This is the Concealed Carry podcast, episode number 247.

And welcome to the Concealed Carry podcast, part of the Concealed Carry.com network.

I am your host, Riley Bowman, joined today by producer and co-host Matthew Marister.

Hey, Riley, I'm glad to be back.

Hey, when you're not on the podcast, you know, producing or whatever it is, you do, does that

mean we don't give you a paycheck?

I've never gotten a paycheck as far as...

Oh, really? Oh, cool. We're getting all this work for free. It's even better.

You get what you paid for, right? Careful what you wish for.

Awesome.

Hey, folks, welcome to this episode, this being Tuesday, August 14th.

It is a news episode day.

We've got a bunch of great stories to cover, including a bunch.

I mean, we've got one, two, three, four, five.

I think we've got five great justified save stories we're going to cover.

We got a whole bunch of legislative updates.

We've got some stuff coming out of California.

We got some stuff about Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

We've got stuff going on in Maryland and Washington

State. If you're in any of those states, you're going to want to hear about. And for all the

rest of us, this is still really relevant stuff to hear about because chances are if something,

particularly if something's going badly in terms of gun rights somewhere,

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