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Glenn, thanks for the time.

How are you? I'm doing

precedent in our counter argument and in demonstration of whether certain things were in common use certain practices were even in common use and really lay the groundwork for the history of the second amendment and that goes directly to how it needs to be interpreted okay And let me tell you, folks, when I first started with the very first firearm law firm in America back in the 80s, there was no... scholarly body of workmen of work that uh got into the second amendment and its genuine history showing what it meant and what it did for the people and since then there's been a tremendous scholarship input, and that was largely due originally to the NRA purposely focusing on building this body of scholarship.

And that has become very critical in our current battle freeing ourselves from these uh infringements that have been placed upon us on our second amendment rights and so i now see something really great really great that fits this so perfectly and it just makes me so happy to see this and i want to share it with you it's really important this is From Ammoland, it's an article by Duncan Johnson, who's also the editor-in-chief at Ammoland.

And the title of the article is, War Department Recognizes Revolutionary War Gunsmiths Highlighting America's Tradition of Building Firearms.

and you see this is a beautiful thing because it's the government of course with president trump and his administration and pete hegseth right as secretary of war it's now the war department right not the department of defense because it's about freaking war okay that's what it's about and it's now the war department and what the war department has done is put forward a historical feature.

May 29th, 2026, the War Department put this feature forward acknowledging the contributions of private gunsmiths who supplied the Continental Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, and colonial militias with firearms.

It's a nice day and we are ready to go.

Of course, it's a nice day.

It could be a blizzard outside, but it's Firearms Friday, that one day a week that we dedicate to the Second Amendment.

to talking about guns and gun rights and everything else.

And this is the day.

We get a full show today.

So we're going to start off here in hour one with our friend David Codrea, who, of course, writes for the War on Guns.

He's written for, writes for Amalan Firearms News.

Hello, everyone.

Welcome back to another episode of TFB's Behind the Gun Podcast.

I'm your host, Luke, and today I'm here in our cozy Airbnb Are we in Boulder? No, we're in Henderson.

Henderson, Nevada for CanCon.

Yeah,

absolutely.

And to everyone else out there listening to TFB's Behind the Gun podcast, thank you for tuning in, and we'll catch you all again next week.

It was like, you might have to, you know, stride out into the middle of the street and show down with the bad guy and save the town kind of thing.

Firearms was always like, yeah, there's a reason to have a firearm to defend yourself, defend your family, defend your loved ones.

And so it was just a continuous growth of I'm doing both.

And I didn't see it as there's no dichotomy between the two.

Which I also find hilarious when you go to their website.

Then you go to Firearms.

A three-year-old company.

Technically, it's less than three-year-old because now they're OA Defense.

So I've been friends with Walter Keller.

I stayed at Firearms for years, and he offered me a job, and I took it.

And it was the best decision I made.

Yeah.

This is the Jackson Squirrel.

from...

So, Nighthawk Custom bought Cooper Firearms, and they're making them, I think, in Arkansas now.

But they make these extremely high-end bolt-action rifles, and they make .22s.