Hey, this is Tom Grisham.

I'm so glad that you're listening to Gun Talk. It's going to be really interesting today. We have all sorts of stuff. Everything from, well, competition best guns, the best guests, the best talk.

Welcome to Gun Talk. This is Alan Gottlieb sitting in for Tom Gresham today. Many of you probably remember me because I've been a frequent guest on the show as well as a guest host from time to time. For those of you that don't know me, maybe you remember reading some of my 19 or so books on gun rights that are out there. There are some of my columns and appear in gun magazines and

major newspapers across the country at any rate if you don't know me we're going to get to

know each other real well in the next couple hours so stay tuned we've got a great guest this

first hour you know in all the years that i spend defending gun rights and people i get to

meet across the country it's amazing that uh the one man we're going to have is a guest here. Somebody is very, very special. It's very seldom that I run across gun rights activists that aren't always playing defense, but are really on the offense out there, and are really making things happen and really changing the playing field and thinking out of the box and coming up with new ideas, creative ways to defend gun rights. And so I'm just going to get right to it.

We're going to introduce Gary Marbet, who's the president of the Montana Shooting Sports

Association.

Gary, welcome to gun talk.

Well, I'm glad to be here.

I'm glad to talk to you and greetings to all your listeners out there.

Or Tom's listeners, and it's quite an intellectual audience out there. They know everything, so we've got to be right on point all the time, because if not, these people are going to be calling and correcting us. Let me tell you, this is one of the most educated audiences on guns you'll ever find. I really want to talk to you a whole lot about what you started a couple years ago now with the firearms freedom acts of course

the first one being in your home state of montana and where we progressed with that and you

really created an unbelievable grassroot ground swelling movement from coast to coast at this point

but let's start with montana gary tell us what you did well let's start first with an introduction

of the mont Shooting Sports Association.

I founded MSSA in 1989 to be the primary advocate for gun owners and hunters in Montana,

and it's worked out well that way.

In the last 25 years or so, we have gotten 54 pro-gun and pro-hunting bills through the

Montana legislature, many of them breaking trail

and starting trends in America, which we're glad to do.

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