Pudge
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Speaking from experience this year, not all new gun owners would be represented in background check data. I know of two, and they are shooters.
They're probably more likely to do that than the folks that grew up with guns.Maybe all of the brand-new gun owners secure their guns if children live in, or visit the home.
It’s amazing to me how a gun enthusiast will vote against gun rights. My good buddy just got his first two guns (pistols) and loves shooting. Wants an AR. Votes...not for 2A candidates. I don’t get it.How many of them vote pro-2A?
I probably fall into the newHow many of them vote pro-2A?
well I’m one of those folks. I live in TX and got my LTC (license to carry) last August. I’ve got no other training besides the class and shooting on my own. But hey, at least I practice on my own and I joined this forum to learn more.I don't know about this group but for reference, in TX, it was found that about 95% of the folks getting a CHL never took any training beyond the mandated state class. The class doesn't really teach any gun handling. The amount of practice they had on their own, I don't know. Practice shooting a box at 7 yards on the square range or the rock on the ranch, oh well.
Many will. TBH I was ambivalent about 2A until becoming a gun owner last year. Now it’s important to me. Hopefully most new owners are like me.I think most new to gun ownership will realize that they now have a stake in the situation when they hear gun control rhetoric. At a minimum, they will no longer be indifferent to the issue.
It’s amazing to me how a gun enthusiast will vote against gun rights. My good buddy just got his first two guns (pistols) and loves shooting. Wants an AR. Votes...not for 2A candidates. I don’t get it.
No doubt, but at least on 2A...the choice is pretty clear for someone who wants to own an AR.Most people wind up voting against their own best interests. Sometimes it's out of ignorance but more often it's because neither party really values the common man or woman, and their policies aren't really aimed at improving our lives. In the end we just hold our noses and vote for whoever seems the least vile.
Exactly. There haven't been any truly "pro 2A" presidential candidates from either of the big two parties in over 100 years.In the end we just hold our noses and vote for whoever seems the least vile.
I'm not 100% sure I'm following you, but either way, my statement stands. People who are new to guns are more likely to store them "safely" (the definition for that varies considerably) than those who grew up around guns.bearcreek: My comment was mostly sarcasm.
I can't imagine how many small children will find a loaded gun kept accessible (although concealed) by people whose hyper-paranoia overrides common sense.
Not all states use the NICS..unless I am reading the map wrong7 million is based on the number of first time background checks done by the NICS. This isn't that hard to look up.
There is one thing that sets you apart from people in every other country in the world; a Second Amendment right to purchase, own and enjoy a firearm. Nowhere else in the world are people free enough to exercise and enjoy such a right.
Firearm ownership is considered as right rather than privilege in Yemen and therefore is allowed without any license or permit. Carry is unrestricted in majority of country.Yemen is the second most heavily armed country in the world after the United States
How many of them vote pro-2A?
Back in March I bought my first gun - a P365 SAS and a 25 round box of defensive ammo - to protect my wife and I from the roving bands of gunned-up buttholes that you always see in post-apocalyptic movies. I then got my LTC, took multiple courses from defensive handgun to CQB and gun fighting courses. All the while expanding a collection of pistols that could outfit a soccer team. Just before Christmas I bought an AR15, not particularly because I felt the need for one, but I didn’t want someone telling me I couldn’t have one. During that time I have visited the range 2-3 times a week and have developed a passion for shooting that I wish I had discovered years ago and have become a pretty decent shooter. But perhaps the most important thing is that I have met many, many people who have a similar story to mine. People who went from no gun experience to accomplished knowledgeable shooters who virtually overnight became 1911 fanboys or 10mm disciples, or both. We might not make up the majority of the 7,000,000, but we’re out there and we’re spreading the word.
Told him the reason is that those that founded this country came here from countries that had govt run by the church, laws atrocities were fine in the name of the church, so they separated the 2 entities and put into the 1st freedom of religion.
Everyone here would be far more civil in person, plus there wouldn't be the giant disadvantage of not having body language, inflection etc. to go off of.Judging from the tone of supposedly experienced guys pissing all over each other on a gun owners' website called "The High Road," I feel bad for those new gun owners who venture into this not-so-little community.
C'mon...how hard is it to show a little civility?