The Tom Woods Show, episode 836.

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joined by my old friend Dick Clark today. I got to know Dick when he was at the Meeses Institute years ago, back when I was a scholar in residence there. We had many a lunch together. He's now a firearms lawyer in Nebraska. He has other areas of specialty, but that's the one we're going to focus on today.

And there are a number of issues related to guns. Some of them related to current events

and legislation and proposals that are floating around right now. And I thought, let's talk about

some of these with a guy who really knows the subject inside and out as a gun owner and also as an advocate of guns in his own private practice.

Dick, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Tom.

We have serious things to discuss, but before we get into serious things, look, I got to deal with the elephant in the room here.

Your name is Dick Clark.

Now, you used to go by Richard, so I know it wasn't by accident that you chose to go by Dick Clark.

Is the story? Is it really the case that you began to go by Dick Clark?

I'm trying to remember back 10 years ago when we used to have lunch together.

The story was you were at a bar and it was New Year's Eve or something and you were

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