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Michael Pierce

Michael Pierce

Michael Pierce is a Los Angeles-based entrepreneur who is CEO & Founder of American Gun Owners (AGO), an all-in-one platform for first-time firearm owners.

Sep 17, 2026

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8,000...
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8,500.
27:54
Okay.
27:56
And the last time the number was that low was the mid-1990s.
27:59
But the city is growing much bigger than that.
28:01
So they have a real shortage of actual police on the streets.
28:07
Policing in a giant, complicated city.
30:29
Tons of
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think that makes perfect sense.
18:53
Or I need to protect the cattle or I need to protect myself.
18:57
It's not a political instrument like it's become and it very much is now.
19:02
So that's the first thing.
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And the second thing is My wife, again, enters into this, as do some of my close family and friends.
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She has been feeling increasingly unsafe.
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We live in Los Angeles most of the time.

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But did you get any pushback from friends, any perception of judgment or anything like that from the people around you?

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