Plus, what’s the future of AM radio?
A radio show about guns? In Southern California? And Los Angeles, no less?has been heard on KABC Saturdays at 8 a.m. Effective immediately, the show is transitioning to KRLA Sundays at 8 p.m. Currently, the program, which started in 2019, is airing separate editions for both stations, but the final KABC show will air July 30. After that, it will be exclusively heard on KRLA.
The shop opened almost 25 years ago as a way for Taverner to make some money selling part of his own personal collection. He is very proud of the fact that he made a sale on his very first day open, back on June 1st, 1998. “Unfortunately, the sale was denied” from the background checks, he says. “But it was a sale!”
For the first month, they made him pre-record the program, but he wanted to go live and convinced KABC to let him do so. Since that time, he has been able to take listener phone calls along with presenting information and interviews in order to help people learn about such things as firearms history, safety, collecting, purchasing and doing the paperwork.
No politics allowed, though. “This is not a political show by any means,” he insists. “That would take the fun out of it.”