Kinship towards gun guys?

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Do you feel any kind of kinship towards people when you find out they are “gun guys”? I deal with a lot of different people in my job and know most of my regulars on a first name basis. A few times I’ve worn a Ruger hat(don’t have a S&W hat) at work and was asked what Rugers do I have. It seems that once I find out they’re into guns or they find out I am, the relationship becomes friendlier. Kind of like being members in a club. Anyone else?
 
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Yes, I do feel a kinship when I meet other people who also enjoy the shooting sports. Living in anti-gun Connecticut, it's less common to find someone else who is interested in pursuing our hobby. But lately it seems to have begun to turn around. I also belong to TWAW (the well armed woman) so I have met other women who are interested in participating..

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Redbert31 said:
Yes, I do feel a kinship when I meet other people who also enjoy the shooting sports. Living in anti-gun Connecticut, it's less common to find someone else who is interested in pursuing our hobby. But lately it seems to have begun to turn around. I also belong to TWAW (the well armed woman) so I have met other women who are interested in participating..

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My wife is a member of well armed woman and gals with guns and associated with a couple other woman's gun groups, In fact she is in Las Vegas as I type this for a Red Hat convention and hit a couple gun ranges to enjoy items not legal in the peoples republic of NY.

As for me Its nice to see other gun people when out and about. Not referring to at a range but people with pro gun feelings you run into in public. Its normally easy to strike up a conversation with them when in the city area. Out where I live in the boonies most all people are pro gun/hunters/shooters!:D
 
bigwheelzip said:
I like talking about this hobby with kindred spirits, but unless you see me shooting at the range, I don't show evidence or discuss that I own firearms with strangers. Only the LGS counter guys who sold me something know for sure.
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Same here. I live in a loony moonbat anti-2A state where you do not typically want your neighbors or coworkers or casual acquaintances to know that you are licensed to carry and own guns. You tend to keep that sort of information between family, close friends, dealers, firearms insurance agent and club or range personnel. Word of your "collection" can spread fast once it is out there and the next thing you know, you'll be dealing with a home break-in. :(

But that said, of course one feels a sense of kinship with other legal gun owners... well, most of them anyway. :) There are a few at the range now and then that I want nothing whatsoever to do with, but most gun owners I know are very respectable, friendly, solid people. :cool:
 
THIS MAY COME AS A SURPRIZE...

I am not exactly a people person/social butterfly, that's the wife's thing. Another gun guy just means we have something in common, I'll leave it at that.
 
Just this morning, meeting a group for breakfast as usual on Sat. morning. A gentleman sitting at a table in the next aisle has a white hat with a red Ruger emblem. I mentioned "Nice hat" to him and he smiled and said, "not everyone would know what the emblem was", I mentioned my hat is usually a S&W emblem, he smiled back.
 
Just the fact that you own a gun isn't enough to generate any feeling of "kinship" with you. I know a lot of idiots who own guns.

The nature of my work is that I'm usually the only third party contractor on site site with a bunch of client employees. So I'm an outsider anyway. As a result I try to maintain my distance. I'm professional, I'm polite but I'm not anybody's buddy. I don't ask about their private lives and I don't talk to them about mine.

The majority of people I work around don't even know my name let alone the fact that I own or have any interest in guns

Outside of work ? Forget it. I don't start random conversations with random strangers
 
I would like to think there is some kinship among gun owners. However, the older I get the more I realize that gun ownership is the only thing in common between myself and a good many gun owners.
 
I dont wear anything that indicates I’m a gun owner, nor do I have NRA bumper stickers etc.
But in conversations if it comes up, I’ll tell people I own guns and often if they are gun people, we end up talking guns, sometimes, a lot.
 
ACORN said:
Do you feel any kind of kinship towards people when you find out they are “gun guys”?
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Yup. Tonight on my way home I saw a guy in a pickup with his hazard lights on, parked on the far side of an intersection where I had pulled up and stopped at a red light.

I then watched him back up, turn around and cross against a red light to get back to the side of the intersection where I was sitting. Then I saw why. His full size gun safe was lying up next to the curb two lanes to my right (I was in the left lane).

I went through the light, turned around and when I got back to the intersection, made a left to pull into the corner parking lot adjacent to where the safe was lying in the road. By the time I got back there another another good Samaritan had already pulled up behind the safe and put on his flashers.

The two of us helped the guy in the pickup stand the safe up, scoot it up to the tailgate of his pickup and tilt it up into the bed. We slid it forward to the cab and made sure the tailgate was closed and latched so it couldn't slide out again.

Like I told my wife, us "gun guys" gotta' stick together & help each other out....
 
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I used to, because I thought in general, most gun guys were a bit smarter, more thoughtful and shared many of the same beliefs as I do (y'know, good wholesome conservative values). Did I mention honest and forthright? Yes, I thought gun folks had more of that as well.
I was wrong, every walk of life is permeated by idiots, and gun owners are no exception. Not at all, not in the least...
 
When I first joined the gym I'm at now one of the managers had her CHP and carried a J Frame in her purse (that she left unsecured behind the counter).

I know this because she told her coworkers and one morning I was having a conversation with the coworker (good friend now but then she didn't know me from a bar of soap.) and (I don't remember how) guns came up. Out of the blue coworker told me about the manager's gun.

I went back and mentioned to the manager (without identifying the girl who told me) that she might want to be a little more circumspect about who she shares her private business with.

Once you let that information out you lose all control over it.
 
Usually yes. There have been a couple that just make me uncomfortable but thankfully those are not common.
 
Some yes, some no, some heck no. I've seen guys at gun store counters, decked out in "tacticool" and spewing their "knowledge" to anyone who will listen. I wouldn't think of having a conversation with one of them, let alone feel any kinship towards them.

Most everyone here, absolutely!
 
Yes I do. Especially considering the political climate here. You never know and don’t want to ask. But sometimes it comes out.

But I must admit that there are a few that I don’t want to associate with. The mall ninja types etc...
 
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