Hodgden powder company has been passionate about hunting and the shooting sports for

75 years and is the largest U.S. supplier of smokeless black powder and black powder

substitute propellants. Hodgden powder company, the gun powder people.

All right, let's do this thing. Hey, I'm Tom Gresham. It is gun talk. We're going to

be talking about guns for hours and hours. How can you talk about guns for that long?

Well, it's easy. Well, but do it for about 27 years on the radio, 50 years in print,

books, magazine articles, lectures, TV, anywhere I could talk about guns and gun rights,

what gun to use and everything else I've been doing it. And honestly, this is a place

where you could talk about guns or maybe not even talk about it, but maybe ask questions.

There were an awful lot of people who are new to guns, have purchased guns recently and have

questions, but here's the other thing. There were a lot of people who've owned guns for a long time

who still have questions or let me say this probably should have questions. They say a smart person

learns from everyone's experience. The average person learns from his own experience and a

stupid person doesn't learn at all. He thinks he knows everything already. Specifically on the

subject of self defense with guns, there's more misinformation out there about that than I can

imagine and I keep running into it all the time. And the problem is, literally, the problem is

you don't know what you don't know. You think you know what you need to know. And so you don't

seek other information. You are comfortable. I know this to be true. But what if,

because stay with me for a second here, what if what you know to be true actually isn't?

How would you learn that this information that you absolutely or positively 100% sure

there's correct? How would you ever learn that that's actually not?

The only way that I'm aware of to do that is to break out of your shell, to break out of your

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