Monthly Archives: April 2017

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

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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.

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