m mailing them out. But I have to wait for the injunction to happen. Are you, is your business, um, south of 90 in that strip mall right there? Yeah. The Teder property. Okay. So I met, we had a YouTube, uh, guy that found us on YouTube, Steve, what’s up Steve. And, uh, he came over from Washington on Friday. Yeah.
and he was in the parking lot. So I actually met him in the parking lot. I sat in the back of the Subaru and we hung out for a bit and he was talking about that and that’s why he was there. He came over from Tacoma or somewhere over that way. And God bless Tacoma. Yeah. And he hung out all weekend because he’s like, it’s happening. So he’ll be back. I won’t say his last name, but my buddy Steve, Steve, if you’re listening, the beers were delicious. God bless you. There’s always room in the fridge.
Good guy. He came over on Friday, right? Because we were thinking the injunction was going to hit. And let me put this in perspective, right? Like I’ve got customers that have spent thousands of dollars with me. Not 1000, not 2000, not 3000, four and $5 ,000 in magazines. That’s a lot of magazines. At 30 to 40 bucks a pop, that’s a lot of magazines, right? This guy bought four mags. Yeah. Right.
Four mags. Drove over from Western Washington on Friday because he wanted to pick his mags up. Stayed until Monday. Came into the shop every day. We bullshitted, we talked, we played with guns. Good guy. Right? Great guy. He’s moving over here. Yeah. You know, I was talking to him about my folks. Hey, my folks are moving to Rathrum. Like, you know, God bless you, right? Great guy. And I look at him, I go, Steve, take the fucking mags home.
Bryan Zielinski (25:09.262)
Bro, you paid for him. I’ll take him out of the package for you. Take him home. He’s like, no, man. That’s why we’re different than they are. Good for him. They break laws because they know they can get away with it. And we don’t because we know we can. We know we could get away with it, but yet we don’t break the law. That’s the definition of integrity right there. And I’m like, dude, right on. That’s the man. You’re the man. He is. I don’t have that in me just because I look at it and…
God dang it. It just seems like every which way you turn, we’re trying to criminalize non -criminal behavior and we’re taking the focus off the people that actually prey on good, innocent people. What’s crazy is like when I opened that store, right? And for you guys that haven’t been in the store, it’s, it’s what’s the name of it too, by the way. Oh, it’s North Idaho arms in beautiful post falls. Idaho. Hey, Hey, right. There’s the sales pitch. Right. Um,
I’m gonna come in and see you. It’s a 23, 2400 foot store, right? And it’s me, right? It’s me. And I’ve got a business partner. I’ve actually had two business partners. They own Rev Arms in Covington and Rev Arms in Ellensburg, Washington. Great dudes. They’re my brothers. But every glass case, every hook, every thing that you see in that store, I’ve touched, right?
I live it. I own it. I breathe it. I dream it. I worry about it. It is what it is. Right. I can attest to that. I got your information from Eric Breakey who we’ve had on our podcast. So he runs a two seven. You talk about one of those guys that knows what they’re doing. Yeah. When they’re teaching, he knows what he knows what he’s doing. But anyways, shout out to gray birch manufacturing. He hooked me up and that’s going to blow up too. What’s that? Oh man. If you got to come hang out in your store, if you’ve ever played with a 10 22 and just gone,
out to the range and just blown hundreds and hundreds of rounds. Grey birch makes custom 10 -22s for the working man that any guy can afford that.
Bryan Zielinski (27:12.014)
You’re a sharpshooter. Some bitch now I need a new gun. Oh yeah. Wait till they give you a subsonic rounds suppressor and you can’t hear them. It sounds like you’re spinning. They’re fricking awesome. It’s so cool. Yeah. It doesn’t get any more fun than that. They’re bad ass. So he calls me and says, Hey, you got to meet this guy. He just opened up and I just happened to be on 90 head at home and I live out there in your state. It’s like, I’ll drop in right now. Man. Don’t dare me. I’ll go see him right now. So I happened to drop in the shop of my gosh. Oh, never stopped bringing off the hook. He’s got stacks of packages. A lady.
coming in only wants to talk to him. I mean, you talk about small business owner, he’s managing all of it. To the point where I finally just said, dude, we’ll get you on the podcast. This would be a good time. We’re like -minded, but you got a business to run. I had to teach my, I had to teach, I had to show my wife and my daughter how to run cash registers. Yeah. The most dangerous thing in the world is a 13 year old female version of me getting behind the cash register.
putting your ass together when she’s ringing you up for four mags and she’s like, well, did you know there’s a discount when you buy five? I see. I see. I see you got six boxes of ammo. The seventh one’s 10 % off. Stone cold killer, right? Stone cold killer. That’s my girl. Yeah. But she learns more doing that than she does in school. Guaranteed. And so, you know, one of the things like when, when I moved over and we started this enterprise, right?
I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t going to land in jail. I wanted to make sure that I was not going to go to prison for doing anything. And so I call ATF. We do the ATF interview. They come out, look at your business plan, look at your security plan. What are you going to do? Okay. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. I was a little worried that under the Biden administration, it was going be hard to get a license. Man, I had my…
my FFL in like 18 days. And then I had my SOT and my manufacturer certificate, you know, in like 30. Like it was the fastest that I’ve ever heard of in my life, right? So then I reached out to the state of Idaho, right? Reach out to Post Falls, get your business license, get all the things, right? Then I reached out to the state of Idaho. And, you know, I’m not gonna, I won’t name any names, but I start calling a couple agencies in the state of Idaho and I said, hey, what is my legal responsibility? And they go, what do you mean?
Bryan Zielinski (29:35.63)
I go, well, I’m 1 .25 miles away from the state of Washington where 99 .9 % of this stuff is verboten. And the gal I talked to, she kind of laughs and she goes, well, just remember, you know, as you’re, if you’re an FFL, you’re beholden to number one, Idaho state law and number two, federal guidelines. I’m like, no problem. That’s the easy part. But what about the Washington guy that comes in and says, uh, Hey, I want to buy some magazines.
She goes, you ever been to a weed store in Washington? And I’m like, is this a trick question? And she goes, No, seriously, have you ever been to the weed store in Washington? And I go, I can’t confirm or deny. But yeah, I’ve been there. She’s like, okay, cool. When you walk in, like number one, when you pull into the parking lot, 90 % of the cars are Idaho cars. Especially that one round, the green one right on the yep. And that’s the one we talked about, right?
Shout out to my boy, Smokey. Smoke dog. But anyways, you pull into the parking lot, 90 % of the cars are Idaho plates, right? You walk in, they card you. I walk in there, they know I’m an Idaho resident. Now, if I want to buy two ounces of the yicky, yicky sticky, or I want to buy a $3 lighter, they card me before I do anything.
Right? So you get carded multiple times in Washington to verify your identity. But you can’t do that when you vote. Anyway, neither here nor there. But so they know that I’m an Idaho resident, right? And they know whatever I’m buying, there’s a good chance that that’s coming back home to Idaho. Right. And the whole point of that was she says it is up to the consumer to not.
break the laws of their state. Good. And I said, okay, I’m reading between the lines. So does that mean, and she cut me off and she goes, you’re an Idaho resident, you’re an Idaho businessman doing business in Idaho with legal adults who have come to Idaho to do business. As long as you’re not breaking any state or federal laws, do what you need to do. Make sure you collect sales tax. Yes, ma ‘am. So who, I want to go back to that injunction who.
Bryan Zielinski (31:56.434)
Who’s responsible for that injunction and how long does it last? So, okay, so I would encourage everybody to check out William Kirk, Washington gun law on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. You’ll see me on a couple of his videos, but Bill Kirk is an amazing legal presence in Washington and he happens to be a pretty good showman as well, right? And so he gets a lot of information out and he is definitely branching out and doing.
more and more West Coast information and more and more national stuff. Pete Sariano, who runs the Silent Majority Foundation, who is running for AG as well in Washington against Manker Dingra. So let’s hope Pete can get a foothold over there. He is spearheading the lawsuit with Gators guns down in Cowlitz County. And Cowlitz County is Idaho.
It’s this little chunk of conservative in a sea of non. And so Gators Guns basically said, we’re going to sell magazines after multiple shops got smacked for selling magazines. And I think part of it, and I don’t want to speak for him, I don’t want to speak out of pocket, but I think part of it is he wanted the legal fight. He wanted to run this up the ladder. So.
They had tried to do a couple lawsuits. They tried to do one in Grant County, and they tried to sue the governor and the attorney general by name personally in Grant County. And the judge pulls up the case. They’ve got the lawyers there. They’ve got the lawyers for the state. And the judge looks at it, and he goes, you know, the only problem here is, it’s like you’re suing the governor personally. You’re suing the attorney general personally. They need to have representation where they live.
they live in Olympia. So we need to push this back to Thurston County. It got thrown out right away, right? So Gators starts this whole thing in Cowlitz County and they’ve got a judge there now who is a small county judge.
Bryan Zielinski (34:08.334)
And that’s where change happens, right? Everybody talks about, you know, Benitez down in Southern California and, and, and, and, you know, Heller back in Washington, DC, you know, Bruin case and all these different cases, right? But it starts on the local level, right? And so you’ve got this judge in Cowlitz County, who’s a very, very pro constitutional judge. And he asked two questions of the lawyers. Is this constitutional and does it constitute a ban?
Right? And so the lawyers go do their lawyer thing and on the 11th, they have a hearing and the judge says, okay, I need about two weeks and I’m gonna write my opinion, right? And I’m gonna publish my opinion. So two weeks is up. Like we should be getting this opinion at any time, right? And as a gambler, I’m willing to say that we’re gonna catch the injunction. Washington’s gonna catch an injunction. Now, as a realist,
I know that if that injunction hits at 12 o ‘clock on Monday afternoon, by 12 o ‘clock Wednesday afternoon, that will be being heard in the Washington State Supreme Court, and that injunction will be stayed. So that’s why there’s such this push, right? Where it’s like there might be 12 hours, 24 hours, 48 hours for Washington citizens to actually be free and go express themselves via commerce, right?
The crappy thing is…
They haven’t been able to sell high cap guns in Washington in two years. Every distributor, manufacturer that sells high cap guns and sells magazines has been subpoenaed by the AG. So there’s a distributor here in Spokane that I talked to, great people, and they’re like, oh yeah, no, they ask us for these reports of how many mags we’ve sent to how many different stores. So the AG, the state knows which stores have what.
Bryan Zielinski (36:07.246)
So that’s why they can’t sell anything until the bell drops, right? Because, you know, there was just a case, federal way discount guns down in South King County. You know, he got popped selling a small number of mags on.
film, I guess, or on camera, right? The AG’s enforcement team would come in and they got the little lapel cams, you know, spy cam shit, and they catch them selling mags, right? Well, the way the law is written is it’s a $7 ,500 ticket per mag that you sell and $7 ,500 per mag that you have hanging on the wall available for sale. So they get caught selling like nine mags, something stupid, right? And they get offered a settlement. And for whatever reason,
They didn’t settle. And the AG says, no problem, we got this. And they order a forensic accounting of their books. Wow. So now they come back and they get all the information from the distributors and they get all the information from this, that, and whatever. And it’s like, no, man, we know that you didn’t sell nine bags.
I’m gonna throw a number out there and it’s probably wrong, but I heard it was 2 ,663 mags. Well, you use that number times 7 ,500 and you’re bankrupt. You bankrupt him, right? Yeah. That’s, that’s $20 million. Right? Which is what they want. So now the owner of federal way discount guns has to go in front of the AG and literally you’re fighting your own state and your state is using your tax dollars to fight you.
And so now he’s got to go and he’s got to figure out how to settle. So he’s got his lawyer and they get involved and it costs him just a huge amount of money. But at the end of the day, he wrote a check for $3 million. Done. Guy that’s been in business for 30 years. Like there’s two or three stores in Western Washington that if you say like, hey, cream of the crop, like we might like them, we might hate them, whatever. But like Wade’s Eastside guns,
Bryan Zielinski (38:12.302)
Federal way discount guns, sporting systems down in Vancouver. There’s three or four stores that are like, these guys are the best, right? They’re the best at what they do.
Federal way is gone. Just wiped him out. Just wiped him out. I imagine he didn’t. I can’t imagine there’s that much profit in the business that he had three million bucks laying around. Well, I mean, you know, you’re in the business for 30 years and you’re a good businessman. You’re smart and you know, got a rental house. You got an apartment. You got this. You got that. I’m sure the guy’s liquid. I’m sure he’s got a little bit of wherewithal. But I mean, if I asked you to give me 300 bucks right now, you’re going to look at me kind of cross -eyed, right? And so now it’s like, dude, I’m going to give you three million.
and for something that goes against what I do at my core. It’s not immoral, right? It’s legal in the next state over. Yeah, but I just can’t and I hate to even make this remotely political, but I can’t get over $7 ,500 citation for a single magazine for this business owner that started this with his own hands, right? Built this, which is good for the community. It provided jobs. It was providing the service.
and a tangible good when at the same time you can go to King County and the same person that’s been arrested 75 times in a year that’s released on his own recognizance destroys your car, breaks your window, causes a bunch of damage and cost the taxpayers God knows how much. We don’t hold one accountable. Again, it’s criminalizing non -criminal behavior and it’s using Washington citizens tax dollars to do it.
When I would imagine if you pulled 100 citizens, that’s not how they’d want that used. Right. Let me tell you. So the year before we moved, my daughter and I, my wife really wanted a pair of Doc Martens for Christmas, right? And so there’s a Doc Martens store in downtown Seattle, like in the heart of downtown Seattle. And so I grabbed my daughter and I said, Hey, let’s, let’s, let’s go down.
Bryan Zielinski (40:09.358)
And we’re going to grab mom, these docs, right? Cool color, cool laces, whatever, right? They sell them there. So we go down there. I’ve never seen, let me put it to this way. You can buy more North face off the sidewalk, North face gear off the sidewalk in downtown Seattle than you can in the North face store. For real? Because those rats run into the store. They grab it all. And then they go out into the open air drug market and market and sell it. What’s the discount?
Asking for a buddy. I can’t, you know, I got a nice puffer jacket. Arcterix for 33 bucks. But you know, here’s the crazy thing is, is you got SPD on the sidewalk.
They can’t do nothing. You see the video where the guy is just beating the absolute shit out of a patrol car? Just beating on it and destroying it and cops are watching. And I don’t even blame them. Those brothers in blue that are out there, man, I don’t envy your position. And I think a lot stay because where they are in life keeps them there. But my gosh, that’d be tough. Can you imagine?
I’d just be tough. That shit wouldn’t fly in Idaho, buddy. Oh, no. I can’t even talk my way out of a speeding ticket. I don’t know. Oh, yeah. But stop now. Trust me. All depends. He’s done. Shout out to Kootenai County this morning. I appreciate you guys. Yeah. Got me. Got me. Traffic guy or a new guy? No, he’s good, dude. And he’s super nice. And, you know, honestly, he pulled me over and I was speeding and, you know, he asked me what was the speed? 59. You know what?
It was on 14 over. It was on a was a Prairie. Yeah, I mean it is what it is, but I get it. I broke the law. Yeah, broke the law, right? My favorite though is and you guys are cops, right? And I love this man. Do you know why I pulled you over? Officer, that’s not my job to tell you. It’s your job to tell me that’s when you say, cause I’m white. Yes, right? No, but you know he pulled me over and and and here’s like flashbacks like flashbacks of King County.
Bryan Zielinski (42:16.014)
I got my hands on the steering wheel. I’m like, officer for your safety and mine, I’ve got a concealed weapons permit. Like I’m telling him something fucking he’s never heard before in North Idaho. Officer for your safety and mine. I have a concealed weapons permit. I have like six guns in the car. I’m an, I’m an FFL. I’m headed to work right now. He’s like, really dude? Where’s your store at?
Idaho arms beautiful post -fall side. He’s like, he’s like, cool, man. I heard about that place. I’m like, yeah, man, you should stop by. He’s like, cool. I need your driver’s license, insurance, registration. Damn bro. I’m like, cool. Comes back, you know, he runs my thing, does a thing, whatever. And he’s played me slick too. He’s got his, he’s got, he’s got my driver’s license and my registration to one hand. I don’t see the ticket.
here and he hands me he goes I’m gonna give you this back man hey really just slow down and you know get to work and have a great day and here’s your ticket and I’m like oh man you got me terrible delivery come on guy it’s like you give them hope yeah no you don’t you just it’s like giving a death notification you get it out of the way right away you don’t you don’t sugarcoat at the end you know what at the end I looked at him and I was like hey you know thank you for your courtesy thank you for your professionalism and at the end of the day like
Was I speeding? Maybe. You said I was, so I must have been, right? And it is what it is. I’m giving you any admissions here, just in case. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Cases come to court. Don’t admit it. You said I was. I mean, did you properly tune that Falcon radar gun? Can I get the tuning frequency on that thing? Did you check it at the beginning and end of your shoot? Yeah. What tuning port? Do you have your logs for that thing? I will say, here’s what’s nice about Idaho, though, still, is that citation was probably…
90 bucks. Yeah. Wow. It’s 400 bucks in California. Yeah. Gosh, you’d get smacked. Well, it’s just some of those States, they, they literally treat their citizens like a resource to be exploited, right? Like they run traffic and the majority of time here. And it depends on every officer, but traffic is where we can interdict true. Right. That’s where you can find them as in transit. Trust me. Exit to pleasant view where I’m at. Right. And, and post falls again, I grew up in, in Tacoma Lakewood, Washington, right. And, um,
Bryan Zielinski (44:27.502)
Post falls on a lot of ways reminds me of Tacoma a little bit sometimes. And post falls is blowing up. Post falls is growing up. Rathrum post falls. I can end up bigger in Coeur d ‘Alene. Yeah. I think they said there’s like six, 6 ,000 new dwellings that have been permitted. You know, I mean, there’s just an immense amount of people that are going to come in. Oh, has it been eight minutes? Yeah, no pressure. By the way, that’s really good. It’s a good skim oak flavor. And so I’ve never seen in this, in this 25,
mile postage stamp. I’ve never seen so much law enforcement in my life. Yep, never, right? But every single day, right? North Idaho News on Facebook, you’re looking at all these things. Dude, every day they picked up Joe Dirtbag from Spokane out on a warrant. You know, Joe Shithead out of OMAC, whatever, right? Oh, they got 3 ,000 fentanyl. I mean, up in Rathbun, they just pulled that dude overhead, like 1 ,000 fentanyl pills. Dude, you know how many parents were going to have to buy caskets?
If they didn’t catch that guy. So this is where it’s kind of cool. His wheelhouse right now. I try to avoid it, but we talk about going into a Idaho legislature and the difference between here and Washington. We just got a legislation passed here as house bill four or six, where it talks about fentanyl trafficking, where you set minimum mandatories for trafficking, certain quantities of fentanyl, right? And there’s also a portion of it that’s drug induced homicide. So.
Really, the push is, thank you. I’ve been drinking, so I’m even more aggressive with it. Get that thing up. I want to hear that deep baritone, brother. No, it’s a, there’s a drug -induced homicide portion where if somebody is found to meet the elements of possession with intent to distribute or trafficking, and it results in the death of somebody else. So if you’re dealing to somebody in the past, we have too many, and the ages just keep getting younger, then you can be held for drug -induced homicide, which can come with a 25 to life. It’s badass. It’s like not only don’t deal here,
But don’t deal with people from here. Yeah, right. Because there’s a certain DEA assignment and that’s killing way more than are beyond 10 round magazines. Right. Right. So I sometimes get really frustrated with our federal partners and what their focus is, as opposed to a very real tangible number. Because a lot of these kids just don’t know. We’re not in schools and they think what they’re getting is legitimate pills from a doctor. Right. But that’s where it’s honestly like,
Bryan Zielinski (46:51.822)
If you’re a 14 or 15 year old kid and you’re hoping to get one of the good percocet, there’s already a problem. Oh yeah. Oh, I agree. There’s a problem. Yeah. But you know what? Like I was a dumb ass. I mean, right. We’re still dumb. I’m glad I didn’t grow up around this because I did do some dumb shit like that. And, um, you know, I just, I got lucky cause that wasn’t around then and I survived. And I agree with you. There is maybe already a problem, but.
Man, that one mistake shouldn’t be the right issue. The one the one. Yeah, right. Like I didn’t. I did dumb shit like that. Then I became a cop and I was a better cop for it. Right. Right. Yeah. It doesn’t necessarily mean I mean, you’re always going to go down that road. Right. I’m 48 years old and like I started in the car business in the late 90s. Right. At the end of the cocaine heyday in the car business. And and understand that back then, like,
It was pretty commonplace to see dope, right? Everywhere. And, you know, I heard a story from about six months ago, we’re at a dealership in Western Washington where a couple of car salesmen, right? Young guys, you know, sell a couple of cars, make a bunch of money, man, they’re excited to go out and have some cocktails, whatever. Someone’s like, Hey man, you want to bump? Boom. Dude dies in the bathroom, got fentanyl in his coat. He’s done. Right. And it’s like,
you can’t even enjoy the good shit anymore. Damn. Yeah. It’s not supposed. And there is a huge complaint from that contingent because there used to be this huge separation of like uppers, right? You’d have like tweakers, which is usually met. Yeah. Right. And cocaine was kind of a different thing. I always looked at that, like kind of a party drug, but the uppers and then you have the dopers, you know, the mega downers. Well, now all of a sudden fentanyl is in everything. It’s just the delivery mechanism. It’s a fine powder. Well, and you know, at the end of the day, and I, I, and I,
I work in a world where I deal with really, really, really type A alpha and a lot of tin foil. Right. And so I’ve kind of heard it all. The problem is, is I’m starting to run out of conspiracy theories, right? Cause they’ve all come true. Right. But at the end of the day, the cartels or whatever they’re bringing what up over across the border. I get it. That’s their job.
Bryan Zielinski (49:09.678)
That’s their job. Their job is to bring dope into the United States. Supplies up, right? But why do they want to kill us? I don’t think they want to.
I think they want to make it addictive. I think they want to make it so people want more and crave more and need more. But man, there’s somebody or some country somewhere that’s providing these precursor chemicals that are getting into Mexico, that are getting into this drug stream, that are making it, that it’s literally destroying. I mean, we’re going to effectively lose two generations of Americans to drug use in the United States. It’s easy to see like a multi -pronged approach of destruction in the U .S.
that someone else’s and that’s just one of the prongs right that’s these little things they can they can utilize to help wear us down right and that is for sure one of them.
And it’s multiple countries, man. I mean, China’s been making the fentanyl powder for years. I mean, since the 70s, fentanyl started off as an all altruistic substance. It was meant for like long -term life care and like hospice care, you know, end of life treatment in order to stave off pain. It’s a good thing. You used to have patches and everything else. Well, once people began realizing and dark web was a big part of that, you could just ship that over. People could literally get that.
FedEx to their house and they started making janky ass pills and I used to call it like Bonner County pills where they’re all screwed up and like they look all funky. That’s where we started seeing them 2014, 2015. But the issue is two milligrams is what’s designated by the DEA is being a lethal dose for an adult that doesn’t have any tolerance. That was at the low end of the spectrum.
Bryan Zielinski (50:45.966)
you’d get pills with six milligrams. Yeah. So people are dying and they look identical. I mean, two milligrams is the tip of a number two pencil. Yeah. Ooh. So it’s wild. And when you think about, I don’t know, when you get into the crazy stuff about addiction, that first high is the best you’ve.
ever going to get. I think about it like a firework going into your pleasure receptor and just vibrating like they’re always chasing it. Right. They’re always chasing the dragon. They call it chasing the dragon. I mean, I can tell you, you know, personal experience. Um, I had neck surgery. I had like the, what they call the Peyton Manning surgery on my neck, right? Where they, you know, you blow a disc out in your neck and then they got to basically the knock you out. They slice your neck open. They roll you over and they get in, right? Well, dealing with insurance.
And at the time I was a lot heavier, I was a lot bigger boy and my insurance company was like, no man, his neck is bad because he’s fat. So we’re not gonna pay for this surgery until we do everything. Until he does physical therapy and he does whatever, right? And so I can remember, right? And.
This is why to this day, like I refuse to touch any opiate painkiller. I had kidney stones three months ago and I went to the emergency room and they tried to give me painkillers. I’m like, Nope, I’ll, I’ll fight through it. I’m good. And, and, but what happens is I’m on physical therapy and this and that and whatever for six months. And my doctor was like, dude, you’re in pain. Like you, you can’t function. And so literally I was taking.
I think at the height I was taken six, 10 milligram per cassette a day for six months. Right? So now I go have neck surgery and you know, you wake up and you got the residual pain from the surgery or whatever and you got the morphine, the clicker and right, whatever. Well now fast forward two weeks, you’re at home, you’re healing up, you’re starting to feel better. Right? I go to the doctor and, and we go to have my followup visit and my doctor’s like, cool. Now we need to devise your wean off plan.
Bryan Zielinski (52:50.222)
And like, what do you mean? And he’s like, if I stop giving you this stuff right now, he says, you’re going to be out selling your butthole on the street. Right? He might not have said butthole, but you guys get what I’m saying, right? But he’s like, you’re going to be an addict, right? And legitimately, for the next month, I took X dose and weaned it down. And then a month went by after that, and I did a little bit less. And literally, it was at the end of three months, I’m
taking like a quarter, like 1 .25 milligrams of whatever it is. And then I remember I go in on a Friday and the doctor’s like, cool, you got Friday off, you got Saturday, Sunday off, can you take Monday off? I’m like, yep. He’s like, cool. I just want you to sit at home, take some melatonin, drink lots of water. Like day one, you’re going to be OK. Day two, you’re going to get a little agitated. Day three, you might have a little stomach issue, whatever. And hopefully by day three, day four, you start feeling better, right?
And sure enough, man, like Sunday night, I’m agitated. I’m like, man, my muscles hurt, you know, whatever. And it wasn’t horrible, right? I could fight through it mentally. And then by the end of the day, Monday, I was like, oh, man, like I could see how people get smacked out on this stuff, right? It’s horrible. It’s bad. So. And once you were getting but a micro. Yeah. Of what’s available now. There is a huge part of me, and I know I’ve talked about it before, I’m in a dope cop kind of mind.
control career. That’s been my career and there’s plenty that I feel bad for.
where I just look at it as like, gosh, if you didn’t know, I mean, some kids, I’m reading their messages and it’s like, they think what they’re getting is legitimate pills and they have no idea. Right? And that’s what I mean. It’s, if I was a kid in this era, there’s so many huge pitfalls with not only drugs, but social media and everything else that follows you. You know, everything else is something in some electronic and follows you for the rest of your life. So I guess like, you know, the point of, of what I,
Bryan Zielinski (54:49.71)
Like what I’m trying to say is like with so much law enforcement in North Idaho, if my $90 speeding ticket buys one extra 50 pound bag of old Roy for the canine dog, fucking God bless him. God bless him. Right. Because great way to look at it. Right. If, if, if my, if my speeding ticket, right. If that pays for one extra hour over time for you to go out and, and take.
one pill off the street. Sign me up. Now, can we make it so they don’t go on my record? Like, I’ll donate. That’d be better. That’d be better. But at the end of the day, right, like we live in a society of laws and rules. And again, that’s what makes us different than the other side, right? The other side knows there’s laws, knows there’s rules. And even though there’s laws and rules, they play victim to those laws and rules. We look at it and go, well, okay, I better not do that.
there’s law, there’s a rule, right? And it’s almost like it’s unfair sometimes, right? Because it almost feels like we’re having our hands slapped because we don’t wanna break the law, right? And I think a lot of guys are getting fed up with that, right? They’re just getting a little pissed off. There seems to be an awakening happening and I don’t know if it’s like, I’m perceiving that because I’m paying attention more, I don’t know. But…
In our circle, at least in my circle, like I’m hearing more and more and some of that’s from podcasts too. So it’s not just, I guess my most immediate circle, but more and more of these, like the questioning of what is going on out here and where are we going with this? Well, just the recognition of the shift between where our, where our focus is. Yeah. Where it’s like those of us that are at the ground level realize what some of the real threats are that are out there, but we’re targeting business owners.
Right? We’re targeting good citizens that want to abide by the law, but really just want to protect themselves and their family. Why are we looking at that as a negative? Right. Is that so crazy? I can tell you that, you know, moving over again, 13 year old daughter, you know, she was 12, 12 at the time when we started the move, 12 and a half. You know, my daughter would come home from school, middle school, and you know, she’s.
Bryan Zielinski (57:09.304)
Five foot four, five foot three, she’s a hun – I’m not gonna say how much she weighs, right? But she looks like a woman, right? My daughter is beautiful and she’s matured and she looks like a woman. And if someone were to say, hey, look at that 17 year old girl over there, like, you’d be like, yeah, she’s 17, right? But she’s 13, right? And she’d come home from school and it was like…
every single one of her friends was bi gay, lesbian, blah, blah, blah, blah, like every single one. It’s in the water, I think. Every single one, right? And then so I’m like, Okay, well, like, I want to be supportive, right? Because as a father, if you say, Hey, don’t touch the hot light bulb, they’re gonna touch the hot light bulb. Right? So it’s like, Okay, I want to be the supportive father, right? So I start digging in and start looking and whatever. And it’s like, man, it’s like, some minute percentage.
of Americans identify as LGBTQ or whatever it is, right? And all of a sudden, like 85 % of my daughter’s friends fall into that category. And she’s being ostracized because she’s not that way, right? And so, you know, I’m dealing with the tears of like, dad, you know, blah, blah, blah. I’m like, sis, like.
You’re not wrong, right? There’s nothing wrong with your friends. There’s nothing wrong with your friends. There’s nothing wrong with how your friends feel. But who knows if that’s really how they feel, right? And now you come over here. There’s still gays over here. There’s still lesbians over here. There’s still bisexuals over here. Guess what? They’re just Americans. They’re just Idaho citizens. They’re just people.
right? They don’t identify themselves as, hi, my name’s Steve and I’m gay. It’s like, you know, hey, dude, what’s up? Like, and so now my daughter comes over here and she’s like, yeah, you know, I got a friend who’s lesbian or my friend who’s bi. Well, how many? Well, like one out of the 40. And I’m like, that seems to be, that might even be low, right? But that seems to be, and I don’t like to use the word normal, but that seems to be normal, right? And it’s just,
Bryan Zielinski (59:17.742)
I think a lot of it just has to do with, you know, parenting and how we raise our kids and, and, and, you know, talk to our kids and, and, and, you know, have real conversations with them and how much we let the school do that. Right. Right. And in Western Washington, the school is everything. The school is the babysitter. The school is the nanny. The school is the grandma. They want to be the parent. They want to be the parent. Right. And so, you know, over here, it’s, it’s very cool. Like when we went to, um, uh,
Canfield, I don’t want to get too much away, but we went to Canfield Middle School and, and, you know, we do the parent night walk around. A thousand people there. Yeah. Right. It was packed and we parked four blocks away and walked in and I’m like, I look at my wife and I go, this is not.
We are not in Kansas anymore. Like this is a different world, right? And parents were engaged and they’re asking questions and there was a Q &A like after this little deal, there’s a Q &A and it’s supposed to go for 10 minutes and it lasted 30, right? And it’s like, okay, this is a different place. This is pretty cool. So the community here is dialed in like nothing I’ve ever seen anywhere else. We were just at a talk this morning at Life Public House in Coraline, L -Y -F -E, killer spot.
And the Patriot Pour is a event that goes on every Wednesday from 8 to 10. It’s a free coffee for veterans and first responders. Cool group. It’s huge. It’s growing and growing and growing. Today Brigadier General Blaine Holt came in. He lives in the area. And he talked about just having a plan for the county, for Kootenai County, on a major disaster.
You know, a major event that, you know, basically these structure of society falls apart and like having this plan and it was a really good talk. And I’m thankful there are people out there like that. Cause he, I mean, he’s got, he is setting it up. I mean, he’s in communication with food banks. He’s, you know, creating committees for logistics, for security, for communication, all of the things. And, uh, you know, I’m like, what community is there another community out there that is that dialed in? I don’t think so.
Bryan Zielinski (01:01:30.894)
now and what’s what’s crazy is like coming from from my background in the firearms world right you think of preppers and you think of like being prepared and whatever and so it is not uncommon especially in Western Washington right it’s not uncommon to have the dude that’s got all the gear all the Gucci gear right plate carrier plates nods yeah ear pro radios guns blah blah blah suppressors whatever right
You know what my greatest fear is? I’m gonna put my $10 ,000 worth of shit on.
And grandpa Jeb’s gonna clip me 390 yards with his 270. He’s gonna clip me in the driveway and then he’s gonna tell his little rapscallion grandkids to go get the fat kids loot crate. Right. And he’s gonna get everything. That is legit fear, dude. And he’s gonna pop you with his grandpaps. Absolutely. That 270 that has killed 157 whitetail in the last 40 years. On the run.
And he’s like, God damn it. I’m, I finally got a state side kill. Finally got one been waiting, you know, all your gear and do shit. Yeah. Oh, that’s that. That fat ass only got a PBS 14. Jesus. The last guy had the last guy had dual tubes at least. And this guy’s on iron sites that grandpa gave him. Yeah, that’s there’s some truth to that. But that’s the thing, right? Is like, we can prepare as, as an industry or whatever, as, as a, as a, um,
as a marketplace, I guess, right? And we can have six AR -15s and we can have 100 mags and we can have 5 ,000 rounds of ammo. And I know 5 ,000 rounds of ammo is just a good weekend, but we can have all the ammo, right? But at the end of the day, like if you can’t make and get clean water, if you can’t stop a bleed, if you can’t stop yourself from getting an infection,
Bryan Zielinski (01:03:31.662)
That’s how people die. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Right. That’s how people die. Right. The reality is, is the American wet dream of, of the Russians paratrooping into Colorado and you know, red dawns, Patrick Swayze and I, Patrick Swayze and I are going to hit up to the mountains. Right. Like that’s probably not going to happen. Right. But the power will go out.
right? And the power will go out for 14 days. The power will go out for three weeks. And guess what doesn’t happen when the power goes out, right? You can’t go to the gas station. You can’t go to the ATM. Super One, Fred Meyer, all these grocery stores, their freezers melt out after day two, right? So all that stuff’s gone. So now what do you do? Right? Like,
Okay, why is it on all these movies when again the American wet dream fantasy of prepping and bugging out, why does it always happen in August when it’s 95 degrees out? Right? It’s gonna happen in February when there’s 14 inches of snow on the ground and it’s negative 12 degrees and people aren’t gonna die from gunshot wounds, they’re gonna die from hypothermia. Right. Right. They’re gonna die from exposure. Yeah. And so, you know, that’s the big thing like is
being prepared is more than just having an extra mag, having an extra box of ammo. And God bless you if you want to come and support your local FFL, whether it’s me or somebody else, God bless you. Support local, shop local, right? But make sure you know how to.
gather water, clean water, make sure you know how to bandage up an owie, make sure you got first aid kits, make sure you got batteries, make sure you have all that stuff, right? Because this will happen at some point in our lifetime, we’re gonna see the power go out and the power is gonna go out for an extended amount of time. And that’s when it gets ugly. We lost power for three days when I first moved here in downtown Coeur d ‘Alene and my house had no other way of heating. We had gas, but the furnace, I had no generator at the time. And yeah, it was pretty rough, man.
Bryan Zielinski (01:05:30.64)
it got down like 52 degrees in my house you know I had a little space heater and we all huddled in one room but I was like this is stupid like so stupid question in your life to say oh yeah like why did I buy a house without a wood stove the first year my wife and I moved to Redmond Washington we lived in West Seattle we moved to Redmond Washington we wanted to be closer to my son and my ex -wife and her husband wanted to
be close to those guys, right? The first winter we moved over, November of 06, there’s a windstorm that comes through the East side. Thousands of trees go down. Power was out for 11 days in the heart of Microsoft. Now Microsoft’s got huge diesel, natural gas generators, right? They could, they can program all day long.
But it’s amazing to see how many people in $100 ,000 escalates that can’t get a gallon of gas because they don’t have a $20 bill in their wallet. Right? And it’s amazing to see how many people with wherewithal that have ability in the real world to do whatever they want couldn’t function because they couldn’t use their Amex. They couldn’t get a gallon of gas. They couldn’t whatever. And guess who was getting by?
Jed and Bubba. Yeah. Right. Jed and Bubba and the C10 Chevy pickup. Yeah. Right. That had a cord of firewood chopped up, ready to go. Right. They’re getting by. Right. And so that that little bit of resiliency is what makes us us. Right. And when we saw that as a family in 06 of like, and we got to be better than just owning a bunch of guns because I had more guns than anybody. I got more guns than anybody you’ll ever meet. Right.
But what am I going to do? What am I going to do with 15 ARs when my daughter, when my kids hungry, my dog’s hungry. I guess you barter at that point. Yeah. But again, right? Like, okay. Anytime you have to barter and you’re in a position of need and a negative consequence, like you’re never going to win. Right. Right. And so you don’t have to barter if you’re prepared.
Bryan Zielinski (01:07:40.59)
And not only do you not have to barter, you can actually come out ahead if you’re prepared. And so that’s kind of what we talk about, you know, at the store is, you know, yes, guns are cool. You know, guns are cool. Accuracy is more important. Being prepared is very important. Right. And so, you know, one of the things we talk about is, is community, right. And, and kind of wrap this back in a little bit to, to what, what I am and what we do is like when we opened North Idaho arms, number one was like,
I don’t want to be a vampire. I do not want to be a parasite on the community. There’s so many businesses and I’m not knocking any business and if you take offense to this, you should probably look in the mirror. But there’s so many businesses that it’s always just me, me, me. Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme. Right, I want as much as I can. And you know what, I want as much money as I can get to. I want to sell as many guns, I want to sell as much ammo as I can, I want as much revenue as I can.
But at the end of the day, I do not want to be a parasite. I do not want to be a vampire on my community. So if that means when, shout out to the Post Falls Trojans, baseball team comes by and says, man, we need a couple hundred bucks for uniforms this year. All right, man, who do I make the check out to? It’s not because I’m anything special. It’s not because, you know, blah, blah, blah. It’s because these young men need a little help.
Right? And if me as a 48 year old business owner can’t give these young men two or 300 bucks to help them with uniforms or tournament fees or whatever, then what good am I? Right? And it’s just, you just got to live better. You got to be better. Right? And I think, you know, for the most part, that is what that that’s the way I envisioned North Idaho, right? North Idaho is be better. For the most part, I think every most, most dudes, most women, they get up in the morning and they’re like, how are we going to make today better?
Right, right and they do that for their community and that’s that’s the cool thing and that’s why I think that we fit so well into this community is because people come in and they talk to me and they’re like And you’re not trying to sell me anything I’m like man. The money’s the easy part
Bryan Zielinski (01:09:50.894)
The money is the easy part. When you’re ready to give me money, you’re gonna give me money and you’re gonna give me more than you think you’re gonna give me, right? But at the end of the day, it’s like, let’s just be better. Let’s make sure that you’re spending that hard earned dollar on what you actually need and what you actually want and what’s good for you and your family versus what’s good for me. Cause I’m gonna get, I’m gonna, I’m gonna sell, I’m gonna do whatever. We’re gonna be fine, but you know what? I care about people and I care about our customers. I’ve noticed that with a lot of people that.
move here when they finally make that decision and make that commitment to buy a place here. They want to know how to get more involved in the community. I just see that if you’re drawn to Idaho, I see it more that you want to get involved in the existing community vice the ones that just want to come out here and separate themselves from the community. If that makes sense. There are some of those that I think want to have their, you know, prepper.
You know, if they want that, that can be a lifestyle, but the majority want to join this community. Yeah. Because there’s an appeal to that and they want to contribute. This is why I get mad. We get, you know, comments on YouTube and social media about like the whole don’t California, my Idaho thing. And I’m just like, oh, go away constantly. Right. And I’m like, I’m tired of that crap, honestly. And I’m getting, I’m getting lippy with people about it because it’s stupid.
The people that come up here and this has been my entire experience. Every client we have had that comes up here like they say exactly that. How can I? How can I get involved? Yeah, but they’re coming up here with that mindset and I would challenge someone that’s lived as grown up here. Like are you doing that right? Are you coming with that same mindset? Maybe not. I got two coming up here from Colorado that I guarantee will probably be part of every like nonprofit group you can imagine. Just they’re terrible retired people because they’re so busy right and they want to be involved in that community and take an active role.
It’s pretty bad. And I can tell you like having established family here, aunts, uncles. You my dad was a post falls high school graduate back in the seventies, right? Aunt’s uncle’s cousins. There’s a bunch of us here, right? And they’re all trades people. They work with their hands, salt to the earth, good people, right? If I call. There’s two or three people in my house within 10, 15 minutes to do whatever, right? And they’ll do that for their neighbors or whatever.
Bryan Zielinski (01:11:59.022)
What I noticed more than anything is the loudest squawkers are the ones that moved here 10 years ago. And they’re like, God damn it, you figured out my secret. Yeah, well, they should be happy because their property value doubled in that time, so suck it. I moved here in 2014. Good for you, brother. No, but it’s all good, man. At 48 years old, making the decision to leave everything that I’ve ever known.
been Western Washington, right? Like, I’m not looking for any kudos or I’m not looking for Pat on the back. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I was gonna ask you about that, man, because there’s a lot of pride that comes out of Western Washington. I’ve been a, like I’ll say, I’ve been a devout Seahawks fan for pretty much the whole adult life. Went to the Superbowl when they whipped the shit out of Denver. It was pretty badass, but that’s a very prideful part of the country. I mean, Seattle has a lot of pride.
Back in the day, that was the place to visit. My place, Mark, at the downtown bar scene in the early 2000s, late 90s was freaking awesome. Yeah. You know, making that decision to pull out at that in dissonance. It’s tough, man. It’s tough. But at the end of the day, as a family, as a husband and wife, and more importantly, as parents, we looked and we said, what is going to give our family?
the best opportunity to succeed and what is going to give our daughter the best opportunity for succeed? Is it Lake Washington School District, which by the way is like one of the top ranked public school districts in Washington, or is it going to be Coeur d ‘Alene School District? Well, Coeur d ‘Alene School District lacks in a lot of things, but you know what they don’t lack in? People. Like they, they, there’s good people there.
And I’m sure there’s some agenda and I’m sure that there’s a little bit of that. But for the most part, like when I go talk to my daughter’s teachers, I’m talking to a teacher who cares about my kid and cares about my kid’s grades and cares about my kid’s future. They don’t care about what color my kid’s hair is. They don’t care about if my daughter’s got four piercings and she doesn’t, but they don’t, they don’t care if, you know, if she’s got an L, a G, a B, a T or Q or whatever next to her name, they don’t care about that. They care about, Hey, your daughter’s getting a B in science.
Bryan Zielinski (01:14:12.686)
and man, she should be an A student. Right? Your daughter’s getting a C plus in history, and man, did you know Mr. Zylinski, your daughter’s six points away from being a B student. Cool, now that’s a conversation my wife and I need to have with our daughter. You know, hey sis, are you an average kid, or are you better than average? Right, I’m better than average dad, okay great.
So let’s kick the Netflix off, let’s whatever. Let’s Show off your freaking self. Right? Let’s spend an extra 20 minutes tonight and let’s talk about World War II or let’s talk about the Constitution or let’s talk about the Declaration of Independence. Let’s talk about this, right? Let’s have a conversation. Let’s talk about health class. Let’s talk about sex ed. Let’s talk about all these things that like as a father talking to a 13 year old daughter, I’m like, I don’t have this conversation, but –
Dude, when you have start having those conversations, like it gets better, right? And again, it just kind of always comes back to be better. Just be better and everything you do. Like you don’t, you don’t wake up in the morning and say, Hey, we’re going to do a podcast. And I want it to be 5 % shittier than yesterday’s. I can’t wait to make a shittier podcast. I can’t wait. No, it’s like, everything is like, what can we do to be 1 % better? What can we do to be a little bit better? Right. And that’s.
Just I think that’s what North Idaho is, is just let’s be a little bit better because we see what’s going on around us. We see what’s going on in California and Washington and Oregon. And we see just this traumatic experiences that are happening. And I think the people here are like, no, we don’t want that. Nope. So.
What can we do to keep that from happening? And I will ask you this, because it goes back, you’re such a wealth of knowledge when it comes to some of this stuff. So I’m going to ask you some directed questions. As a new, as somebody moving here from a different state, what is the biggest difference in moving to Idaho as a potential gun owner, vice Washington, or California, or Oregon? So number one, it’s just like freedom, right? You can buy what you want, right? It…
Bryan Zielinski (01:16:22.67)
people still trip out that, you know, I had a guy yesterday that got his Idaho driver’s license on 25th. He got his Idaho driver’s license on like the 20th. And he’s like, can I buy a gun? And I’m like, does your credit card work? Can you pass a background check? Yeah, cool. You can buy a gun. And like he bought an AR 15 and was like 1200 bucks.
And a half hour later, he was in his car and he’s like, dude, texted me. He’s like, sending me pictures from the range. He’s like, dude, this is amazing. And I go, dude, welcome to America. Yeah. Right. That’s the biggest difference, right? Is there’s just this inherent freedom that’s there, right? But there’s a dark side to that too, right? And because there’s forces at play that want to change that.
right on the national level. Uh, and on the, I think, you know, on the state level, we’ve all, we’ve always said that, you know, Washington was five years behind California. Well, Washington has surpassed California now in gun laws and in being restrictive. And then we always say, well, Idaho is like five years behind Washington. Well, this next five years, I’m going to die trying because we’re not going to let that happen. Like, we’re not going to let that, that liberal sewage mindset.
come in from Western Washington and Eastern Washington, right? Because Spokane, the Spokane City Council and the Spokane, Spokane is all liberal now, right? We’re not going to let that come in and happen here, right? And again, you get a lot of dudes that are like, shall not infringe. They got their fist up and whatever. And I can tell you, and this is where people look at me cross in the store and they look at me and they’re like, what’s this guy really about?
the biggest wet dream to a liberal is when you’re sitting in a Senate hearing or you’re sitting in a house judiciary hearing and as an old white guy, you’re talking about getting your rights infringed. You can see the boners popping. You can see it, man. They’re like, it’s working. Because at the end of the day,
Bryan Zielinski (01:18:34.766)
you know, when at the time, 47 year old white guy, Brian Zelinski is down in Olympia complaining about getting his rights infringed. They’re like, yeah, it’s working. Yeah, it’s working. Right. And so, you know, that’s where.
what we want to do. And it’s not going to be just North Idaho arms, right? Like I talked to the guys at Black Sheep, and I talked to guys at other stores, and I talked to other business owners and whatever in and out of the gun industry, right? Is like, we are going to have to coalesce and come together and fight this, right? Because the one great attribute that liberals have is they have the sheep and the herd mentality.
And so they create or they find a problem, they find something they don’t like, and they appoint an exalted one, and then the sheep follow the exalted one and fight. And they just physically overrun the problem with people and money. And this is where conservatives fail. We as conservatives, you’ve got evangelical, you’ve got…
blah, blah, blah, you got this, you got this, but you got six or seven different dudes that have three or four followers, and they all wanna fight the same fight, but they all wanna do it their way. They all wanna be the boss, right? They wanna be the chief. Well, the liberals over there, they got one chief and they got 8 ,000 Indians. We got 18 chiefs and 12 Indians, right? And so that’s where we lose is because we get so fractured.
And we get so pulled apart that we can’t fight these battles. And that’s my fear of what’s going to happen in Idaho is they don’t need a democratic majority. They just need to have eight Republican parties. Do you think, I just feel like Idaho would be a tough nut to crack if any laws came down. I just don’t think people would comply. I hope not. I don’t know how that ends up right. But again,
Bryan Zielinski (01:20:42.318)
We’re a society of rule followers. We are. Right. And so, you know, again, one of the things that I want to do that I’m pretty passionate about is I want to help. And it’s not again, it’s not going to be just me. I want to help introduce legislation next year in Boise that would make.
it illegal in the state of Idaho to use Consumer Protection Act law against Second Amendment interests in the state of Idaho. This is what we’re talking about nipping the shit in the bud, right? Because they used Consumer Protection Act and understand Consumer Protection Act laws are good. And people go, what does that mean? I go, okay, well, you guys have bought cars, right? You guys bought trucks.
And you look at that purchase order and there’s the price of your truck and there’s this and this and there’s a dealer documentary fee. And you’re like, what the fuck is this? That’s a paperwork fee, right? Well, in the state of Washington, it’s capped. I think it’s 200 bucks now. It used to be 150 bucks. Well, in Florida, it’s like $1 which means they can charge whatever they want, right? But the state of Washington says Consumer Protection Act law, you can only charge X amount of dollars for this BS fee.
you can only charge X percentage interest, even for the worst credit bandit that you give a loan to, right? In some states, it’s uncapped. You can charge whatever you want, interest -wise, right? So on the surface, Consumer Protection Act laws are good. They protect the consumer, right, until they get weaponized against the citizenry. And now they’ve used Consumer Protection Act law to say,
And again, one of the things we talk about in the Washington gun law video is I testified in the Senate and I was talking to one of the senators and I said, you know, hey, this bill flies in the face of the Second Amendment. And she smiles. And I said, you know, the Second Amendment uses words like militia and infringe. And one of the things that, you know, on the other side, they always get, well, what’s a militia?
Bryan Zielinski (01:22:41.038)
Who’s in the militia? Do you have to be a member? Do you have to have a card? Do you have to pay dues? What is the militia? What does infringe mean? There’s all these semantics. Well, Article 1 Amendment 24 of the Washington State Constitution, and I’m gonna paraphrase, so no nasty grams, basically says that all Washington State citizens have the right to keep and bear arms, and that right shall not be impaired.
So the founders of the state of Washington looked at the Second Amendment and said, this is freaking awesome. But you know what? We’re going to take the word militia out and we’re going to put the word citizen in. OK, what’s a militia? I don’t know, but I know what a citizen is. Because they forecast exactly what’s happening. What does infringe mean? I don’t know what infringe mean, but impair means to make difficult. You don’t have four beers and then drive infringed. You don’t. You drive impaired.
means you can’t do it, right? You can’t do it the right way. And so the Washington state constitution is even more strongly written than the federal constitution. So when I’m there testifying and I’m like, hey, you’re violating the second amendment. Not only are you violating the second amendment, you’re violating Article 1, Amendment 24 of the Washington state constitution. And she looks at me and she goes, we’re not banning anything from anybody. We’re not taking.
anything from anybody. We’re not prohibiting anybody from owning anything. We’re just making the act of the commerce illegal and we’re protecting our citizens from gun dealers like you. And I’m like, oh, right. And it’s, but that’s exactly what they wanted to do. Right. That’s exactly what they wanted to do. And so now you have, now you have a population of consumers, people that want to buy.
the goods, the products, the services, and you have a population of retailers that are now at odds with each other because you have the Reddit crowd and the consumer crowd and the Facebook that are like, it’s not illegal. You should be able to buy AR parts for replacement value, right? It’s for replacement. Fix my gun. I agree with you.
Bryan Zielinski (01:24:57.902)
but they’ve weaponized Consumer Protection Act laws and they’ve put a dollar value on it at $7 ,500 where if you sell this thing, we’re gonna bankrupt you. And so, you know, had a conversation yesterday with guys like, well, we should be able to buy barrels, we should be able to buy bolt carrier groups in Washington. It’s not illegal.
And I go, the way the law is written on the assault weapons ban, it says any part, piece, or accessory can be used to make or manufacture an assault weapon is illegal. And they go, yeah, yeah, yeah, but this is for replacement value, or this is for replacement. And I go, I completely understand, and I agree with you. And they’re right there on the wall if you want to grab one, by the way. I agree with you. I said, but let me ask you one question. If you can answer me this one question, I’ll be on your side. And the guy looks at me and I said, OK. So if it’s not illegal,
Why are 100 % of the pro -capitalist gun shops in the state of Washington and 100 % of the pro -capitalist online entities not selling that product into Washington? Why? You find the outliers, you find the one or two shops that, you know, here you go, blah, blah, blah, whatever. But if it’s not illegal, why is 100 % not selling it? Because we hate money? No, that’s a huge revenue source.
Newsflash, there’s a hell of a lot more profit in accessories than there is guns. The risk is not worth the game. Right? It’s because the legal teams of MidwayUSA, the legal teams of Palmetto State Armory, the legal teams of all these different organizations have said, it’s the juice ain’t worth the squeeze. Yeah. Right? They win.
That’s what we want to stop, right? That’s what we want to stop. We want to stop this little bug before it gets a chance. We want to stop this tick before it bites, right? Well, that’s just what we were talking about before you came on, man. That very thing. Just promise us and the folks out here listening, you’re going to do that. That you’ll lobby for that. For those commerce laws,
Bryan Zielinski (01:27:03.106)
Because that seems to me to be the first domino. That’s the way they go. Right. So again, I’m well versed at talking. Right. And I’ll talk with anybody and I’ll talk as long as you want. Right. But understand this stuff is expensive. And so one of the things that we saw in Western Washington was federal way discount guns. They did a GoFundMe for legal fees.
right? And Moe, the owner of Federal Weight Discount Guns, they do a GoFundMe and they’re trying to raise like 25 grand, right? Just to get something going, right? And they go to their client base, the guys that had lined up to buy the 17 round Glock mags for 30 bucks a piece, right? They go to those guys and they’re like, hey man, can you donate 20 bucks? Can you donate 50 bucks? Can you donate whatever, right? So the thing’s open for like 30 days. I think you raised 12 grand.
And so my big fear in all of this is, and again, it comes back to fractured conservatism. I’ll go spend $100 on mags, but you want me to give you 20 bucks? Yeah. Right? And again, the liberals heard mindset, we need to raise $10 ,000. Give, give, give, give, give. Right? And they just give. They just give. They just give.
fractured conservatism, you got this guy who’s got a deal, you got this guy who’s got a deal, you got this guy who’s doing this, this guy’s saying what you like to hear, this guy maybe is wearing the wrong color shoes, whatever, right? Well, I’ll give this guy five bucks, but I won’t give this guy five bucks. Well, at the end of the day, when we need to raise 50 ,000 or 100 ,000, and you got 12 different entities that have each raised 10, guess what? Nobody’s hit a goal, right? And so,
And that’s what I’m saying is I’m not fundraising, I’m not trying to raise any dough at all, but there are organizations in the state of Idaho. And I can promise you, we’re two and a half months old in Post Falls, two and a half, not even three months old, right? I can promise you, this legislative session’s almost over in Idaho, we’re gonna start having conversations with some of the pro -gun organizations in North and in South Idaho, Idaho wide.
Bryan Zielinski (01:29:21.838)
and we’re going to try to bring some of these people together and try to raise money and try to get this singular focus, laser beam focus, right? And sometimes you try to do too much, right? You try to pass three or four or five things in one legislative session. Let’s just get one. Let’s just get one. Let’s get one that says they cannot use our commerce laws against us.
And then once we have that, then we’ll work on the next one. And what’ll happen is, is after five or six years of constant small successes, you realize, man, you’ve got a great platform now that you’ve built. And now you can really, really dig in and go forward. And the other side doesn’t have any wins. Right. And that’s the big thing, right? Not letting the other side have any wins at all. You cannot give up a fricking centimeter.
Right. You cannot give up a centimeter at all. We gave up magazines. Who needs more than 10 rounds? Who needs more than 10 rounds? Do you guys have over there, because am I wrong that California now you can, you have to register to buy ammunition? There’s some shit about ammunition. So there’s two things. Okay. So we’ll walk it through here. So you got magazine ban.
So number one, there’s no more gun shows. I mean, there’s gun shows in Washington, but there’s no more face -to -face transactions, right? So everything’s background check, everything’s through a transfer, whatever. Magazine ban, nothing over 10 rounds. Assault weapons ban, right? And I know some of you guys are gonna be like, oh, he’s using that word, don’t use their words. That’s the way the law’s written, assault weapon, right? So assault weapon bans, your AR -15s, your AKs.
Are you still getting away with I’m just familiar with California law, right? Like bullet buttons, featured list shit. They banned it. They banned it by name. Yeah. So they banned it by center fire magazine fed, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They banned. Here’s the crazy thing. You go into Washington right now and you take, uh, you take your, I don’t know if you got any kids, but you take your eight year old son and you’re like, son, dad’s going to buy you that shiny new 10 22 right there.
Bryan Zielinski (01:31:38.638)
Oh man, it’s got a threaded barrel. It’s banned. They banned Ruger 1022s. Wow. Oh, you know what? Hey, I’m going to, I’m going to go. A of mass shootings. I’m going to go, I’m going to go buy a Ruger Mark 4 pistol. Great pistol. Oh man, it’s got a threaded barrel. I can’t sell it. Or, Hey, I got a suppressor. I’m going to buy a threaded barrel for my Glock 17. Oh, I can’t buy a threaded barrel. Right? So you got mag band. You got assault weapons band.
Now you got this new FFL bill where they’re restricting the FFL, the age of the employees, the amount of cameras you have to have, the amount of data, the amount of servers and storage you have to have on all your audio video, right? So it’s very restrictive, it’s very expensive, right? But there’s two things that they really, really want.
and that they’re going to get, right? Number one is the city of Seattle has had for the last seven years, they’ve had a 5 cent per round ammo tax. Ooh, 5 cents per round, right? $25 per serial number sales tax. So 10 .8 % sales tax, $25 if you buy a Ruger 1022 and then 5 cent around, right? That effectively drove
every retail FFL out of the city of Seattle retail FFL store stores except for one. Okay. Because it just like, why would you go spend $50 more on a case of ammo when you can drive six miles into Bellevue and buy it for 50 bucks less. Right. Right. It worked. Right. So the state looks at that and goes, Ooh, California has a background check on ammo. California has a monthly maximum of how much ammo you can buy.
So if we did that and we did a per round ammo tax, that means now you can’t buy ammo online anymore. Right? So that’s number one. They’re going to try that too. And then the second one, and it’s the most nefarious, it’s the worst one, and it will be the hardest one on law enforcement, is the repeal of the Washington state preemption law. And this is where I lose most people, right? But preemption law says that in the state of Washington,
Bryan Zielinski (01:33:55.374)
A Washington state gun law is statewide and it’s the floor. So if there is a magazine ban, it is statewide, all counties, blah, blah, blah, no negotiation. Your county sheriff can’t say I’m gonna enforce it or not enforce it. It’s a state law. If they repeal and you would say, why would they wanna repeal that? Because it’s the floor. So the city of Seattle and King County are trying to get the preemption law thrown out.
because now that allows individual cities, towns, and counties to make their own more restrictive gun law. So the city of Seattle, Adrian Diaz, I think he was the intern police chief, now I think he’s the real police chief, I think he got the job. After one of the many gang shootings, he’s like, man, we just need a way to stop this gun violence, right?
And their thought is as well, the 10 round magazine ban ain’t working. But if we did a five round carry ban, that would work. That’ll stop them. Cause now everybody’s going to run around. Now everybody’s going to be around J -Frame. Criminals follow that. Right. So that’s what they’re looking at. Right. And those are things where, you know, again, people, sometimes people,
Call me a homer and they call me whatever. You can call me anything you want. Just don’t call me late for dinner. But people say, oh, man, you’re still so invested in Western Washington. The hell right I am. My son is still over there. My family, my mom is still over there. People I love and care for are still over there. There’s good people. God damn right I’m still invested in Western Washington. I live here now. I do not want to see the bullshit.
and the social disease that’s going on in Western Washington and in so many other places on the left coast come to North Idaho. And it’s starting to, it’s starting to creep in, right? It’s starting to creep in, right? For the most part, this place is still amazing, right? But it’s starting to creep in. And all it is is when the attitude starts to change just a little bit. Like when you start hearing people talk about, and I’ve heard this, I’ve heard this in my store, I’ve heard people talk about,
Bryan Zielinski (01:36:14.926)
Well, there shouldn’t be a Post Falls gun show. They shouldn’t be able to go buy guns at the gun show. They should have to do background checks. And I’m like, no, they’re Idaho citizens doing business face to face like Idaho citizens have the right to do. Now, yes, my store’s 300 yards from the Post Falls gun show. But I don’t want those people to lose that right. No, because once they lose that right, guess what?
North Idaho Arms isn’t going to be able to sell AR -15s. North Idaho Arms isn’t going to be able to sell suppressors. North Idaho Arms is going to be able to do what North Idaho Arms does, right? And so you got to just nip it in the bud before it gets even a sprout. Well, that’s where you have that unique perspective because you’ve literally watched it. Yeah. You’ve watched where it starts to erode and you’re like, ah, it’s always the…
frog in boiling water for right. You just crank it up a little. It’s like, we’ll give up that. That’s not a big deal, right? Yeah, it’s not a big deal. And by the end of it, man, it’s over. Well, and again, fractured conservatism, right? Like we had heard for years in Washington. Why do I need an AR -15? I don’t need an AR -15. I got, I got my 12 gauge. Right. I got my deer gun. I can shoot a
I can shoot the wings off a gnat at 400 yards with Pappy’s 30 -30. I get it. I get it. But they banned AR -15s. They banned the 10 -22. They banned semi -auto shotguns. So, really? Yeah. Go try to buy a Beretta 13 -01 right now. Wow. Right? Go try to buy a, oh no, Beretta, excuse me, 13 -01 you can still do because it’s under seven rounds, right? But like a KSG dual pump? Yeah. Can’t get that. Right?
But go try to buy a $249 threaded barrel, cheapy bolt action 22 law rifle, squirrel gun. Go try to buy that gun. You can’t buy it. Right. And so that’s the thing is like fractured conservatism. You got the old guy who says, as long as they don’t take away my 1911 two world wars. Well, if it’s up to Seattle, they’re going to say, you can’t carry anything more than five rounds. So it’s like,
Bryan Zielinski (01:38:30.798)
Dude, understand, they’re going to, they don’t, yes, they want the evil black scary gun right now. They want the 30 round mag right now. They’re going to try to come after it all. Right. Right. And there is no stop. There’s never a point where Michael Bloomberg sits back and goes, I’m a billionaire. We’ve done enough. We’ve done enough. Right. You know, we’re George Soros, you know.
stirs his pot of whatever juice he’s drinking and says, I think we’ve destroyed America enough now. We should stop. No, it’s always go. Next step. It’s always the next step. So dude, it’s disturbing. I know. Well, it’s good to see we’re on the other side of it. And like I said, I know, but you a unique perspective to where you can kind of see what the game plan is. Yeah.
I’m just, I’m so afraid because that happened, you know what I mean? That happened. It’s happened in multiple states. And it happens fast. It happens fast and it’s easy to, like you said, we’re all rule followers. It’s easy. Here’s the other thing too, and I’ll say this and guys are gonna…
Why, when there’s a mass casualty event or a mass shooting recently, why does it only seem like it’s happening in pro -gun areas right now? How many black kids got to die in Chicago every single day? And we don’t hear about it. Right, nonstop. How many Latino kids in…
LA LA wherever get literally murked every day and we don’t hear about it but there’s a shooting in Texas there’s a shooting in Indiana there’s a shooting in Alabama wherever and it’s all over the world right it’s all over right and it’s because it’s because those are the states that they’re gonna go after next right alls they have to do
Bryan Zielinski (01:40:31.69)
Turn a small population right turn a small population fracture the conservatism Right fracture the conservatism because we know the left is galvanized They’re gonna keep doing what the left does But if you get the conservative voice to not be one voice to be three voices to be four voices to be five voices all the sudden
not as strong, man. You’re not as strong. Right. So now it’s, it’s, you know, I hate to look at, you know, with the tin foil and, and, and to look at everything so negatively. But again, I’ve run out of conspiracy theories. Like I need to find new ones because they all came true. So,
Bryan Zielinski (01:41:17.006)
It’s extremely informative, by the way. Yeah, that was good. We’re about an hour and 40 minutes, which is much longer than normal, but that was a great conversation. Sorry, sorry, guys. No, no, no, don’t be sorry. That’s good info. And it’s like there may be nothing more important at the moment than dealing with these kind of things, because it’s like it’s not just guns. It’s like, you know, what’s next? Your medical freedom, your whatever. It’s like it’s important to fight the fight. Have to start recognizing what those steps are, what the game plan is. Yeah.
Right? Because we always just end up so far behind. Yeah. Well, you can, you can take out. Cause again, maybe not everybody that listens to you cares as much as I do, or you guys do about firearms, but you can take out the phrase firearms and put in church. Right? You can take out church and you can put in school. You can take out school and put in medical.
Privacy medical freedom medical freedom. Yeah, right. You can take any of those things out and Why is it that they’re attacking every single one of them? Why again if you can answer me that one question, I’ll be on your side Right, but nobody can give me a good reason of why they’re going after you know, why are they going after our churches? Why are they going after our schools? Why are why do they want such and such books and such and such blah blah blah in our school libraries? Why do they want that?
You know, I don’t know. I mean, I do know, but because they’re better playing the long game than we are. Yeah, I’ve that in our school. You know the one. Hey, the one thing I can say and I know you guys want to wrap it up, but the one thing I can say is that I’m super excited about is I really don’t have to worry about a six foot six dude trying to go into the girls bathroom in my daughter school like not not not not. Oh yeah, like you know, I’m so stoked that.
And again, as a father, you know, of a teenage daughter, like, you know, I’m so stoked that they still value the sanctity of that, of my little girl, right? That my little girl or my little boy, those are still our children. Those are still our gifts and they need to be protected. And that is still a thing here in Idaho because in some areas it’s not, right? They’re just commodities, right? And so to kind of wrap it up, man, like that’s…
Bryan Zielinski (01:43:37.966)
That’s what I’m super blessed, you know, super blessed about and super grateful for is that Idaho still values the family, which is awesome. Well, I’ll say this to you, but really I’m speaking to a bunch of people. I know that there’s this connotation about people moving to Idaho from Washington or Oregon or California.
Dude, people that are contributing members of society, we welcome you and your family with open arms. Like we have this, we have this culture here. We want people that are eager to contribute to it. And you’re already talking about taking on battles. That’s a fight brother. Yeah. They need to be taken on, but you only are able to because of where you’re coming from. Yeah. Because you’ve seen it. Yeah. Right. So welcome dude. It’s, uh, it’s bad ass. And like I said, I was a transplant. I was, I moved here from West Palm beach, Florida.
right? I grew up in Spokane. I was military and bounced all over but we’re all a little trans. Yeah. That’s another Navy joke. Beautiful. Well, hey, man, you’re you’re gonna be my new gun shop. I don’t have like a personal affiliation with any gun shops up here. So this is good. Now I do. Yeah. And again, what do you guys offer? Like if
So services. Yeah. So again, two and a half months old. I’m partners with two stores in Washington. We have master gunsmiths. We have Sarah Co. We have we have all of that right. And the goal is that we’ll all be here in North Idaho by the end of the year. Okay, right. I’ve got a full time employee that’s coming on here April 1. Who’s an armorer.
better than me, right? And so he’s going to come in and help, you know, with sales and help answer the phones and help clean toilets and help build guns. He’s going to help do everything, right? And that’s awesome. And then we’re going to start rolling out the Sarah coding and start running out the gunsmithing and just start doing everything. And again, I don’t want this to sound like a commercial for North Idaho Arms in beautiful Post Falls, Idaho, but I cannot be and we will not be everything to everyone. I get that.
Bryan Zielinski (01:45:43.15)
right? Support your local gun shop. Yeah. Whether that is Westwood guns, which by the way, shout out to Westwood guns up in Rathrum. Haven’t been up to your shop yet. I want to check it out. I’ve heard amazing things from that store, right? That’s awesome. I want to go check that shop out, right? I love nothing more than to go into triple B. I love it, man. Guns everywhere. Like dude, I love that store. Black sheep. Dude, you can get nods. You can get
Precision guns you can get everything at black sheep and that’s my thing, right? Shop local spend your money local even if it’s not with me God bless you shop local spend your money local spend money with people that don’t hate you Do not spend money with the big boxes do not spend money with these national organizations that are owned on the stock market and you start looking at who owns them and you’re like Oh State Street black rock blah blah blah blah like oh wow
That’s crazy. Like that big one down the road from you. Yeah, whatever. On the hill. Yeah. But spend money with local people, right? And, and, and build relationships. This is where your money’s going. Yeah. Post, post falls. Always out there playing sports. Post falls baseball. Go Trojans. Yes. That’s awesome. Yeah. So yeah. Thanks for having me on guys. Yeah. Dude, it was badass. Brian Zielinski, North Idaho Arms right there in beautiful, beautiful. Post Falls. Post Falls, Idaho. Actually, I think you’re my closest gun shop.
Let’s go. Give away my location. Yeah. up the road from me, dude. Yeah. Yeah. Let’s go shoot, man. The weather’s changing. Let’s go shoot. Let’s get out to Fernand. Let’s get out to Farragut. We got a video coming up that we want to go shoot with some other people. That’s right. Gunfighters. All right. Stop stalling. Gunfighters. Oh, they were in my store two days ago. They’re awesome, dude. We’re going to go shoot. Yeah. And we’re going to get in the lake and get cold. Yeah.
Yeah, hell yeah. Yeah, let’s go. Yeah. Cold luncheon dude. Yeah, we got to do it soon before it gets warm out. By the way, the river right now, dude, the current is like three miles an hour. It is hard to stay still. It is awful. It is so damn cold. It’s 38 degrees in the water. With that current, like you can’t build up a thermal barrier. It is bad. Oh, I’m going to do it. Yeah. Well, because I’ve been jumping in Hauser. Oh, no, it’s a whole other world, dude. It’s gotten really miserable the last couple of weeks. I don’t think you know what kind of weirdos you.
Bryan Zielinski (01:48:03.982)
Yeah, you just got you guys are talking about jumping in like dude the mouse is barely gonna get out the house. Oh, no, no, it’s It’s gone. It’s inversion therapy. Yes, that’s all right. I need to mention but I keep forgetting to mention this by the way, you can find us on Spotify and Apple iTunes as well if you don’t want to see our faces or your or it is fair fair enough. We are on all of the podcasting platforms as well.
So if that’s your preferred method, you can find us there and listen to it there. And yeah, once again, thanks brother. Appreciate it. Nice to get to know you. Yeah. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Usually people bring gifts. So guns next time would be totally cool with us. Just so you know. Yeah. You know what? I have a backpack. You swag? I do. I got t -shirts, I got coffee cups, I got all kinds of stuff. I’ll wear those shit on the videos. Swing through. Swing I will. Sure. Cool. Well, thanks again, bro. Rock and roll. Thank you.
Thank you.
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