The Constitutional Restoration of Liberty

Every now and then I like to post a reminder for Patriots to be very specific when challenging those among us who would be Masters.

"Government" is not the problem in America.

The problem is always individuals in government who abuse their authority.

Individual Americans, in every case, are the problem.

If we remove the individuals who violate the mandate of their positions, the problems facing the republic will wither and die. When people cry out that FedGov is the problem, that there is no way to remain within Constitutional means to recover Liberty, I offer a simple counter argument that not one person has ever been able to defeat: If Congress was populated by American Patriots like CA, Ken Lane, Miss V., Jim Miller, Leslie, Nurse Julie, and probably you, the injuries to the Constitution, to Natural Law, and to our Countrymen would stop because those people would not vote for any law, or to fund any program or agency, that abuses our Founding Ideals.

It really is that simple.

Can we vote our way back to genuine Liberty? Yes, we can. It is possible, but personally I think the Redskins have a better chance of winning the World Series. (See, that's funny because my Redskins don't play baseball. Some people would argue that the Redskins don't play football either. Ha! I crack myself up!)

One aspect of the Citadel project that I think will be very important is to have Patriots who make the move with us to get involved in local and state politics. If III Patriots start in lower offices such as town councils, run for mayor, accept jobs as bureaucrats in City Hall, then within those small spheres of influence III values can be asserted.

If a county has a III Sheriff and deputies, stupid laws can be ignored and not enforced. If a III Patriot gets hired as a town Permit Manager, that Patriot can simply ignore stupid statutes, such as requirements for permits to hold a yard sale, or any other foolish infringement on Natural Law. A III dog catcher can leave his mark upon this world by simply ignoring a statute that requires licenses for Fido, and in that tiny bit of defiance, Liberty grows stronger.

Town Hall by City Hall by County, and into the State House, and ultimately to the men and women we send to Washington on behalf of Idaho, we can make Liberty stronger simply by taking the power of Government and refusing to wield it improperly. Then III lawmakers can repeal or otherwise nullify bad laws. III Patriots sitting on the Bench can instruct jurors about nullification, and return the power to decide the law back into the hands of Citizens, where it belongs.

And the Bad Individuals who are removed from offices of power? Let 'em go back to California or Boston or whatever tyrannical bit of America that will have them.

If we can move 3,000 III families into a single community we can dominate local politics, either by supporting people who already live in Idaho who have good Souls, or we can pool our resources and finance our own candidates.

I believe such a course has the potential to inspire other Patriots across the country who may now feel isolated and outnumbered, dispirited and void of hope.

There is no quick fix to repeal generations of abuse by Bad People in government offices, nor is there a quick fix to halt and turn back the moral and intellectual decay that has been encouraged by Bad People for generations. The only way to accomplish a restoration of Liberty is to fight on every front, every day, until we are dead. And when we are gone, if we have raised our children properly they will continue the pursuit for themselves and their posterity.

Fight on every front. CA refers to it as the polygonal battlespace. Yes, even 2A is a Constitutional remedy to an abusive individual in Government. But let us not forget the other Constitutional weapons we possess.

One man can eat a cow, if he does so one bite at a time. One man can build a castle, if he breaks the task down to a manageable level and builds by setting one brick at a time. And Patriots can recover Liberty for ourselves and our Countrymen if we focus on replacing Bad People in government one individual at a time.

Time and momentum are enemies of this course. I remain convinced that economic Implosion is imminent. However, during and after an economic meltdown there will remain government in one form or another, and in the coming times of chaos and uncertainty, we may find our opportunity to make big gains in a short time.

But just like III Arms and the Citadel, and every other goal worth attaining, it will require hard work and it will require some of us to put our necks on the line. And it will take Patriots who have the guts to stand up and support those who put their necks on the line.

I am optimistic, because I have seen you all do exactly that. I have watched you step up and take a chance for Liberty. I watch daily as you work to reach our goals.

We've got this...

Think about it.

Kerodin
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Zoomie: III to III & more

"Off topic (just a little) There should be tees and hoodies made by Zoomie. Put me down for 2 if they are offered."

That would be silly. What an outlandish idea. I've heard some goofy schemes in my day, but this one is a real knee-slapper, friendo.

For anyone who doesn't know, The Great and Talented Walter Zoomie does indeed have a place where you can buy some of his designs and show your support for the III, and the man who contributes so much outstanding artwork (and comedy) to our community.

Here's the link. Buy some gear.

I have a hoodie/shirt story to tell this weekend, right now I am just too ticked to write about it.

We also need to have a discussion about our Liberty Congress soon. Yes, it is still on, no worries there. I want to ask you all to weigh in regarding the tone and goals of the Congress as it fits with III Arms and the Citadel. We'll get into it next week sometime.

But right now, you should be going to Zazzle to peep Zoomie's III Gear, here.

Kerodin
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Details

John Browning invented the 1911, which as you all know is deservedly iconic.



A few years later he had to build another pistol, but because he'd sold many of the patents in the 1911 he had to dig deep and build the new pistol without infringing his own work. The result? The Browning Hi Power, or P35. Chambered in 9mm, I was fortunate enough to own a Hi Power in my young-adult years, and it is a magnificent pistol. I mention the Hi Power just to remind people of the brilliance that the man possessed.



Over the last 2 weeks or so I have been in contact with about 18 custom 1911 shops across the country. Jim has been contacting builders as well as we look for the right relationship. Many of these builders you would know, some perhaps not. Many of the best shops have build times measured in 6-12 months, and more. That doesn't exactly fit with my timeline. For our prototypes we could always just buy a few Wilson models off the shelf and do a few modifications. Hard to find fault with the quality of the product - but nothing on the market hits my sweet spot. And the time involved with sending a new Wilson or Kimber back for tweaking puts us right back into the months-year+ waiting periods, just for our prototypes.

That isn't working for me.

I have had three world-class builders who are willing to build the prototypes we want, but their delay is nearly a year, and to be honest, they'd build a set of pistols that will not be our production models. They'd build pistols worth about 3 times the price point of our production pieces. Our prototypes must be identical in all respects (or darned close to it) to the units III Arms will turn out in production.

I am speaking with a very talented builder down in Texas who looks like a good fit at the moment. He builds first class 1911s, he can (probably) hit our timeline, and the prototypes you'll put in your hands will be the same pistol turned out by III Arms staff once we get fired up and online.

In all we have about 5 shops in serious discussions at the moment, but the Texas shop is my preference if we can get all of our ducks in a row. I have queries out to another dozen, waiting for initial email replies from them. I'll keep you in the loop.

Sorry to folks who wrote today and I have not yet replied - Holly and I unexpectedly found ourselves out and about most of the day. I was able to release a few comments for the blog, but email and my Droid make me nucking futs.

More IIIGear going out tomorrow.

Kerodin
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Optimism is justified

Like many of you I feel very optimistic about our future.

The image above is from somewhere in Idaho.

Nothing we are doing, including III Arms and the Citadel, will change the course of America at large. Ugly events are imminent for the republic, and nothing a mere few thousand patriotic families choose to do will stop hundreds of millions of our Countrymen from their self-destructive course.

So be it.

What is within our power is the ability to get out of their way and let them suffer the stupidity they seem determined to bring down upon their heads. We have the power to step aside and take a defensive posture in a beautiful piece of America, engaging ourselves in productive endeavors, living with like-minded Patriots, choosing peace while keeping an eye on the horizon just in case any Bad People choose to make a mistake and come our way.

America became the power in the world for many reasons, not the least of which is our history of unbridled Free Enterprise. Bold Americans built railroads and the telegraph system, making fortunes, advancing the country, and giving honest work to many, many families. We will follow that model as we move forward. We will build a product that has tangible value to a great percentage of our Countrymen, and we will benefit from that business activity.

We will use the fruits of that labor to feed, clothe, house ourselves and keep ourselves safe, warm and happy. Not every Patriot needs to work directly for III Arms Company to benefit from the company. Indeed, the number of direct employees will be relatively small, as the business can only prudently employ so many Souls.

But the byproduct of a successful company is opportunity and prosperity for bold Americans who choose to leave their current location and establish home & hearth in the shadow of III Arms. One of our Patriots (and III Arms Founders) is a professional construction executive, and he has offered invaluable insights regarding the methods and costs of building our town. As a town grows there will be a need for every skillset, from a hair salon to heavy equipment operators, electricians to librarians to butchers to bar keeps.

If you feel the pressures and the grind of life, take a deep breath and look toward Idaho. Permit the potential to dance in your minds.

And for those of you who support this project yet have no intention of moving, just know the doors will always be open for you, even if you just wish to drop in to visit a growing town of people who see the world as do you.

Kerodin
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III to III

Julie III - the nurse who has so selflessly helped Kenny and his family - thank you.

I suspect you read this blog on occasion, so please let me thank you personally for all you have done to help one of our own. You embody the best of the III.

Folks, here is the link to Kenny's place.

Let him know your thoughts, please.

Kerodin
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Nothing worth succeeding is easy or free

A little more about III Arms.

We've got the business end of things progressing nicely, as noted in the post below this one. Now we are moving into meatier areas. Because III Arms is brand new, with an aggressive timeline for getting prototypes and production units built and into customer hands, there are a few steps we need to take that the average manufacturer can avoid. Getting a company FFL should be relatively straight forward, though time consuming. Before ATF will consider issuing an 07 (which is the FFL designation for a company that is permitted to manufacture) the company needs a physical space the local ATF Agent can visit and inspect, and that meets all state and local zoning codes. Once we have a suitable space and we submit the paperwork to ATF, they usually rule within 60 days.

Step 2 for being legally allowed to manufacture is to satisfy the State Department and pay their ITAR tax, which is a bit more than $2k. They can take 90 days to 1 year to issue the license, and only then is III Arms Company legally permitted to build the first firearm and deliver to a customer. So, you may be asking, how do you intend to deliver product by November 6th?!

That's a fair question. But before I can answer it, you need to know one more tidbit.

We are 99% sure of the following, and need an attorney to give us the green light before we go much further on this path. Only a licensed FFL holder may accept money from a customer for the purchase of a firearm. That FFL holder must be an 07 (manufacturer) or an 01 (your average gun shop license, a FFL 01 is a dealer license). Lucky for us, we have several 01s in our ranks, and Jim is an 01 who is already carrying a lot of weight for us all.

So, to satisfy the State Department and BATFE here is the model we are noodling through at the moment: Our current 01 will accept orders and payments from customers, then he will pay the 07 who is building our initial production firearms. When the firearm is ready, it will either ship directly from the 07 manufacturer to the customers FFL (gun shop) or it will ship back to our 01, and then out to the customers gun shop for pick up.

This looks legal from my research and Jim's, so next week we'll get an attorney involved who specializes in BATFE matters and get a written opinion from him/her so we know we are on safe ground. It won't be cheap, but it will be priceless. Once we have that opinion, I think we'll go and sit down with the proper people at ATF and see if they have any problem with the arrangement.

I can't stress this enough: We will make sure every party involved is on safe legal ground before we take a step. We must have a good relationship with BATFE and we must be standing on solid legal ground. If we are cavalier or arrogant and they shut us down, the entire project hits a brick wall at full speed.

We will use this business model for as long as necessary (Using an outside company that is already licensed as a manufacturer). During this time we'll be selling units and delivering them to customers, while putting the profit margin in the bank for III Arms, and slowly building our own infrastructure. Once we have all of the III Arms ducks in a row (A company FFL, trained gunsmiths, facility and required equipment) we'll begin moving production in-house.

This process simply can not be rushed. During this time the company will be sending Jim and at least 2-3 other III Patriots who are selected to be our core builders to several high-quality gunsmithing courses with some of the most renown 1911 custom builders in the country. If all goes well, our building team should be ready just about the time our FFL is approved and our ITAR paperwork is complete. Once we are ready to start building on our own, that will be the time our core build team will need to move to Idaho.

Do you want to be among that team? First, let me know. Second, use this time in these days to learn as much as you can about serious gunsmithing. Go to your local gunsmith and ask if you can intern and learn from him. Learn to weld and other machinist skills. Learn what you can about running a CNC system. Check your local community college and see if they have any classes that will help you. Study as much as you can about the art and science of metals and gunsmithing.

Please don't hate me if you apply and don't get selected right away. The first core group has to be selected carefully. I promise I will find a way to use everyone who wants to be in the company, but we have to approach this as a hardcore business.

We've got our Trademark secured, which is awesome. There is much to do before we can sell our first pistol made by the hands of our own people, and we will get there as soon as possible.

In the meantime, we are working right now to find the best established 07 (manufacturer) to build for us until we can do it ourselves.

There is a side benefit to this arrangement. The first 1000 or so pistols sold by III Arms will become collectors items because they may or may not be marked on the frame as "Built by III Arms Company". The rules require the actual manufacturer to mark the frame with his company information. So if we contract with ABC Inc. to manufacture our first 1000 pistols, he may have no choice but to stamp "ABC MFG" on the frame of our pistols. We will of course also have our III graphics lasered onto these pistols, and there are 2 ways that we may even have "Made by III Arms Company" stamped on the frames, even when being built by our contracted 07. We can apply for a variance with ATF or we can license our name to our contracted builder. If we can get that in place, then all pistols, even the first 1000 will bear our name only.

I hope I am explaining these details and possible scenarios articulately. I've had more than a week to digest this stuff, so don't feel bad if it reads like Greek.

Here is an important bit of information: Any III Arms pistol or rifle sold that is manufactured by a contracted third party will have a collectors value once we evolve and move everything in-house. Kinda like having a Babe Ruth Rookie card, if you get my drift.

I learned a LOT about the business end of the firearms industry by studying the great Harry Sanford and the problems he hit while trying to get the legendary Auto Mag in production. We won't make those mistakes.

Much of this is inside baseball, watching how the sausage is made. Many of you won't care how we get it done, so long as we do get it done. Others will be pleased to be kept in the loop. I hope this post hasn't bored the heck out of you.

So, our immediate goal is to get our prototypes built and out into the community. While that is happening, we'll be crafting our marketing campaign.

The question was asked about the possibility of assigning special serial numbers for our Founders who choose to buy a pistol - the answer is yes. We'll get that done.

The prototypes will be the most valuable firearms the company ever sells, probably. I haven't decided how to use them yet, but I think auctioning them to raise a bit more operating capital would be a prudent move.

Know this: You have entrusted me with the task of getting III Arms launched and successful, and I take such obligations deathly seriously. No impediment will kill this project. There will be challenges, and they will be defeated.

III Arms Company will succeed in our goal of offering an industry around which Patriots can build lives in our community. The success of this project is more important than any individual. The stakes are too high to waste time with unmotivated people.

We've got this...

Yours in Liberty.

Kerodin
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III Arms Update

**Update** We are rolling forward, folks. Holly deposited the last of the Founders checks today, so your accounts should note the difference soon. The company name has been accepted by Idaho, and we are just waiting for the paperwork package to be returned to us. They say it may take as many as 3 weeks, but they've been moving faster than that for us. I'll let everyone know when the paperwork is back. We've also got our Fed EIN, so we are good with the big guys.

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Hi folks,

We'll be starting a Founders Only email list next week so Founding members can be in the loop without putting all of the minutia on the blog in public. We'll still talk about general issues on the blog, but there are certain inner-workings that don't need to be broadcast publicly. Look for this to begin early next week.

**Founding Members** If you do not want to be included in the email list, OR you do not want to be known to your fellow Founders, let me know in email, please. Both positions are perfectly understandable if you want to remain private. If anyone wishes to remain incognito we'll simply do the list as a BCC for those members, or leave them off entirely if that's the preference. There will be questions asked from time to time seeking the consensus of the Founders, and I also think many of you may like to know one another. But I am here to make sure you have the level of anonymity or complete non-involvement you want, so let me know.

Here's where we stand at the moment: Twitter and Facebook are up and running, managed by Leslie & Jim respectively. Leslie has been working for weeks on an overall marketing strategy and Jim is positioned perfectly to help us with production and QC management, and he has a sharp business mind. We are in the very final stages of determining which custom shop will get the contract to build the prototypes, what frame/pistol they'll build on, options, custom markings, et cetera. Once the build details are settled and in progress the next step is to turn full attention on our core marketing program with Leslie. We have many Founders and others with professional skills who have offered their time and energy to help as they can, and I will be reaching out to them as things fall in place. We have IT guys, graphics guys, accountants. I'd still like an attorney who is a III Patriot involved, so if you are able and willing, let me know. This project must be done right, and we must make FedGov give us the nod in order to avoid an adversarial relationship. To do that, we need a III/Patriotic legal counselor.

At the moment, for those interested, everything looks to be on schedule for having the prototypes at Brock's PatCom in early October. I'm not sure if I will be free, but Jim has very kindly agreed to escort the prototypes to NC and let everyone check our work. One of our Founders has a training weekend just before Brock's gig, and if we have a prototype ready, we'll get one to him for that in PA. We'll have to then work out the rest of the T&E schedule.

I want our first production piece to be delivered to our first customer on Buy a Gun Day, November 6th. Several details need to be worked out between here and there, but that's our target.

Total Founding Members: 40, give or take a couple either way. We'll have a final number soon. While I won't give our final financial total, I am proud to say we met our $25k goal, with a bit more because so many of you are darned serious about helping to make this happen. Several Founders sent us $250 to get in before the deadline, and promised more during the next 60 days. That extra revenue will help tremendously when it arrives.

Founders: I know intimately well that many of you had to dig deep to hit the $250. I will never forget your effort. One of you even offered to help close the gap to our goal if we came up short - that is the caliber of Patriots who are part of this group of Founders.

And I know many of you wanted desperately to be Founders and simply could not reach the $250 goal. In my mind, your desire counts greatly, and we will find a way to bring you into the fold, one way or another. The desire to help is as important to the success of III Arms as is the ability to cut a check or send your gold & silver, which several of you did. Every single one of you represent the heart of this venture. My contribution is the least significant as I look around at the collection of you Patriots. I'm just the guy with the idea, and I'll keep skin in the game and sacrifice anything I must to ensure III Arms is a success. Just so you know, my lovely wife is 100% engaged and will be a significant resource that will become evident as things evolve.

I am very proud to stand with you all.

Summary: Prototypes are nearly ready to be built and modified. Production details in the works, marketing in the works, and getting prototypes in III Patriots hands in the works.

More later.

Kerodin
III

Social Security needs ammo, too...

We know FedGov intends to begin putting armed guards at SSA offices, so the ammo will probably be used by them. Maybe. It's .357 Sig, not sure who is issued that caliber in the FedGov army.

Either way, this is all a continuation of the arming of FedGov across all agencies that began many years ago.

It is also a great excuse to squirrel away caches of ammo in unlikely FedGov locations for later use, in the event they can't re-supply their minions in a Ruckus.

DHS is apparently adding to their 450 million rounds of .40 cal. Now, we know there are about 800,000 LEO of all flavors across America. We know that most of them do not carry .40s. So, are they buying pallets of .40 pistols as well, or parts for refurbishing them? Having a mountain of ammo is useless if you have no pistols because you've burned them out.

None of this really matters, of course. We know the plan. They are merely prepping for the Ruckus, the same as you should be doing.

Here's the link on SSA from Rich T.

Kerodin
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Catechism on the Constitution

I will be getting a copy.

Here's the link from Paratus Familia.

Kerodin
III

Good for the Goose is good for the Gander...

I remain firmly convinced that Americans can, and will, dig deep in the face of tyranny and prevail. The herd will be culled, but at the end of the day, Liberty will stand.

Our plan to build a community together is a defensive measure, a means of remaining as safe as possible while combining all of our resources to stand thousands strong. Our resources go far beyond merely watching one anothers backs. I promise you we have a serious brain-trust headed to Idaho. We also have a strong concentration of American FU-programmed DNA headed to blue skies.

One of my Uncle's early lessons as he handed me a pistol to shoot was a simple caution not to put too much faith in a firearm. His wisdom: They didn't build just one and then quit.

His point: The other guy may have one too. He may know what you know. He may even know more, and be meaner.

Bad People can build guns, and so can Good People. Bad People can build safe No-Go zones, so can we. Bad People know where we live? That's a two-way street.

Deacon Matson linked to a good article about how to fortify your home if you choose, here. It is not a matter of being undefeatable, it is a matter of raising the cost of an attack to a level the enemy is unwilling to pay. He also supports my larger point with this post, where he briefly discusses a Drone Manufacturing company he is helping to launch - drones for FreeFor.

They didn't make one and then quit...

Kerodin
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A Storm is coming...

NWS orders ammo...

Do you understand?

Here's the link, found first at Drudge.

Kerodin
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NC PatCom: III Arms on display if all goes well!

Brock has kindly agreed to let III Arms show off a few of the 1911 Prototypes at his PatCom, if we hit our schedule deadlines. At this moment I have no doubt we'll be on schedule and proudly passing the prototypes around to Patriots in October in North Carolina.

If you can attend Brock's gig I highly encourage you to do so. It is by getting together and building bonds that we build the III.

Here's the link.

Thank you, Brock!

Kerodin
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LEO doing Traffic Stops in Armor

Update: David (NCRenegade) is having some fact-checking done on this. I'll make the link hot again if it checks out.

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...and we're not talking about body armor.

Here's the story from LT at NCRenegade.

Kerodin
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Building the III

III to III.

I have been considering many avenues of increasing our Brand, growing our community with people who think as do we, and helping individual Patriots who want or need a new or additional revenue stream.

We have decided to build III Branded firearms, and we have a very small quota required to hit our short-term profit margins. Whether we decide to sell directly to the public or sell to gun shops, we should be able to hit our target numbers pretty easily. There are tens of thousands of retail shops out there, we need to get our product on the shelves of 1500 shops to hit our sales goal - that should be a gimme. Or, we need to sell to 1500 individuals. Either way we choose to pursue our sales, financial success for our immediate goals should not be a bridge too far.

One opportunity I have been considering, especially for III Patriots who do not intend to move to Idaho, is to help interested Patriots to get into the gun shop business.

Consider: IIIGear already has dealer accounts with Condor, KA-BAR, Cold Steel, US Palm, and opening new accounts is merely a matter of talking to the company we want to represent and submitting our initial order. This means IIIGear has access to wholesale gear. Soon III Arms will be able to offer wholesale pricing.

One of the biggest hindrances to opening a new gun shop is the start-up costs. Buying the stuff needed to fill the shelves is not cheap, especially when every vendor demands you to buy $500 or $1000 worth of product on your initial order. Browning Firearms wants a $7,500 initial order to buy their products, and that is just one firearms line. But, if you were to have IIIGear at your back, able to help fill the shelves for opening day without forcing you to invest the money required to open 30 different vendor accounts, Opening Day just got easier.

The Patriot would need to qualify for an FFL 01 from ATF and be able to sign a lease for a shop space wherever you decide to open. You'd still need some start-up capital to pay your landlord, buy your insurance, and cover the cost of a basic start-up package of inventory, but the business model has reduced that burden down to the size of a nut most can crack.

Can your area support another gun shop, especially a patriotic shop?

Just something to think about for a while. I've been noodling it through for a while now, and refining the concept. This brief post doesn't begin to cover all the details, of course, but it is a primer. And consider the advantages of having the III Brand beginning to infiltrate towns and suburbs through local gun shops.

The goal is III to III. If we can all work together to help individual Patriots succeed, we all succeed. The III Brand succeeds. In the end, Liberty succeeds.

If you are building or running a small Tribe in your area, a gun shop could be your revenue stream. Just as the Citadel will be built upon the III Arms factory, your Tribe could use your own business the same way. You'd be in charge of your future. And as times get tougher, gun shops will become more and more successful.

No, you won't become a millionaire running a gun shop. But you could establish a solid cash flow for your Tribe. And if the worst comes one day, you'd have a store full of essential gear and hard assets to hand out to allies.

Once III Arms is up and running, this networking avenue may hold promise for many.

Think about it.

Kerodin
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III Arms: On Twitter & Facebook

Twitter, here.

Facebook, here.

Thanks to Leslie & Jim!

Kerodin
III

What does tomorrow hold?

I have no idea what tomorrow may hold. We can guess, anticipate, play the odds, but until tomorrow gets here, we don't know. But we can guess, anticipate and play the odds and prepare as we are able for the most likely possibilities.

The Citadel project can only be so large. The first prudent (significant) structure would be the rhetorical Keep, the final home for III Arms. Going further, to enclose even a mile of property with a useful Curtain Wall will be an expensive, daunting task. How many tons of earth will have to be moved to sculpt the land?

Assuming a mile of space inside the walls, no more than 3,000 households would be prudent, and McMansions would not be possible. There must be enough room to bring people in who choose to live outside the walls during times of danger, but how many, and for how long, and at what comfort level? At some point the gates simply need to be closed, and good people will be left on the outside, looking in. There simply is not enough room or resources to take everyone who will wish to be in safety.

To build a modern walled town poses real challenges not faced by those before us. Cars, for one. Modern community planning and modern American expectations bump heads with a modern walled town that can be a genuine refuge in dangerous times. One gate is the easiest to defend, and one gate is guaranteed to annoy people once in a while as a traffic bottleneck. A fair trade? That will be for each individual to decide. Personally, the concept of a walled town eliminates the need to go beyond the walls very often. If everything I need is within a mile-wide space, why would I venture out except for the occasional trip or vacation?

While a mile of open space is small, it is equally large. One square mile is 640 acres. There is no reason a first class indoor shooting range can't be inside the walls. Grocery, hair, fashion, exercise, parks, woods, ATV dealership, all of our needs, and many of our wants. But if you want to own a 20 acre parcel, that won't work inside the walls. Will III Arms get lucky and have the ability to own more property than just 640 acres? Perhaps. Large tracts of land in Idaho can be purchased for (relatively) modest prices. But consider the cost of every linear foot of wall, and you can see that the ability to enclose a larger space becomes exponentially more difficult.

Regardless of how things evolve, I am pleased we seem to have found a path that many of us find prudent. For many of us the concept holds the first real glimmers of hope we've been able to muster in quite a while. Wherever you see your place on this path we have chosen, which includes III Arms and Idaho and eventually the Citadel, I have appreciated the support you have offered. Many have offered skills. Others who were able offered cash. Others have offered moral support. It all matters.

I will offer this one bit of advice to anyone who is looking at the potential of moving to Idaho, connected in any manner with this project: Do not wait too long to decide your path. Obviously, no one is packing yet, but the response we have received simply from within the small online community of III Patriots who visit this site is sufficient for me to be certain that if we have the ability to include even as many as 3,000 households inside the walls, they will be claimed quickly. Yes, there has been that level of support. And we have never once yet mentioned the concept beyond this blog. What do you think will happen when we begin marketing nationally?

I can already tell you that III Arms will be a success from a business perspective. We have serious people who are already putting real work into III Arms, from marketing to production, and not one person is pulling a salary. (We have not even deposited the first check, yet). We are all paying our bills with our day jobs. You simply can't hire that kind of loyalty and motivation, as every businessman knows. More than 40 Patriots devoted their cash to help launch the company. People are involved because we believe. We are all doing our part to ensure III Arms launches and catches fire among the patriotic Americans still in our country.

Remember that the primary purpose of III Arms is to give Patriots an industry that will sustain the launch of our small town. From there, Free Enterprise will have to do the rest and determine our growth rate and population. But the gears are in motion, and this project will continue to evolve rapidly.

So, consider your place, Patriots. Here's a site about Northern Idaho.

Kerodin
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Gun Industry in Idaho

Thanks to Daniel for sending this link about the growing gun industry in Idaho.

Holly has been in touch with a very helpful group in the state to help lay the groundwork for III Arms.

Idaho was a good choice, folks.

Here's the link.

Kerodin
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Every day you beg not to be arrested...

David has a good piece about the erosion of Rights.

It is not a new trend.

Here's the piece.

Kerodin
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North Carolina Fall PatCom

Brock sent this the other day - sorry for the delay Brock.

He has always been a great support for this community, and a uniter of allies.

If you can attend, drop him a note.

Here's the link.

Kerodin
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QC at Colt? New USMC 1911 Colts cracking...

Rich T has the story about new USMC 1911s cracking in trials, made by Colt, here.

Sorry for the silence, folks. We had a rather annoying shipping SNAFU with some IIIGear we shipped last week, and had to square that away among our other chores. If you have an order pending, give it 'til Tuesday. Only about 9-10 packages were FUBAR'd (out of about 40) so not everyone is affected. There is a machine eating packages somewhere in Ohio, which seems to be a significant hub in the world of packages heading out of my area. Tomorrow will be the same (pretty quiet on the blog) as we have III chores in Baltimore in the morning, then more locally in the afternoon, mixed in with regular work duties.

As of this moment I still do not have pricing for prototypes, so I can't give an answer as to whether or not we are Go or No Go just yet. We've been lining up alternatives in the event we don't get rolling very soon. We have one or two business model items to confirm as well, making sure everyone stays in-bounds with ATF. As soon as I know, you'll know. ;)

Looking into the near future, have you considered your role at the Citadel? I think you can safely consider it to be a frontier, with minimal enemy activity. It will be a town built and filled with Patriots relatively quickly, judging by the response I have had from so many of you. The Citadel is where you can consider your dreams and make them happen. We'll be creating a town from scratch, probably with a few smaller towns within relatively easy driving distance.

Have you dreamed of opening a coffee shop? A hair salon? A hunting outfitter? Think of an orderly Boom Town from the days of our westward expansion. The opportunities for you will be wide open. A bakery? I do like fresh bread. No matter what you want, make it happen. I will help you, personally, in any manner I am able. This is the time for you to get what you want from life, and secure the future for your family. Whether it is a dream job or simply a place to raise your children away from the ills of our greater society, the opportunity is coming soon. Plan now.

Holly posed a question that made me grin yesterday, as she is wrapping her mind around the enormity of the task before us. Yes, I've seen the "What the heck have you gotten us into this time?" look more than once in the last 2 weeks. Her question: What do we do about the family of four with Patriot Mommy & Daddy and Little Billy, when Little Alice turns into a screaming and silly 16 year old Liberal tree-hugger in a walled community surrounded by Patriots?

I have to admit, even in the "No Liberals" Citadel, there will be families with black sheep. My response was a shrug. Folks will work it out. I also answered that the Citadel will never be "better" than at its beginning, when the overwhelming majority are Liberty-minded Americans.

It is simply the way of nature to go from an orderly state to a disorderly state, and the Citadel will be no different. Can we get 2-3 good, solid, moral, healthy generations out of it before our posterity forget how good they have it?

Isn't that the same story of our larger culture today? Too many among us simply don't know how good it is in America, how hard it can be to simply live in many parts of the world. Americans simply haven't had to worry about rockets from Canada or Mexico or any other foreign power in so many generations, most of our Countrymen think...it can't happen here.

It can. It will, to some extent or another. Modern Americans are headed at full-speed for a PhD level course in real life. It's gonna hurt many folks.

All you and I can do is provide for ourselves and our children as best as we are able, and then the world belongs to them, and they will decide what to do with it.

The idea of spending the remainder of my life among a small community of like-minded Patriots, and as removed as we can be from the heavy hands of Bad People, appeals to me. And if the Bad People chase us to the walls...it will suck to be them.

If we bust our butts and do what we need to do, we can all have a great "...rest of our lives..." among one another, covering one another if we need to do so, and building something in an America where too many people want to destroy instead.

I'll give you a little insight to the chore before us - it should fill you with enthusiasm and a sense of "Oh yeah, we got this..."

In 2011 there were 14.4 million background checks for new firearms sales.

That is a LOT of firearms sales.

Do you know how many units III Arms must move in order to purchase the land for the Citadel in a year?

1,500.

Yes, fifteen hundred units. One thousand five hundred sales in a year, and the company will buy the land for the Citadel.

That's it.

Are you willing to help promote III Arms to hit that sales quota?

To hit those numbers in a year we need to move 4 units per day, on average.

We should blow into the 1500 order range in weeks after launching into production, if we all do our part.

Yeah, we can do that. And if we do that in 6 months instead of 12, then I'll begin to see you folks rolling into Idaho in the Spring.

Yeah, we got this...

Kerodin
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