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Chapter 1: What is the focus of this week's AR-15 Podcast episode?
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Welcome to the AR-15 Podcast. This show is for you if you just bought your first rifle or you've been building them for years. There's something we can all do to take our black rifles to the next level. My name is Nick Dooley. Welcome to the AR-15 Podcast. I'm your host. I have with us tonight our Director of Propaganda, Joe. Good evening.
And down here in the left corner, actually we should call it the red corner maybe, we have Garth Hofer.
Hi. Am I coming through? No. I hate my life. It's workable. Whatever. Stupid computers.
Also, and then we also have John with Gun Owners of America. What's up, everybody? Glad to be here again. We are glad to have you here. I know that it's been like a whole two months since I got to see your smiling face.
It's only been that long? Man, I thought it was longer. I've been missing the voice for radio and the face for something. I don't know. Sign language, yes.
No, so for anyone who doesn't know, John is from Gun Owners of America. And if you don't know who Gun Owners of America are, you need to fix yourself. And we'll work on that. We're going to talk a lot more about that as we get through the night. But...
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Chapter 2: What role does Gun Owners of America play in 2A advocacy?
What a nerd. 100%. Yep. But no, so that is things you can look forward to if you ever come to SHOT Show and visit us. But then we go back and hang out with John as he berates me from across a hotel bar.
Facts. That is true.
So I did get a chance to go out and get some shooting in. which is always, always good. And we do have more stuff coming up this weekend, which we'll talk more about probably next week. But in the meantime, John, talk to us a little bit about stuff going on with GOA.
I know that we will get into goals at some point here, but there is a new event or new thing happening that I'm interested to hear about.
Yeah, well, first off, we have an event this weekend, and then I'll talk about the new event. We do have the Arizona Freedom Festival. For those of you who are watching, it's a free event in Glendale right next to the Civic Center. So if you're in Arizona, please stop by. We're going to have a ton of awesome vendors at that event. Now, I have to give that plug, but now we've got a new event.
This is really exciting to us. It's April 24th through the 26th at Mears Adventure Park. It's called Gear. This is the first of its kind event combining overlanding, off-roading, all the side of the house, and guns. So we're going to have a full range day. We're going to have Barrett out there to shoot out to a mile. We've got camping on site. There's a cantina on site.
There's some night vision stuff, some glow-in-the-dark clays we're doing. There's so many things going on. at Gear that I'm super excited about. There's classes that we're doing, low-light shooting, talking about setting up your rig, how to do...
how to use your wench properly, everything that people want when it came to like Overland Expo, except we're actually going to do it and teach you how to do it. And then you're going to get to shoot some awesome guns. Beretta's coming out there with their new Overland series. Can Accenture is going to be out there with their new Cat 4 from US Palm. We've got...
a ton of other firing line vendors and precision stuff. We can shoot out to a mile out there. So you're going to get a chance to go shoot some long range. This is a first of its kind of that combining the two. And it's just going to be, I'm excited. Listen, I'm more than excited. I know it's the week after NRAM, but it's up.
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Chapter 3: What exciting new events is GOA planning for 2026?
Yep.
If it rains, I will have Cody Flass there.
We'll find you there. We'll probably already be on the way.
Well, you will be, but I'll probably be there then.
I highly doubt that. Oh, hey, Klecker Tactical there in the chat says that he has to get with you to get the Michigan rep, but maybe he'll get with you guys for a GOA holster setup.
Oh, yeah. Yes. Where I'm in. Call me. Julie's got my number, so. I'm not saying, I'm not, Sean, I'm not going to stay my number live on air.
Come on. It was so fun.
No, but I could definitely make introductions about this all day long. So... No, it's... The advocacy is the major thing that GOA does. And people don't understand exactly how much of it is you guys do. But the... So... The lawsuits get noise because it's a lawsuit.
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Chapter 4: How can gun owners participate in the Arizona Freedom Festival?
And I know that a lot of people are like me and starting to get tired of some of the hype beast channels on Instagram or not Instagram on YouTube with the biggest clickbait titles ever. When you look at this, it's like, all right, I don't want to watch a 15-minute explanation to tell me why Hawaii did this and why it's a national shutdown.
But he's looking at the advocacy and what they actually do. Guys, they're... GOA is actually involved at the state and local level for a lot of people. And they are involved at a national level. These are the people that are actually fighting for you. And when I say that, they're working with legislators and lawmakers at the local level to combat the national level issues.
gun control monster so that it has a bigger issue than trickling down to you. Then they're filing the lawsuits to fight it from the people who tried to legislate from the bench and make things go away. And they're still going to Washington and lobbying and working with national level representatives to
try and pass laws that are actually pro-freedom because you know the second amendment is a civil right it has just as much to do with civil rights as the freedom of speech or anything else does it's just people don't realize that very correct well said here here
john goes every now and then duly says something and i i'm not sure what's gonna come out of his mouth that's not sometimes it's all the time sometimes it's profound yeah sometimes it's profound but all the time i'm worried we're sitting around at the link and i'm worried it all comes out of your mouth while we're sitting there ah you're amongst friends at shot show don't be concerned
Generally, I am the tame one of the group, too.
With that group, you were the tame one.
Which should tell you many things. It's definitely an organization that's good to be a part of. John, where can they find all the things you guys are doing?
So there you can go to gunowners.org. That's gunowners.org.
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Chapter 5: What unique features will be showcased at the upcoming Gear event?
Do not type in GOA because there's a country called GOA, and I tell them to go away. So go to gunowners.org. You can find everything there. If you want to sign up for gear, it's gunowners.org forward slash gear. If you want to go to Goals, it's gunowners.org forward slash goals. Or you can go to the events tab on the Gun Owners of America page, which is gunowners.org, and click on those.
Get your tickets now. Goals is free to all GOA members. So if you are a member, show up. It's free for you, your spouse, your kids. That one membership covers everybody. And we hope to see you at Gear. We hope to see you at Goals. And if you're in Arizona this weekend, we hope to see you at Freedom Fest.
Yes, and I know from the comments here, can't quite see it on my phone, but is that a sweet ranch rifle on Garth's wall?
Yes, it is. Yes, it is. It's a fun gun, man. There's a few fun ones up there behind me. So definitely haven't suppressed it yet. I haven't done that. I don't think I should. Actually, it likes to eat dirty ammo, which is a blessing, but... Yeah, guys, definitely go check out Goals because, again, A lot of guys out there always ask the questions of what we should do about gun rights.
And these guys go do it because they have lawyers who actually go do the research for us. And so definitely support them. I know Nick said he was a Goals member, and I am too because of it, man. And yeah, they do a lot of good stuff. So please, if you have not become a member with them, please go support them and join that membership. Because then again, you get into Goals free in Des Moines.
It's Des Moines.
Uh, yes. And, uh, so also you guys can find, uh, gunners America on all of the socials, make sure to be following them on the artist formerly known as Twitter now known as X and, uh, be looking at all their content they have on there. Cause they generally post updates to lawsuits and things of that nature. Follow their, uh, follow their Instagram, follow their Facebook and all of those things.
And guys go out there, be looking at all of those things for looking because that's where you will see what's going on and maybe find out about events in a short suspense, uh, things to do it. Because when things pop up and it's like, oh, hey, that popped up in like a month and a half. You might not see it unless you're looking at something like the pew.report where to get your firearms news.
But when you're looking around, check their socials, follow it. You may see something that catches your eye. Or maybe you'll see new product. Or you may even see them interviewing people on places online. for other events and see somebody do things like compare a high point to a clapped out Ford Ranger. And...
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