I have currently put the blog roll on hold as there have been breakthroughs in research and all of my time needs to be spent there.

In late 2022, I was contacted by Recoil writer Lars Smith about doing an interview article for an upcoming issue of Recoil magazine. Lars' treatment was great and Recoil gave me way more space than I thought they would. It was a very rare and precious opportunity....

Recently, Kern County California Deputy District Attorney and LGO Developer Hunter Starr joined The LGO Lens Podcast to give a sneak peak into the foundational ideas that will be in the LGO Lens Jurisprudence Pillar. Mythologies about the actual effectiveness of law...

Ron Grobman, LGO501c4's official instructor and owner/operator of Tactical Fitness, joined The LGO Lens Podcast to talk about his experiences as a soldier and professional instructor. Ron Grobman on The LGO Lens Podcast You can find all that Ron is invoved in through...

We recently recorded a podcast series with the LGO community's wizard of MILSURP, Jon Magnuson. Jon is a biochemist by training (PhD, 1993) and a Staff Scientist at a contract research laboratory. His research focus is on fungal biotechnology, developing organisms to...

  In January of this year, Professor David Yamane spoke at The 31st Annual gathering of the Lutheran Ethicists' Network. The topics were American gun culture and gun violence. David's talk was split into three sections: Gun Culture Properly Understood Gun...

Rob Pincus recently joined Miyanovich, in-studio, to discuss all things Avidity Arms and its new offering The PD-10 pistol. The PD-10 is a unique offering to the pistol market and Miyanovich's proximity to the Avidity HQ has given him a special road to the inside...

Trevor Smith is the former producer of the The Gun Shop Show - a unique radio and streaming gun-talk show hosted by Liberty Tree Guns in Carthage, Missouri. Miyanovich and Smith discuss Miyanovich's appearances on the show in addition to a wide array of gun-related...

To kick off the 2023 season of The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast, Miyanovich has laid down a little fun ditty called "Put 5 in The Kitty." You can check that out here: https://liberalgunownerslens.libsyn.com/site/s2g30-put-5-in-the-kitty   It has been requested...

Miyanovich was recently invited by Rob Pincus to Avidity Arms Headquarters in Western North Carolina to do some endurance testing on the “soon-to-be-on-the-market-no-for-real-this-time” self-defense pistol, the PD-10. Looks like 2023 might be the year. More to come on...

In November of 2022 LGO was proud to sponsor Black Bottom Gun Club President Chad King’s trip to David Yamane’s Sociology of Guns class at Wake Forrest University. Chad delivered an excellent lecture on the history of guns and race in America. We are looking forward...

The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast ended its 2022 interview schedule featuring two titans of the firearms competition world. Chris Cheng is History Channel’s Top Shot Season 4 champion, a stalwart gun rights advocate, and an ambassador for gun ownership in the both...

Congratulations to LGO community member and developer Eddie Davenport on winning his episode of Mountain Men: Ultimate Marksman...and that sweet 10,000 ducket paycheck. For those of you that don't know...Eddie is a social worker and is heavily involved in working with...

Brett has been a gun enthusiast since his dad introduced him to target shooting when he was 8 years old. While serving as a Marine at HMX-1, the Presidential Helicopter Squadron, at Quantico, VA, he qualified Expert with rifle and pistol. Since leaving the Marine...

From The UChicago Institute of Politics YouTube Channel:  Journalist S.E. Cupp will convene a diverse group of experts to unspool the history of gun use in America, through its founding traditions, military and domestic conflicts, key legislative moments and political...

The Reverend Tony Jones kisses his late dog Albert on their last pheasant hunt in March of 2022. Photo by Courtney Perry.   On October 3rd, 2022 Miyanovich joined Tony Jones for his podcast. From the liner notes: Tony sits down with Randy "Miyanovich" Miyan, the...

Miyanovich recently recorded and published an accessible version of his 2022 Sociology of Guns Lecture on The Human Weapon Relationship. You can access it below.   .PART 1 PART 2 PART 3 Here are the core, peer-reviewed papers associated with this lecture: PART...

My letter to GA senators, Osoff and Warnock, and Osoff’s response.    Senator, I am writing as a supporter, a liberal, and a rabbi, to urge you to stand against weapons bans and legislation that limits firearms rights. The Democrats are right on so many issues,...

  David spent the weekend at LGOHQ so that we could put minds togther about his upcoming book on gun culture, his idea for a follow-up book, his schedule for this fall's Sociology of Guns course at Wake Forest, and my major lecture in that course. We also...

In July of 2022 The LGO Lens Podcast presented a seven part series on the NYSPRA v. Bruen SCOTUS opinion. Joining us for this series were attorneys Mark Oknyansky, Hunter Starr, and Lara Smith. The series is chocked full of different angles and keen insights. Some of...

    In the wake of the Uvalde shooting, John Van Dreal took some time out of his busy schedule to come on the podcast and share his thoughts on Uvalde and the current state of the school shooting cultural script in America. In addition, Miyanovich used the...

It is within the LGO501c4 mission to be involved intellectually, socially, and financially with the mitigation of Firearms-related Injury and Death (FRID Mitigation). We have FRID issues split into 8 categories. We are working in each category to develop networks,...

In April of 2022, at LGO501c4's annual company training, we were able to debut the use of our memorial AR-15 build for dearly-departed LGO community member, Beverly Ann Blount. Beverly was a transgender woman who was fiercely dedicated to both LGBTQ+ rights and guns. ...

We are two decades in to this new reality in America where we see impactful, targeted acts of violence on a regular basis. These events happen in the general public, in schools, and in houses of worship. It would probably be surprising to most Americans that...

Unfortunately, we have an ongoing problem with both mass, targeted violence and xenophobic violence in this country. On May 14, 2022 we had another stand-out event in Buffalo, New York. Ten people were killed and three people were wounded in a Tops grocery store. Most...

  In May of 2022 we kicked-off our series analyzing the murder of Ahmaud Arbery. This series was created not only to highlight the facts of the murder (and the ongoing, egregious history that America has with vigilantism, its derivatives, and xenophobic violence)...

  Each year, as a part of our mission, we donate money to different organizations that deal with issues related to firearms-related negatives. For multiple reasons, we thought it fit to do one of these donations this month. This donation to The National Domestic...

  Every year Liberal Gun Owners holds an internal company training for what we call our Firearms Development Group. This group has a mission to achieve the following points (not an exhaustive list): 1. Build a company core of responsive, professionally...

  In April of 2022 LGC Executive Director Ed Gardner joined Miyanovich on The LGO Lens Podcast to talk about the latest with The LGC, trends in liberal gun ownership, and the problem with toxic, unstable "patriots" in the American gun-owning reality. Ed is a...

Rabbi Hillel Norry recently joined The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast to discuss martial arts, the realities of Synagogue security, and the realities of armed self-defense for The American Jewish Community. You can find out about Rabbi Norry at his website by...

Photo by Ken Bennett, January 13, 2017.  Professor David Yamane recently joined us on The Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast to discuss a wide array of gun-related topics. Stay tuned for much collaboration between Yamane and Liberal Gun Owners. Bio: David Yamane is...

  In March of 2022 Chad King joined the Liberal Gun Owners Lens Podcast for an in-depth discusison about African Americans and the right to bear arms. Chad is the owner of Apex Defense Solutions, The President of The Black Bottom Gun Club, and a founding partner...

Should Disabled People Want To Learn To Use A Gun? Before diving into how disabled people can or should learn to use a firearm, let’s examine why a disabled would even want to, and whether they should do so.  Like many other tools, appliances, vehicles, etc. that are...

30-year gun industry veteran Rob Pincus joins Miyanovich on The LGOL Podcast for a true behind-the-curtain look at the horseshit that contributes to gun community regression. They also talk about Rob's latest endeavors and interests.  Rob Pincus is an educator,...

I am here to say that those rights are not exclusive to the 'Normals' either. Each of us, and especially the disabled, have a right to self-defense, including gun ownership and use. The difference is that, like with so many things in our lives, we need to adapt the...

" It is our problem! Everytime somebody pulls the trigger with a firearm and takes their own life - that was a gun owner! A gun owner that we add to our group when it’s convenient for us. But for some reason...when they take their life with a firearm...we don’t talk...

Liberal Gun Owners is very glad that we have Chad King in our community. Chad is out in the gun-space absolutely crushing it as an entrepreneur, leader, and educator. We are proud to contribute to one of his endeavors: The Safe and Secure Project. This is an...

"The concentration of economic power at the top is matched by the increasing power of money in our politics and an increasing power in the executive branch of  government. Although the decline of liberalism is now forty years old, the particularly blatant pandering to...

Definition of “Frame or Receiver” and Identification of Firearms
 Proposed Rule Docket Number: ATF 2021R-05 To whom it may concern at The ATF: Let me start off by saying that I am in agreement with the idea that we need to properly address the mitigation of...