WATCH: Meet This Gunslinging, Yiddish-Speaking Klezmer Scholar
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Watch this Yiddish-speaking performer and scholar of klezmer music discuss his love of competition shooting, his experience at gun shows in an Ohio military camp and his personal gun collection.
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