Hey everybody what's going on thanks for swinging by I sure do appreciate it. This is your first time with the channel my name is Mark. Oh hi Mark. Welcome to Fit and Fire. Let's get into this video. This time I wanted to do an update on a video I did, uh middle of July talking about the Serbian situation that is uh kind of ongoing. We should have gotten some type of update in the last month but so far it's been kind of crickets and I really wanted to take the opportunity to let you guys know what I've been able to find out. If you're not familiar what's happening I'll leave a card at the end of this video to bring you up the speed as to what happened in July but essentially what has happened is due to some I would say election shenanigans there has been an export ban of firearms from Serbia. There's been some issues between Serbia and Kosovo there's been some issues between the United States and Serbia there's some sanctions that have been put on so basically the president said due to the uh security situation in Serbia they're going to halt all export firearms shipments for 30 days and that was as of July 14th. 30 days later we still hadn't heard anything but one thing that I did want to talk about real quick is what has been Zostava's response to it and that's something that I have to really commend them. Now I'm not getting paid to say anything good, better, and different about Zostava. I personally really do like them. I've had several rifles or pistols from them and have really enjoyed not only the fit and finish of their work, their craftsmanship but also their price point as well has been exceptional in my point of view. But one of the things that really impressed me about Zostava is immediately following the announcement of the president, the Serbian president. Zostava came out on July 20th and said hey look here's the thing we are not going to exploit the situation to make more money and I really appreciate that. We have seen other companies in the past where there has been some type of situation they jack up prices to make more money because people are starting to panic and to see Zostava come out and say not only are we not going to withhold inventory to artificially inflate the market but we're also not going to increase price as well. I thought that was really stand up of them to do and I just really appreciate a company coming out and doing that ahead of time. So good job on them. But I did get a comment here in the last I would say week or so and someone was asking hey what's the update on this you know it's been 30 days and we just want to make sure what we've got going on is this going to be prolonged so on and so forth. And that's something that's kind of interesting because I did reach out to Zostava. I have a contact with them and I wanted to make sure I understood what was going on and they got back to me and I would really do appreciate my contact over there. What has been said is the fact that the export ban was announced in July with no guarantee of expiration date. Now the president did say that there was a 30 day export ban but I think that that probably has been expanded since then because of the security situation. The sales and marketing director went on to say the official stance of the government is currently that it can be prolonged as necessary and all shipments are on a case-by-case basis depending on the security situation. As you know security situations in the Balkans can change like Chicago weather so we are doing the best to keep up on what's going on and that is pretty much what I expected to hear from them as far as a security situation in the Balkans. Again I do appreciate Ben for sharing that information with us and it seems that this is going to be prolonged for the near future and hopefully we can figure out some type of resolution on that as quickly as possible. With that being said I am hopeful that we can get this figured out quickly but if we start getting into say late October, November, December and nothing has changed then that's going to be very concerning. But you guys know as much as I do now and I just wanted to share that tidbit with you guys to make sure that you were aware of what is happening with Zostava. Again I really do like their products. I really have loved their M70 and their M90. The next video that I'm going to post is about my experience so far with the M90. I've got about, let's say about 250-300 rounds through it so far and I have really, really enjoyed it. We'll touch base on that in the next video to show you all the different things that I've done with it or haven't done with it. With that being said we're going to go ahead and get out of here. Thank you so much for swinging by. I sure do appreciate it. If you haven't already please go ahead and interact with this video in some way where there'd be a thumbs up, a comment, share, whatever the case may be. If you haven't subscribed to the channel I encourage you guys to do that as well. Really would appreciate it. As always here comes a high five. Freedom through strength. We'll catch you guys later. Bye y'all.