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Everything Guns with Rob Leatham - Part 1 | Gun Talk Nation

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🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Rob Leatham of Springfield Armory knows guns. Gun Talk's Ryan Gresham sits down with The Great One to discuss how new gun owners differ from the old guard, firearms history, red dots and iron sights, and more. Gun Talk Nation is brought to you by Pyramyd Air, Timney Triggers, Springfield Armory, and Savage Arms.

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0:00.0

His nickname is actually T-G-O, the great one. It's Rob Latham.

0:11.6

Hey, welcome into gun talk nation. This gun talk nation is brought to you by pyramid

0:16.4

air, all things air guns, Timney triggers, makers of the world's finest triggers made right here

0:22.4

in the U.S. of A. And also Springfield Armory, which speaking of Springfield Armory,

0:28.1

we got the man. Rob Latham's here. Welcome in. Thank you for having me. It's always a pleasure to

0:33.0

talk to you guys. It's fun. All right, so we've been filming a little bit today and we kept saying,

0:39.2

oh, that's a podcast. Oh, that's a podcast. It always works like that. It's funny because

0:45.8

I don't know where to start with this. So one, where I'd like to start is there are a lot of people

0:54.8

in the last 10 years. And we know we've got a lot of new gun owners in the last year.

0:58.8

But in the last 10 years, I would say we have a lot of people who are newly into guns or into

1:05.3

specifically AR-15s, semi-auto pistols, all that stuff. But they don't have the history that

1:11.9

goes back with a lot of this stuff. And where you've seen the journey over decades of where we're

1:18.0

going with red dot sites, where we've gone with gunsmithing stuff, guns being the accuracy expectations

1:25.3

of guns. I mean, how have things changed? And maybe the people, I guess what I'm getting at is the

1:32.4

people who are somewhat newer to it don't understand how good they have at these days. They have no

1:38.8

idea. When I started shooting competition as such to get a good 1911 style 45 auto, the worked well

1:49.1

that was accurate. It costs more than to build than it does now because the gun basically was,

1:54.5

it was a good, it was a good starting point, but it didn't have all the features that every

1:59.1

customer expects now, expects to walk in and get good trigger poles and expects to get good sites

2:05.1

and you've told grip safeties and ambi-thumb safeties and just have the thing, you know, have

2:11.6

have all the things you really needed unless you're just looking for base gun. We had to build all that.

2:16.9

Well, and we didn't have polymer guns at that point. No, they thought that pretty much came in in

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