Yesterday, after finishing qualifying students on the range, I decided to purchase another pistol. I paid for the gun, completed the paperwork, and left the store without the gun.
Since I'm in California, I have to wait ten days before I can pick it up. They call it a "cooling off period". As I understand it, the ten days is to allow me to "cool off" in case I'm purchasing the gun with an intention to use it for some violent act.
The problem with that idea is pretty simple when you consider that I was legally carrying a gun when I bought the new one. In fact, I had to provide my California CCW permit in order to avoid having to take the little test required for what California calls a "Firearms Safety Certificate".
Since California required me to provide my CCW permit, the state knows that I already have guns and that I actually carry one on my person in public. This leads me to an inescapable conclusion. State leaders are too stupid to understand this basic truth. If I wanted to use a gun for some criminal act, I could use the gun I was carrying. I wouldn't need the new one.
So, tell me again... why am I being forced to wait ten days?
In the first half, attorney Sean Maloney from Second Call Defense joins me to explain the lessons gun owners can learn from what happened to Kyle Rittenhouse.
In the second half, I discuss a home invasion case from Oceanside California in which the homeowner successfully defended himself.
Anatomy of Guerrilla Warfare | It's Not What You Think
Dirty Civilian
May 2, 2026 The Dirty Civilian Podcast
Guerrilla Warfare is a life of suffering, hiding, and failing forward. It is not something to strive toward or hope for, but it is also the only way small forces can resist or combat large militarized systems. So what is a Guerrilla (not Gorilla) and what does history say about the path to success for these small units? Today, we dive in and answer these questions.
