It's time to quit complaining and get involved. I'm asking you to do me, yourself, and all gun owners a favor.

If you haven't already done it, sign up to be a Gun Talk Truth Squad member. It's free, and the sign up is at

guntalk.com. All it means is that you'll get an email from me now and then alerting you to issues.

Also, it means you'll shoot an email or make a phone call when you see or hear

bogus reports on gun ownership.

I'll help you with the info you get as part of the true squad.

We need you on board.

Music We need you on board. Welcome to Tom Gresham's gun talk,

where there's more to talk about than shooting.

There's reloading and hunting and self-defense, too.

All right, let's saddle up. Let's do it again. I'm Tom Gresham. My number is 866 talk guns.

We're talking about guns and talking about what you might be buying, what you might be doing in 2009 as we look forward.

Maybe the time when you get that concealed carry permit you've been thinking about doing.

One woman in Fort Smith, Arkansas, sure is glad that she did that.

Dateline, Fort Smith.

She's a woman who knows how to protect herself as two men who tried to rob her found out.

What they didn't know was the woman is licensed to carry a concealed

weapon. And yes, she was packing heat. Well, newspapers love to say pack and heat, don't they?

State Police Lieutenant Steve Coppinger said a lady was flagged over Sunday evening about 6 p.m. on the interstate.

Car was signaling that the woman was getting a flat tire. She pulled over to check her tires,

and one of those people that flagged her over, and the other car got out and attempted to rob her

at knife point. What this guy didn't expect is that this woman, and smartly, they have

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