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Introduction to The Liberal Gun Owners Lens

"If LGO's mission is to be the Swiss Army Knife of the nexus between gun rights and public safety, then the LGO Lens Publication is the main blade of the knife."   The Liberal Gun Owners Lens can be described as a three part entity: 1. The primary part is a...

Liberal Gun Owners Featured in Recoil Issue #67

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....

Jon Magnuson Joins The LGO Lens Podcast

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...

Rob Pincus Joins The LGO Lens Podcast

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 Joins The LGO Lens Podcast

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...

Miyanovich Joins The Reverend Hunter Podcast

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...

Rabbi Hillel Norry Writes His Georgian Senator

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,...

The Beverly Ann Blount Memorial AR-15 Video

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. ...

The 2022 LGO Developmental Training

  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...

Mark Oknyansky: Adaptive Gunning Part Two

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...

Mark Oknyansky: Adaptive Gunning

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...

Dusting-off the Liberal Home Plate

"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...

Firearms are Anthropologic First

Image from The LGO Lens Anthro Pillar. KYA = Thousands of Years Ago. BCE = Before Common Era.The morning is where most human individuals reconnect with their values. Whether it is conscious or subconscious, each individual spends the morning plugging into their...