Traveling with guns, getting into three gun and being the busiest gun nerd I know.

It's Ryan Donahue with American Outdoor Brands right now.

Hey, welcome in. This gun talk nation is brought to you by Crossbreed Holsters,

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we have a guy who liked guns and shooting so much. He basically was like, eff this job,

and I'm going to figure out a way to get into the gun industry. That's about right, right?

Ryan Donahue with American Outdoor Brands slash all the brands underneath there. No one

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performance center accessories accessories. Yep. Yep. So, so, but this is a true, this is a true story.

So, you just liked guns and shooting and just got into it. Well, so, uh, go and way back.

Yeah, I hear the whole, what's your, what's your origin story? The origin story. I was bit by

spider. Instead of turning into spider man, it said play with guns. Um, so no, I, uh, started out

where I was doing a lot of competition. So a lot of three gun, which we have a fun story that,

you know, you and I were talking about about traveling with firearms for the first time. So,

I'll tell you that story later on. But, um, you know, competition shooting and three gun and

all this stuff. I, I was a person who, you know, you started out and, you know, parents weren't

huge into hunting, huge into shooting, but it was always there. You know, we would go

shotgun shooting, we go shoot clays, you go hunting every once in a while. So it wasn't like a

die hard, you know, family into firearms. But I, for some reason, you know, maybe playing with

all G. I. Joseph's a kid loved firearms. Yeah. So, um, got my first pistol, right? And

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