State of the Second

By Gun Owners of AmericaBusiness News Government Politics

State of the Second episodes

November 05 The Off-Road Event Where Your Stock Truck is Welcome (feat. GEAR)
John sits down with Kurt from the GEAR team to break down the GEAR Summit: a weekend of guided trail runs, firearms training, hands-on vendors, and camping in the canyon country outside Amarillo, Texas.
Bring a fully built rig or a bone-stock truck. Bring years of trigger time or none at all. There are green trails through advanced runs, beginner classes through low-light and night vision, recovery and navigation courses, Stop the Bleed, and a cantina to close out every night.
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50 min
October 28 The Suppressor Ruling Is the First Domino (ft. Braden Langley)
The suppressor win wasn't the finish line. It was the first domino.
This week, Braden Langley joins John to talk about what the suppressor lawsuit really opened up, why gun owners need to learn how to win after decades of playing defense, and why the 2A movement grows by building bridges instead of gatekeeping new gun owners.
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1 hr 10 min
October 21 A Suppressor Maker Explains Why Your Can Costs so Much (ft. Shadow Silencers)
Why do suppressors cost so much, and what does August’s ruling actually change for the people who make them?
John sits down with Danny of Shadow Silencers to talk about building suppressors under a patchwork of state laws, why California and New York-style restrictions keep spreading, and what the latest court decision means on the manufacturing side.
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46 min
October 16 The $0 Tax Stamp Put Hi-Point in the Suppressor Game (ft.Hi-Point)
Hi-Point's Dave is back on State of the Second, and this time we get into why the $0 tax stamp put Hi-Point in the suppressor business.
John and Dave go through everything Hi-Point has launched since his last visit: the AR line in gold, silver, leopard, M81 and Desert Storm, plus the Hush Point 22, Hush 45 and the 3D-printed 30 cal cans. Then John runs down a decade of caliber requests and Dave answers each one: 5.7, 22 TCM, 357 SIG, 30 Carbine, straight-wall, .32, and yes, the Hi-Point AK.
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1 hr 7 min
October 08 The Real Reason Your Gun Costs What It Costs (ft. EAA)
This week John sits down with Trey of EAA to discuss the part of the gun business nobody explains: why a $25 magazine adds $70 to the price tag, why a $100 optic cut costs you $300, and what tariffs are doing to entry-level handguns. Plus, From the Soap Box: YouTube's new firearms policy, and why a cosmetics brand can sponsor a creator when a gun company can't.
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1 hr 10 min
October 02 The "Weapon of Mass Distribution" the ATF Can't Stop (ft. Hoffman Tactical)
Kailey and John sit down with Tim Hoffman of Hoffman Tactical, the 3D-printed firearms pioneer behind the Super Safety. Tim explains how open-source design beats the ATF's raid-and-harass playbook (his "weapon of mass distribution"), why most gun-industry "innovation" is just another muzzle device, and where real innovation is actually happening, belt-feds, recoil-operated designs, and decentralized American manufacturing.
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1 hr 1 min
September 23 The Footage That Did More for Gun Rights Than Any Argument (ft. Four Boxes Diner)
This week, Constitutional attorney Mark Smith of Four Boxes Diner joins John on what actually started the Revolutionary War, the 1792 law that still decides which firearms are protected, and why "dangerous and unusual" can't describe something tens of millions of Americans already own. Plus what body camera footage did for gun rights that no argument could.
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59 min
September 21 Building a Business That One Signature Could End (ft. AS Designs)
This week, Matt of AS Designs joins Kailey and John on the legal ground his whole business sits on: what "common use" actually means when the threshold moves depending on how scary a product is, how a settlement between one company and the DOJ ended up writing the definition everyone else has to live under, and why patents restrict new designs more than any regulation does.
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53 min
September 09 The Thing Holding 3D Printing Back (ft. Bare Arms)
This week Stephen Bozich of Bare Arms joins John and Kailey to argue that the Gun Control Act of 1968 never restricted firearms. It restricted commerce in firearms. Nearly everything regulated downstream of it hangs on somebody being "engaged in the business.” As well as, generational misinformation in firearms education, and why you shouldn't expect a government funded school to teach you the limits of government.
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45 min
September 02 They Broke Into Her Home. She Couldn’t Touch Her Gun. (ft. Lady Liberty Australia)
This week, Lady Liberty Australia joins John and Kailey to explain what life actually looks like without a Second Amendment: a 12-month wait to buy a single pistol, mandatory registration, police who can search your gun safe without a warrant, and a home invasion she was legally barred from stopping with the firearm locked in her own house.
She fled to Texas as a political exile. Now she's warning America about the road Australia went down, and why the ATF's registry should terrify you.
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56 min