Do you openly talk about firearms?

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KaMaKaZe

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I was just curious how many of you might openly discuss topics concerning firearms. Are you more discreet around certain people or in public? Are you more open with other gun buddies than you would be with people whom you don't know? How does our surrounding culture determine how you talk about our most precious right and hobby?



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President, FUD's Fan Club.
 
If one of my coworkers asks me what I did over the weekend, I'll say that I either went shooting, or bought a new gun, if I have actually done that.

I don't give a flying fig who overhears it. If they don't like it, they can listen in on someone else's conversation. :)

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Beware the man with the S&W .357 Mag.
Chances are he knows how to use it.
 
Used to, but not anymore. If it could possibly affect my job or my relationships with people I come in contact an a regular basis, I don't. Not anymore. Tell some folks you collect, or display knowledge of firearms, and they think you're some kinda psycho.
 
Sitting in the bar last night, started up two conversations with strangers. One had just come from the same gun show I went to. He was considering voting for Gore. I don't think I converted him, but if he follows thru and sends me an email, I will hook him into gun politics on the web. That should do it.

The other was from Great Britain, has lived in Australia and China, used to own a large firearms collection, and is more a Gore supporter than Bush. He claims to have met both of them personally. He is also on the fence about Gun Control. We are continuing our discussions via email, and I hope to convert him just for the hell of it. He lives here, but carries a british passport, so he can't vote anyway. Yet his attitude was interesting. He thinks gun control laws are a good thing, yet he will ignore any he finds distasteful. I wonder if all British are so hypocritical?

SO I guess the answer is YES I talk to people about guns every chance I get. Mostly politics rather than targets and ammo loads.
 
I'm retired or is that just tired?Oh well what dif does it make.I no longer have to put up with idiots so I say what I want to say when I want to say it.I allso have to known to get in peoples faces that try to implant there liberal bull in me.I allso do it very loadly so everyone knows about it.If they don't like it,well you know.Like the saying goes "If you don't like my attude stop talking to me"

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Bob--- Age and deceit will overcome youth and speed.
I'm old and deceitful.
 
At work if anybody has a firearm question, they come to me. Everybody is aware of my stand on firearm's ownership and my loathing of "Slick Willy". I have no problem discussing firearms at all!!!!
By the way I try to answer any question correctly and if I don't know the answer , I'll tell them that I don't know.

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Life member NRA
 
I don't ever have a problem talking about things I believe in, and guns is one thing I believe in. I'm always having to tell my co-workers guns are not a bad thing.

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WHEN IT COMES TO FRIENDS THE SKY IS NOT THE LIMIT
 
Yes, and I have a closet full of firearms related t-shirts that I wear all the time too. Pictures all over work, ect.
If they don't like it, F'em. I do all the good citizen stuff, vote, Jury Duty, pay one hell of alot of taxes, ect.
 
Every Day.
I am asked every day by people from all over the company... From rifles to pistols.
People stop by me desk or send emails several times a day.
I think I only spend about 3 hours a day actually doing my job... :D
 
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Every Day.
I am asked every day by people from all over the company... From rifles to pistols.
People stop by me desk or send emails several times a day.
I think I only spend about 3 hours a day actually doing my job... :D[/quote]

I had a job like that. Only a T1 connection kept me from getting completely bored.
 
As part of every day conversation, sure.
A bunch of old farts talk about them at lunch
and other sit with us as we are likeable.

I tell the young women when we talk about weekend plans that I'm going hunting or to the range. Several have asked to be taught how to shoot. I'm taking out a couple in two weeks.

I understand people who worry about their job, luckily I don't have to worry.
 
Moderators - please forgive me for what I am about to do. The following two images are 58K in total. I could just provide the link(s), but it wouldn't be the same.

KaM - Short answer to your question - Yes. I do. At every opportunity. In CA, this can be considered an almost Sisyphean task. On the wall behind my cubie (I have a corner cubie - WooHoo! I must be a big shot! Naw... :-) I have a small image of the CA flag....

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OK. So I modified it a bit. Mine's more appropriate than a Grizzly.

Below that, this fine piece of WWII poster art....

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And then there's the other stuff. :D

Cliff
 
At my past job yes, I was the resident "gun-nut" and spent plenty of time answering co-workers various movie/tv related firearm and shooting questions.

My mates from work, after they saw the movie "Heat" got a real blast from using my Mossberg M590 [just like in Al Pacino's door knock scene]

Sadly I'm now at University [it's very P.C.] so I now don't talk about my pursuit's openly.
 
It took going to college to realize that anyone had much of a problem with it. Didn't change my mind one bit. I'm something of a troublemaker anyway; I tend to question authority in general.
I talk about what I want when and where I want. I show proper respect, but I do it by choice. I don't talk as much about shooting at my in-laws' house by choice, 'cause they don't like it and it's their house. When they came to my house, they were a bit surprised that there was a gun in the room but they showed me the same courtesy.
 
I don't start a conversation with that as a topic, but I will bring it up if it's appropriate.

It turns out that my cubicle-mate is somewhat vehemently ("somewhat vehemently" -- is that an oxymoron?) opposed to the idea of Gore as President. Turns out he doesn't object to owning guns either. I've taken him to the range once, and he's thinking about what type of gun he wants to buy now. :) We have discussed guns at work from time to time as well. Not loudly, but someone nearby could probably overhear us. It's their problem if they don't like it. I do very good work and my manager seems pleased with me, so I'm not _too_ worried about getting sacked over it.

Score one for the good guys!


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"People who say guns are bad are lucky enough never to have been in a situation where someone has kicked down your door and threatened the life of your son and your sixty-five-year-old mother."
-- Memphis, Tennessee resident Gina Cushon, quoted in Laura Ingraham's book "The Hillary Trap"
 
I am the safety coordinator for my place of employment and we have a policy on violence in the workplace. I was "trained" to realize that obcession (read discussion) of firearms was a "warning sign". One employee was reprimanded for having a screen saver in which a figure stood in the middle of the screen with a machine gun and fired in a 360 degree arch. Having said this, I talk about firearms anyway, but do so with concern.
 
Always. Sometimes too much.

My co-workers definitely know where I stand, and I'm glad that they do. By putting a face on the gun-owning public, it helps in bringing some fence-sitters closer to the good side.

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Michigan Coalition for Responsible Gun Owners(MCRGO)www.mcrgo.org
 
People need to know that we are not faceless strangers.

We are their neighbors, their employees, their cow-orkers, their bosses, their relatives, their deliverymen, their doctors, their lawyers, their grocers, their teachers, their students, their classmates...
 
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