Wednesday 10/14/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:35 Eric Peters from www.EpAutos.com for WHEELS UP WEDNESDAY!
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/10/14/why-the-1983-1988-monte-carlo-ss-was-great/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/10/13/why-we-cant-buy-strippers-anymore/
https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2026/10/13/why-we-cant-buy-strippers-anymore/
7:35 State Senator Candidate for SD3 Brad Hicks talks the issues and candidacy. More on Brad at www.HicksForSenate.com
8:15 Guy Paul Nohra, author of NOT ON OUR WATCH: A Young Soldier’s Warning to America
More on Guy: https://guypnohra.com/not-on-our-watch/ Guy Paul Nohra is a venture capitalist, entrepreneur and board leader who co-founded Alta Partners and spent more than three decades investing in life sciences. Named to the Forbes Midas List in 2007, he helped deploy more than $2 billion across eight venture funds and more than 180 healthcare and life-sciences companies, and has served on more than 30 boards, including 10 chairman roles.
After experiencing civil war in Beirut as a teenager, GPN immigrated to the United States, graduated from Stanford and earned his MBA from the University of Chicago. He later entered public service, ran as a Republican candidate for Governor of Nevada and remains active in public policy and governance. He believes Americans can hold strong and opposing views without losing respect or human connection: we can agree to disagree and still love each other.
California’s New Middle Class
By Guy Paul Nohra, Author of Not On Our Watch
How California’s AI boom is reshaping economic security and raising questions about long-term fiscal sustainability.
Predictions of California’s economic demise underestimate the extraordinary wealth A.I. could create in the state. Despite serious problems with homelessness, infrastructure, affordability, governance and regulation, California retains one of the most powerful innovation economies in the world. But that wealth has implications far beyond Silicon Valley. It may also be helping to reshape what it means to be middle class in California. California may be developing a new form of middle-class economic security, one built not primarily through entrepreneurship, private-company equity or individually funded retirement accounts, but through public employment, collective bargaining and long-term benefits. The connection to California’s technology economy makes this particularly interesting. A.I. could create another extraordinary wave of private wealth in California. [more…]
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Tuesday 10/13/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:45 Michael Letts is the Founder, President, and CEO of InVest USA, a national grassroots non-profit organization that is helping hundreds of communities provide thousands of bulletproof vests for their police forces through educational, public relations, sponsorship, and fundraising programs. www.InVestUsa.org
We discuss: Ilhan Omar home in DC raided by federal agents
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omars-home-dc-searched-hsi-pre-dawn-raid
ABOUT: INVESTUSA is dedicated to “protecting those who protect us”. This mission has expanded and evolved over the years to not only ensuring that every first responder has the necessary protective gear to enable them to come home safely to their families after putting themselves in harm’s way to protect our freedom, liberties, and values that keep our communities as safe havens and beacons of hope, but to serve as a voice for these American Hero’s. That voice ranges from telling their sacrifices to ensure our protection, to their needs for judicial reform to protect us all, their equipment updates and needs to enable better job performance, the history of their struggles and success, and the need to provide greater care for the effects of the job. PTSD and the consequences they suffer.
7:10 Kevin Starrett from Oregon Firearms Federation www.OregonFirearms.org
About That NFA “Guidance”
10.12.2026
By now you have probably heard about or read the ATF’s “guidance” on the new rules concerning short-barreled firearms and suppressors.
You can read the letter about this that ATF published here. A page with FAQs is available here.
Here is a summary:
For various policy reasons, ATF will cease enforcement on October 9, 2026, of the following NFA provisions as applied only to short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns, silencers, and “any other weapon[s]” as defined in 26 U.S.C. § 5845(e):
- The requirement to apply and obtain prior approval to make NFA firearms
- The requirement of those engaged in the business to register NFA firearms within 24 hours of making
- The requirement to apply and obtain prior approval to transfer NFA firearms
- The requirement to register a firearm in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record.
- The various prohibitions on making, receiving, transferring, and possessing unregistered NFA firearms, other than the prohibitions in 26 U.S.C. § 5861(h), (k) (prohibiting possession of firearms with obliterated serial numbers or those illegally imported)
- The prohibition against transporting unregistered NFA firearms in interstate commerce (26 U.S.C. § 5861(j))
- The NFA requirement to mark all NFA firearms
- Any other NFA provision specifically enjoined by the district court’s judgment.
One of the biggest takeaways from this policy decision is this; while the court case that ended the registration requirement only covered the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, the ATF has stated that it will cease enforcement of the registration requirements for everybody.
While this is certainly a positive development, it does not seem that this policy will benefit Oregonians.
Oregon law still requires that these items be “registered” as required by Federal law, and while it would appear that since that requirement is gone, Oregonians are covered they probably are not. And while this conclusion is not without doubt, there is plenty of reason to believe that Oregonians are still required to register.
- The Trap of Oregon’s State Statutes (ORS 166.272)
Under Oregon law, the possession of a firearm silencer and short-barrel firearms is broadly criminalized as a felony.
- Oregon law does not have an independent state-level registry or a blanket legalization framework for these items.
- Instead, Oregon statute provides a very specific affirmative defense to prosecution: possessing the item is only legal if it is “registered as required by federal law.”
- “Non-Enforcement” vs. “Not Required”
Because the ATF has shifted to a policy of prosecutorial discretion—meaning they are choosing not to enforce federal NFA registration—some assume federal registration is no longer “required.”
However, because the federal government is declining to enforce registrations rather than abolishing the underlying statute, a legal vacuum is created:
- If an Oregonian acquires or possesses a suppressor or SBR without a federal registration, they technically fit the ATF’s new federal enforcement-discretion guidelines.
- Crucially, they lose their state-law affirmative defense. Because the item is no longer registered under federal law, it fails the literal wording of Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS 166.272).
Keep in mind, an “affirmative defense” means that you are considered guilty of a crime unless and until you can provide some proof that you fall under the requirements of the “affirmative defense” against that prosecution.
Furthermore, the ATF’s open letter represents an exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Because the underlying federal statutes have not been repealed by Congress, a future presidential administration or ATF director could revoke or modify this policy. Oregon gun owners who rely on non-enforcement rather than active registration remain vulnerable if federal policies shift.
Two key things to be aware of:
- The ATF is still accepting “voluntary” registration of these devices so people in states like Oregon have a way to comply with Oregon law.
- The requirement that the ATF be alerted when you cross state lines with short barreled is still in effect.
Irrespective of the outcome of the coming election, it is a near certainty that the Oregon legislature is going to move to the left. We really hope we are wrong about this, but that’s the way the wind is blowing.
However, what we learned last session was that the Republicans, when they have the will and when they hear from you, have the means to effect positive changes in Oregon’s gun laws. Let’s not let them forget that.
You can view this post in a browser here: https://www.oregonfirearms.org/about-that-nfa-guidance
You can support our fight for your rights here: https://oregonfirearms.ejoinme.org/MyPages/DonationPage/tabid/70447/Default.aspx
7;35 Former State Senator Herman Baertschiger talks politics, and today…how tribal we’ve become and why you’re voting for a tribe, not a candidate.
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Monday 10/12/26 Bill Meyer Show Guests and Information
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6:20 ERIC LIU, author of LIVE LIKE A CITIZEN: 8 Ways to Change Your Mindset & Our Country
ABOUT LIVE LIKE A CITIZEN
We live in a time of fracture and lost faith. But most Americans don’t want this feeling. Most of us, the exhausted majority, want to be invited into something better. That’s the call of Live Like a Citizen: to give everyone the tools to turn away from the resentment and cynicism eroding democratic life. To turn toward a healthier way of living together. Eric Liu, CEO of Citizen University, gives readers eight deep practices for rekindling our belief in democracy-and our own humanity.
6:35 It’s COLUMBUS DAY and we talk about the pushback against all the anti-western hate. Talked with Andre DiMino , an engineer and the CEO of a medical devices company. He is also the president of the Italian American One Voice Coalition.
https://www.iaovc.org/andre-di mino-communications-director/
Mayor Zohran Mamdani is facing opposition from New York’s Italian American community after snubbing Brooklyn’s annual Columbus Day Parade and not responding to an invitation from a similar event in Queens. Organizers of the parade in Brooklyn, which runs along 18th Avenue in Bensonhurst and honors the famed explorer, say the Mayor’s Office confirmed late last week that Mamdani would not be attending the parade.
Meanwhile, organizers of the annual Queens Columbus Day Parade in Astoria say the mayor didn’t even give them the courtesy of a response when they sent out a similar invitation. The statue of Columbus along Astoria Boulevard is the same monument Mamdani famously flipped the bird to in 2020. To make matters worse the mayor is apparently also unlikely to attend the larger Columbus Day Parade in Manhattan Monday.
7;35 Sarah Westall, host of Business Game Changers with Sarah Westall Sarah is a Podcast Host, Business Expert, Best Selling Author and Investigative Journalist.ll
She has a really interesting background having been involved with high-tech early in the process and brings her business savvy to the program this morning. We’re digging into the way companies are screwing customers over by the way and when they search for services and products:
- How your searches, location, and even device type can raise the price you’re shown
• Why a 2 a.m. emergency search can cost you more
• Real cases: Staples, Princeton Review, Instacart, and now McDonald’s
• Data brokers selling lists like “Retiring on Empty” and “Credit Crunched”
• The fix: transparency rules and tools that let consumers watch back.
ALL ABOUT SARAH WESTALL (BIO) HERE
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8:10 Dr. Dennis Powers – www.DennisPowersBooks.com with today’s “Where Past Meets Present”
Brad Hicks
By Dennis Powers
Brad Hicks grew up in Grants Pass. For more than 30 years, he served in different capacities at the Chamber of Medford & Jackson County, including as President and CEO.
Playing football and baseball (as well as martial arts for many years), he graduated from North Valley High School in 1983; this Grants Pass high school belongs to the Three Rivers School District and serves rural communities in Josephine County such as Merlin, Sunny Valley, and Wolf Creek. Brad then earned in 1987 a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Southern Oregon University. In fact, he worked for Oregon State Representative George Trahern (from Grants Pass) as an SOU Intern during the 1987 session.
He worked as a Legislative Assistant in the Oregon Legislative Assembly from 1987 to 1991, including for Senators Peter Brockman and Ron Grensky as well as United States Congressman Denny Smith. His service at the Chamber of Medford & Jackson County started then and included 23 years as President and CEO from 1998 on before stepping down in 2021.
His work there to help businesses involved working with state government as small businesses backed the Chamber of Medford and Jackson County’s growth into one of the top ten largest Chambers of Commerce in the western U.S. This growth of small businesses is seen in that over 80% of its members had ten or less employees. Additionally, Hicks held leadership roles at the Western Association of Chamber Executives (“WACE”), the American Chamber of Commerce Executives (“ACCE”), and the United States Chamber of Commerce (“USCC”), specifically serving on its Committee of 100.
After his tenure at the Chamber, Brad established a consulting business, R.B.I (Representing Business Issues). He also became later the Interim Executive Officer for the Builders Association of Southern Oregon (“BASO”) and focused on preparing BASO for its next permanent leader during a transitional period. The CEO of the Builders Association of Southern Oregon is presently Dr. Joey Minear.
Recently, Brad Hicks announced his candidacy for the Libertarian and Republican Parties for the Oregon State Senate, District 3, seat and this has been well supported.
Sources: Different newspaper and Google Internet searches.