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Hi, and welcome back to the Carol Markowitz show on IHartRadio.

My guest today is Amy Swearer.

Amy is a senior legal fellow at Advancing American Freedom,

where she is a leading national

expert on a wide range of public policy, legal, and constitutional issues, including

the Second Amendment, criminal justice, and mental health policy.

So nice to have you on, Amy.

Thank you so much for having me.

So I first came across your work.

It was during an event that we did together about the Second Amendment back when you were at Heritage. And you absolutely blew me away. I think I followed you like during that event. I was like, who is this woman? I need to know more about her. I saw you looking at your phone.

All right. Yes, fair. You were just incredible. You were, no, no, of course. But you were, you were really fantastic. I thought you were

so matter of fact and brilliant. I mean, but the way that you conveyed really complicated

ideas in a much more simpler manner, I was incredibly

impressed by you. How did you get into the topics that you specialize in? Like, where did you

become a Second Amendment expert? Like, how did that happen? Yeah, I mean, like my entire career,

largely by accident. So I stumbled into this role, not realizing that this

was something people could get paid to do. You know, so I, believe it or not, I actually started out,

I wanted to be a cop, right? I wanted a badge and a gun and to curb stomp bad guys. I can see that. Right. The FBI at the time was in a hiring freeze. They were like, get a law degree. My parents were like, get a law degree. My professors were like, get a law degrees. I'm like, I guess I'll guess I'll get a law degree. I wanted to be a prosecutor, ended up clerking at a public defender's office.

There was a brief moment where, you know, I was doing international space law moot courts.

And I truly thought like I was going to be practicing criminal law in the Midwest.

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