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 45 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

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https://www.sandiegocountygunowners.com
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Support the cause by listening to Gun Owners Radio live on Sunday afternoon or on any podcast app at your leisure. Together we will win.

SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT YOUR SELF DEFENSE RIGHTS!

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New episode premieres TONIGHT at 5 PM PT.

Attorney Alan Beck, who won Wolford at the Supreme Court, on why the courts have been reading dangerous and unusual backwards.

Set your reminder https://youtu.be/3GKrI-Zrj48
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Sam faces another gun trivia question, but this one gets interesting. 👀

Which well-known pistol manufacturer made a small run of flip-up side charging handles on a pistol slide?

Watch Sam work through the clues and find out if he gets it right. 🎯

Got a question that could stump Sam? Send it in!

Watch the full segment: https://youtu.be/n-E5QfxbbYc

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Sam has a new theme song. He does not approve of how it was made.

This week's question came from Matthias, and it is a good one: which modern, well known pistol manufacturer made a small run of flip-up side charging handles on a pistol slide? Sam reasons his way toward a very confident answer. Watch what happens.

In this segment:

-Sam meets "AI Sam, actual intelligence"

-The question, and Sam's logic for narrowing it down

-Olympic bullseye pistols, one-handed shooters, and why a side charger might exist at all

-The answer, on video

-Whether a left-handed version was ever a thing

Got a question that could stump him? Send it in. If we use it you get a hat or a shirt, and if you stump him there is a better prize.

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The right to self-defense is a basic human right. Gun ownership is an integral part of that right. If you want to keep your Second Amendment rights, defend them by joining San Diego County Gun Owners (SDCGO), Orange County Gun Owners (OCGO), or Inland Empire Gun Owners (IEGO).

https://www.sandiegocountygunowners.com
https://orangecountygunowners.com
http://inlandempiregunowners.com

Support the cause by listening to Gun Owners Radio live on Sunday afternoon or on any podcast app at your leisure. Together we will win.

SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT YOUR SELF DEFENSE RIGHTS!

Get expert legal advice on any firearm-related issues: https://dillonlawgp.com

Smarter web development and digital marketing help: https://www.sagetree.com

Clean your guns easier, faster, and safer! https://seal1.com

Get your cases & outdoor gear at C.A.R.G.O in El Cajon or visit them at https://cargostores.com

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Paul Benfield's first daughter, Rachel, was born on September 1st, 2001. His unit let him stay for the birth. On September 5th he flew to Hungary.

He was part of a Joint Special Operations Command team running a training exercise in an airport hangar. The scenario was a hostage situation in Europe, with American special operations taking the lead on the rescue.

They were still unpacking. Laptops were coming out of transit cases. The communications team got the phones working, so Paul called Fort Bragg to pass along the number. The man who answered said hold on, a plane just hit a building in New York.

Then Paul heard the office start shouting, because they had watched the second plane hit live.

He told the colonel running the exercise. And the colonel picked up a marker and started writing it on the whiteboard, because he assumed the staff back home was feeding in scenario injects to make the training harder.

In this segment:

-Where he was, and why, on September 11th 2001
-The phone call to Fort Bragg that happened to be live when it started
-The colonel who logged the attacks as training injects
-The moment somebody said the word Pentagon
-Why the entire team was convinced they were going to miss the war
-A week and a half stuck in Europe with every plane grounded

Full episode: Gun Owners Radio 522, with retired US Army Major Paul Benfield.

New episodes premiere every Sunday at 5 PM PT.
More at gunownersradio.com

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The right to self-defense is a basic human right. Gun ownership is an integral part of that right. If you want to keep your Second Amendment rights, defend them by joining San Diego County Gun Owners (SDCGO), Orange County Gun Owners (OCGO), or Inland Empire Gun Owners (IEGO).

https://www.sandiegocountygunowners.com
https://orangecountygunowners.com
http://inlandempiregunowners.com

Support the cause by listening to Gun Owners Radio live on Sunday afternoon or on any podcast app at your leisure. Together we will win.

SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT YOUR SELF DEFENSE RIGHTS!

Get expert legal advice on any firearm-related issues: https://dillonlawgp.com

Smarter web development and digital marketing help: https://www.sagetree.com

Clean your guns easier, faster, and safer! https://seal1.com

Get your cases & outdoor gear at C.A.R.G.O in El Cajon or visit them at https://cargostores.com

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Capitalism. Socialism. Fascism.

These words get thrown around constantly, but do we actually understand what they mean?

Michael and Dakota break down the differences, debate where California falls, and challenge each other on taxes, government control, and personal responsibility.

They don't see eye to eye, and that's exactly what makes this conversation worth watching.

👉 Watch the full segment: https://youtu.be/a1n0FrpnsSE

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What do “socialism” and “fascism” actually mean, and what do they have to do with the Second Amendment?

Michael and Dakota get into a surprisingly heated debate about capitalism, taxes, government control, and where California fits on the spectrum.

They don't agree on everything, but they do agree that the right to self-defense matters.

Watch the full conversation and tell us what you think.

👉 https://youtu.be/a1n0FrpnsSE

#GunOwnersRadio #SecondAmendment #2A #GunRights #CaliforniaGunRights #Politics #Capitalism

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Everybody is throwing these words around. Almost nobody is using them correctly, and "fascist" has quietly become a synonym for "thing I don't like."

Michael makes the case that socialism eventually requires fascism to enforce it, and that no version of either has ever been a friend to gun owners. Dakota does not fully buy it. What follows is the kind of conversation that usually gets edited out of a 2A show: two people who agree on the Second Amendment openly disagreeing about capitalism, taxes and who is actually to blame.

In this segment:

-The actual definitions, and why socialism is an economic model rather than a form of government

-The spectrum argument, and where California sits on it

-Ownership in name only: you own the business, the state makes the decisions

-Dakota pushes back on whether that describes California

-Why democratic socialism runs into a wall the moment people vote against it

-Communists and socialists have historically gone to war with each other

-Dakota on tax loopholes, billionaires borrowing instead of earning, and why she still calls herself a capitalist

-Michael on the under-30 crowd inheriting a bill their grandparents were warned about

-Why any of this belongs on a Second Amendment show

Agree or disagree, leave it in the comments. That was the ask on air.

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#SecondAmendment #Capitalism #GunOwnersRadio #2A #Politics

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The right to self-defense is a basic human right. Gun ownership is an integral part of that right. If you want to keep your Second Amendment rights, defend them by joining San Diego County Gun Owners (SDCGO), Orange County Gun Owners (OCGO), or Inland Empire Gun Owners (IEGO).

https://www.sandiegocountygunowners.com
https://orangecountygunowners.com
http://inlandempiregunowners.com

Support the cause by listening to Gun Owners Radio live on Sunday afternoon or on any podcast app at your leisure. Together we will win.

SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES THAT SUPPORT YOUR SELF DEFENSE RIGHTS!

Get expert legal advice on any firearm-related issues: https://dillonlawgp.com

Smarter web development and digital marketing help: https://www.sagetree.com

Clean your guns easier, faster, and safer! https://seal1.com

Get your cases & outdoor gear at C.A.R.G.O in El Cajon or visit them at https://cargostores.com

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