Found out my neighbor is a "Fudd"

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This a guy who owns a .308 bolt rifle, a shotgun and a 9mm pistol. That's it. We've done a lot of chatting about guns in general over the last few month's.

His philosophy of the RKBA is far different from mine.

I found this out when I showed him my newly acquired AR-15. He kind of sneered his nose and said "what do you need that for"? Wow.....really?

I guess he's ok with banning AR-15's, as long as he get to keep his .308 bolt rifle. That kind of attitude really irritates me!

I've got a feeling his whole attitude would change if he actually fired an AR-15, I don't care who you are, it puts a grin on your face.

He considers 3 boxes of ammo "stockpiling"......I want 1000 rounds of each caliber, minimum.
 
I was at Sportsmen's Warehouse about 4 years ago looking at handguns and some cowboy was looking at bolt action rifles just down the counter from me. He looked over and said handguns were only used to kill people. I didn't bother with a response. Not worth the energy.
 
He looked over and said handguns were only used to kill people. I didn't bother with a response. Not worth the energy.
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A lie left unchallenged becomes the truth.

How much energy would it have taken to say something along the lines of all my guns are used to protect people...
 
Red Wind said:
Your neighbor has an opinion. So what? This can go nowhere fast! :D
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jmr40 said:
Better a Fudd than an anti.
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I have to agree with both these statements. Your neighbor obviously is pro-gun. Just because he doesn't see a need for a specific firearm does not mean he wants them banned, nor does it mean he does not support your right to own one. I get the same crap here all the time from chest pounding 2nd Amendment folks...."Why do you need a big ol' .460 X-Frame for? I'd rather carry a rifle!" They have no problem dissing my choice of weapons but have the Gadsden flag tattooed on their arm.

EIB0879 said:
A Fudd is worse IMO, because the media likes them when they say "I'm a gun owner but....".
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IMHO, a Fudd will still support the 2nd Amendment, an anti will not. I don't consider that worse.
 
ColoradoShooter77 said:
Exactly, they are an anathema to promoting the RKBA. You can have this, but you can't have that.....what a load of crap
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You've been here exactly 2 months and you are pounding those divisive gun drums! ;) Try to cool off. It's Sunday. Try the NFL! It's violent! :D You're angry and you're young. :)
 
OP, all you noted in your first post was that your neighbor asked you what you needed an AR-15 for, not that he actually supported this:
Exactly, they are an anathema to promoting the RKBA. You can have this, but you can't have that.....what a load of crap.
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If there was more to the interaction, you should have noted it in the OP. He sounds just like 90% of America's gun-owners to me. Like it or not, most of those who own firearms don't think much about the Second Amendment or the RKBA.
 
First, it's his opinion. You know the sayin'. Second, he might not be telling you the whole truth. It's never wise to admit to anyone, much less your neighbor that you have 100+ guns and 500K of ammo in your home. Ya know? ;)

Also, if he has a 9mm pistol - I highly doubt he's a "Fudd".
 
I took my Fudd neighbor into my basement last week and fired a few subsonic 300 BLK rounds through a 762 Specwar silencer into the dirt of my crawlspace . We spent last Thursday evening putting down a few beers as we drafted him up a trust so he could buy his own.
 
ColoradoShooter77 said:
...That kind of attitude really irritates me!...
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Part of life is learning to live among people who might not share your views on all sorts of things. Your neighbor owes you nothing but civility.

He apparently has what he wants and thinks he has a use for. Yet you sneer at his choices even as you complain that he doesn't share your enthusiasm for your choices.

You of course have every right to be thus. It's just been my experience that such a view is neither productive or constructive.
 
Maybe he was asking an honest question when he asked "What do you need that for ?". Instead of getting bent it would seem an honest answer might have had started an interesting conversation.
 
I guess he's ok with banning AR-15's, as long as he get to keep his .308 bolt rifle. That kind of attitude really irritates me!
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Are you sure that is what he meant? Unless he actually said that, it is hard to determine such a stance.

If it is a mere disagreement as to a choice in rifle, well, different strokes for different folks. As an example, I have little use for an AR, but I absolutely, positively defend the freedom to own them.

If he actually advocates banning ARs, he's in for a surprise because the antis aren't going to stop at "scary" black rifles. Unlike the old days, fewer buy the claim of "reasonable" gun control, but there are still folks who fall for it.

We need to reach, rather than repel potential allies.
 
It was a civil discussion, I'm certainly not going to press the issue. To each their own and I'm going to leave it alone.

He's a neighbor and a nice guy, not going to burn a bridge.
 
Pick your topic from religion to guns, to trucks or football there are too many who want to shove their opinion down every ones throat. I could care less if someone is anti, a Fudd or strongly pro gun.

It is OK with me if they hate guns, as long as they respect my opinons I'll resect theirs. There is nothing in the OP that leads me to see this person as actively anti-gun.

Sometimes we are our own worst enemies.
 
Maybe you should invite him to go shoot with you sometime. He might decide he likes the AR.
 
Neighbor is a Fudd

I had one of those types also. He was a Fudd until Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. We live in a small community just outside New Orleans and some
"undocumented shoppers" came to our little neighborhood (one street dead end) and myself and a couple of my neighbors armed with AR's and a few AK47's encouraged them to seek out life elsewhere; and they did.

After a few of those encounters he asked me to go shopping with when things
got back to normal to pick out a suitable SHTF semi-auto. He selected a nice Colt AR15 and practices with me at the range about once monthly.:D
 
jmr40 said:
Better a Fudd than an anti.
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Not necessarily. At least you know where the antis are coming from. FUDDs can allow themselves to be used as useful idiots.

I was in the LGS the other day, and this guy was picking up his long gun from repair. The was a new model Kel-Tec Sub 2k sitting on top of its box on the counter. He asked what that was and the clerk said it was a Sub-2k in 9mm. He then asked what was special about it? Counter guy said "it folds up and can fit into a briefcase". The guy gets a perplexed look on his face and says "That's scary". Yeah, a FUDD.
 
He may have a different point of view once the antis decide that his 308 bolt action rifle is now classified as a sniper rifle due to it long range accuracy (especially if it has a telescopic sighting device). As a friend of mine once said," It all depends on whose ox is getting gored".
 
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