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CrimsonTrace.com. 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.

Welcome again. I'm Tom Gresham. It's gun talking, yes, indeed. We do have a full

slate for you. Over the next three hours, we're going to be talking about gun rights,

legislation, what's going on in the news, which of course is a major story right now with

the Trayvon Martin story. We're going to be talking about reloading and a number of other things, actually. We got a full plate. A lot of things going on. And of course, we have talked about the big story, continuing story for the last 20 plus years of concealed carry, the growth of concealed carry over the entire United States.

49 states now have some form of concealed carry.

Illinois being the only state that does not have that, starting off in Florida more than 20 years ago.

And something like 7 million people now have carry permits.

And we have at least four states where no permit is required.

And we still have this big issue out there.

We just had these two cases in New York City where a former Marine and a nursing student, both were in New York City with their carry permits, with a firearm, and tried to do the right thing, went to the Statue of Liberty.

No, no, see, it was the Empire State Building and the 9-11 Memorial and went to do the right thing, went to the Statue of Liberty, no, see, it was

the Empire State Building and the 9-11 Memorial and went to law enforcement officers to turn

in to check their guns, if you will, both of them arrested and facing a minimum of three

and a half year sentence.

Now, both of them were able to cut a deal and not have jail time, but it points out the whole issue of the need for us to have reciprocity.

That is, your permit issued by your state, should, just like a driver's license, be honored in all the other states.

Well, joining us to talk about that exact thing is United States Senator David Vitter, Republican from Louisiana.

Senator Vitter, thank you so much for joining us.

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