This is the Concealed Carry podcast, episode number 397.

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

I'm your host, Riley Bowman,

and I'm joined by our producer and chief, master shooter, extraordinaire, elite instructor,

Matthew Marister. That's to you, man, but I'm happy to be here with you.

I'm glad you're here with me as well, man.

And today's going to be a great episode.

Today is our news and gear reviews episode.

We've got a couple of stories.

So we're a little bit light on the news, but actually these are two stories that I think have a lot of, you know,

a tendency for a little bit more in-depth analysis.

So we're going to be talking about a story, actually, an article written by my friend Jake Jackson over at tier three tactical.com called 27 statistics that describe how criminals

use and obtain illegal firearms.

That should be a good one.

That should be really interesting.

Actually,

he's based around a Bureau of Justice Statistics report that was recently released, and he breaks

down the stats and that, and we'll go over that. It's pretty interesting stuff. And then,

surprisingly, an article from the trace.org, which is the site that covers gun issues

that tries to sound super reasonable in their reporting and analysis, but in reality is

supported by crazy gun grabbing, you know, guys like Michael Bloomberg.

But this article's actually mostly pretty good.

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