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Hello everyone and welcome back to This Week in Guns, brought to you by Patriot Patch Company and Primary Arms. This show offers commentary on the latest firearms industry news, information and buzz. I’m your host Matthew Larosiere and I’m here with my co-host Shawn Herrin.

FEDERAL LAW SEEKS GUNS BE MADE “SMART”

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney has proposed a bill that would require all new handguns sold in the U.S., within 5 years of passage, to feature “personalized” technology so only the owner could fire it, and that requirement be extended to older firearms for sale within 10 years.

THE SUN’S 2020 BIDEN INTERVIEW REVEALS INSIGHTS ON PRESIDENT’S CONCEPTIONS ON GUNS

The Las Vegas Sun had apparently been sitting on an exclusive interview with then-candidate Joe Biden. It was recently released, and covers a lot of topics, including gun control. Some of the things Biden says reveal an extreme disconnect with how we perceive gun control.

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VERMONT LEGISLATOR ATTEMPTING TO REPEAL SWITCHBLADE BAN

Vermont has constitutional carry, but you can’t carry a switchblade with a blade 3 inches or longer. It’s the only knife where simple possession is banned in the state. VT representative Patrick Brennan has filed a bill that would repeal the ban.

“THE DANGEROUS EVOLUTION OF THE GUN NUT”

In an awful, whiny article in the Las Vegas Sun, Brian Sexton laments that modern “gun nuts” aren’t miserable fudds like himself.

GUN CONTROLLERS: MICROSTAMPING TECHNOLOGY IS HERE!

Like smart guns, the technology for microstamping is always just around the corner, and likely will be for many years. Even so, its proponents have decided that now is the time to push the technology through with the aid of legislation.

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATURE DEBATING POLICE DEADLY FORCE

Under a bill being debated in the New Hampshire Legislature, police would face similar rules to ordinary individuals in using deadly force, eliminating the authority to use it “in order to effect an arrest.”

RUBIO RE-INTRODUCES GUN-ADJACENT TERROR WATCHLIST BILL

Rubio is, once again, pushing the “Terror Intelligence Improvement Act,” which would have serious consequences for anyone who has ever been placed on one of the government’s numerous terror watchlist, even a decade after inclusion.