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This is not Tom.

This is Alan Gottlieb sitting in for Tom today.

Tom's out on assignment, I believe.

And for most of you regular listeners, you know who I am because I've been a frequent guest, and as well as guest hosting from time to time, I'm getting that great pleasure and spending time with you guys, you friends out there. We have a great hour up here talking about Tom's show of intellectual ammunition. Boy, do I have intellectual ammunition for you in this first hour. Our guest is going to be John Lott.

John's a visiting senior research scientist at the University of Maryland.

He's held many research positions at numerous institutions, including the University of Chicago, Yale University,

the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Enterprise Institute.

He's got a PhD in economics from UCLA, and his research includes many areas, including the gun rights, gun control controversies.

He's been a well-known author in both academia and popular culture.

He's been published over 90 articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, which is really just amazing, related to his research areas.

And, of course, as most of you know, he's authored five books, including the bestseller, more guns, less crime, the bias the guest's guns.

So if you want to get in this conversation with John and I, it's 1-866-825-5-4-6 or one-ton-talk guns.

We'll be right back with our special guest, John Lott, and I hope you call in.

What's that?

It's my Tridicon. What's a Tridicon? Only the best rifles go up in the world. Says who? How about the U.S. Marine Corps? Special Forces, Navy Seals. You heard of these guys? Sure. Well, they're all using Tridicons. Let me see it. Wow. This is really sharp. A lot of professional hunters are using Trjicon, too. You probably caught it on some TV and radio shows. Yeah, I have heard some of them swear by their Trigicon. I swear by it. You know, I could have been a Navy SEAL. Well, the closest you're going to get now is buying a Trigicon. Hey, Trichicon is the brand of rifle scopes that more and more hunters are swearing by.

That's because every Tridicon is handcrafted using the finest optic materials.

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