"How did you become gunnies?"

Jennifer asked and lots of people are answering, so I figured I'd toss in my little story.

I remember, as a child, not being allowed guns.  The boys in the neighborhood had these neat guns that actually went bang, and I was insanely jealous...but terrified.  Y'see, my parents always appeared to be incredibly anti-gun.  They didn't like me having squirt guns, cap guns were a no-no, and BB guns?  Yeah, they didn't exist in my little world.  Heck, even snap-caps were absolutely verboten.  At the time, I though it was because my parents never wanted me to have any fun EVER because they were the MEANEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.*

This got long, so hit the jump for the rest!

More on Mr. Heyl.

Apparently he's caught the attention of the NRA in the past.  So glad to see he's been a dick for at least the past 4 years.

H/T to Joe Huffman.

Oh, misogyny...

I know everyone else has had their say, but I've gotta add to the dogpile.

Eric Heyl is a misogynistic jackass.  I'm also quite happy to be proving him wrong by merely...existing.  Way to fail, Heyl...way to fail.

Where's the fun?

As I cruise the tubes looking for information on various firearms and gun related activities I have noticed that there is a severe lack of fun being presented in relation to this topic. Discussions are always tangled with politics. Politics are very important to gun owners and shooting sports enthusiasts, but we need to stop and think where gun talk should stop and politics talk should start. They can be separated. I’m not advocating stopping politics talk, but if we are going to get more people interested in gun related activities we need to make it less imposing and realize when the two things need to be separate and when we should talk about them together. We forget that sometimes the guns themselves are imposing enough to new shooters and that some existing shooters get tired of the same old discussions. I’ll go into this more as I think about it, but I really think that fun needs to be emphasized in order for gun related activities to move forward. Thoughts on this are welcome as I’m still hammering out my own.