Country music has a long history with guns and gun culture, from songs about handing down family heirloom rifles to harvesting that first buck of the season. Ketch Secor , the leader of Old Crow Medicine Show , is a gun owner, but never thought he’d become a staunch advocate for gun reform . That changed after the 2023 Covenant school shooting in Nashville, which left three children and three adults dead.

“I didn’t think that’d be a cause for me… But when the shooting happens in your town, it’s different,” Secor tells Rolling Stone during this week’s episode of the Nashville Now podcast. He began lobbying for gun reform, including red flag laws and a ban on assault weapons, and produced a forthcoming documentary, Louder Than Guns , about America’s gun violence issue.

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