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REBROADCAST - Unsung Gun Designing Savant; Switchblades, The Feds, and Trump; Rethinking Concealed Carry: 02.09.25 Hour 3

Gun Talk

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Leisure, News, Politics, Hobbies

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In This Hour:
-- He didn't invent lightweight hunting rifles, but Melvin Forbes pretty much perfected them. Gun Writer Richard Mann explains who he was and how he did what others said was impossible - create a super lightweight but accurate hunting rifle.
--  Fighting back against knife bans which have resulted in tens of thousands of arrests, Knife Rights keeps winning in the states and fighting the federal ban on switchblades.  Knife Right founder Doug Ritter updates up on this part of the Second Amendment battle.
--  It's time to rethink what you carry, when you carry, and where you carry.  The changing dynamic of personal protection.
Gun Talk 02.09.25 Hour 3 - REBROADCAST

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0:00.0

The Ruger Light Rack Security 380 is easy to shoot and easy to rack.

0:05.7

Small enough to carry concealed or in a purse, big enough to absorb recoil.

0:11.2

Learn more at Ruger.com.

0:14.0

Hey, this is Tom Gresham.

0:15.6

We hope you enjoy this reloaded version.

0:18.2

Hi, I'm Kim Rody, a six-time Olympian in shooting, and you're listening to

0:22.7

Gun Top. For 30 years, Tom has been championing our love for the shooting sports, hunting, and

0:28.3

firearm safety. Thank you, Tom, for inspiring so many of us and for keeping the conversation alive.

0:36.4

All right, we're still doing this thing here.

0:38.2

I'm Tom Gresham and this is Gun Talk.

0:40.0

You can, of course, reach us just to give me a holler at Tom Talk Gun.

0:43.9

Now, you know, I've been talking for, what, two, three years now about the ultralight rifles

0:49.3

or new ultralight rifles, the Melvin Forbes rifles, that I've been hunting down because, of course, I'm shooting from the left side, the left-eye dominant thing.

0:57.1

And I think Melvin probably only made like 7,000 of these.

1:00.3

But they're amazing rifles. It's so far ahead of their time. He was truly a pioneer.

1:04.8

And I wanted to chat a little bit about that. And probably the guy that knows more about that than anybody I know is also one of

1:12.5

the premier gunwriters. And I got to tell you, Richard Mann, for me, you've got that interesting

1:20.0

balance of having been, you know, in the military, you're a veteran, been a cop, but you've got a

1:26.3

practical standpoint. You can shoot

1:27.8

pistols really well. You can shoot rifles really well. But for me, when I read your work, what I

1:33.4

hear is this is what actually works and this is what matters. And most of the stuff you guys are

1:38.3

paying attention to is nonsense. Welcome, Richard. Well, thanks, thanks, Tom. I think all that about

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