Sydney's Sweeney's Gun Trainer; Gun Handling In Movies; What Pistol For Older Shooters: 08.10.25 Hour 1

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🗓️ 10 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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In This Hour:

-- Actress Syndey Sweeney is in the news for the American Eagle commercial, but it's the video of her shooting lights out that has the gun community talking. Taran Butler, who trained Sweeney and dozens of other actors, including Keanu Reeves, talks about how be became a top shooter and instructor, and what it's like to work with celebrities.

-- Are movies getting better at showing good gun handling?

-- What gun works for an older woman who has trouble working the slide on an automatic?

Gun Talk 08.10.25 Hour 1

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0:00.0	The Ruger LC carbine is the ultimate range companion.
0:03.6	Chambered in 5-7 by 28 is fun to shoot and low recoiling.
0:08.3	A folding stock and collapsible sites make it compact.
0:11.5	Learn more at Ruger.com.
0:14.3	He was the first and he's still the best.
0:17.3	For 30 years, Tom Gresham has been your trusted source on all things ballistic.
0:22.6	New guns, Second Amendment, personal protection, be part of it.
0:26.7	Call Tom Talk Gun.
0:28.6	Now, here's Tom.
0:30.2	All right, let's do this thing again.
0:31.7	Hey, I'm Tom Gresham, and this is Gun Talk, where we gather every week to talk about guns and shooting in the shooting sports.
0:38.5	And, of course, we'll talk about politics as well. And there's going to be some of that
0:41.1	today, as always, because that's kind of a part of the makeup. I also have a story to tell you
0:46.4	about being able to help out a young man get his first gun on his way to his first deer hunt.
0:53.4	And that one turned out fun.
0:54.4	That was a really fun caper that we pulled together, surprising him.
0:58.0	So that'll be coming up just a little bit later.
1:00.2	A lot of things going on in the news, we'll be talking about.
1:02.5	One of the things that you probably have seen, if you paid any attention at all,
1:06.4	this controversy about the actress and model Sidney Sweeney. And she did a commercial for American
1:15.4	Eagle brand about Blue Jeans. And it blew up. And the left went crazy. And it's like, oh, this is
1:21.8	terrible. Well, not really. Fortunately, American Eagles stood by their guns and they backed her up, they didn't back down from the whole deal.
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