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Ruger's New Shotgun; NRA Strengthens The Gun Rights Fight; Taurus Surges With New Guns

Gun Talk

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4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Live from the Ruger booth at the 2026 NRA Annual Meetings

--  Ruger re-enters the shotgun market with the iconic Red Label, plus new rifles from a new factory.

--  After getting rid of the rascals, the NRA is back and stronger than ever in the fight for the Second Amendment.  John Commerford, head of the ILA, provides updates on the legal and legislative activities.

--  The pistols and revolvers from Taurus are miles ahead of only a few years ago.  Caleb Giddings explains what's new, and what's different.

Gun Talk 04.19.2026 Hour 1

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0:00.0

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

0:05.7

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0:11.2

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0:14.2

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0:17.8

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0:22.8

your optic is always ready when you are. Hallison, confidence in every shot.

0:28.3

He was the first, and he's still the best. For 30 years, Tom Gresham has been your trusted source

0:34.9

on all things ballistic. New guns, second amendment, personal protection,

0:39.8

be part of it. Call Tom Talk Gun. Now here's Tom.

0:48.8

Oh, boy, you better buckle up because we've got a lot to talk about today. I am Tom Gresham. I am your host. It is Gun Talk. And we are live from Houston, Texas. We're at the NRA's annual meetings. We call it the NRA show in Houston. Annual meetings 2026 where we have, of course, a lot of things going on with the NRA. We'll talk about that as well. But also, we're in the middle of a huge exhibit hall. It's kind of a miniature shot show.

1:28.1

The big difference is you can go to it. At the shot show, you have to be a part of the industry. Here, it's open to the public. And we've had tons of people going through this and looking at all the cool guns and accessories and ammo and everything else, a lot of families, a lot of young kids. It's great to see. It's now one thing I will tell you is that we're going to have a whole string of guest here, and we're really not set up to take your calls today. So just kind of a heads up. So just sit back and listen and enjoy. Now, you're free to keep asking questions of me. I just won't hear them. But maybe if the telepathy thing works and maybe I'll pick that up from you.

1:44.5

So there you go.

1:45.8

If you would like, you can also check out all the gun talk things.

1:49.9

We've been shooting content, some videos.

1:52.2

We have hundreds and hundreds of little short videos we've been shooting here.

1:55.4

We'll start uploading those shortly.

1:58.0

They'll be out.

1:59.3

Also, I was able to grab a couple of really important

2:01.7

interviews I'll tell you about, but let me just tell you right now, I chatted with Harmie Dillon,

2:06.9

the Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division of the Department

2:11.5

of Justice and the Second Amendment section. And also then right after that, unbelievably,

2:16.6

we got Todd Blanche. He is the acting

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