Sunday's edition of Tom Gresham's nationally syndicated Gun Talk Radio Show will feature Les de Asis, President of Benchmade Knife Company, and Doug Ritter, Editor of Equipped To Survive and Chairman of the Equipped To Survive Foundation. The subject will be the poorly researched, highly biased and inflammatory anti-knife Wall Street Journal article that ran this past Tuesday, "How New, Deadly Pocketknives Became a $1 Billion Business."

Les will be starting at 2:00 PM Eastern, 11:00 AM Pacific. Doug will follow at 2:30 PM Eastern, 11:30 AM Pacific.

Gun Talk is carried live (or delayed broadcast in a few cases) by over 100 radio stations nationwide, check your local listings. It can also be found on channel 144 on SIRIUS Satellite Radio and on a three hour delay on channel 166 on XM Satellite Radio. You can also listen via streaming audio on the Web from a number of sources including www.KBNP.com and www.KSBN.net

Here's a link to the article that doesn't require a subscription to the WSJ site:

http://www.postgazette.com/pg/06206/708441-28.stm

Wow. The comparatively level-headed staff at the WSJ must've been drinking their bathwater when they let that tripe go to press. If I had a subscription I'd be cancelling it. What rot.

The vast majority of the media doesn't care what they put out, as long as people read about it and talk about it. The more traffic, good or bad, the more ads they sell, the more money they make, and that's all they care about.

Doug, you did a great job on Gun Talk. I have signed up on the website, and emailed my friends and family.

For those you who could not listen to the program check out the United States Knife & Tool Association at www.uskta.org .

On Sunday, July 30, 2006, Doug Ritter and Les de Asis, President of Benchmade Knife Company, were guests on Tom Gresham's nationally syndicated Gun Talk Radio Show, discussing the inflammatory anti-knife Wall Street Journal article, "How New, Deadly Pocketknives Became a $1 Billion Business." You can listen to the archives of that show:

(Note that these are being hosted temporarily on my site as www.GunTalk.com has temporarily run out of bandwidth)

Hour One - Guests Les de Asis - Benchmad...ool Association

Hour Two - Guest Doug Ritter - United States Knife and Tool Association

Hour Three - Bob Morrison - Taurus Firea...ut the topic.)

Excellent, listening now. Thanks for the links.

Doug,

Thank you for the Gun Talk files! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Just wait next the powers that be will want a ban on Q-tips, someone could pop an ear drum.

Those who would trade their freedom for a little security deserve neither.