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We have a lot of opportunities in the U
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First of all, just in firearms. In most
other countries, you can't have this.

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So when we have an opportunity to, I
want to make a firearm, but I want to do

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my way, you can start a business here,
go out and earn it and prove it and do

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things your own way and not have to
follow corporate structure.

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There's risk involved, but without risk,
there's no reward.

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So that's really the American dream is
take risks, take chances, believe in

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yourself. make it happen.

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My dad talked a lot about making a
legacy, and that's what he was creating

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Something that he could leave on to the
family, but making his mark on the

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industry that he loved.

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A lot of the people that were really
close to him told him he was never going

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do it. He was wasting his time. Why
would anybody buy something from an

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guy in Arizona?

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He just thought the typical things put
people putting you down. He just wanted

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to prove people wrong.

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Not only can he do it, but he was going
to do it whether he liked it or not.

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He wasn't going to take no for an
answer. He was going to do it his way or

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highway, and that's just the way it was.

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He always said, if you get a dream,
chase it because nobody's going to give

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to you.

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That's the American dream.

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Earn what you've got and make your name
out there.

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Everybody can have a chance as long as
they're willing to grasp it, but it

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going to be given to you. You've got to
earn it.

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Hi, welcome to Patriot Ordnance Factory.

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We compromise on nothing. We only put
the best materials, the best processes.

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It's irrelevant if it's hot, if it's
cold, if it's sandy and dusty and muddy.

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We don't emulate.

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We don't imitate.

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We innovate.

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Prior to POF, Frank was working as a
design engineer in

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production control for Allied Tool and
Die. He taught himself how to be a CNC

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programmer. He had the drive and
determination to do whatever

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problem was in front of him. He wanted
to fix it, and he wanted to be the one.

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What my dad did in aerospace, as far as
being an engineer in the aerospace

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industry, where he really excelled was
in process engineering.

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So, hey, we need to make this part and
need to hold these tolerances, need to

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have this certain heat treat.

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With firearms, we've got a lot of
liability.

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Aerospace has a lot of liability, so
everything has to be 100 % to the

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customer's order. So that was really
where he excelled was the roadmap of

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running it through the processes and
making sure the part that was ordered

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was... you know, to print when it got
delivered.

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I don't remember the exact moment that
he came to me to ask me to start this

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business, but he had told me that he had
met some friends, some people at a

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gun show in downtown Phoenix, and
somebody needed help developing a part.

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And he said, I think I can do it.

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And so he went back the next time and
showed him, here, I made this part. And

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another gentleman was there and said,
you made that?

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And he said, yeah, I made that. I work
at a machine shop. And he said, why

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you go into business for yourself? And
Frank said, I don't have the money for

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that. And he said, I do.

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And I believe in you. If you can make
this, we can make something of it.

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And so that's kind of where it started.

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And he came home and told me about the
conversation and then said, what do you

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think? Should we try it?

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And, you know, he always said, if you
don't believe in yourself, who's going

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And so I said, yeah, I think we should
try it.

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freedom are within our factory. So all
our employees know that we stand with

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America and we'll always stand with
America.

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North or south side of our building is
the American flag.

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That's a symbol of freedom that's
inclusive with liberty and

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justice for all. The most wonderful
symbol in the world that has to do with

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freedom. So we proudly display that in
our factory as we work day to day.

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We're building everyday symbols of
freedom out here.

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On Thursday, June 18, 2020, Frank passed
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He left work at 5 .58.

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He was in an open -air Jeep.

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Didn't have a top.

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And he was driving home. It's about
seven miles from the office.

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And he got to the door. Brandon and
Frank closed every day. And he gives

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a wave.

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And on his way home, he turned on the
carefree highway

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and a car.

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was making a U -turn onto the highway,
and I think he thought they would stop

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when they saw him, and they didn't.

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And he overcorrected the Jeep, and he
rolled the vehicle three times.

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And he passed away immediately.

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Yeah, I'm going to show you my dad's
office.

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We've actually left it pretty much
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And nobody really comes in here. We kind
of want to leave it the way it was,

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keep his memory alive.

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Nobody's ever going to feel this office
anyways, no matter how good they are.

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Keeping the space exactly the way it's
set, I mean, things that were important

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to him.

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My papa, the books he liked to read, his
hat, he loved cars.

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Obviously, look around the room,
patriotic.

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Ronald Reagan pictures and some of the
art that he had made over the years.

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We want to keep it exactly the way it
is. It's kind of a selfishly museum

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but for the family, this is his office.
Nobody else is going to sit in here.

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So on top of keeping his office the way
it is, we keep my dad's cell phone still

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active. I keep it on me every day.

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It's a reminder of him, you know, as a
kid, even just up until the accident,

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Thanksgiving, New Year's, Christmas, it
didn't matter. He was texting every

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contact he had, Happy Thanksgiving,
Happy New Year's, Merry Christmas.

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You know, at the time you get upset,
you're like, hey, man, pay attention to

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family. But you look at it now, he still
gets text messages, miss you, buddy,

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Merry Christmas.

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You know, you get emotional about it.

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I think he meant a lot to people. I
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he was a good man.

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People respected him, and he was caring.
He was giving, you know.

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And so I think that kind of thing, I
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People cared, you know.

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It's humbling for me, you know.

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Obviously, I loved him. He was my dad,
but see how other people cared.

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in Arizona at the Ben Avery shooting
range, the largest shooting range, I

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believe, in the United States. And most
particularly, we're on Frank's shooting

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range. This range was dedicated to him
after his unfortunate death, an untimely

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death.

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And this was something that he was
actually working on long before that.

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came to fruition, unfortunately, very
quick as a result of his death.

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So I was up here working as a contractor
teaching shooting, and I heard about

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this guy that had developed this rifle
where he had converted AR -15s to piston

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-driven guns, which sounded pretty
interesting because of the reliability

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on the AK -47.

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So I called him up while I was here in
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I bought one of his guns.

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We shot it.

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100 % operational, but it was also very
apparent that he was not a shooter.

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So there was some modifications that we
needed to do to the gun to make it more

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user -friendly.

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But that rifle, I shot about 33 ,000
rounds through with my business partner,

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also a friend of Sue's, Rue Don
Alexander.

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And he had another gun that he also put
approximately 30 -something thousand

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rounds through.

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Now, the barrels were shot out, but the
mechanisms were still running. So we

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knew Frank was on to it.

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So I think what they brought out for us
today is their revolution in 6 .5

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Creedmoor. And immediately, when you
look at the extrusions and the cut and

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they machined their material and all the
small things, it really makes a big

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difference. All the stuff, the type of
railing that he uses, the connection

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points that he uses, the stock that he
uses, the grips, the trigger that he

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created. There's so much thought that
goes into this rifle to get what

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you're looking at today. And this is
years, from 2005 to right now today.

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All of these ideas you're looking at,
I'm sitting here in this rifle.

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My recommendation is if you want to buy
one, get that gun.

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It's just shot at 200 meters. It's like
just stacking them on top of ammo.

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Very accurate.

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We're here at the POF factory floor.

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We're going to kind of walk through
every step of the process as far as

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going to start with assembly first, and
then we can run through the machine

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shop.

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So all the receivers, once they get the
forward assist and the trapdoor on,

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Ian's installing the barrel. He's got
the barrel nut.

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We torque them to 45 foot -pounds of
torque.

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We have the special arbors that we made,
and that way we're making sure we're

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not getting any tension on the receiver
itself because it is, at the end of the

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day, that upper receiver is a thin
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If you just try to put it in a vice
without something holding that barrel

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extension, you're going to crack the
receiver.

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So we want to make sure that it's
properly torqued but without damaging

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upper.

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Right now, we're actually running
extractors.

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What the extractor does is when the bolt
is locked up into battery, you pull the

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trigger, right? It fires. When it goes
to extract the round, the extractor is

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holding onto the rim.

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of the shell casing, and that's what's
going to pull it out of chamber, and

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the ejector will kick it out of the
firearm.

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So this machine makes all of our bolts
and extractors.

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It's a Ganesh GenTurn.

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It's a nine -axis milling machine, which
means we have the bar feeder. It's

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going to load the bar stock.

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It'll push bar into the set length that
it needs to be, and then it's got the

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tooling that can cut from nine different
axes, so we can do it complete.

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Instead of doing multiple steps to where
we used to do it, We would make a blank

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and then put it on another machine to
finish it, and then it would go back to

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lathe to get turned.

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Now we've taken three steps, put it down
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So we're going to start out with a
billet block of aluminum, and this is

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one is going to look like once it comes
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Basically, once you start the
manufacturing process, it must be

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So our job is to get the serial number
on there and get it in our logbooks as

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fast as possible.

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You don't want these sitting out without
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You cannot do that. They want a serial
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process starts.

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Innovation, we use that word a lot at
POS and this room.

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It's so easy to just pick up calipers
and reverse engineer what somebody else

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did. But to step up and do your own
design, put all the risk on your

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and see it come to life, something that
was in your head, hit paper, going to

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SolidWorks, program, machine, I mean,
it's so much more gratifying to know

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you designed this out of your own head.
You didn't copy somebody else.

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Obviously, there's the artistic side.
Everybody's got their own style and the

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different firearms that they make, but
seeing something that we put together

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watch it function, yeah, it's a big
point of pride.

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I mean, everybody needs to decompress,
and so for me, it is the outdoors. I

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mean, when I was little, going fishing
with my grandpa Neil, I was always...

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That was my favorite thing. Now I don't
get a cell phone service when we go

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fishing, so I don't have to hear emails,
banging, text, phone calls.

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It's peaceful, man.

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For me, that's why I love being in the
outdoors, relaxing with friends and

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family, taking a step back and enjoying
life.

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We got the chairs in the back.

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Work is a big responsibility. It doesn't
matter what job you have or what your

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title is.

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Without what you're doing, like I said,
it doesn't matter the title, position.

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If you don't do your job, somebody else
can't do theirs.

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So for me, every day, yeah, that's all
stressful. Any chance to get to just

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back and kind of forget about it for an
hour or two, you've got to do it. You've

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got to recharge a little bit.

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Cody comes out here to get away from day
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He's got a tremendous amount of pressure
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God rest his soul, Frank passed.

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Cody took control of the shop.

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He puts a lot on his shoulders.

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Coming out here gives him a chance to
just unwind for the day.

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You know, we do this.

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This is close to home. This is another
place that we go just down the road that

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we do a lot of dove hunting.

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So when September comes, we're slaying
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Have a good time.

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We don't want to follow people. We don't
want to be imitators.

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Patriot Ordnance Factory wasn't built on
following.

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We were built on leading, building the
first of many firsts. I mean, that's a

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tagline that we use a lot.

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I see a lot of companies out there that
regurgitate the same Me Too products,

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and it drives me nuts because you might
make a sale, but you're not going to

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grow and damn sure aren't earning
people's respect, and that's just not

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game. That's not what we do. We want to
be different. We want people to respect

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us as engineers and builders and
machinists.

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The only way to do that is be different
and take risks.

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For Patriot Ordnance Factory, we have
quite a few patents.

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When you look at the 415, we're the
first commercially available piston gun

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there.

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especially one that cleans out the front
that doesn't use springs on their

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piston return system.

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We were the first true small frame .308
out there. Nobody even has a .308 that's

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as light as ours.

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Those are the kind of things that we
take pride in, is taking chances where

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other people won't.

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And that's, like I said, for us, it's
trying to be leaders, not followers.

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My dad's American dream, his version of
living out his American dream was taking

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advantage of every opportunity you're
given, not taking no for an answer,

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putting in the hard work and know that
you've earned it.

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There's no other place in the world that
you can come up with an idea with a

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little bit of grunt work and work ethic.
You can turn yourself out into a good

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situation because nothing is given to
you.

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At the end of the day, you're not just
buying a product, a widget, you're also

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buying a lifestyle too.

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Why? Because that will always stand for
America, will always stand for our flag.

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And how do you show it? Well, you show
it by actually doing it.

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Everything we build is symbols of
freedom.

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That's what we do.