Gun Owners Radio

Gun Owners Radio
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Everything you learned about guns from mass media is wrong. Get the truth about guns, gun ownership, and the fight to restore and defend the Second Amendment in California. News, interviews, gear reviews, trivia, and more - Gun Owners Radio covers a wide variety of topics to entertain, educate, and engage.

  1. 1d ago

    What Does Dangerous And Unusual Actually Mean? The Assault Weapon Ban Case Explained

    The Supreme Court just took a case about assault weapon bans, and the whole fight turns on four words from Heller: dangerous and unusual. Attorney Alan Beck, who won Wolford at the Supreme Court, wrote an amicus brief arguing that courts have had those words backwards for years. Unusual never meant rare. It meant carrying a weapon in a way meant to terrify people, and the distinction goes back to English common law in 1328. Also this week: a retired Navy SEAL says 18 year olds cannot be trusted with a firearm off duty, and we take that apart. Anti gun groups demanded better data on defensive gun use and got a number more than twice what they expected. A school board candidate in South San Diego County gets attacked for our endorsement, and her reason for carrying is one nobody bothered to ask about. Plus the Dixie Chicks, and a straight answer on which home defense shotgun to buy. Chapters: 0:00 Cold open: soldiers are not allowed in my home 0:48 Welcome, and why the voter guide matters 4:31 Michael gets Judge Benitez to sign a 60 round magazine 10:34 The Madison quote that stuck with Alisha 14:14 What is on the show today 14:47 How Good Are You: the September 23 training day with Dave Reed 15:44 Win a Springfield Echelon at SDCGO.org/sweepstakes 17:41 Attorney Alan Beck on what dangerous and unusual really means 19:31 Where the phrase comes from: English common law and the 1328 Statute of Northampton 24:42 Common use, and the forty million AR-15s in circulation 26:12 Why counting up guns is the wrong test 28:43 Unusual never meant uncommon 30:26 The dagger at the market versus the battle axe in armor 33:18 Whatever happened to the bazooka argument 35:50 Leland Yee, California's biggest anti-gun voice, and the Stinger missiles 38:11 Parity with the average foot soldier 40:44 Which of the forty five amicus briefs are worth reading 44:53 Guns for me but none for thee: Eddie Gallagher on 18 year olds 48:29 If the standard is emotional regulation, where is the line 53:28 The cases fighting for 18, 19 and 20 year olds 58:39 The Second Amendment is not a second class right 1:01:00 Anti gunners demanded better data and got it 1:04:24 1.67 million defensive gun uses, and why that was an undercount 1:04:56 The new number: 2.2 million a year 1:07:23 What the survey did to the female ownership claim 1:14:54 Dixie Chicks: anti self defense, pro revenge 1:17:38 Goodbye Earl worked through the other options first 1:24:05 Delia Dominguez Cervantes attacked over an SDCGO endorsement 1:24:51 They doctored our voter guide before sharing it 1:31:39 Why she got a CCW, in her own words 1:38:12 Stump My Nephew: Eddie from Lakeside wants a home defense shotgun 1:42:53 Mossberg 500 versus Remington 870 1:46:52 The budget answer: Mossberg Maverick 88

  2. Sep 1

    San Diego's 18 City Councils, Graded on Your Gun Rights

    We graded every city council in San Diego County on your Second Amendment rights, a decade of record for all 18 of them, A through F. Exactly one earned an A, and the reason why goes back to the fight to get CCWs issued in San Diego at all. Then: Indiana three gunner Adam Wilcox sits in the studio while Dakota walks him through California gun law one statute at a time, and watches his face. Plus the SDCGO voter guide is finally here, Judge Benitez joins us for dinner on September 9, and Bill from North County does something that almost never happens: he stumps Sam. Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 2:27 Welcome: Alisha is out, Dakota and Adam are in 3:39 What's on the show today 6:05 SDCGO sweepstakes: win a Springfield Echelon, drawn live October 2 8:09 How Good Are You? Dave Reed's class, September 23 in Alpine 9:48 The MEGA JAM video: is loading brass backwards good training? 12:43 Snap caps, and how to induce a malfunction safely 15:51 The best malfunction clearance Michael ever saw 16:59 Meet Judge Benitez: September 9 dinner, talk and Q and A 19:35 Adam Wilcox: told his homebuilt AR was dumb, then went for 1,000 yards 26:24 What a three gun match actually looks like 32:02 Three gun is a drag race: how time plus scoring works 35:25 Does competition make you a better defensive shooter? 39:17 A Girl and A Gun: rangemaster life, Fall Fest, and this weekend in San Diego 44:13 California vs the world: the laws that shock everybody else 46:16 The ten day wait 49:25 The Firearm Safety Certificate 51:28 The handgun roster: why you cannot buy a new Glock here 54:19 Ten round magazines, and the veteran they tried to make a felon 58:06 You cannot take your own ammunition home from the range 1:01:52 Three guns per 30 days, CCW, and the sensitive places list 1:09:12 The CDC put defensive gun use back on its website 1:10:43 Where the 60,000 to 2.5 million range comes from 1:13:08 Gary Kleck, and why attacking the man is not a rebuttal 1:19:04 The paragraph that does not survive contact 1:25:23 Is there a number that would not warrant a hit piece? 1:26:53 Why the right does not depend on the statistic 1:30:10 Election season: the SDCGO voter guide is here 1:32:08 Grading all 18 San Diego city councils 1:33:02 The only council that earned an A 1:34:29 B, C, D, and the councils that work against you 1:41:09 Who is on the voter guide, and how you can help 1:45:13 School boards: where a mayor like Dane White starts 1:48:48 Stump My Nephew: the .44 that is not a .44 1:57:28 Sam's new blog: Dog Catches Mailman. What Next? If you have ever wondered whether your vote actually touches your gun rights, this is the episode that shows you exactly where it does. Voter guide: https://www.sdcgo.org/voterguide Judge Benitez dinner, September 9: https://www.sdcgo.org Sweepstakes: https://www.sdcgo.org/sweepstakes How Good Are You? class, September 23: https://www.gunownersradio.com Sam's blog: https://gunownersradio.com/blog New episodes every Sunday. Subscribe so you don't miss one. https://www.gunownersradio.com #2A #SecondAmendment #GunRights #California #ConcealedCarry

  3. Aug 24

    AOC, the DSA, and the Beginning of the End of Woke

    AOC now says "Woke 1 was crazy." She never said she was wrong. This week Michael and Dakota walk through what a movement looks like on the way down: the rebrand, the platform almost nobody reads out loud, and a DSA representative who could not answer a simple question about who investigates a rape. Then Charlie Cook on AMCON, San Diego County kicking ICE and Border Patrol off the sheriff's range, and Black gun owners in Chicago charged with felonies while holding valid licenses. 00:00 Welcome: Michael and Dakota, and where Alisha is 02:01 A Girl and a Gun: last night's handgun safety class 02:40 How good are you? Could you put a number on it? 03:51 Dave Reed's measured training day, September 23 in Alpine 05:46 Meet Judge Benitez: dinner in San Diego, September 9 11:57 Tickets, and the SDCGO Echelon sweepstakes 14:28 What's on the show today 15:58 The beginning of the end of woke 18:31 "Woke 1 was crazy": a rebrand, not a retraction 20:08 We read the DSA platform out loud 25:59 "If my daughter is assaulted, who finds him?" 35:06 A former DSA organizer breaks it down 37:07 A former Democrat operative on who the party wrote off 45:28 AOC will not answer the question 48:18 What actually changes it: get active, elect the right people 50:48 Charlie Cook: AMCON, the alternative media conference 1:03:41 amm-con.org, and who is speaking this year 1:09:46 San Diego County kicks ICE and Border Patrol off the range 1:13:19 A $127,000 contract turned away 1:22:24 The voter guide, and why volunteers matter 1:26:38 Chicago: valid FOID, valid CCL, felony charges 1:43:12 Stump My Nephew 1:47:44 This week's question: the little spring behind the pistol grip 1:52:07 Sam's articles on the Gun Owners Radio blog Meet Judge Benitez, September 9, San Diego: https://sdcgo.org AMCON, alternative mass media conference: https://amm-con.org Charlie Cook, Riding Shotgun With Charlie: https://ridingshotgunwithcharlie.com Gun Owners Radio: https://www.gunownersradio.com Read: https://gunownersradio.com/read

  4. Aug 17

    21 Years in the Army: An Honest Look Back at the War on Terror

    The Army told Paul Benfield he was colorblind. That left him two job options: mortician, or truck driver. So he enlisted as a human resources clerk instead. On purpose. Because the human resources clerk is the person who files the transfer paperwork. Retired US Army Major Paul Benfield served 21 years, from a broke peacetime Army in 1997 to the Pentagon in 2018. He enlisted, went to war, came back, commissioned as an officer, and did it all again. He was in a hangar in Hungary on September 11th, 2001, five days after his first daughter was born. He took an RPG to his truck in Fallujah. He raided the wrong house in Baghdad. And he is one of the few people who can tell you honestly what changed across the entire Global War on Terror, because he saw it from the bottom and from the top. Michael Schwartz has known him since high school. They were next door neighbors. Michael tried to talk him out of enlisting, and says so on the record. This is not a special operations highlight reel. It is a career, start to finish, told by a friend. Chapters: 0:00 Cold open 2:28 Why this interview, 25 years after 9/11 5:33 Meet retired US Army Major Paul Benfield 6:36 The peacetime Army: saying "bang bang" because there was no money for blanks 11:03 He went to Airborne School before he ever joined the Army 13:33 Colorblind: your choices are mortician or truck driver 16:11 The loophole: enlist as the clerk who files the paperwork 16:56 Korea, the 82nd, and the plan backfiring 18:20 The phone call from JSOC, February 2001 19:58 What JSOC was actually doing before 9/11 26:51 September 11th: a hangar in Hungary and a colonel who thought it was a drill 31:16 Tracking casualties, and six hours total in Afghanistan 35:41 "Done by Christmas," and the whack-a-mole that followed 38:02 Afghan small arms: AKs, PKMs, and a British Enfield 42:47 Becoming an officer, and curing his own colorblindness 48:15 What "human resources" means at a tier one unit 52:23 M16 to M4: the rail system that changed everything 55:22 Ranger, Green Beret, Delta: who is who 1:00:29 Why nobody can tell you how Delta picks 1:04:30 Hollywood and the broken veteran myth 1:09:22 Ranger School, and the vendetta that backfired 1:15:50 Sadr City during the surge 1:20:52 The RPG that hit his truck and did not go off 1:29:45 "We shot him on purpose. He was just the wrong guy." 1:38:19 Two definitions of corruption 1:41:15 Kabul falling 1:44:07 1997 to 2018: what actually changed 1:45:38 Twenty one years, four kids, and a marriage that survived it 1:49:33 "I told him it was the stupidest idea. I was wrong." 1:51:29 Is the war on terror even over? If you served, if you have a kid thinking about enlisting, or if you have only ever seen this war through a movie, this one is worth your time. New episodes premiere every Sunday at 5 PM PT. More at gunownersradio.com #GunOwnersRadio #Veterans #WarOnTerror #ArmyVeteran #MilitaryHistory

  5. Aug 10

    America's Most Decorated Unit Volunteered Out of US Prison Camps

    Executive Order 9066 put roughly 120,000 Americans of Japanese descent behind barbed wire with the machine gun posts pointed inward. No charges, no trial. Many of the men in those camps volunteered for the US Army anyway, and the unit they formed became the most decorated in American military history for its size and length of service. Chris Cheng spent six years researching them. He joins us to talk about his new novel, The Purple Heart Battalion, why "internment" is the wrong word, and why the president who signed that order still gets a pass. Also this week: where your election money should really go, how ammunition actually works, Maryland's attempt at its own SB2, and Stump My Nephew.     Chapters: 0:00 Cold open and intro 1:20 Welcome: who we are and what's on the show 2:36 A congressional candidate picks the wrong fight on a Maui beach 12:48 Upcoming classes: Tactical Comms, How Good Are You, Apache 18:36 Chris Cheng: The Purple Heart Battalion 45:39 California elections: the governor's race and where your money should go 1:02:39 We're Going Ballistic: how ammunition actually works 1:37:30 Maryland's own SB2 and Montgomery County's 100-yard carry ban 1:51:47 Stump My Nephew: the British Empire's WWII sidearm CHRIS CHENG The Purple Heart Battalion: https://amzn.to/3RFnRJn Website: https://topshotchris.com Instagram, X, YouTube, Facebook: @topshotchris UPCOMING Tactical Communications and Signals Intelligence with John Baldwin, Saturday August 15, Oceanside. $200, or $180 for Pew Pew Crew members. https://gunownersradio.com How Good Are You with Dave Reed, Wednesday September 23, private range in Alpine. 15 seats, $250, $50 off for Pew Pew Crew. No CCW required. https://gunownersradio.com A Girl and A Gun handgun safety and fundamentals with Dakota, August 20: https://dakotaadelphia.com Apache, September 4 to 6. Thursday evening lecture on raising kids in a world that has guns at P2K Sports in El Cajon, plus two range days. AMMCON, September 25, Dallas: https://amm-con.org Get involved with San Diego County Gun Owners: https://sdcgo.org/volunteer If you carry, vote, reload, or argue about ammunition on the internet, this one is for you. New episodes every Sunday at 5 PM Pacific. Subscribe so you do not find out last. https://gunownersradio.com #GunOwnersRadio #SecondAmendment #ConcealedCarry #442nd #PurpleHeartBattalion

  6. Jul 27

    Free Gun Safes for Active Duty Military: Inside the Pause to Protect Program

    A gun shop in Fallbrook got an email offering them money to give away lockboxes to active duty military. Their first reaction was the same one you are having right now: this smells like a Moms Demand Action front. So Jason Martin and his crew did the sensible thing. They dug into it before saying yes. What they found is a suicide prevention program called Pause to Protect, run through the University of Colorado and funded by the Department of War. A Marine walks in, shows an active duty ID, and walks out with a lockbox. No application, no paperwork, no personal information collected, nothing that looks like a registry. Jason sat on a panel of shop owners from around the country who all came in skeptical and came out of it the same way he did. Michael takes the whole thing apart on air, piece by piece, and lands where a lot of you will land: a free safe for a Marine is just a good deal. The part almost nobody talks about is in there too. Service members living in the barracks still have nowhere legal to keep a firearm, because no base in Navy Region Southwest has actually built a plan around the order allowing troops to carry on base. The rest of the show is stacked. Hawaii answered the Wolford decision by handing out free "no guns" signs to businesses, so the crew walks through what one of those signs actually does and does not do to you legally, in Hawaii and in California. AR-15s are back on Virginia shelves after the injunction. Michael has the update on Renna, the roster case he is a named plaintiff in, including the newly added AB 1127 Glock claim and the motion for summary judgment, plus why the Miller case still matters even after the Supreme Court takes up two assault weapons bans. Sam gets stumped (sort of) by a machine gun that only fires one round per trigger pull. Michael makes the case that protests do not work and lays out what does: elections, lawsuits, and culture. And Alisha closes with the story out of Cerritos, where a concealed carry holder stopped a man with a knife in the middle of a Sunday lunch rush in Los Angeles County. Chapters: 0:00 - Welcome, and who is at the desk this week 1:58 - What is on: Alisha's gun cleaning class (July 29) and Tactical Comms with John Baldwin (Aug 15, Oceanside) 5:10 - Corrections: the slung shot is a real weapon, and a fair point about what a CCW actually costs 14:06 - Dinner with Alan Beck after the Wolford win 17:00 - Hawaii's answer to Wolford: free "no guns" signs, and what that sign actually means legally 28:06 - Jason Martin of Fallbrook Guns and Ammo joins the show 44:40 - Pause to Protect: free safes for active duty, and who is really funding it 55:57 - Virginia: AR-15s are back on the shelves after the injunction 1:00:05 - Stump My Nephew: Old Dominion, the Supreme Court feathers, and a machine gun that fires one round per trigger pull 1:16:53 - Legal update: Renna, the AB 1127 Glock ban, summary judgment, and why Miller still matters 1:37:38 - Protests do not work. Elections, lawsuits, and culture do. 1:57:26 - The Curtin Call: a CCW holder stops a knife attacker at a Cerritos restaurant (Chapters are approximate and shift once the intro or cold-open is added in post.) 🔔 New episodes every Sunday. Subscribe and turn on notifications. 🌐 gunownersradio.com #GunOwnersRadio #SecondAmendment #PauseToProtect #ConcealedCarry #2A

  7. Jul 20

    The Charlie Kirk "No Exit Wound" Claim, Explained by Actual Gun Owners

    People keep saying the same thing about the Charlie Kirk shooting: there is no way a 30-06 rifle round leaves no exit wound, so something does not add up. Michael and Dakota take that claim apart with something most of the internet skipped over, the actual ammunition. It was a common Remington soft-point hunting round, designed to expand and stop inside the target instead of punching straight through. And there is a piece of history almost nobody remembers: Martin Luther King Jr. was killed the same way, a single 30-06, no exit wound. This is the calm, informed breakdown you can send to the person in your feed who is sure they have it figured out. From there the show opens up. A federal appeals court struck down key parts of New Jersey's assault weapons ban and magazine limit while the crew was recording, so they covered it live. Jon Fleischman, a four-decade veteran of California politics, joins to explain how the gun vote actually moves a politician and what makes an advocate valuable instead of taken for granted. Then a big win for young adults in Florida, and a full Q&A on the Wolford decision, SB2 sensitive places, the two assault-weapon cases the Supreme Court just agreed to hear, and how to get your concealed carry permit without falling for the "50-state CCW" scam. If you care about the Second Amendment, honest ballistics, California gun laws, and self-defense without the fear and outrage, this one is for you. Chapters: 0:00 - Welcome, and a co-host intro from Dakota 1:20 - What is on: Alisha's gun-cleaning class (July 29) and John Baldwin's Tactical Comms class (Aug 15, Oceanside) 5:09 - The Charlie Kirk myth: why "no exit wound" is not proof of a conspiracy, and the Martin Luther King parallel 13:53 - A 10-time felon gets 10 years: why gun laws trip up the law-abiding, not criminals 18:41 - Red flag laws and due process: where Dakota draws the line 26:02 - Breaking: the Third Circuit strikes down New Jersey's assault weapons and magazine ban 39:28 - Jon Fleischman: the gun vote, the litmus test, and how to actually move a politician 1:14:30 - Florida win: 18-to-20-year-olds get the right to carry (State v. Eubanks) 1:26:35 - Q&A: Wolford and the "vampire rule," SB2 sensitive places, the two Supreme Court assault-weapon cases, and how to get your CCW 2:03:21 - Dakota's closing story: a grandmother stops her own carjacking Chapters are approximate and shift once the intro or cold-open is added in post.) 🔔 New episodes every Sunday. Subscribe and turn on notifications. 🌐 gunownersradio.com #GunOwnersRadio #SecondAmendment #CharlieKirk #CaliforniaGunLaws #2A

  8. Jul 15

    Massad Ayoob on Why Nearly Every President Was a Gun Owner

    Did you know Eleanor Roosevelt carried her own revolver, and once faced down Klan death threats without Secret Service protection, telling them she would drive her own car and carry her own gun? Massad Ayoob joins Gun Owners Radio in San Diego with a history most people never learned: nearly every American president, and more than a few first ladies, was a gun owner. From Lincoln shooting Spencer rifles on the White House grounds to Eisenhower carrying a .38 in New York City, the stories keep coming. He is also optimistic about the fight ahead. After Wolford, he does not see how the courts can keep justifying assault weapons and magazine bans much longer. Then Mike and Dakota read California's new 140-page anti-gun roadmap so you do not have to, Michael breaks down the Maine Senate race and what it tells you about party loyalty, Dwight Settle shares the Beyond the Teams charity paddle and the Seal One dealer program, the crew answers a viewer question on FSC cards, and Dakota digs into the book Emily Gets Her Gun. Sam closes it out with Stump My Nephew. Chapters: 0:00 — Welcome + announcements: remembering Laura Smith (memorial July 18, Skyline Church) and the July 29 gun-cleaning class 8:33 — Maine Senate: the candidate the machine backed anyway, and why you stay loyal to principles, not a party 14:46 — Massad Ayoob: the presidents and first ladies who carried, plus Wolford and why the assault weapons ban is on borrowed time 42:06 — California's 140-page anti-gun roadmap: what Sacramento is planning for the next five years 1:10:11 — Dwight Settle: the Beyond the Teams charity paddle and the Seal One dealer pilot program 1:48:21 — Viewer question: California FSC cards, the proposed 4-hour class, and whether to renew now 2:00:40 — Emily Gets Her Gun: a reporter's fight to legally buy a gun, and the vets punished for transporting theirs 2:14:10 — Stump My Nephew: the Browning Automatic Rifle Timestamps are from the raw recording. Shift them by however much intro or cold-open is added in post. If you care about the Second Amendment, California gun laws, self-defense, training, and honest conversations without the fear and outrage, this one is for you. 🔔 New episodes every Sunday. Subscribe and turn on notifications. 🌐 gunownersradio.com #GunOwnersRadio #SecondAmendment #MassadAyoob #CaliforniaGunLaws #2A

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Everything you learned about guns from mass media is wrong. Get the truth about guns, gun ownership, and the fight to restore and defend the Second Amendment in California. News, interviews, gear reviews, trivia, and more - Gun Owners Radio covers a wide variety of topics to entertain, educate, and engage.

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    2019 - 2026
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