Active Shooter Response Tips; Goodbye To A Gun Industry Veteran; Master Pistolsmith Bill Laughridge On 1911s: 08.17.25 Hour 1

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🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In This Hour:

-- The correct response to an active shooter is immediate, violent action by those on the scene. Ed Monk explains his research and teachings on school and church shootings as detailed in his new book, "First 30 Seconds."

-- Sayiing goodbye to a veteran of the gun industry and Second Amendment activist. Tom travels to Nebraska to remember Ray Oeltjen, and runs into an icon of gun making.

-- An unplanned visit with famous pistolsmith Bill Laughridge of Cylinder & Slide.

Gun Talk 08.17.25 Hour 1

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0:00.0	The Ruger LC carbine is the ultimate range companion.
0:03.6	Chambered in 5-7 by 28 is fun to shoot and low recoiling.
0:08.3	A folding stock and collapsible sites make it compact.
0:11.5	Learn more at Ruger.com.
0:13.9	He was the first and he's still the best.
0:16.9	For 30 years, Tom Gresham has been your trusted source on all things ballistic.
0:22.2	New guns, Second Amendment, personal protection, be part of it.
0:26.3	Call Tom Talk Gun.
0:28.1	Now, here's Tom.
0:31.3	All right, let's do this thing.
0:32.7	Hey, I'm Tom Gresham, and you have arrived at Gun Talk.
0:35.6	Welcome again.
0:36.3	We're going to be having some fun today.
0:37.5	We've got some politics to talk about, but we'll talk about cool new guns. And of course,
0:41.7	we always want to talk about self-defense because traditionally throughout, well, as long as I have
0:46.8	been checking on this, that's the number one reason that people give is why they own guns,
0:52.2	is self-protection or self-defense. And so along with that, of course,
0:56.6	now we're talking about the whole idea of mass shooters or, you know, however you want to
1:01.9	categorize it these days, school shootings, public shootings, it's a phenomenon. And I'm
1:09.1	afraid that a lot of people still are not addressing it straightforward.
1:12.6	Well, one guy who is is the retired lieutenant colonel Ed Muck.
1:16.6	He joined us right now.
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