The Tom Woods Show, episode 809.

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Hello everybody. Tom Woods here.

We're talking today to Brian Aiken and what a story he has to tell.

He's the author of the book, The Blue Tent Sky,

How the Left's War on Guns Cost Me My Son and My Freedom. Brian's a marketing strategist

and an entrepreneur who was sentenced to seven years in prison for possessing handguns in New Jersey that he legally purchased in Colorado,

even though New Jersey law allows for this type of ownership, transportation of firearms,

during times of moving. So you're going to hear his story today, but also we're going to talk

about the larger issues that this terrible tragedy raises. Very, very compelling and important book

that I urge you to check out, The Blue Tent Sky. Brian, welcome to the show. Yeah, thanks,

Tom. It's nice to be with you. Brian, this book and your story just, this whole thing blows me

away. This is very, very different from most of the, well, probably all the guests I've ever had on the show. I bring people on to talk about certain topics in public policy and we sometimes have an animated discussion and some people read the book and that's the end of it. You lived this. You continue to live this. And you've probably told this story many times. I've seen it in print. I've read your, I've read your book. I've read articles about it.

In a sense, it must be tiresome and emotionally draining to go through it again. So I do want to take the

opportunity to take your story and apply it to certain larger issues. So it's not to just bog down in the minutia,

but it's not just minutia. It really is your life. And we should start off by taking some time

to explain exactly what happened to you back in 2009. Yeah. So in early 2009, I was moving from Colorado to New Jersey and then again from New Jersey, Southern New Jersey to northern New Jersey, with firearms that I lawfully owned that were legally purchased, legally acquired, legally possessed, locked and unloaded in the trunk of my car, and was effectively forced to consent to a search of my car.

I didn't want to have my car searched, but I was told that if I didn't, that, you know, they would

take me away, impound my car, and as a function of impounding my car, they would be obligated, they being the police, obligated

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