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FBI Crime Stats Revision Disrupts Political Rhetoric

By Jacob Paulsen / October 22, 2024

Each year the FBI collects crime data and publishes it in a public report. In September 2023, when the FBI published the final data for the year 2022 it reflected…

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FBI Releases 2021 Active Shooter Data, The Numbers Aren’t Good

By Matthew Maruster / June 10, 2022

Last week, the FBI released a summary of the data they collected on all the “active shootings” in 2021. We shouldn’t make large conclusions based on one year’s worth of…

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S4E13: News and Gear Reviews – Springfield Armory SA-35

By Riley Bowman / November 23, 2021

Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster share the latest industry news. We bring updates regarding the Rittenhouse case, the Alec Baldwin shooting, and discuss the errors the FBI makes with regards to background checks. We also share a couple of new gun releases and provide our reviews on a couple of products! Tune in!

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S4E3: News and Gear Reviews – Armed Citizens Did THIS More Often Than Police

By Riley Bowman / October 22, 2021

Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster share the latest industry news. We talk about some very interesting statistics regarding armed citizens and how often they use their guns in defense. We also share a couple of new gun releases and provide our reviews on a couple of products!

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Episode 464: Santa Was a Bad Boy and Other News

By Riley Bowman / December 15, 2020

Today, Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster share the latest industry news and information. Tune in! As always, any questions or suggestions for future episodes can be submitted to podcast@concealedcarry.com!

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Black Friday 2019 Has Second-Highest Number of Background Checks In History

By Joshua Gillem / December 3, 2019

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) conducted 202,465 background checks for the purchase of guns on black Friday, 2019. This is the second-highest number of background checks conducted on a…

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Episode 342: Surviving a Mass Shooting – Part 2

By Riley Bowman / August 22, 2019

Today, Riley and Jacob continue the discussion about the recent mass shootings that happened in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. We talk about strategies for prevailing if you ever find yourself in one. And we also talk about how to avoid getting mistaken as a “bad guy” by cops in the chaos if you do indeed choose to respond with your own gun.

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Episode 340: Surviving a Mass Shooting

By Riley Bowman / August 13, 2019

Today, Riley and Matthew talk about the recent mass shootings that happened in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. We talk about strategies for prevailing if you ever find yourself in one. And we also talk about how to avoid getting mistaken as a “bad guy” by cops in the chaos if you do indeed choose to respond with your own gun. Let us know what you think in the comments!!

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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! 

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Armed Citizens Are Successful 94% Of The Time At Active Shooter Events [FBI]

By Jacob Paulsen / September 18, 2018

A deeper look at the FBI Reports on Active Shooters finds that when opportunity is taken into consideration; armed citizens have an extremely high success rate at saving lives in Active Shooter events.

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Episode 233: Big Time Gun Control Coming to New Jersey

By Riley Bowman / June 15, 2018

Today Riley and Jacob cover the latest in industry news, legislative updates, and share this week’s top JUSTIFIED SAVE stories from around America. Plus you won’t want to miss this week’s Case of the Week from attorney Andrew Branca of Law of Self-Defense where we learn what can potentially happen when your fired shots miss an attacker and strike innocent bystanders.

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Episode 231: ‭Maybe Appendix Carry Isn’t Safe After All

By Riley Bowman / June 8, 2018

Today Riley and Jacob share the latest news, stories and information from the firearms and concealed carry industry. Today’s news features stories about the recent assault weapons ban in Boulder, Colorado; the Santa Fe, Texas school shooting; the gun control debate rages on “healthier” than ever including the call to ban “ghost guns” as well. But more importantly we share the latest JUSTIFIED SAVES that have occurred and what lessons we can take from those!

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FBI Report Shows Armed Citizens Play Key Role In Stopping Active Shooters

By Joshua Gillem / May 30, 2018

The anti-gun crowd is really going to hate this. The FBI is really hard to argue with whenever they release information at the middle levels. A report was just released…

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Episode 207: ‘Leave No Survivors’ – The Call for Attacks on Gun Owners

By Riley Bowman / March 14, 2018

In this episode, Riley and Matthew talk about the latest news in the industry. Kalashnikov announces expansion of the tooling plant for the new Lebedev pistol. Plus we talk about the latest back-and-f0rth on gun control and pro-gun laws and bills. Plus 3 great news stories featuring JUSTIFIED SAVES that you’re not going to want to miss because there’s some great lessons learned.

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Episode 195: AK-47’s & Grenades – Europe is Not as Safe as You Thought

By Riley Bowman / February 1, 2018

Today Riley and Jacob talk about the latest in industry news from across the U.S. and throughout the world even as today we received a big story containing reports of increased gun violence in the U.K., Sweden and elsewhere. Apparently the “gun-free utopian” societies of Europe are not as perfect as the anti-gun news media would have you believe. Also don’t miss the JUSTIFIED stories today. Plus our summary of SHOT Show 2018 and the hottest new products to come out of there.

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