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EP144 GunBlog VarietyCast – The Gross

*Pacifiers & Peacemakers – Holster Funk

*Felons Behaving Badly – Man identified in fatal Lincoln Co shootout, shooter won’t be charged

*Flea Market – Dancing in the blood of our friend

*Main Topic – Special Guest: Gail Pepin

*The Bridge –  Why do you need so many guns?

*Blue Collar Prepping – Useful Creams and Ointments

*This Week in Anti-Gun Nuttery – Anti-Gun nut opens a Lemonade stand and tries to sell an AK

*Plug of the Week – Carolina Ceramic Coatings

*Episode Sponsors – Remington Ammunition and LuckyGunner.com

EP144 GunBlog VarietyCast – The Gross

“A dozen, a gross, and a score,
Plus three times the square root of four
Divided by seven
Plus five times eleven
Is nine squared and not a bit more.”
— Leigh Mercer, wordplay master and recreational mathematician (1948)

• Do you get Holster Funk? Beth tells you how to avoid it while carrying in the hot, humid South.
• Sell stolen guns and hold people at gunpoint? Momma might have something to say about that. Who got shot? Sean takes a closer look.
• Barron is on assignment this week.
• They say “Choose your friends well, for your enemies will choose you.” Miguel shines a bright light on those who have chosen us, and what he sees will shock you.
• In the Main Topic we welcome Special Guest Gail Pepin of the Massad Ayoob Group and the Pro Arms Podcast
• How do you answer when people ask you “Just how many guns do you really need?” Two-Gun Tiffany gives us her answer.
• After last week’s fungal infection segment, Erin follows up with some creams and ointments that every prepper should have.
• A State legislator opens a stand to sell lemonade, cookies… and an AK-47, because he objects to citizens selling their property without government permission. Weer’d points and laughs.
• And our plug of the week is for Carolina Ceramic Coatings.

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support

Look for the show notes HERE!

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EP142 GunBlog VarietyCast – Cameron Diaz and Chocolate Godzilla at NRAAM 2017

That’s a movie I’d go see!

Join Sean, Erin, Beth, Tiffany, Weer’d,  and Co-host Emeritus Adam as we record LIVE in the Media Room at the NRA Annual Meeting 2017. Subjects of discussion include

• SIG pistols
• Grayguns
• Airforce Airguns
• Bribery Vodka from Covington
• C-Products Magazines
• Next Level Training’s SIRT Pistol
• Infiltrating the Mom’s Demand Action protest
• The derpiest holster EVAR!
• Mike Seeklander
• The NRA Women’s Luncheon
• Safer Faster Defense’s SFD Responder
• Second Amendment Foundation
• 10K for 2A
• Korth Revolvers
• Cabot Guns

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support!

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EP141 GunBlog VarietyCast – Be Yourself… No, Not Like That!

I look forward to the day when being a gun owner no longer carries a social stigma.

• Beth received a letter asking for speakers for Career Day at her son’s school, but when she told them she was a firearms instructor, they said “Thanks, but No Thanks.”
• A man attempted to give girlfriend a ballistic abortion. Sean looks at his permanent record.
• Barron is on assignment this week.
• What’s worse than a rabid gun grabber running an anti-gun organization on Daddy Bloomberg’s money? A rabid gun grabber running a political campaign on Daddy Bloomberg’s money
• In the Main Topic we welcome Special Guest Rob Morse of the Self Defense Gun Stories podcast.
• Tiffany is headed off to NRAAM. Will she once again be the only black woman at a gun rights event? Or is there truly a place for people that look like her?
• Convention season is upon us. Erin gives you tips on how to comfortably survive what she calls “kindergarten for grownups.”
• ABC goes Full Gun Grab with “Designated Survivor”. Weer’d has the audio and the facts.
• And our plug of the week is Magpul PMAG Glock magazines.

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support

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EP140 GunBlog VarietyCast – Going to NRAAM 2017

There’s no yellow brick road, but be sure to follow the GBVC cast at NRAAM!

• Beth is still going to NRAAM… but the USCCA is not. Beth tells us how the NRA dis-invited them.
• Some relationships are fiery; this one ends in arson. Who lit the fire? Sean takes a look.
• Barron is on assignment this week.
• Discretion is the better part of valor, and so Miguel reminds you to pick your fights lest you get in over your head.
• In the Main Topic, Sean and Erin talk about concealed carry handguns as Personal Protective Equipment.
• Tiffany is on assignment this week.
• Friend of the show Sarah Cade asked Erin, “How do you find your family members in an emergency?” Erin has some ideas.
• For some reason, family members seem to get upset when their criminal spawn get shot! Weer’d brings us the grandfather of one of the home invaders killed in Oklahoma.
• And our plug of the week is NRAAM 2017. Follow us on Instagram!

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support

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EP138 GunBlog VarietyCast – Beth, What Is Best In Life?

By Crom, what a podcast!

• The USCCA Concealed Carry Expo is worth several shows. This week, Beth tells us what some of the women in the firearms industry have to say.
• It’s a complicated storyline in this week’s Felons Behaving Badly, but the characters are much the same as they always are. Sean gives you their backstories.
• Barron is on assignment this week.
• Are you a snob? Miguel has a few words for you.
• In the Main Topic, Sean and Erin explore why no one is talking about that school shooting in San Bernardino last week.
• Are you a parent? Do you have responsibility for others? Tiffany brings us an interview with Melody Lauer who, along with John Johnston, teaches the Contextual Handgun: The Armed Parent course.
• Erin wants you to bury your stuff. Safely. For reasons.
• From the “You can’t make this stuff up” files, Weer’d brings you an interview with Moxie Cotton, a drag queen who will be helping school kids film a “gun violence documentary. Seriously.
• And our plug of the week is “Concealed Carry is Herd Immunity Against Crime” shirts by our very own Erin!

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support

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EP138 GunBlog VarietyCast – Everything Sounds More Profound in Latin

Semper ubi sub ubi.

• Beth is at the USCCA Concealed Carry Expo, and she takes some time out of her incredibly busy schedule to tell us about it.
• In one of the worst crimes we have ever talked about on the podcast, Sean looks a little deeper to find out what kind of creature would murder two little girls – one only four days old.
• Barron is on assignment this week.
• Politicians frequently mistake themselves as public masters. Miguel tells us his idea for whipping them back into proper public servants.
• In the Main Topic, Sean and Erin talk about the US Senate going nuclear and imposing the Reid Option on Supreme Court filibusters.
• Tiffany is on assignment this week.
• Inter arma enim silent leges: “In times of war, the law falls silent.” But what about when your choice is break the law and survive, or keep the law and die? Erin tells us about “The Doctrine of Competing Harms.”
• One of these days the anti-gun leadership will force Loaded Conversations to stop broadcasting their utter hatred of people like us – but today is not that day, for it truly is the gift that keeps on giving. Weer’d focuses on Gays Against Guns leader, and Loaded Conversations co-host, Dr. Dwight Panozzo, PhD.
• And our plug of the week is the SFD Responder from Safer Faster Defense.

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support

Show notes are HERE!

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EP137 GunBlog VarietyCast – You Keep Using That Word

The media being inaccurate or having an agenda? Inconceivable!

• You think shooting a gun is a hair-raising experience? Beth suggests you try trimming a baby’s nails. If you can do that, maybe shooting isn’t so scary after all!
• What kind of person shoots his girlfriend to death outside of her home? Sean takes a closer look.
• Barron is on assignment this week, but in his place we welcome back Miguel in the inaugural episode of his new segment The Flea Market of Ideas. Miguel talks about less-lethal options for dealing with Antifa mobs.
• In the Main Topic, Sean and Erin commiserate about the total misuse of the phrase “Stand Your Ground” in the media.
• As promised last week, Tiffany tells us all about her trip to Germany to speak before the World Forum on Shooting Activities.
• Last week Erin told you what emergency trauma equipment you’d need to keep people alive until the professional rescuers got there. Well what are you going to do if rescue isn’t coming? Listen and find out.
• We give them our tax dollars, but what does NPR do with them? Weer’d shows us that they don’t try really hard to be objective.
• And our plug of the week is Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey-Maturin series, the books that inspired the Russell Crowe movie, “Master and Commander: Far Side of the World.”

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support.

Show notes available HERE!

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EP136 GunBlog VarietyCast – Vault 7 Sorcery, REEEEing Ted Cruz, and Perfidious Senators

“To Wikileak” is apparently a verb now.

• How can you run afoul of the TSA? Beth counts the ways.
• Who is so bad that even his Mom turns on him? Sean looks at the crime, and the criminal, to find the answer.
• Barron is back, and he brought a Sorcerer to talk about the Wikileaked Vault 7
• In the Main Topic, Sean and Erin remind people that they don’t own the culture. Ted Cruz is allowed to be a geek too.
• Tiffany screamed herself almost hoarse at the 19th annual Tactical Conference, and she’s back to tell us about it.
• Sure, you have a blowout kit on your belt, but what about for traumatic injury at home? Erin tells you what to put inside your at-home kit.
• You’ve heard of the NRA A-rated politician from Florida who turned her back on gun owners? Weer’d puts her interview through a Patented Weer’d Audio Fisk™.
• And our plug of the week is Mike Leon’s book Rated R (The Postmodern Adventures of Kill Team One Book 1)

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support.

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EP135 GunBlog VarietyCast – The Spotlight Effect

I love the thrill
I love this scene
Can you feel me move?
Dance with me
In the white light

• What’s it like to be a woman in the firearms industry? Beth tells us about how she has to prove herself every day.
• A fire, a fire extinguisher, and a knife are the what; Sean takes a closer look at the who.
• Barron is on assignment and will return soon.
• In the Main Topic, Sean and Erin talk about getting over that feeling that EVERYONE is watching you as you learn to carry concealed.
• Tiffany is on assignment and will return next week.
• We know there’s no reason to read them, but Erin says that newspapers actually still have uses.
• He’s half of the “Armed with Reason” duo, and as Weer’d will show, he’s not any more intelligent or reasonable in audio form than he is in print.
• And our plug of the week is the Striker Control Device, aka the Glock Gadget.

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support.

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 EP132 GunBlog VarietyCast – Condiments and Cutlery

In Mordor on the Potomac, only criminals can carry guns.

• People are so fixated on being “Nice” that Beth thinks they’ve lost sight of the real goal: being Good.
• When a suspect ends an hour-long standoff by shooting himself, is that a good resolution? Sean tells you who the suspect was so you can decide for yourself.
• Barron is on assignment and will return soon.
• In the Main Topic, Erin tells us about her trip to Maryland Shall Issue.
• Tiffany is on assignment and will return next week.
• It’s good for your tea and it’s good for hypoglycemia – Erin tells you about honey in your EDC.
• When someone tries to open an indoor gun range in Northern New Jersey, the anti-gun nuts lose their minds. Join Weer’d as he listens to their proposed “Reasonable” restrictions.
• And our plug of the week is for War Stories Podcast.

Thanks to LuckyGunner and Remington for their sponsorship. And a special thanks to Firearms Policy Coalition for their support.

Look for the show notes HERE

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