He's simply my favorite author, and we're going to have him here right now talk about his

newest novel featuring Bobbly Swagger Super Sniper.

It's Stephen Hunter.

Welcome to Tom Gresham's Gun Talk, high-caliber talk radio.

Block and load, we are about to have a whole bunch of fun.

Not that we haven't been having fun anyway, because we've been talking about guns and training and, oh, all sorts of things and popular myths about guns.

And holy cow, there are a lot of myths about guns and gun laws.

And the one that seems to just still be there and can't get rid of it is commercial truck

drivers are told everywhere they turn that it's against the DOT

regulations for them to have a gun in the truck.

It's not.

And anybody, if you're a truck driver and anybody who tells you that, just say, show me the

regulation.

What's the regulation?

Where's the number?

What's the law?

And they will just kind of look at you like the deer in the headlights. Well, like, well, everybody knows. Well, no, except that it's wrong.

It does not exist. This is one of those things that has been foisted upon commercial truck drivers

by diesel truck driving schools and by companies who hire drivers,

and they literally line to them and put it in their instruction manuals that this is a DOT regulation.

It is not.

There is no regulation that prevents truckers from having firearms in their trucks.

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