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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, welcome again to Gun Talk, Tom Gresham here.

I am glad that you're with me because, well, I'm just glad to be here.

We get to talk about guns and shooting and gun rights. Yeah, we're going to be talking about that a little bit. We're also going to talk about how you can become a gun writer a little bit later on in the show and how you might explore that world and whether you want to. Lots of information there. Competitive shooting, you bet. We talk about that all the time. We're going to be doing that in just a minute.

I, just a heads up.

Next week, next Saturday, which is, let's see, February 26, I will be in Sacramento.

I'll be the keynote speaker at the California Rifle and Pistol Association's 136th annual gala.

I like things that are called gala.

Sounds like a fun time.

It would be meeting a lot of the folks from the California Rifle and Pistol Association.

If you're in California, or if you just want to go out there, by all means go to the CRPA.org.

That's the website, CRPA.org, California Rifling Pistol Association.

You can get tickets there.

We're going to have a bunch of fun and talk guns and gun rights and a chance to meet some of the movers and shakers,

the people out in California who, if there is a front line for gun rights, it's there because they are constantly under attack.

And I will just tell you in the last few years, they've gotten extremely smart, they being the California Rifle and Pistal Association, also working with Cal Guns Foundation.

And we're learning a lot from what they're doing out there that we can use across the rest of the country.

So it's going to be a fun event.

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