I considered for quite a while whether I should do this video or not but I think
there are enough people out there that this might benefit that it's worth the
slight risk this is a CB radio every truck driver has a spare radio in his
truck because you never know when your primary radio is going to break down and
if you're in the middle of the winter and you need Road conditions
you got to have a spare anyway another dilemma we face truck drivers is some of
the places we go are prone to societal collapse governmental control breakdown
in and police control of a population I'll use an example of the Los Angeles
Riots in recent memory over the Rodney King beating there were people who were
stuck truck drivers who were stuck in that vicinity and I myself could have
been in that area because I go to that area that the riots took place all the
time I just happened to be on my off time my home time but if it had happened
one week later or one week earlier I'd have been right in the middle of it with
no means of protection it's against a lot of carry a gun in a truck if you
have a concealed weapons permit you can carry it in your truck but most
companies will fire you if they catch you with a pistol on your person or and
your in your truck some of the places you go into won't allow weapons so
there's a real dilemma about protecting yourself from sudden chaos or a
temporary breakdown in society or police protection or governmental control so
what do you do I debated and debated and debated I used to carry a gun with me
but I started working for a company that absolutely forbid
weapons as a matter of fact it is grounds for immediate dismissal no
questions asked you're gone so if anybody does know me or who I work for
please keep it to yourself I'm doing this just to help other drivers and
anybody else you might want to conceal a pistol for the reasons I just stated we
are exposed to dangers that most people are not and we don't have access to
police protection that most people do besides we're truck drivers were not
were subhumans were expendable in some people's eyes okay what I did was take a
old gun that really had no value but would get me out of the situation
perhaps saved my life and where to put it here's what I did I have an old CB
that I gutted stand doesn't she leave this greased it down real good got a
piece of foam to fit in here I totally gutted the inside of the CB including
the speaker and what I did was I had some old gasket material black I lined
the inside with gasket materials so you couldn't see the foam through any of the
little holes in the side what lassie did Timmy fall into well anyway and I'll
tell you how I did this I just traced the outline of the gun and I have a
torch here I just turned the torch on heat my putting knife up red-hot and boy
does this stink and you can basically melt out the area that you want in the
outline of the gun and you just keep heating it up and scooping out the foam
that you don't want in there and then for the bullet holes I just took the end
of a drill bit and a pair of vice grips heated it up and just made holes I got
about five or six holes before it got too cold we had to reheat it and
I'm going to assemble this back together and turn it around and you tell me if it
looks like CB that you could throw in your side box and nobody would ever give
it a second look but you can go to sleep at night with peace of mind knowing that
if riot breaks out and you're in the middle of it you may be able to save
your life or remove yourself from that situation I'm going to shut this off put
this back together and show you what it looks like from the outside this little
thing here this little tag I stuck that on there just to add a little bit of I
don't know maybe a way out if you were to ever got caught with this you could
say you know I picked this up at a garage sale for 40 bucks and just threw
it in a side box and never opened it up and never tried it I just got it as a
spare see all the areas that you might be able to see through that black gasket
paper prevents you from seeing the phone
and the speaker and how many people are going to actually pick this up and
examine it so close that they you know might suspect it's anything other than a
spare CB and even got the cord with it and the microphone and I believe I'm
willing to take the risk that some day some some cop might find this in my side
box and you know over the years I have spoke to enough cops about this about
having a gun in your truck and almost every cop said that they wouldn't do my
job without some sort of protection because we are exposed to the seediest
most I don't know the underbelly of society some of the places we go you
know JFK a Newark Hunts Point Chelsea Market any any of you guys pulling
reefers you know the names I just shut it out I mean there there's a place
those are places you do not want to go without some sort of protection because
you will get you are robbed or both anyway that's that's
my little how to hide a pistol in your truck video I hope to god this doesn't
come back and bite me on the ass see ya