need troops in there and we need to secure the king of saudi arabia and their abusive civil libertarian system. i mean, we just don t need to do it. and i think it backfires on us. and this is the kind of results we should specific. we should not be surprised at this. if they ripped us off at $60 billion or $70 billion. they do not just take the check and put knit their account but they take the check and they build a big army, 4 50,000 troops to expect the protect the kingdom and they buy weapons and make deals with our weapons manufacturers and they get kickbacks on that. so, it s all under the table stuff but it is the generation of the system that comes about by us pouring in hundreds of billions around the world. neil: you were on this when
much like consumer reports and is funded by and reports its findings to the national institute of justice. go ahead. reputable weapons manufacturers on their own test over and over. and say third party evaluations are a good idea. i think it s a valuable resource. it s a valuable service. ultimately, the responsibility is on the manufacturer. great story. if you re a guy, it was good to be out there. weri does not accept any freebies from any company, nothing whatsoever. neither does it allow any of its employees to invest in any weapons companies, period. weri has been around for five years and guys, they test almost every single day. great story. good stuff. just for guys, i like shooting. you do. yeah, i mean, guys and girls. she s armed right now. guys and gals, gotcha.
no federal agency tests lethal weapon toss make sure they work as advertised before police use them on the streets. i could make weapons in my garage and sell them, and if i have good marketing, people will buy them, no matter how bad they are. weri pays full retail for all the products it tests. much like consumer reports. and it s funded by and reports its findings to the national institute of justice. reputable weapons manufacturers on their own test over and over, and say third party evaluations are a good idea. i think it s a valuable resource. it s a valuable service. ultimately, the responsibility is on the manufacturer. weri does not accept any kind of donations from any of these gun manufacturers
one of the shells actually exploded in the barrel. which we were fortunate, we didn t fire another one, because that one partially ejected some of its pay load. the next one would have hit that, stuck and blown up in the middle. reporter: the weapons and equipment research institute in fort myers, florida is the only private facility in america that tests exclusively nonlethal weapons used by law enforcement. the department of alcohol, tobacco and firearms issues licenses to make weapons. but no federal agency tests lethal weapons to make sure they work as advertised before police use them on the street. reputable weapons manufacturers on their own test over and over, and say third party evaluations are a good idea. i think it s a valuable resource, it s a valuable service. ultimately, the responsibility is on the manufacturer to meet the applications and the
people s defense. glenn: right. that s the part that really bothers me, because that s what we re supposed to bedefending. i want to pay for my defense. they can pay for their defense. we ll go with withdrawaling the troops in a second. but cut weapons spending. show me what you are talking about here. give me the gist. we spend $$100 billions a year buying weapons and it s wastal. the weapon manufacturers, ho lockheed martins of the world low-ball it for us. the cost end up soaring and end up being two or three times more than the originally promised. the pentagon kind of goes along with this. partly because the different services in the pentagon are competitive. each of the services want to get their weapons in the weapons pipeline. once the weapons are started and funded, the weapons manufacturers skillfully spread out the funding to dozens of different states and congressional districts, so once you get projects started, even if there does,