Podcast

Episode 277: Alabama Mall Shooting Fiasco

By Riley Bowman / November 30, 2018

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 one story where a woman is forced to use deadly force against her violent boyfriend…or become a casualty herself!

Episode 276: Body Language and Behavior With a Gun – Barret Kendrick & Deryck Poole

By Riley Bowman / November 26, 2018

Today Riley interviews Barret Kendrick and Deryck Poole, senior instructors with I.C.E. Training. Barret is also the founder of Bearco Training, and Deryck is also the founder of Echo-5 Training Group. These two talented and experienced instructors have some absolute truth bombs about home defense strategies and also how to lessen the likelihood you get mistaken for a bad guy by really looking closely at how your body language and behavior causes you to be perceived by others. Don’t miss it, listen in!

Episode 275: The Largest Corporate Donation to an Anti-Gun Cause

By Riley Bowman / November 21, 2018

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 one Boston story where a man chased after a thief and ended up having to use his gun to defend himself. What lessons can we learn from this and these other stories? Join in and listen!

Episode 274: Talking With the Best Shooters in the World – Arik Levy

By Riley Bowman / November 18, 2018

Today Riley interviews Arik Levy of Firearms Nation and the Firearms Nation Podcast about the BIGGEST lessons he’s learned in interviewing the world’s best shooters through his Shooter’s Summit series. As a law enforcement officer, we’ll also dig into current issues with Arik and get his thoughts on recent mass shootings. Don’t miss it, listen in!

Episode 273: 2018 Post-Election Analysis…and it ain’t good…

By Riley Bowman / November 13, 2018

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 one Denver story where a man dies defending his life against a teenaged punk…all over an Xbox. What lessons can we learn from this and these other stories? Join in and listen!

Episode 272: Complete Home Defense With Live Q&A

By Riley Bowman / November 10, 2018

Riley and Jacob will be discussing Complete Home Defense and taking questions from listeners about their own home defense considerations and tactics.

Episode 271: Man Fought Back Against Active Shooter With a Broom

By Riley Bowman / November 6, 2018

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 one Seattle story where a CCWer attempts to save a woman from a stabbing but he’s too late. What lessons can we learn from this and these other stories? Join in and listen!

Episode 270: Walk The Talk America – Mental Health and Guns With Michael Sodini

By Riley Bowman / November 3, 2018

Today Riley interviews Michael Sodini founder of Walk the Talk America, a non-profit organization dedicated to making positive change in relation to mental health, and firearm awareness. We will talk about what we as a firearms industry and community can do to tackle these issues and be part of the solution and not the problem. Michael is also the President of Eagle Imports responsible for distributing brands like Bersa, Grand Power, Metro Arms, and Avidity Arms.

Episode 269: The Feds May Come After You…If You Use an AR Pistol

By Riley Bowman / October 31, 2018

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 an active shooter event where a CCWer saves lives and in the McDonald’s patron that stops a violent armed robbery! What lessons can we learn from this and these other stories? Join in and listen!

Episode 268: Behavioral Psychology and Guns – Russell Riendeau

By Riley Bowman / October 30, 2018

Today Riley is flying solo and wanted to play an interview that we had the privilege of doing together with Russell Riendeau, Ph.D., behavioral scientist and headhunter while at the USCCA Concealed Carry Expo in Louisville, KY in April 2018. We get into mental health, stress, work-life balance, violence and what this all has to do with guns. Tune in and be prepared to think deeply about these complicated and intermingled issues.

Episode 267: Is Your Neighbor a Threat??

By Riley Bowman / October 25, 2018

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 two cases where homeowners have to use their guns to stop violent attacks and even murder from their neighbors! What lessons can we learn from this and these other stories? Join in and listen!

Episode 266: Armed Citizens Are Successful in 94% of Active Shootings

By Riley Bowman / October 20, 2018

Today Riley and Jacob share the multiple-months-long research data that our company recently finished putting together on Active Shooter Events (ASE). This is based on the FBI’s data, but we noticed that the FBI conveniently left out some events and perhaps also miscategorized some others. We made sure to review everything and came up with some remarkable conclusions that the anti-gunners don’t want you to know about! 

Episode 265: Suicide Data Does NOT Show Direct Relation to Firearms Laws

By Riley Bowman / October 19, 2018

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!

Episode 264: Force-on-Force and Trigger Control with Jeff Houston

By Riley Bowman / October 13, 2018

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.

Episode 263: Countering the Mass Shooter Threat with Michael Martin and Tim Schmidt

By Riley Bowman / October 11, 2018

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.