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Chicago, Austin, and the NFAC

By Joshua Gillem / July 27, 2020

I like to go over some of the more interesting news stories as they relate to guns to make sure we’re all kept up to date on what is going…

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Thoughts on Survival and Preparedness For The Future

By Joshua Gillem / July 24, 2020

With everything happening in the world, I thought it would be prudent to go over a few extracurricular skills and things to think about for the future. We all know…

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Episode 433: Good and Bad News for the Second Amendment

By Riley Bowman / July 24, 2020

Today. Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster bring you our monthly legislative news update. We cover stories on the national level and from states such as Hawaii, Colorado, Virginia, and also a unique story from the Czech Republic. Tune in!

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Episode 432: 5 Things The Gun Industry Has Changed Its Mind About

By Jacob Paulsen / July 23, 2020

Matthew and Jacob discuss some of the major changes of opinion the gun industry has experienced in the last few decades. Many shooters today who first learned to shoot 10, 20, and 30 years ago bring with them ideas and techniques that have been broadly dismissed and replaced with a new best practice. We discuss 5 of those in today’s show.

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Bloomberg’s Battle For Virginia’s Guns, and 8 Other States

By Joshua Gillem / July 23, 2020

The gun control debate rages on, even if it’s not front and center in our brains right now due to all the other stuff taking place in the world. There…

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Putting Together An Outdoorsman First Aid and Trauma Kit

By Jacob Paulsen / July 22, 2020

I’ve been getting geeky lately about first aid and trauma management. While I’m still no expert, I’ve been surrounding myself with a lot of EMT, Medic, and Corpsman experts recently…

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I Have To Wait How Long For My Concealed Carry Permit???

By Joshua Gillem / July 21, 2020

All of the recent background check news for new firearm purchases along with a fantastically large number of new gun owners flooding the market has had unforeseen consequences for those…

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Distance, How Close is Too Close? Lessons Learned From Self-Defense Encounters Caught on Camera

By Matthew Maruster / July 21, 2020

With nearly every officer in the country wearing body-worn cameras, we have an opportunity to analyze deadly-force encounters. From looking at the videos we can better understand how these violent…

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Shooting Outdoors and Cleaning Up Afterwards

By Joshua Gillem / July 20, 2020

The Great Outdoors, Mother Nature, or, as I like to call it, God’s Creation … no matter what you call it it’s a great place to be. And, to be…

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Concealed Carry App Fixed For Apple Users

By Joshua Gillem / July 20, 2020

*UPDATE*  The Concealed Carry smartphone application was experiencing problems for Apple Phone users, but has been fixed. Again, the app is fixed so you can go on using it as…

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Have You Made The Switch To A Nylon Gun Belt?

By Matthew Maruster / July 17, 2020

So I broke down and hung up my traditional leather belt for a while in order to see what all the interest was with these nylon belts. I received my nylon gun belt from…

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Man Who Stabbed Another Engaged and Shot By Police Officer

By Joshua Gillem / July 16, 2020

A video with a police officer engaging a nut job with a knife recently made it to the top of everyone’s news feed over the past few days. This story…

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Stalker Kills Woman On Date, While Samaritan Engages Suspect

By Joshua Gillem / July 15, 2020

Hummels Wharf, PA — A man named Christopher Fernanders stalked a woman named Heather Sue Campbell and even wrote a letter that he addressed to police about how he was…

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The New “Gun Culture 3.0” Has Apparently Arrived

By Joshua Gillem / July 14, 2020

If there’s one thing we know for a fact, it’s that people who don’t understand gun owners are always attempting to put us into some sort of box and label…

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The Future Is a Shaky One, For Sure

By Joshua Gillem / July 13, 2020

The future is shaky, for sure. What future? Well a lot of it. All of it? Maybe everything as I’m about to point out. In a strange turn of events,…

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