TTv2, I don't know if you realize this but youtube has cut off advertising revenue to gun related channels. I'm glad that some of these companies are sponsoring him.
I'm well aware of that and I'm fine with an ammo manufacturer providing ammo to shoot, that and the guns, but after that Hickok went overboard with everything else, the NRA especially. I could live with the safes and SDI and now he has a Patreon going, but the NRA is a bridge too far and Hickok has gone on record to say that giving money to rival gun organizations is a waste of money.
To me, that's shilling. If Hickok was being real, he'd say go join every organization you can afford to be a member of, but because the NRA is stuffing his coffers now Hickok has lost that opinion. Also, for a guy who featured bump stocks in his videos to saying "do we really want to fall on our swords over bump stocks?" tells me that he again was forced to toe the line with the NRA.
Because the NRA's idea wasn't to work with Republicans to draft a bill that classified bump stocks as destructive devices or other NFA item and in return deregulate suppressors or abolish the Hughes Amendment, Hickok couldn't support that idea like a lot of people have. No, instead Hickok just did what Big Daddy Wayne said because Daddy Wayne's money holds a lot of power over Hickok.
So the thing to take away from that is either Hickok can't say what he really thinks if it's not in lock step with the NRA because he doens't want to lose money or Hickok really believes that bump stocks should be banned without compromising with the Anti's.
Whatever it is, Hickok looks more and more like a Fudd who really doesn't care about the individual rights of the 2nd Amendment. Whatever is politically expedient for the NRA, if it infringes on YOUR right, you won't hear a peep about it from Hickok.
But you know what? Maybe I shouldn't expect anything like that out of a Youtube channel. Maybe I should just watch the videos of the guy shooting and skip over the first 3 minutes of adverts and shout outs to companies for giving him stuff. I guess I can like some of his videos, but as a person, Hickok45 is not someone I like or trust.