Riley Bowman
Episode 265: Suicide Data Does NOT Show Direct Relation to Firearms Laws
Today Riley and Matthew cover the latest stories from around the USA in the firearms and concealed carry communities. With legislative updates, general interest stories and analysis of JUSTIFIED SAVE events, situations where regular citizens were forced to stop violent attacks, robberies and sexual assaults by using their own lawfully possessed and carried firearms. Today’s JUSTIFIED STORIES are no different especially in the case where a 16-yr-old boy is forced to shoot his dad in order to save his mom! So tragic! What lessons can we learn from this and these other stories? Join in and listen!
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Episode 264: Force-on-Force and Trigger Control with Jeff Houston
Today Riley and Jacob share the interview Jacob recently did with Jeff Houston, Veteran Green Beret and lead firearm instructor for NRA Carry Guard. Jeff also runs Tac7, which focuses on specialized security services and active shooter response/preparation programs.
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Episode 263: Countering the Mass Shooter Threat with Michael Martin and Tim Schmidt
Today Riley is flying solo as it has been quite the week! Right now Riley, Jacob and the video production team at ConcealedCarry.com are spending 3 days in a secluded location filming a new training video course. Due to being busier than expected, we have decided to skip this week’s normal news story episode and play an interview Riley had the privilege of doing together with Michael Martin, author of Countering the Mass Shooter Threat, and Tim Schmidt, founder of the United State Concealed Carry Association. We spend much of our time talking about this excellent book and the major takeaways concealed carriers need to know to be better prepared for these types of situations.
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Episode 262: The ULTIMATE Concealed Carry Beginner’s Guide Part 3
Today Riley and Matthew bring back the 3rd edition in the ULTIMATE Concealed Carry Beginner’s Guide series, and without making you wait 114 episodes between Part 2 and 3. In Part III we cover everything you’ve wanted to know about holster styles, clips and retention, bullet weight and barrel lengths, bullet setback, and more!
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Episode 261: Two Homeowners Killed in Gun Battle With Intruders
Today Riley and Jacob cover the latest stories from around the USA in the firearms and concealed carry communities. With legislative updates, general interest stories and analysis of JUSTIFIED SAVE events, situations where regular citizens were forced to stop violent attacks, robberies and sexual assaults by using their own lawfully possessed and carried firearms. Today’s JUSTIFIED STORIES are no different especially in the case where an HVAC technician draws and uses his gun to stop a violent attack on his customer…from a monkey! We also share the tragic story where two homeowners attempted to defend themselves from home intruders…but it cost them their lives. What lessons can we learn from this and these other stories? Join in and listen!
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Episode 260: Analyzing the Abilene Mattress Dump Shooting
Today Riley and Matthew (and maybe Jacob if he can make it!) will be talking about and analyzing the incident that happened on Sept 1, 2018 in Abilene, TX where three men arguing over the disposal of an old mattress end up in a deadly altercation. Two of the men are now arrested and charged with murder after they shot and killed the unarmed neighbor. How can we make sure we don’t end up in a similar situation? Lots of good lessons today…join us!!
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Episode 259: Target Shooters Make HUGE Mistake, End Up Killing Boy
Today Riley and Matthew cover the latest stories from around the USA in the firearms and concealed carry communities. With legislative updates, general interest stories and analysis of JUSTIFIED SAVE events, situations where regular citizens were forced to stop violent attacks, robberies and sexual assaults by using their own lawfully possessed and carried firearms. Today’s JUSTIFIED STORIES are no different especially in the case where a man is forced to take cover and return fire after a case of hit-and-run turned into road rage. Also we cover the tragic story of a 14-yr-old Utah boy killed by a stray bullet from unsuspecting target shooters, and we discuss how we might better able avoid similar things from happening in the future.
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Episode 258: Maximize Training at a Restrictive Range
Today Riley and Matthew address a topic that affects many shooters…how to do real training when the range you shoot at has restrictive rules or procedures. How can you still make good use of your time when your range doesn’t allow you to draw from the holster, shoot on the move, or even do rapid fire? We’ve got the tips and tricks for you today…join us!
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Episode 257: Using a Handgun to Stop a Bear Attack
Today Riley and Jacob cover the latest stories from around the USA in the firearms and concealed carry communities. With legislative updates, general interest stories and analysis of JUSTIFIED SAVE events, situations where regular citizens were forced to stop violent attacks, robberies and sexual assaults by using their own lawfully possessed and carried firearms. Today’s JUSTIFIED STORIES are no different especially in the case where a man stops in busy traffic to shoot a bad guy that just show a cop. Also we talk about a tragic bear attack where a man was unsuccessful in saving his hunting guide by using his gun, and we get into a much deeper discussion on just how effective are handguns on bears.
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Episode 256: Breakdown of Cincinnati Bank Active Shooter Event
Today Riley is joined by special co-host Rob Beckman, one of the instructors in our instructor network in the Cincinnati, Ohio area to talk about the Fifth Third Bank active shooter event to talk about what we currently know, breakdown bodycam footage, and talk about what we can learn from this and other active shooter events to hopefully prevent them and keep us safe if we happen to ever be involved in one.
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Episode 255: Man Shoots Robber With Backup Gun After His Primary is Taken
Today Riley and Matthew cover the latest stories from around the USA in the firearms and concealed carry communities. With legislative updates, general interest stories and analysis of JUSTIFIED SAVE events, situations where regular citizens were forced to stop violent attacks, robberies and sexual assaults by using their own lawfully possessed and carried firearms. Today’s JUSTIFIED STORIES are no different especially in the case where a man has to go to his backup gun to defend himself after his first is taken by a robber.
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Episode 254: It’s Not the Odds, It’s the Stakes!
Today Riley and Matthew do another listener Q&A session. We will answer a BUNCH of listener-submitted questions that came in through the podcast question “hotline” as well as answer any questions from live Facebook viewers that we get. Some topics that will be covered are: night sights, handgun retention, and choosing and vetting good instructors. Tune in!
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Wilderness Tactical Ankle Cargo Cuff/Ankle IFAK Review [Video]
For almost a year I’ve been using the Ankle IFAK from Wilderness Tactical. This IFAK was originally designed and made by a company called US Palm. They are no longer in business…
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Episode 253: Man Charged With Crimes For Shooting a “Ghost”
Today Riley and Jacob cover the latest stories from around the USA in the firearms and concealed carry communities. With legislative updates, general interest stories and analysis of JUSTIFIED SAVE events, situations where regular citizens were forced to stop violent attacks, robberies and sexual assaults by using their own lawfully possessed and carried firearms. Today’s JUSTIFIED STORIES are no different especially in the case where a man has just seconds to react to a threat in a case of road rage/mistaken identity.
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Episode 252: The ULTIMATE Concealed Carry Beginner’s Guide Part 2
Today Riley, Jacob and Matthew bring back the ULTIMATE Concealed Carry Beginner’s Guide series, that was never quite a series because we did Part 1 and then waited 114 episodes to record Part 2!! Well here it is with everything you’ve wanted to know about triggers, night sights, safeties, carry ammo and more!
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