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S2E3: JUSTIFIED SAVES – When Trying to Be a Good Samaritan Fails

By Riley Bowman / May 18, 2021

Today, Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster share the latest JUSTIFIED SAVE stories from around the country, especially ones where we feel there are good lessons to be learned. This is one of our most popular podcast series, so don’t miss it! Tune in!

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Ohio Woman May Face Charges After Shooting Carjacker

By Matthew Maruster / May 7, 2021

On May 1st, a woman was sitting alone in her car parked in the 1400 block of Oakland Park Avenue in Columbus. It was around 9:30 PM when a man…

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Episode 473: A New Dawn – May The Odds Ever be in Your Favor

By Riley Bowman / January 29, 2021

Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster bring to you the latest legislative news and updates. Joe Biden was just sworn-in as our 46th President, and let the Hunger Games begin. Lots of legislation both good–and bad–being proposed across America. Join us to stay on top of these important updates!

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Episode 470: JUSTIFIED SAVES – A Wild Month in DGU’s

By Riley Bowman / January 14, 2021

Today, Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster share the latest JUSTIFIED SAVE news stories from around the nation, and boy, has the last month been an interesting one. Several stories are not like your typical defensive gun use (DGU) incidents, so you won’t want to miss this one! Tune in!

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Episode 466: The Polymer80 Fiasco

By Riley Bowman / December 23, 2020

Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster bring to you our monthly legislative news updates. We’re going to share some good things happening in Ohio, less good things in Virginia, and how some people are getting creative using Obama-era finance laws to help shore up financial institution protections for gun-related businesses. Plus we’ll break down the Polymer80 raid situation and what that might mean.

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Episode 461: The Death of the Pistol Brace?

By Riley Bowman / December 3, 2020

Riley Bowman and Jacob Paulsen share the latest legislative news updates including stories about a case the SCOTUS has agreed to hear, how one man is in hot water for selling “wall hangers,” and what a future America might look like with a certain someone in the White House. Tune in!

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Passenger Of Vehicle Has Negligent Discharge – Driver Crashes Into Ditch

By Jacob Paulsen / May 28, 2020

Two people were in a car driving on U.S. 131. The passenger “accidentally” shot himself in the leg. The driver, naturally startled, then drove the car off the road, through a construction zone, and into a ditch. When officers arrived they applied a tourniquet to the victim’s leg and transported him to the hospital. Police found a total of 3 unsecured handguns and marijuana on the passenger side of the vehicle.

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Episode 416: Getting Back to the Range After a Break

By Riley Bowman / May 22, 2020

Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster talk about how to get back to the shooting range after you’ve had a dry spell like Coronavirus. How to stay sharp, what to do to warmup, maybe what drills and skills to use and work on that are more likely to have perished, and more. Tune in!

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Episode 393: Justified or Not Justified. You Decide

By Jacob Paulsen / March 6, 2020

Today’s justified segment will leave you wondering if all these gun owners are indeed justified. Jacob and Matthew tell the story and leave it up to you to decide!

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Episode 365: Don’t Need an AR? This Pregnant Mother Disagrees!

By Riley Bowman / November 18, 2019

Today Riley and Matthew cover the latest stories from around the USA in the firearms and concealed carry communities. Today is our JUSTIFIED SAVES Edition and we’re talking about how one construction worker defended himself against an attacker, how one pregnant mother used an AR15 to defend her family, and more! Join in and listen!

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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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Man Shot 3 Times by Woman He Tried to Rob

By Joshua Gillem / February 21, 2019

A Cincinnati prosecutor declined to charge the store owner in the death of a man attempting to rob her store in January.

The robbery occurred at 4:30 p.m. at the Glenway Pony Keg in Cincinnati, Ohio when James Douglas entered and told the store owner he would kill her if she didn’t give him all the money. She complied with his instructions and took the money out of the cash register and handed it to him.

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Episode 283: The Next Wave of Gun Control May Not Come As You Think

By Riley Bowman / January 3, 2019

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 one man saves an entire store of people during a violent robbery…AND it almost costs him his LIFE!!

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Episode 281: Are You a Felon??

By Riley Bowman / December 17, 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 has to save herself from a violent husband choking her to death!!

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