Firearms Nation Podcast

Firearms Nation Podcast is an interview-driven show for the competitive shooting world. It treats firearms skill as something built through repetition, vision, judgment, and hard-earned self-knowledge. The show’s center of gravity is practical shooting, with frequent attention to USPSA, IPSC, Steel Challenge, three-gun, and rifle competition. The best conversations are granular. A missed second shot becomes a debate about acceptable sight pictures. A nagging elbow injury becomes a discussion of tendons, dry fire, grip stress, eating well, and long-term physical health. A replay with a champion becomes a way to study how speed and accuracy trade places across divisions. The show is not polished in a studio-magazine way. It feels closer to a knowledgeable range conversation, sometimes live, sometimes pulled from the archive, with side comments about travel, storms, holidays, video feeds, and the work of keeping a one-person show moving. That looseness is part of the texture. It gives the interviews room to wander into useful corners, from mental management to match history to the practical realities of staying sharp as a shooter ages. Firearms Nation Podcast also carries a strong political current. Episodes with figures such as Montana AG Austin Knudsen frame gun rights as an urgent legal and cultural issue, and the show is comfortable with direct, partisan-edged arguments. Other episodes look inward at the sport itself, including USPSA leadership and the importance of competitive structures. The archive matters here. Replay conversations with Eric Grauffel, B.J. Norris, and Lanny Bassham position the show as a record of elite performance thinking as much as a current-events feed. It is technical, candid, and unapologetically niche. For listeners already inside the shooting sports, that focus is the point.