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pretty much anything that has to do with guns, as
I have all my life, and then my dad did
before me. I grew up doing this thing. It's kind
of interesting. I just jumped into doing this, never thought about.
I don't even remember making a conscious decision to become
a writer and a photographer. It just I just did
it because I grew up doing it. And then when
I got a chance to do TV, I thought, well,
I probably just thought, you know, what's the big deal.
Anybody can do this. But if my dad can do it,
anybody can do it, right. I mean, he's on ABC TV,
he's on ESPN, he's hosted shows there. I can do that,
sure fight. So I grew up doing this. My dad
was writing about gun rights in the fifties, and so
a lot of what I get by institutional knowledge, I
go all the way back to what I learned from
him and going through his files. He kept things forever.
I have still have articles that were written in the
fifties calling for Americans to turn in their guns, turn
in their handguns. Especially the move back then was to
ban handguns. When that didn't work, they switched to long
guns and ars. That's not going to work. They're going
to go back to that, I guarantee you at some point.
But you know what, you can be a part of this.
Did you want to call right now? Give me a
range report. What have you been shooting? Did you go
out and do a little shooting on Independence Day? Love
to know about that. Eight sixty six Talk Gun or
Tom Talk Guns is the number here. Jeff called in
out of the Grand Oregon. Hey, Jeff, thank you for
your patience. I'm glad you hung in there with us.
Speaker 4: You have the floor, that's fine and I love it
every time you have Uncle ted.
Speaker 5: On the TV American.
Speaker 4: And I'm blind, so I can't drive to the range
as often as i'd like. But this past week my
grandson had a birthday, so I gave him a twenty two.
He wanted to go to the range, so I grabbed
the three new center fire rifles that I picked up
in the last few weeks. And I'm able to shoot
using a stable table and good optics and stuff. Anyway,
I picked up a custom made thirty six by a
well known gun maker in this area, quilted Maplestock eleven
inlays in thirty six wow, And I had a box
of nozzler factory load or not nozzler norma one hundred
and eighty grain factory load bullets and took that out
and shot it, and I was able to get about
an intern a quarter out of it without really doctoring
on it. Then the second rifle fellow owed me money
and brought a Saiko fin Bear over in two seventy.
I had a box of Federal factory load one hundred
and thirty grain and that shot about the same as
the custom rifle, about an inch and a quarter. And
then the third one that I got is a Ruger
American in threeh eight, and I had a box of
one hundred and fifty grain Norma Ammo right, and that
shot seven eighths of an inch. You don't have to
spend a lot of runny.
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna say it's crazy. The Ruger American at
whatever it is, five hundred and six hundred bucks is
just stupidly accurate, and it's just easy to get him
to shoot well. I mean, it's really as one of
the best values out there in bull dykes and rifles.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you don't have to spend as much as
the other two rifles are worth. But what a nice
little rifle. But then I wanted to weigh in on
the iconic American gun. Okay, I mean a good case
can be made for nineteen elevens or the lever actions
or a grand But I think the most iconic to me,
even though it's not my favorite rifle, is a pre
sixty four model seventy Winchester.
Speaker 3: The riflemen's rifle is the way that Winchester put it
in their ads back in the sixties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So anyway, that's my opinion.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like it. I have no problem with that
in Winchester Pre sixty four model seventy Winchester rifle classic
as classic can be. Hey, Mataias is also on the
phone with us out of Fontanna, California.
Speaker 4: Hey, Matios, how you doing pretty good?
Speaker 6: Happy Americans through fifty to you Tom. There you go, Yeah, sir,
longtime listener, first time caller. You know, being in California,
we've got you know, we've got our fifteens over here,
but we have like compliance issues, right and I bet
you pass the owners are not even compliant. And I'm
wondering what the assault weapon span Scotus case we'll do
for that sort of thing here in California where we
have to be compliant.
Speaker 3: For you, Okay, Yeah, let me throw a thought out there. Yeah,
it's a good point. There are people who are saying, yeah,
you know, even if the Supreme Court says you can't
ban air fifteens, then states will put restrictions on them. Okay,
you can have one, but it has to have this
set of features on it or it has to you
know this that. And we still don't know if we're
going to be able to get the magazine capacity ban challenge.
I don't think they're going to include that in this.
And there are other cases, but they have not accepted
one of those. So I think you're right to say, look,
this is positive, but we know how determined California or
California government is in trying to ban these guns, and
they would just come up with another sneaky way to
do it, and then the battle goes on, as we say,
it goes on forever. All right, ready for your range
of for it.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So I'm a member of a private gun club and
that's just the way to go.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 6: We're on eighty acres and we have like fourteen matches,
and one of the best matches we have is the
night match. And well, I can't emphasize enough that if
you haven't done a night match, then you really haven't
really tested your equipment out. You know, and then we
also have like a wonderful youth sporting session for the
kids that's sponsored by one of the gun shops down here,
where the dad's moms can bring their youth over to
our range and they'll do the NRA marksmanship qualifications, take.
Speaker 7: Them through all the four rules of gun safety.
Speaker 6: You name it, we do it, you know.
Speaker 5: Including cleaning guns.
Speaker 8: Who does that anymore?
Speaker 3: One of the things, you know, one of the things
that occurs to me is that when you have a
private shooting right change, it depends upon volunteers to make
it run, doesn't it.
Speaker 6: Absolutely?
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: We have a we have a board of directors, we
have many assistants to help it keep it going, wonderful
maintenance staff as well. It's just a well ran machine.
Speaker 3: But but it depends upon it requires the commitment of
the members to volunteer to make life better by putting
in time and effort and putting basically part of themselves
into it. I just love the concept our local shooting range.
We have workdays and those types of things like you
got to show up, you got to help. If you
want nice things, you got.
Speaker 9: To work for them.
Speaker 3: There it is all right, are you what's the by
the way, what's the gunshop there?
Speaker 6: Turners Outdoorsmen, great posts, great chain of outdoorsmen stores down
here in southern California and parts of northern California. But
there wonderful They sponsor us for the AMMO and donated
rifles and things like that. It's it's a wonderful program
to keep the you know. That's that's where the future
is of a second Amendment is our.
Speaker 3: Youth, absolutely absolutely, well, you know it is our future.
And and back to that point, and if we don't volunteer,
if we're not willing to go do the things ourselves,
if we're waiting for someone else, or the phrase I
hear all the time is well why aren't they doing it?
They should do that. Well, there's no day, there's just us.
And if we're not willing to get off our butts
like well, but I have a job, but I have
I don't have time, but I don't have the money. Yeah,
you know everybody's got butts like that. We got to
get off our butts and get moving here. Thank you
for the call. I appreciate that. All right. I number
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Speaker 3: I've get some interesting comments online about the photo I
posted on X of the nineteen eleven, but with the
hat I had made, I came up with this an
idea of my own MAGA hat and it says make
Americans gunfighters again. People going, where can I get that?
Who's selling those hats? No, I'm not going to sell
the hats. If I did that, I might make money.
Who wants to do that? No? You could have made yourself.
I just go to Amazon now custom print anything you want.
If you want to go. Take a look at the
picture of it over on X. I posted it there.
Uh to find me on X I am at Gun
Talk there. So yeah, but it's fine. I just one
of those warks. Sometimes I get these creative things in
my head and I can't get rid of them, and
so final I just have to go execute it and
make it happen and go do it. And so there
you go. Anyway, number he is eighty six six Talk
Gun Give you a call. Kurt did that. He's in Watertown,
South Dakota. Hey, Kurt, thank you for your patience. What's
on your mind, sir.
Speaker 7: Hi Tom. I've got a couple of candidates for iconic guns.
Speaker 3: Great.
Speaker 7: The first one would be a twelve gage single shot
shot gun. I don't think anybody's grandfather didn't have.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and usually had like a thirty two inch barrel
at least.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and they were cheap and anybody could afford one.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 7: And now my other candidate is the dzy B begun.
Speaker 3: Oh, I had not thought of that. I mean, I'm
gonna go even further and drill down and say the
Red Rider.
Speaker 7: The Red Rider. I never had a Red Rider, but
I had a Cup.
Speaker 3: You had a cup and I had to model twenty five.
That was a pump action that had the little scissor
arm thing, And when you're really small and young, you
can't get your arm your hand all the way out
to the handle on the forearm. You try to hold
it about midway out and that thing would pinch you. Man,
you would get a blood blister on your hand. Wow.
I remember my uncle had one of those.
Speaker 7: They used to have to set the butt on the
ground and push it down with both hands at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yeah, you were small when you were doing that.
Weren't you, Yes, I was. I loved the idea of
a BB gun. Maybe even we were just like I say,
we may even just say the Red Rider as one
of America's iconic guns, not a firearm according to ATF.
But we will widen our net will take in the
baby guns. Great idea. I appreciate it, Kurt, thank you
for the call. Let's drop down to grab Glenn on
line two out of Kansas. Hey, Glenn, you're on gun Talk.
What's up?
Speaker 9: Oh?
Speaker 14: I wanted to talk about an iconic American firearm, and
I got to tell you just a brief story.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 14: When I was sixteen in nineteen seventy you got my
first job working at the gap station up fifteen hours
and I took my first two each wages and went
and bought a Rimington seven hundred in a two forty three,
and I had to borrow like thirty fine dollars from
my dad a scope on it.
Speaker 3: Oh man, oh man, do you do you still have it?
Speaker 15: Bill?
Speaker 14: Of course, got it. That's going to go to grandson.
And Bill still shoots great. I got it out last
year and I was going to do some handloads, and
I bought a box of just playing Federal two forty
three hundred greens and I shot about point sixty five
was the center of the third group on those. And
so I don't think I'll do any handload and if
I I I can shoot anyway.
Speaker 3: There is something about the Remnton seven hundred. It always
was accurate. I know people love the Winchester Model seventy
and that's a great classic gun. But the seven hundreds,
in my experience, always outshot the Winchesters.
Speaker 8: That's been my experience also.
Speaker 14: And I think the three sixty Four's are fine, but
the later model winchester just don't shoot as.
Speaker 16: Good as the old ones. In my opinion.
Speaker 14: My Remington's always shoot good. And I've just had great
luck Whistle and I don't know. I don't think you
can get you more iconic than that.
Speaker 3: That's a good recommendation. I like the Remidons seven hundred
is not a bad choice. The two forty three is
a great caliber. So there you go. Good idea. Thanks Glen,
appreciate it. Yeah, we got time. We'll get Joe out
of Erie, Kansas online one. Hey Joe, what's your talk about?
Speaker 9: Yes, I remember Dad bought me a red, brighter new
in nineteen seventy five approximately. My uncle gave us our
favorite shotgun about nineteen early nineteen seventeen, our seventies. It
was Remington long long barrel pump. First gun that ever
knocked me down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, all.
Speaker 9: Right, two iconic, two iconic guns right there, right right now.
That same uncle gave me my first guitar exactly fifty
years ago, right at the fan after the family union.
And I still got that guitar.
Speaker 3: What is it? What kind of guitar.
Speaker 9: It's a very rare one. It'll be ninety years old
next year.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I guess so. Yeah, amazing. Do you
still play?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, good, Yeah, I still play?
Speaker 3: All right. You want to talk about that, yeah, And
I know you want to talk about the idea of
not carrying because it's safe where you are.
Speaker 9: Yes, you're right about that. Just because it's safe where
you're at, in a nice town or a county whatever,
as soon as you go into the other county, it's
a crime waiting to happen either direction from me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a short drive to crazy and dangerous, which,
by the way, means that it's also a short drive
for crazy and dangerous to get to you wherever you are.
Speaker 9: Absolutely you got to be preferred for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pants on gun all. That's the way I operate,
pants on gun on every day. Thank you for the call, sir.
I do want to do this. I'm gonna take a
couple of minutes personal privilege here, if you will. Fourth
of July Independence Day we had a party. Actually we
did it on the third because I figured everybody'd be
busy on the fourth, so we invited a bunch of
neighbors over. We had probably forty five people on a
cookout on our deck, and we had burgers and brots
and dogs going. And I'm looking out the window right
now at the deck it's three four flags, three of
the red, white and blueloo buntings and then a dozen
of the small American flags. We had flags everywhere. So
we do all the prep. But everybody's you know, having
a good time and enjoying their beverages and all. And
then we put the food out and my wife calls
everybody to attention, just said welcomes them all. And I said,
all right, as long as we're stopped here, if you
would please stand up, take off your hats and on
our speaker system that was playing out there. I played
the national anthem, and everybody there stood with their hats off,
the hens over their hearts, and sang along to the
national anthem out on the deck to celebrate America's two
hundred and fiftieth birthday. I love my neighbors. I love
my country. I often tear up when the national anthem
is played, and I don't I can't really explain that emotion.
It's just what I have. It just means a lot
to me. And it took a lot to form the country.
It takes a lot to keep the country, and we
have to I think all of us remind each of
us of the need to stay engaged, to be involved,
to commit to voting. We have mid terms coming up.
If we don't vote, it's going to be catastrophic. I
mean really truly catastrophic. And not just vote. I mean,
first of all, you got a registered to vote. A
lot of people don't even know if they are registered
to vote. I once heard or saw or report that
that half the members of the NRA are not registered
to vote, which is amazing to me. How can you
be an effective political force if you're not even registered
to vote? So we have to help each other. We
have to enable each other to be effective, to remind
each other that this fight is forever. If you care
about the Second Amendment, I don't care about your other issues.
You know we may disagree on those. We're going to
agree on Second Amendment. If you care about it, may
I suggest that you need to commit to being a volunteer,
to being an activist, to be engaged, whether it's time
or money, which are kind of interchangeable. Sometimes getting somebody
to the polls, helping them get there, making sure your
buddies are registered to vote. It's okay to say, what
do you mean you're not registered to vote, you knucklehead.
Let's get this done. It's a life kind battle. It
will never end because they will always be coming after
our rights and they will only get them if we
stop fighting. We can never stop fighting. So as we
celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth birthday of our country,
let's all we commit to stay engage, all right. Praise
to the day. Is Magga make Americans gun fighters again.
I'm Tom Gresham. It's gun talk. Give me a call
it eight sixty six or talk gun or Tom Talk gun.
That'll get you. There a lot of folks lined up,
they're on the phones. Let me go grab the first one.
Richard is online two out of Hill Country, Texas. Richard,
you're up.
Speaker 8: Yes, sir, my nomination is not a particular gun. It's
just a twenty two caliber whatever gun a person likes
for once.
Speaker 3: Has, okay, yeah, for America's gun. Now, would you limit
it to a rifle versus handgun?
Speaker 8: No twenty two caliber period whatever?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 8: Whatever that works in it's it's been HiT's around everywhere.
Speaker 3: Yeah, if you don't have a twenty two, what's wrong
with you?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 8: Don't you take?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, everywhere I do. I was at the range
the other day. I was taking a fifteen year old out.
We shot a twenty two revolver, a twenty two semi autopistol,
and a twenty two rifle and a Rugerten twenty two.
So yeah, we had to boss you in twenty two's.
So I don't think there's the thing in the world
wrong with that. Good, good idea. Thank you, sir, appreciate
the call. Let's go grab Jeff on four out of
boys the Idaho. Jeff, you got a range of fort
for us? Yeah?
Speaker 17: Hi, Tom, Hey, I went and recently bought a Smith
and Wesson Shield Easy in thirty Super Carry.
Speaker 4: Oh, interesting, Supercurry.
Speaker 17: Round has been maligned, like you're reading, it's a only
an idiot would buy a thirty Supercurry. But this shield
Easy was only two hundred and forty dollars and that
Smith and Wesson is just a beautiful, beautiful gun. Yes
it is not do it and for those who don't
meant it, let.
Speaker 3: Me jump in, let me explain. For those who don't know,
the shield Ez is a semi auto pistol, good defensive gun,
but the Easy is the designation for the way it's made.
The rack. The slide is very easy to rack. It's
very easy to operate the slide, and so I often
recommend that shield Z for people who are having trouble
operating the slide on their semiato. But the thirty Super
Carry is a new er, new ish cartridge, and you're right,
it has been much maligne. People go, what's the point
of it, So what's your experience with it?
Speaker 17: Well, okay, I've got the shield easy in three eighty
and I am very recoil sensitive, so I'm concerned about that.
But the Super Carry is supposed to be between three
eighty and nine milimeters, closer to nine millimeter, and the
recoil is supposed to be similar to nine milime, it
may be a little bit less. So I just tried
it out and I shot it, and it really wasn't
bad at all, And I was really kind of amazed
that they do something with the action of the pistol
that it kind of delays it a little bit and
it made the recoil not so bad.
Speaker 3: Are you having any trouble finding Ammo for.
Speaker 17: That, Well, yes, I mean Ammo is there. The complaint
is Ammo availability and Ammo cost. So Ammo cost is
a little bit more than three eighty, but then so
is thirty two ACP. And I don't I think that
for a beautiful gun. I don't really care about the animal.
I'm not going to shoot that thing a whole lot.
And it's a nice shooting gun, and the ballistics are
almost identical in foot pounds of energy to a nine milimeter,
so I think it's just it's kind of great.
Speaker 5: I like it.
Speaker 3: You know, you mentioned that you have the shield these
d and three eighty, and I think that is a
sleeper gun in a sleeper cartridge that more people should
be aware of.
Speaker 17: It's nice. Plus do you know that it's the only
gun out there, one of the few ones that has
a grip safety and a manual safety, which is kind
of an interesting concept in its own right. I think
the limitation on the three eighty shield Easy is just
I think it's eight rounds. It doesn't have much capacity,
so there are better three eighties. For example, the Ruger
Security three eight is a fifteen round is a nice gun, so.
Speaker 3: Right, but if you hear those are beautiful, they are.
And if you have trouble operating a slide, the three
eighty in any semiauto is a lot easier to work
the slide than a nine to milimeter, so I recommend that.
And three eighty AMO is very good, certainly adequate for
almost all self defense situations. But the easy system is
very easy to work the slide too. So there you go,
good good range of port. I thank you, sir. I
appreciate that. One thing that brings me to a safety
thing I want to talk about when you're working the
slide on a semiauto pistol and I talk about this
a good bit. You can bring the gun into your
chest and put your if you're shooting right hand, put
your left hand over the top of the slide. You
shove forward with your right hand and you yank back
with your left hand. That's all well and good. It
works very well. Here's the problem or the challenge. If
you prefer I keep getting your porch from people say, yeah,
there was somebody at the range who was doing it
that way, but he or she brought it into their chest,
and now it's pointing at a ninety degree angle from downrange.
It's pointing at everybody along the line where there are
all these people. Yes, if you bring the gun in
and you swing the muzzle over to your left, if
you're right handed, it's easier to work the slide. Here's
the way you handle that, and here's how you even
if you're not doing it. If you're coaching somebody on this,
that's what you tell them to do. Turn their body
sideways so their left shoulders pointing down range, so that
when they bring the gun to the chest to operate
the slide, the muzzle is still pointing down range and
then they rack the slide. You can point it down
range and you can turn your body square it off again.
But then when it's time to bring the gun back
in and we're on the slide, if you feel the
need to pull that gun in and have it point
it across your chest, take a step one way or
the other, turn your body sideways, blade it so that
you're shoulder in the case of a right hand shooters
pointed down range, worked the slide, and then square up again.
It's a fairly simple movement. It's a fairly simple concept
to get a hold of. But just wanted to throw
it out there for everybody. It's a safety issue. Okay,
let's grab Mike online, three out of Texas. Hey, Mike,
you're up.
Speaker 16: Hello Tom, Yes you're what. You asked everybody what they
thought representative America and the.
Speaker 5: Way of a gun?
Speaker 3: Uh huh.
Speaker 16: I believe it's I think it's a single shot, honestly. So,
I mean, you think about it, what did our forefathers
fight with? They fought with single shots?
Speaker 5: Did they not?
Speaker 3: Well? Yeah, if you start off with muskets and then
flint locks and yeah.
Speaker 16: Yeah, yes exactly, And then you think about it. You know,
any kiddo they got started off shooting probably started off
with a single shot. Four ten.
Speaker 9: I would bet.
Speaker 3: Good chance of it at least way back. Maybe not
so much anymore because it's kind of hard to find
single shots now. They're just particularly in youth guns. But
you know, also, I would say that there are some
really cool single shots out there in the form of
like the Ruger Number one, which is a great rifle,
but it's a single shot.
Speaker 16: Well, you looked at all the thousands that were made
by Thompson Center and HNR News and Thoms. I mean,
there were a ton of them made. And I really
enjoy the simplicity of the action.
Speaker 4: I really do.
Speaker 16: I have been a big fan of single shots for
a long time.
Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, A break action single shot is about as
simple as it gets. The only thing I would offer
is that anybody who's done this knows what I'm talking about.
If you get, like Thompson Center one of those, and
you get it in something like a forty five seventy,
the recoil is prodigious.
Speaker 16: Well, I have an H and R single shot forty
five seventy.
Speaker 4: I absolutely love it.
Speaker 16: It is so much fun to shoot. You go and
you shoot. It just puts a big old grind on
these things. And I have seen that for so many
people shoot it.
Speaker 3: It does, you know, but you got a lot of
know like this is a light one gun, it's gonna
have some recoil.
Speaker 16: Oh absolutely well. I shot Factory four a front five
grand loves out of it. And then my father in law,
being a reloader, custom tuned up some pretty good mo
and it would get your traumise.
Speaker 3: Boy oh boy, yeah, you can hear that.
Speaker 4: But just a blast.
Speaker 16: It comes forward down discipline and accuracy than anything.
Speaker 3: Yep, I hear you. Yes, single shot is going to
force you to concentrate. You only got one. No follow
up shots? All right, real quick, let's go grab Dick
out of Least City, Texas. Thing's online? Five? Hello, Dick,
you're on gun talk. What's on your mind? Or or
he's not. It's a day for people to lose their
connections or put down their phones. I don't know. And
sometimes I think they'll mute the phone and now he's
trying to talk to me and he forgot that the music,
But it happens. That's kind of the deal. So ask
me the question, if you had to pick a gun
that what you could call America's gun, what would it be?
We mentioned somebody mentioned twenty two's Yeah, could a Ruger
ten twenty two maybe not old enough? Maybe not. I
gotta say I think I got to put a vote
in for the nineteen eleven platform. It's been made by
a whole bunch of different companies, including the Singer Sewing
Machine company unbelievably made nineteen elevens. Might be a good
vote there. I like the lever action rifle concept as
America's gun in one grand. Maybe I don't know. It's
it's there's so many good choices. That's an interesting thought.
The reason we're struggling with this is there are, in fact,
so many good choices, so many good platforms of firearms
in America. We are, and I offer and say this,
we are in the golden age right now. And we
talk about the old days, the pre sixty fours of this,
and that they don't make them like they used to.
Know they don't. They make them a lot better now
than they used to. The guns we buy now are
so much better what was made in the old days.
I mean they just are. When you can get a
Ruger American rifle that shoots half inch groups out of
the box, that was unheard of thirty forty fifty years ago,
we have pistols that you go buy. There's any number
of people companies making nineteen elevens. Now, they're simply better
than what you could have gotten thirty to fifty years ago.
They just are. And then we have guns that never
existed before, double stack nineteen elevens. This goes on and on,
all of our striker fired guns. Oh, by the way,
we had callers said the other said it was rare
because you had a pistol with a grip safety and
emmanual safety, and thinking, yeah, okay, that may seem rare
to you. But the one I'm wearing at the moment
with who's designed, Oh, I don't know. And nineteen eleven
was adopted by the US Army. It is a grip
safety and emmanual safety. Yeah it does okay. And some
people say, I don't like grip safety. Cool, get someone
without it. It's fine, you know. And now we have
the twenty elevens, if you will, the double stack nineteen elevens.
And at the same time we have all of these
great striker fired guns. I mean, I look at the
rugers and the smiths are being made, and now we're
getting more czs in the country, and the dan Wessons
have come back and are making really fine guns. Just
I am amazed at the quality of the firearms we
have available to us. And we're probably going to get more.
Not just be more being made by the current companies,
but I think we're going to get some restrictions removed
on imports and we're going to be able to get
some more guns coming in from other countries. Once again,
and I say this over and over again, Donald Trump,
it's a different world. And it's not just what you
heat hasn't done this. No, it's DOJ, it's State Department's imports,
it's ATF, it's regulations. They're talking about getting rid of
the restriction of having to be at a gun store
to get your gun worked about in state, where you
fill out all the paperwork online and they can send
it to your house. We have not been able to
do that since nineteen sixty eight. The nineteen sixty eight
Gun Control Act stopped that. And the ATF is saying, yeah,
we think we can do this from a regulatory basis.
Can you imagine a Biden or Ai administration doing that
crazy talk, crazy stuff. We just we're making so many
advancements so fast that we can't even keep up with it.
And the ATS says, here's thirty four measures we're going
to do to ease the burden on gun owners and
gun stores and manufacturers, and those are going to be
the first thirty four as we move forward. Just I mean,
it's fascinating. Uh, Jim, do we have time for one
more caller in here? Let's do know what I want? No,
let's drop down to Joe. I want to get Joe online.
Three please, Joe, you're up?
Speaker 17: Hey, Tom.
Speaker 15: The greatest gun of all time, the gun that saves
the list, single action Colt forty five.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, okay, the Cowboy gun. Yes, and we have one.
Speaker 15: Without them, we wouldn't be here today.
Speaker 3: Do you have one?
Speaker 15: No, but really quick. My father used to sell old
cat aluminum models of those in the fifties and sixties,
the Colt the walk of the patters in the Army
of the Navy, and I was a kid working with
him preparing him a ship. When they got sold. I
even cated the grips. I was working at twelve years
old with guns.
Speaker 3: I love it all right, Thank you, Joe. I appreciate that.
As long as we're on this grab on line one
real fast. Robert in Arkansas. Hey, Robert, talk to me.
Speaker 5: I'd like to nominate two guns. The Kid eighteen seventy three, Yeah,
the gun that won the West Okay. And there was
a single action revolver called the Colt Single Action Army
they called the Peacemaker.
Speaker 3: I like both of them. I think they're good choices.
And it's back to back. We had Joe and Reno
and Robert and Arkansas Boseley and the Cult Single Action Army.
I love it good. You know. I have one of
those that I got from my dad, inherited from my dad,
and I don't think I've ever shot it. It's a
nickel plated Cult single action revolver, and I think probably
it's time to break it out. And I've got some
Colt Ammo, and I think I got to go in
celebration of America's two fiftieth, I got to go shoot
the single action Colt. Just hadn't thought about that. I
know exactly where it is and it's in the box.
I know it's been shot. It's not on fired, but
I bet it hadn't had fifty rounds through it. And
I think I got to go do that. Now I
do have some other single actions. I've got a number
of ruggers that I really like, some of the convertible
ones wait to shoot forty five ACP and forty five
COLT And of course I think maybe the first handgun
that I own was a rugorous single action that they
were they called the convertibles twenty two, twenty two magnum
and twenty two long ride. Fun stuff, great memories. And
you know what the great part of it is, we
can have these memories of these guns we had and
we could still take them out and shoot them today.
That is the wonder and the beauty of fire. All right,
I know you have stories that we would like to
hear them. Give me a call right now. We can
get you into the after show number here is Tom
Talk gun easy as that. What a great weekend, what
a great time, what a great celebration. Two hundred and
fifty years of this incredible experiment. And trust me, there
are people who want to bring us down. We have
to keep fighting. They always have. It took fighting to
create the country. It has taken fighting to keep the country.
And it also requires fighting of a sort, maybe not
armed conflict, but being in a battle to retain our
rights that people are always trying to take away. I
don't really know what the true motivation is those who
say we could we shouldn't have guns. I mean, I
know some people are just bone stupid, okay, and actually
think that criminals will stop committing crime if somehow you
could ban guns. They don't. They don't, they never have.
In countries where they have very few guns, they still
have high crime rates. Just switch to something else. But
what also happens is you rob people of their ability
to protect themselves and their families. Guns are used in
self defense successfully in America more than a million times
a year, maybe as million, as many as three million
times a year. The guns are successfully used to protect themselves,
people use to protect themselves or other people. Take away
the guns. You make them defenseless, You make them victims.
People say, oh, yeah, we have to do something gun violence.
You know what, Let me just say this, sometimes gun
violence is good. You don't believe that. Let something really
bad happen. And what are you gonna do. You're gonna
call nine one one. What do you want when you
call nine one one? You want people to bring guns.
You want them to bring violence to someone to get
them to stop doing whatever they're doing. So, no matter
who you are, no matter where you fall on the spectrum,
you like some gun violence. But unfortunately some of you,
not many people listening to this, but some folks out
there don't want to take responsibility for doing it themselves.
They want to farm it out, They want to outsource
their safety. I want somebody else to do this. It's
not my job it is. It is absolutely your job
to protect yourself and your family. It's no one else's job,
someone else's responsibility. How dare you abdicate that responsibility? Your
family needs you, Your family loves you, They want you
to be around. And oh yeah, by the way, shouldn't
you be responsible take some responsibilities for protecting your family members.
You teach the kids to look both ways before they
cross the street. Why wouldn't you do the bare minimum
of having some means of protecting them when someone wants
to kidnap them, rape them, or kill them. I don't know.
I don't understand the logic there. This was a country
that was born because the British came to take our guns.
Understand that there were a lot of things leading up
to that. Okay, but This whole thing got started because
the British came to confiscate our guns and we shot them.
Simple as that, it's not a lesson that should be abandoned.
West might want to hold onto that idea of just
throwing some thoughts out to you. So if you want
to be a part of the further conversation, call me
right now. We'll get you into the after show. Give
me a call at Tom Talk gun In the meantime,
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posted pictures. Just put up that fun picture of my
crazy new MAGA hat. Yeah, make Americans gun fighters again.
Wear the picture of my cool nineteen eleven pistol about
the way. Hey, go buy a gun, go shoot some guns,
take somebody to the rains, have some fun, celebrate America.
Be safe. Four rules of gun safety always no matter what,
no matter where you are, no matter what you're doing,
and four rules always apply in the meantime. Thanks to
John Brownie, thanks to the founder of this country, and
thank you for being a big part of this show.
Tom Gresham. Here pie an next year.
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