Video Interview: Buck Sexton Calls Gun Control a “Manufactured Delusion”

posted on February 25, 2026
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Buck Sexton, the radio host and author, has a new book out titled Manufacturing Delusion—How the Left Uses Brainwashing, Indoctrination, And Propaganda Against You. As Sexton is an ardent Second Amendment advocate and an NRA-certified firearms instructor, we decided to ask him if gun control is a manufactured delusion.

He emphatically said it is and that how it is pushed upon Americans follows the same playbook as other far-Left efforts. Indeed, his book reads like an analysis of how modern gun-control groups use propaganda and indoctrination to attempt to get Americans to vote against their own freedom.

Sexton is a former CIA officer and now has a national radio show called The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. Drawing from his high-stakes missions tracking jihadist radicalization in places like Nigeria and Iraq, Sexton shows how today’s far-Left uses the same tactics to manufacture mass delusions.

The book is personal and fast-paced. It is also impossible to miss how the methodology he outlines parallels the tactics used by anti-gun groups.

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