Gun Freedom Radio

Our guest today is Avery Skipalis. Avery is the owner of Skip’s Tactical Solutions, which is a 100% Veteran / Woman owned and Operated business. She's been active duty military (Air Force) for 17 years and a military firearms instructor for over 11 years. Her mission is to effectively teach the skills, attitude and knowledge necessary to own and safely operate a firearm for personal, home protection and sport, with the idea that it is important that not only men but women too feel like they're in control of their own safety. 1) You are an ambassador for all that is awesome about those of us who own firearms. You have Served our nation, you are a strong female role model, and you also empower minority communities to see how truly diverse the 2A Community is. Tell us how you got into this field? 2) What is your “take” on the millions of new first-time gun owners who are discovering the importance of being their own immediate responder? 3) We have touched on the existing diversity within the gun community, b

Our guest today is Johanna Rosaly. Johanna, otherwise known as Latina Locked N Loaded, was inspired into action by the 2019 2nd Amendment Rally held in Washington, D.C. She and her husband Rolando “The Puerto Rican Pistolero” live in FL near Parkland. After the murders at the local high school, Jo discovered the importance of speaking up to protect our Constitutional Protections. And realizing that Latino-American media often aligned her culture with the anti-gun sentiment, she focuses on de-stigmatizing gun ownership in both the female and Hispanic communities. 1) How did you get into guns and into advocacy for the 2nd amendment? 2) What do you think of the current state of the fight against the 2nd amendment? 3) Why are Latinos the focus of your advocacy? 4) What do you think the current gun community can do to help expand and welcome new gun owners, particularly women and minorities?

Our guest today is Marc J. Victor. Marc is an Arizona State bar certified specialist in criminal law who has been zealously representing clients in serious state and federal criminal law matters for well over twenty years. As a long time freedom activist, Mr. Victor is regularly invited to speak to audiences across Arizona on a variety of issues including the rights of gun owners, the free market and a variety of other criminal law related issues. 1) You recently won a Covid related case for a restaurant here in AZ. Talk to us about that. 2) There are millions of brand-new first-time gun owners across the nation. What is your best advice for these (and all) gun owners? 3) We keep seeing videos of people pulling guns on each other in the areas where riots are taking place. So many of these may not be illegal use of firearms, but they certainly don’t paint firearms owners in a good light. What are your thoughts on these incidents? 4) Looking into the future, and through legal and Constitutional lenses, how

Our guest today is Alan Gottlieb. Alan is the Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, which is the group that hosts the Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference. This year the GRPC had been scheduled to be held in Orlando, FL but now is going 100% Virtual! 1) How are you getting word out to people who had already registered? 2) How do you envision the experience to be for attendees this year? 3) What is the biggest downside to not hosting in person? And what is the biggest upside to the Virtual experience? 4) Will you still offer ways for people to connect on a personal level in the Virtual format?

Our guest today is Rob Morse. Rob is the host of the  Self-Defense Gun Stories Podcast  and co-host of the Polite Society Podcast. He blogs at his  Slowfacts blog and his articles appear at Ammoland, at Clash Daily. The topics we unpacked today include the following articles: 1) Your Rights Come Before Politics, July 19, 2020 2) The Racism and Bigotry the Left Desperately Wants to Ignore, July 17, 2020 3) What Do You Do Now That You Bought Your Gun?, July 2, 2020 4) Frightening Ourselves in the Age of Fear and Rage, July 15, 2020

Our guest today is Jon Anderson of Get Off My Lawn. Jon is the Host of the Get Off My Lawn Podcast. Jon and his guests discuss various topics relevant to guns and our 2A rights, as well as other, non-gun related, topics that are important to the host. The goal of the show is to not only offer great information, but to make the listeners and viewers THINK (and seek out more info) in order to form one’s own opinion. The Podcast is a live stream each Tuesday night at 9:00pm Central Time. 1) ANYONE can start a YouTube channel, you don't need fancy equipment or a team of writers. - Sandhills Shooter 2) Common sense isn't common these days. 3) The 2A community needs YOU. We are growing in numbers by leaps and bounds, but there will ALWAYS be room for more at this table. 4) You don't have to be on TV or even on YouTube to be a 2A advocate or activist. All you need is a desire to have REAL conversations with people. There are right and wrong ways to do that, but we all started somewhere. 5) Jon, you have stated

Our guest today is Raziel Cohen, “The Tactical Rabbi”. Raziel has been training and instructing some of the best in the country. He is NRA and DOJ certified as well as being approved by Homeland Security. Raziel’s training courses range from basic fundamentals, home defense, and even active shooter response. He also consults houses of worship, schools, and businesses to learn how to structure and fortify themselves against individual threats and civil unrest. 1) With the amount of new firearms owners in the United states, what are some questions you have been getting? 2) Elaborate on the importance of firearms training. 3) What type of training is considered acceptable? Is there a particular type of training a person should be seeking out? 4) How did you get involved in this business?

Our guest today is Joanne Osborne. Joanne is an AZ State Representative and a small business owner. Joanne is a wife, a mom, and a grandma and has been in Public Service for more than a decade By working in both the public and private sector, Joanne understands how a pro-business environment, fiscal responsibility, and a high-quality education system lead to a high quality of life for her family and her constituents. Joanne is currently campaigning in the 2020 election to continue her work on behalf of the citizens of the State of AZ. 1) You have served on Boards, on City Counsel, as Vice-Mayor, and as an AZ State Representative. You’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly - talk to us about the distinction you see between being a Politician and a Public Servant. 2) What are some of the big issues in our AZ elections this year, that also are relevant to the national conversation and citizens of this nation no matter where they live.             - Second Amendment             - Education             - Wa

Our guest today is Ryan Hartwig. Ryan is a Facebook Insider with Project Veritas. Ryan graduated from Arizona State University in 2015 with a bachelors degree in Spanish Linguistics. More recently, Ryan took a job as a content moderator for Facebook. After watching the extreme bias and censorship he witnessed on a daily basis, he made the decision to wear a hidden camera to expose what was happening within the Social Media giant. 1) The stark contrast between what Mark Zuckerberg testified in Congress about in April 2018 and what you witnessed. 2) Is hate speech a subjective term? 3) You found it be almost impossible to discuss immigration on Facebook. Talk to us about that struggle and why you think it is such a difficult topic. 4) Labeling and rhetoric are protected under the 1st Amendment, but you were seeing an imbalance in what was allowed or banned on Facebook. For example, you mentioned off air that anti-police rhetoric is allowed, but anti-Antifa rhetoric is not. 5) 3D printing--Facebook's policy re

Our guests today are "Shakey Dave" Smith, The ParkinsonShooter and Amy Dillon. Dave is a professional shooter sponsored by F-1 Firearms, STI, and LaserShot. He competes in 3-Gun and rifle competitions across the country and internationally. What is unique about Dave is that he does all of this while having Parkinson’s Disease. He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease ten years ago. Although Parkinson’s altered Dave’s lifestyle in many ways, one thing it did not take away was his passion and ability to shoot guns. He started shooting guns on a daily basis as his form of therapy - “Gun Therapy.” Doctors have confirmed that raising the dopamine levels through “Gun Therapy” (which he lacks due to Parkinson’s) has been key in his journey to aid in recovery. Amy Dillon U.S. Marine. Firearms Instructor. Writer. Amy Dillon is a former Marine Corps Drill Instructor and Combat Marksmanship Instructor. Amy served 12 years active-duty and is now committed to pursuing her goals in the Firearms Industry and Legal Communi

Our guest today is Justin Danhof. Justin is the General Counsel for the National Center for Public Policy Research, as well as Director of the Center’s Free Enterprise Project (FEP), which is the conservative movement’s only full-service shareholder activism and education program. Since 2015, Danhof has participated in over 150 shareholder meetings to advance free-market ideals in health care, energy, subsidies, free speech, religious freedom, food policies, media bias, gun rights, workers’ rights and other important public policy issues. 1) How does shareholder activism relate to the 2nd Amendment? 2) Who are the activists pushing an anti-2nd Amendment agenda? 3) What are you doing about this at FEP? 4) What can others to do get involved?

Our guest today is John Crump. John is a firearms investigative journalist for AmmoLand News. Federal plaintiffs have used his research in their firearms cases, and News media around the country widely cited his research into some powerful examples of failures in the Gun Control agenda. He is also a Second Amendment advocate, and serves as the Virginia State Director for Gun Owners of America. John has just authored a book titled “Speaking With Giants: Interviews From AmmoLand” to raise money to help his nine-year-old niece, Bella, to fight brain cancer. 1) What an amazing thing, to write a book to help your niece and her family during what has to be a terrifying and uncertain time. Your niece is only 9 years old. Tell us about this diagnosis. 2) Some people start Go Fund Me campaigns, but you write...so you author an entire book! Tell us about the book. John Crump is releasing a book to raise money to help his nine-year-old niece, Bella, to fight brain cancer. Doctors have diagnosed Crump’s niece with

Our guest today is Todd Fossey. Todd is the Founder and Chief Instructor at Integrative Defense Strategies (IDS) in Minneapolis, MN. Todd is an FSI Certified Force Science Analyst and a former lecturer at medical schools, and has a 15-year background in psychophysiology offering him special insight into the psychological, physiological and perceptual effects of high-stress critical incidents and human performance. 1) Before we dive into the importance of how and why you train the way you do, let’s talk about a video you posted up recently about the silent weapons of psychological warfare and gaslighting in the War on Reason / Free Will / Critical Thinking. - Is this a Cold War or a Hot War? The riots across the nation might have taken this war “hot”. What are your thoughts? - What are our best tools of defense in this War on Reason? 2) Tell us about IDS and how its training is different? 3) What is a Citizen Defender? 4) Are there contextual differences between training for Law Enforcement or Military V

Our guest today is Ashley Hlebinsky. Ashley is one of the nation’s foremost authorities on firearms history. Recently, she served as both Curator of the Cody Firearms Museum (CFM) and Project Director for the museum’s multimillion-dollar renovation that reopened in July 2019. Due to her and her team’s efforts, the museum has received positive reviews from both gun and mainstream media and is seen as the premiere gun museum in the world that fosters dialogue for a range of diverse audiences Additionally, Hlebinsky is a highly sought-after museum consultant, guest speaker, writer, expert witness in the US and Canada, and a television host and producer. 1) You are a historian who is always leaning into the future and doing something new. You have recently left your previous position at CFM, but you are still very much connected to the museum and have accepted the position of Curator Emerita and Senior Firearms Scholar at the CFM – an honor typically reserved for the end of one’s career. First of all, congratul

Our guest today is Holly Sullivan. Holly currently serves as the President of the Connecticut Citizens Defense League, a 27,000 member non-partisan grassroots organization devoted to advocating rights affirmed by the Constitution of the United States and the State of Connecticut. 1) The CCDL filed and won a lawsuit in United States District Court against Governor Ned Lamont and several municipal police chiefs to stop their blatant and ongoing violations of the CCDL members’ right to keep and bear arms, as well as other constitutional rights. Tell us about this important win in the courts? 2) What are the future implications of this win?

Our guest today is Aaargo Jay. Aaargo is 2nd Amendment Civil Rights activist, a public school educator and father of three. His passion for the 2nd Amendment is what led him to notice the differential treatment between Black Americans and the rest of the American populous when it comes to firearms. He wrote a documentary called BlackOPS. - Black Opinion in Popular Society. Its main focus is to change the perception of Black Americans, specifically Black males, in regards to firearms. Aaargo Jay has partnered with American Defense MFG to build an AR15 rifle of his own called, the Bravo Oscar, to support the funding of his documentary. 1) You have been working on the documentary for a couple of years now, and with every major news-cycle it just keeps becoming more and more relevant. Tell us about the project? 2) You unveiled your new rifle at the 2020 SHOT Show in Las Vegas – the Bravo Oscar – what is it about this rifle that is so special to you and also to your work on BlackOps? 3) A couple of years ago

Our guest today is Ford Fischer. Ford is an independent journalist and filmmaker. He is the editor-in-chief of News2Share, a company which has White House press credentials, and is a platform for raw video journalism related to political activism. 1) What is the problem you see in journalism today, and how do you try to remedy it in your own reporting? 2) Your style of reporting is to present raw footage. Why did you decide to create News2Share and style it in the way you have? 3) You film a lot of armed rallies. How do firearms intersect with activism? 4) When you are filming, you capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of humans intersecting with one another in times of heightened emotion and disagreement. No where do we see this more pronounced that when the disagreement is between a police officer and someone who is being ticketed or detained. What is your philosophy on filming police?

Our guest today is Randy Miller. Randy is a Candidate for the Arizona House of Representatives in LD 21 and the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association Director in Arizona, and he teaches both the Arizona and US Constitutions. 1) We are in the midst of a fresh “spike” in cases of the Covid virus here in AZ. We have a state-wide “mandate” to wear masks in public, while it is 110 degrees outside (by the way). What are the Constitutional implications of the current crisis and the “mandates”? (Does AZ Governor Ducey have the authority to make executive orders? Can he order people in their homes, close businesses, put a curfew on society?) 2) Our US Bill of Rights mentions a word that has been the epicenter of much debate. That word is “militia”. Just what is the militia, and what does the constitution say about it? 3) Tell us about your campaign for the Arizona House of Representatives in LD 21, as we ramp up to a big statewide and nationwide election – what is happening in AZ that also relate

Our guest today is Drake Mitchell. Drake is a member of the AZ2A.org which is the Arizona 2nd Amendment Sanctuary City, County, and Reservation Movement. Drake is also the current Chairman of the Arizona Citizens Defense League PAC, with his primary goal as un-electing anti-gun, anti-right politicians whenever possible. Because, he says, “We can not continue to support the same folks who have proven they will vote against the Bill of Rights and expect different results.” 1) What is the Second Amendment “Sanctuary City” Movement? Some people are confusing it with the similarly named movement connected to the immigration issue? 2) Why would something clearly delinated in our Bill of Rights need a “Sanctuary Space” carved out on the State map? 3) With the AZCDL PAC, do you work to support certain pro-rights candidates or try to expose the candidates you believe are not living up to their Constitutional Oath? Are you a partisan group?

Our guest today is Liberte Austin. Liberte is a social media influencer, who uses her platform to advocate for conservativism, self-defense and the 2nd Amendment. She has over 15 years experience working in the legal industry and currently works as a paralegal and writer for U.S. LawShield. U.S. LawShield is an organization dedicated to defending the freedom of those who exercise their right to self-defense. Liberte is also the National Field Director of The Ambassador Program for the Second Amendment Institute (SAI). 1) How did you get involved with SAI? I am on the Board myself and I love that part of their mission is to restore the 2A on college campuses. 2) The nightly news is full of absolute craziness with rioting and looting going on in some of our biggest cities across the nation. On social media I am seeing boisterous comments by people (some of whom are gun owners) who say things like “I’d just shoot the looters”. It’s easy to sit behind a keyboard and type stuff like that. It’s an entirely dif