This is a Concealed Carry podcast, Season 13, Episode 25.

And welcome to the Concealed Carry podcast, part of the ConcealedCary.com network brought to you by HK.

Today is Thursday, June 25th, 2026, as of this live recording.

I am your host, Riley Bowman, joined by co-host Jacob Paulson.

Howdy, howdy, howdy, howdy.

We are glad to be with you.

I kind of missed you last week, a bunch of things going on and travel and yeah. It was a busy week. It was a busy week. But if you missed it, there's a episode that should be published today or tomorrow to make up for our missing of last week's episode.

So look to catch that one. That'll be a good one. It's actually a replay of a past 10 year ago,

actually episode. 10 years ago, probably this week actually. Or close to it. Wowsers. Isn't that weird?

Yeah, 10 years ago, we did a special episode where we talked about the history leading

up to the War for Independence, particularly the gun control that was one of the, you know,

it wasn't the only thing that kicked off the war, but it was a major, yeah, definitely spark. That's a good word for it, actually. Yeah, certainly it's what caused the initial shots to be fired. Yeah, Lexington and Concord, of course, what we're referring to. Things going on around Boston area. Yeah, kind of a big deal in our nation's history. And we kind of did a whole deep dive into the history surrounding that,

particularly from a gun control perspective.

And I thought, you know, I thought that was a pretty good episode.

And with now being kind of the 10 year anniversary of that episode and it not being available

in the podcast feed anymore and being that this is 250th birthday of our nation

it's time to maybe bring that back yeah i i have identified five books that i am rereading

between now and the end of july of this year and celebration of the 250th anniversary.

I've finished one of them already. I started this about a week ago. Wow. And I'm in the second one now. So I just finished 1776 by David McCullough. Dude, that takes a while to get through. Yeah, I've read that book like three or four times. I used to read it every July 4. Well, I shouldn't say, used to. I did that for like three or four years in a row.

Yeah.

And now it's been many years since I read it.

So I just finished that book maybe two days ago. So now I'm in the middle of Washington's Secret 6, which is a really fun read, though it's the least like the authors are just, they're terrible at writing history.'s there's too much creative license but that said the facts are all true it's just they they put in some

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