Tired of "Tacticool / Mall Ninja"?

This thread has quickly turned into a Mall Ninjas Anonymous meeting.

To the OP, I feel your pain man.

What makes it worse for me, I am ex-military, I lived in BDUs for 4 years. I love them, they are the most comfy pair of pants I have ever owned/worn, and they last longer than a pair of blue jeans. So now that I am out, what do I wear? Black BDU pants and most of the time either hats with a similiar cut as the BDU hats, or a Boonie hat.

Combat boots? I don't OWN tennis shoes, but I have 4 pairs of combat boots. Why? Hmm.. one pair is 6 years old, I wore them almost every day of that 6 years. They have lasted, they are comfortable, all my pairs have steel toes, thick soles, mostly leather, They are safe, be it from a rusty nail in the ground, safe from a car rolling overthem (which has happened) snake bites (which they have prevented) and if I happen to get into a fight, pretty sure that my steel toes will hurt the other guy more then his flip flops are gonna hurt me.

I want a drop leg holster, so that I can look cool? Hardly, because OCing on my waist tends to get in the way of my arm and in the way of my pocket

So, I catch the mall ninja flack often enough, it is aggrivating to say the least.

Oh, and my next open carry gun that I Am working on? A suppressed 1911. Why? Because it just makes sense. I would rather not go deaf when having to shoot in defense.

Yes, quite honestly if you showed up at a private gun range dressed in combat boots, tactical AR with gadgets, carrying a pistol on your hip, I would think you were a mall ninja, or a wannabe. All the reasons in the world really wouldn't matter to me.

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So open carry is mall ninja stuff now? I open carry at the range all the time. Combat boots are well-made and rugged. I don't wear them to the range, but I own a pair and use them for camping and such. I can't afford a tricked-out AR, but if I could I'd have one.

you'll never be a mall ninja.. gecko45 is the only one.. you guys only are wanabees

I happend to be a wanabee

I shoot with a regular group every week, we all like to shoot, we get along well, (meaning we rag on each other mercilessly) and we all own AR's. Some own SOCOM-style stuff, some have camo clothes, but we all own AR's, some of us own several. The term Mall Ninja has never come up, maybe you have to be an insecure young hotdog to be one. If that's the case, we don't qualify, we're a bunch of old old poops who just like to bang away with our Evil Black Rifles.

It's probably a good thing we don't qualify. If we tried rappeling down Mall walls and wearing all that heavy black nylon stuff, we'd probably just hurt ourselves, and be more of a burden than we already are.

PJ

I'm too tactical to go to the mall.

I can stay in my bunker and order things through the mail.

It's strange, but I have never heard the expression "Mall Ninja" anywhere except in the web. And I go to the range a LOT. Just shoot well, have fun and don't worry about what people have to say. If they're picking on you, at least they're leaving some other poor guy alone.
PS, as you get older your skin gets a lot thicker because you've figured out that 30% of the human race is an idiot.

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I don't know what FUD is ether.

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I doubt it is any of the above.

I always thought the definition of a "mall ninja" was a mall security guard with flat feet, ADD or ADHD with an inferiority complex, driving a 10 year old Elantra and who plays Halo III all night, lives at home (in the basement, where else?) after he failed the police entrance exam. But he has the best equipped AR in town! After age 40 they are known as "operators"!!

I could be wrong however.....
streakr

Master Po say, "Once grasshopper grow up, does not care what other grasshoppers say...now he is truly free".

I despise the Mall Ninja.

That said, I took an online Mall Ninja quiz.

Let me say I own an XD for HD purposes. I also got the family pro masks back when the media put out the anthrax scare, just seemed like a practical move (this was when the media was warning us to put plastic on our windows in case of NBC attack).

And I've always appreciated the fashion versatility of the trench coat. Not necessarily black, but a gentleman cuts a dashing figure in a trench.

I believe these 3 factors caused me to score high enough on the quiz for me to attain Mall Ninja status.

Just embrace the moniker, be proud of it, and all is well.

I think that you have to go to a mall in order to be a mall ninja. That in itself DQ's most of us on here.

Glocks rock!

FUD

with two D's refers to Elmer
with one D is a Dude who is Up and--need i finish?

good post.

re untied laces: just begging a visit from Murphy.

In my opinion tacticool gear alone does not make a mall ninja, he must also talk about all the operations (secret of course) that he has run and all the super bad guy apprehended, all the while using "cop talk" and criptic phrases and saying he works for a worldwide organization that hes not at liberty to reveal or discus and the gear he does talk about that he has back at home is alway expensive euro-stuff.

Life is to short to care what others think and you should only care about how you view yourself. As has been previously stated the tacticool equipment does not make a mall ninja but rather the attitude and attempt to be what you are not for whatever reason.

I have an all black 12 gauge with sling and side shot holder as a home defense as well as a converted saiga with red-dot which my brother thinks is "tactical" and unnecessary but I have my reasons for it and they matter to know one but me.

Before my foray into gun forums, I had never heard the phrase.

I'm at a pharmacy, CC. I see a guy with a Glock in a thigh holster, Glock hat, long sleeve shirt with an MP-5 t-shirt over top, wrinkled black BDU pants, and obviously expensive boots. He's prattling on to some other guy about the super secret organization stuff.

What if they are real?

Before my foray into gun forums, I had never heard the phrase.

I'm at a pharmacy, CC. I see a guy with a Glock in a thigh holster, Glock hat, long sleeve shirt with an MP-5 t-shirt over top, wrinkled black BDU pants, and obviously expensive boots. He's prattling on to some other guy about the super secret organization stuff.

What if they are real?

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You would not have posted the above. That's what.

Mall ninja isn't as much about the look as it is about the attitude. If I saw you at the range with the setup you described, I might think that your gear looked a bit tacticool, but the mall ninja judgement would not be made until I actually got to know you.

And as far as looking tacticool, don't sweat it. If the accessories you carry and use make your shooting time more enjoyable, that's really all that counts. Screw what anyone else thinks about it. You're the one who has to be happy with what you shoot, so buy and use what you like. (Didja get the hint that its all about what you like and not what anyone else thinks?)

I agree with Mr. White. Mall-ninjary and tacticoolness is more of a state of mind than anything else. It's a kind of obliviousness to reality. You have to have a mental disconnect of a serious order in order to be classified as a mall ninja.

If your occupation has nothing to do with actual authority to kill human beings, yet you have every accessory designed to do so bolted to your equipment AND BECOME OVERLY DEFENSIVE when people ask why an amored car repairman needs a spare flash-bang bandolier......you just might be a tad too tacticool.

It's not the bandolier....it's the dead serious belief that you need it in order to perform a duty that's not even yours.

Some people (including myself) find this attitude amusing.

The only equipment that is required to make a person an operator is located between the ears. The blind insistance that it is the equipment bolted to....other equipment is part of the mall-ninjary.

Having the gear doesn't make one a mall ninja. It's having it and putting forth no effort to learn how to use the equipment and what it does, or acting like you've been on the special forces for 10 different nations that makes you a mall ninja.

SuperNaut said:

Young: Check
Pic-light: Check
Rails: Check
Bipod: Check
Single-Point Sling: Check
OC @ Range: Check
Over-packed range bag: Check
Combat boots: Check
Tactical Wheelbarrow: Negative
Trauma Plates: Negative
Felony Record: Negative

Sorry, you don't have a tactical wheelbarrow, trauma plates, or a felony record. Therefore you are not a Mall Ninja.

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You forgot the barkless Chihuahua and the .22 LR AR.

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