gun safety rules

Spent bullet on a suburban street with text warning that backyard shooting is a safety issue

Backyard Shooting Isn’t Just a Legal Question. It’s a Safety One.

By Mitch Goerdt / December 29, 2025

Backyard shooting is often framed as a legal issue, but after a recent walk through my neighborhood with my kids, it became painfully clear to me that legality is only…

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A New Take On The Universal Firearm Safety Rules

By Joshua Gillem / July 26, 2019

We’ve published many articles on gun safety, here is one and here is another concerning kids and guns. In a recent meeting between Riley, Jacob, and myself, we came up…

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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!

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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!

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Episode 261: Two Homeowners Killed in Gun Battle With Intruders

By Riley Bowman / October 3, 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 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 259: Target Shooters Make HUGE Mistake, End Up Killing Boy

By Riley Bowman / October 1, 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 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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Know Your Target

By Joshua Gillem / September 28, 2018

Why are we still having these conversations? Why do we need to constantly re-iterate things like gun safety to people who claim ignorance when life is taken? Imagine this following…

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