GUN PORN! (Yes, it’s out there)!

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The below is from a group e-mail I sent out to my little group of "gunnies"...

I was listening to the Armed America Radio podcast the other day and they were ROTFL (as was I) about an Atlanta TV station that went “underground” to visit various stores in search of “gun porn”!

The fellow at AAR seemed to have never heard of the term, but I’ve seen it used on gun forums and the ‘Net.

I guess the TV folks just don’t get satire (or continue to show how clueless they really are).

Gun porn is a term used (owned by the gun community) to describe gun magazines etc. - the term is used satirically, often as an inside joke in order to make fun of folks that don’t have a clue when it comes to firearms, SD, 2nd Amendment, etc.

It appears the folks at CBS46 in Atlanta took the bait!

If you didn’t see it with your own eyes, you’d swear this story was ripped straight from The Onion…

VIDEO AT 11!
http://www.cbs46.com/story/30428851/gun-porn-magazines-found-in-easy-access-to-kids

Don’t forget – as gun owners you’ve often been lumped in with sexual predators (we’re notified if a sexual predator moves to our neighborhood, so why should we not be notified when a gun owner does so?), have been called ammosexuals, and are often accused of trying to overcompensate for one’s lack of manhood (wonder how they describe women with that one?) by owning firearms.

As Massad Ayoob likes to say…
If carrying a firearm was my way for compensating for my manhood, I can assure you I would not be carrying a snub-nosed revolver…
 
Gun porn is a term used (owned by the gun community) to describe gun magazines etc. - the term is used satirically, often as an inside joke in order to make fun of folks that don’t have a clue when it comes to firearms, SD, 2nd Amendment, etc.
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not really any of that at all. it is simply pictures of desirable guns. no satire or inside jokes and it definitely does not make fun of anyone.
 
apparently that station is doing a series they call "the gunfight" and if you click on it, it shows you a long list of gun related articles. all but 2 seem negative.
 
ROFL! Read the comments at the bottom of the article. Some of those are just funny!

Thanks basicblur, I needed the laugh!
 
I can be found nearly every day viewing "gun porn," sometimes (like now) even at work! Very often, I'll be viewing "gun porn" on my laptop at home while my wife - who's a dog trainer - sits next to me viewing "puppy porn" on her laptop. We're very free and open about it. Makes for a healthy relationship.
 
Words should be chosen carefully. All of us know and understand that the term "Gun Porn"is satirical. Most non-gun people understand too, but some don't care and this is a good example of how our own words can come back to be used against us.

I've long felt that the term "negligent discharge" is WAAAAY over used instead of "accidental discharge". I understand the desire to hold shooters accountable, but this is the wrong path in my opinion. Any unintentional discharge is an accident. Sometimes those accidents are the result of negligence. But to truly rise to the level of negligence is pretty rare and would likely result in an arrest.

Mark my words, we will see anti's catch onto this and try to convey anyone who even owns a gun as negligent. It is already a common practice used try to convince juries that legitimate SD shootings are really negligence on the part of the shooter. The more we throw the word out there, the more it will be used against us.
 
"Oh Horrors! Pieces of paper practicing the 1st Amendment which advocate practicing the 2nd Amendment! IN full view of children! We GOTTA do SOMETHING!"

I am at a loss whether to label this Insane Absurdity or Absurd Insanity.
 
jmr, virtually all accidents are the result of negligence. no matter if it's guns, cars, slip falls.
i practiced negligence law for a lot of years n this is a fact.
 
All of us know and understand that the term "Gun Porn"is satirical.
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ALL of us? You sure about that? :scrutiny:

Words should be chosen carefully. All of us know and understand that the term "Gun Porn"is satirical. Most non-gun people understand too, but some don't care and this is a good example of how our own words can come back to be used against us.
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True, but I think this may be a case of jumping the shark.

While some non-firearm folks may be cornfused with terms like assault weapon, etc., if you try to convince them what's on the counters at your favorite store is gun porn I have a feeling they're going to be viewed as just a little kooky.

Iff'n that's gun porn simply because they use lights and angles in the photography...well, I guess that means there's also Home Interior porn, Fine Cooking porn, Southern Living porn, Astronomy porn, (insert you favorite subject / interest / hobby here) porn, yadda yadda yadda...
 
Where are the centerfolds?

Hey, if these gun magazines are really gun PORN, then where are all the CENTERFOLDS?
 
Words should be chosen carefully. All of us know and understand that the term "Gun Porn"is satirical. Most non-gun people understand too, but some don't care and this is a good example of how our own words can come back to be used against us.
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The prohibitionists in this case didn't misunderstand a gunnie expression and take it the wrong way. This was a very carefully written hit piece, even down to insinuating that there were scantily clad women on the covers (the only woman in the pics was a professionally dressed businesswoman in an office setting).

Here's what I wrote over at DU (where the response was, suprisingly, pretty negative against the station's "story"):

BTW, here are the magazines they are talking about:

http://www.gunsandammo.com/
http://sportsafield.com/
http://www.shootingtimes.com/
http://www.fieldandstream.com/
http://americanhandgunner.com/
http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/publications/personal-home-defense/

Funny thing is, if you go to those links and look at the covers, you won't find a single scantily clad model, female or male. The one image the article tried to use to support their "porn" meme was a professional-looking woman in business attire aiming a gun while calling 9-1-1 (on the cover of a magazine that caters heavily to female gun owners), and the Duck Dynasty guys. Yes, the Duck Dynasty guys. If that is "porn" to you, then you need to get out more.

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What's even more hilarious is that this TV station serves central Georgia, where half or more of households likely own guns, meaning that half of this station's target market is pointing at their TV and howling with laughter, and the other half is scratching their heads and saying "they call that porn?"

Edited to add: The magazine in the second row, left, has a guy in a T-shirt on the cover. Second row, right, has a rifle with a flashlight on the cover. "Porn", indeed. :scrutiny:
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I'm with taliv.

My definition of "gun porn" is just images of guns for us to drool over.

The larger, clearer, well-shot images are the highest definition of gun porn.
 
What a funny article. The writers and anchors must have some serious Freudian problems to work out.

Seriously, putting the Duck Dynasty guys in even the same sentence as porn is...well....you get it.
 
taliv said:
not really any of that at all. it is simply pictures of desirable guns. no satire or inside jokes and it definitely does not make fun of anyone.
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Exactly. Pictures we as gun lovers seem to drool over is all it is. *** Serious overthinking alert ***
 
Exactly. Pictures we as gun lovers seem to drool over is all it is. *** Serious overthinking alert ***
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Based on replies I'm seeing (both in here and comments posted at the original video), it seems you're swimming against the tide.

But I understand...some folks just don't get satire...
 
A few (22) years ago, I was a Security guard at a condo in South Florida while I was attending school. My shift was 2pm till 10pm. I had a lot of contact with elderly Northern people during my shift.

When I wasn't walking the halls, checking doors, walking parking lot I was permitted to do my studies/homework. I would also take firearm related magazines to read. One day I was called into the managers office because of a complaint. The manager informed me that he didn't care what I did/read at the front desk just don't leave any porn laying out again. I was puzzled because no way shape or form would I bring porn in to read/view while working around elderly people.

I went to my desk and retrieved the magazine I was reading the night before, on the cover was a woman in a bikini holding a rifle. That was the Porn.
 
I know the internet forum use of the words Gun Porn, but away from forums Gun Porn means to me a scantily clad (or naked) woman holding or shooting firearms. My wife would consider the Dillon catalogs Gun Porn. She's prudish, so there ya go.
 
chicharrones said:
I know the internet forum use of the words Gun Porn, but away from forums Gun Porn means to me a scantily clad (or naked) woman holding or shooting firearms. My wife would consider the Dillon catalogs Gun Porn. She's prudish, so there ya go.
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Haha, the Dillon magazines are great, I don't even reload. ;)

Ya, I've always considered 'gun porn' to be checking out gun magazines with cool stuff I want. I'm sure somewhere out there though, there's some chick doing bad things with a 10 gauge barrel. :D
 
My idea of gun porn is fully engraved firearms that may be plated or not, but are works of art, hand crafted talented gun makers which I'll never be able to afford.
 
MW13 said:
I thought that kinda stuff was *NSFW*. :eek:
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Generally, it's not. However, our company's owner is a gun nut, too, and doesn't mind in the least. When our IT guy put a lock down on websites categorized as "weapons," the owner called him into his office to show him how frustrated he was at trying to find a gun part with everything blocked, and instructed him to immediately remove that category from our firewall system. About half of our company is indulging in some manner of gun porn on any given day. My computer monitors are facing a wall so only I can see them anyway, unless someone walks around behind my desk. It's probably a moot point, though, as all the computers in our Quality department have various gun pics (porn) scrolling through as screen savers.

... and yes, "porn" is simply gun pictures I enjoy viewing.

Maybe we should change the titles on the picture threads to things like "Revolver Porn Thread," etc.
 
well thats disappointing, I clicked on this thread hoping to see some good pictures of some guns and instead I got a complete B.S. news article.
 
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