New book: "Chicks with Guns"

Article: Chicks with guns - 15 million women pack in US

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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/44690575/ns/today-today_people/

‘Chicks with Guns’: Some 15 million US women pack heat


Photographer Lindsay McCrum explores unexpected aspects of gun ownership in new book


TODAY.com contributor
updated 9/28/2011 9:42:22 AM ET


Pop quiz: Name one accessory that grandmothers, moms, girls, wealthy socialites, middle-class females and low-income women might be likely to own — and cherish — all across America.

If you answered “a gun,” you’d be correct.

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Sounds like a good read.

A very interesting looking book. A coffee book of artful pictures of real women with their favorite weapons. Very high art stuff. Good article too. Though the posts are really wild.

very cool

I took down a picture of a Talo .45 I posted on Facebook today. It was causing very heated arguments between people that normally get along. I think I'm going to post this story witht the author's comments.

“[Gun ownership] is a really serious and complex issue, and it deserves serious consideration,” McCrum said. “It deserves far more than sound bites geared toward people’s fear and hate. . ."

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Scroll down on the page, it has a facebbok link that will post it to your wall. So permission is given.

I may just have to get that book.

Sounds like something worth getting.

I'm a fan of the book Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes. Met one of the people depicted in the book, too.

A coworker just sent me the link to that article. I actually headed here to see if anybody had posted it yet...
Who knew? An incredibly positive article on gun ownership--on MSNBC? Wow.

And no, this wasn't an article touting the second amendment and all that, but I think it is exactly what people need to see more of. For people to be reminded of what your average gun owning American is *really* like.

My older sister will just love this....

Very nicely done. The women photographed for the most part look very classy. I don't know that "chicks" is the right word.

I wish one of them had been shown with an AR or such, instead of just one photo with a female officer and a shotgun.

and ya'll thought the only female in America that owns all 40 million of those 'gender' (?) guns was the Little Old Lady From Pasadena ?
(who only shoots 'em on Sunday's)

Made me think of the calenders that G. Gordon Liddy used to advertise and sell on his talk show.

"Stacked & Packed"

Hossfly68:

Made me think of the calenders that G. Gordon Liddy used to advertise and sell on his talk show.

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Yup, the old "Stacked & Packed" calendars; I still have two of 'em, from 1998 and 1999, up in my office (I've also met "The G-Man", talked with him on the radio, and have autographed copies of his books).

But I realized that the gals depicted didn't really own the guns they were pictured with, or really weren't conversant with guns in general or were tyros at best; most of them (like most Hollywood-types) posed with their finger inside the trigger guard and on the trigger.

I was even a bit disappointed that a pistolero like Liddy would let them pose that way.

Do the gals in "Chicks with Guns" know how to index?

Oh, I thought it was going to be about where to FIND them.......................

I for one won't be getting this book at all.

Here's all I need to know about it.

“I learned two main lessons while working on this book,” said McCrum, who divides her time between New York City and California when she isn’t traveling for work. “One is that on the subject of guns, nobody is neutral. And the other is that when you get outside of the blue-state cities, everybody has a gun.”

Of course the fact that lots of American women own lots of guns was news to McCrum. She's not from America. She's from San Francisco and New York and Yale.

I grow so sick and tired of these pointy-heads "discovering" America, and then thinking their "discoveries" are worth some sort of anthropological study or book or photo essay.

I grow very tired of "being discovered" by the next clueless, over-educated blue state urbanite who's never spent any time in "flyover country" unless it was between planes in an airport.

I see no point in financially rewarding yet another book about this kind of "discovery" and would much rather that these folks just keep to themselves in San Francisco or Manhattan.

Of course the fact that lots of American women own lots of guns was news to McCrum. She's not from America. She's from San Francisco and New York and Yale.

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Really? Lots of gun owners and shooters in those states. Too bad they aren't from America, either. You know, one of the founding principles in this country is that folks are free to be not just like you or I, right?

I grow so sick and tired of these pointy-heads "discovering" America, and then thinking their "discoveries" are worth some sort of anthropological study or book or photo essay.

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So a wide-distribution publication showing real people (real AMERICANS, even by your definition) enjoying and using firearms is a bad thing? Ok. You do know that's one of the founding principles of this web community, right? THR doesn't just exist so you can get the latest hot tip on a good slug gun or which bazooka for muskrats, you know -- it also exists to show the most positive face of the armed citizen to the entire United States and the world beyond. Kind of like what this book seems to do.

I grow very tired of "being discovered" by the next clueless, over-educated blue state urbanite who's never spent any time in "flyover country" unless it was between planes in an airport.

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Have you been "discovered" often? It it a grave inconvenience or embarrassment?

(Does this usually involve bright lights in the sky, time loss, a feeling of paralysis, ... probing?)

I see no point in financially rewarding yet another book about this kind of "discovery" and would much rather that these folks just keep to themselves in San Francisco or Manhattan.

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Ahh, let's let us build walls and further cultural isolation. That usually has positive benefits for the rural, heartland folks. I'm sure the less "they" understand about "us" the more often they'll vote to preserve and protect our rights and interests.

Does Gordon Liddy still put out that "Stacked and Packed" calendar?

Sam1911, you're right.

How silly of me.

Another over-educated bi-coaster is surprised to find that people who live in fly-over country own guns for lots of different reasons.

I will correct the error of my ways and immediately begin acting like a giddy puppy.

I may even wet myself with delight.

Ok. If you want. That's weird.

Sam - win.

Hillbilly-
I've met new yorkers who don't know how to pump their own gas. Is it insulting that they're sometimes shocked by seeing farmland for the first time and look at it like a lunar landscape? Is it weird that I have the ability to do things that haven't even occurred to them. Not really, I've never felt ashamed to have a skill set that others don't have. Sometimes they're overwhelmed, but usually end up wanting to learn more. I'd be willing to wager, you'd be just as overwhelmed as they if you were to spend time in the big city. I'd also bet you'd turn your nose up at all of the ants scurrying around the city too. I don't see that its a bad thing that a book was written that shows the cultural value of guns to a group of people (in this case, women) that many people wouldn't associate with guns, and in a positive light nonetheless.

This book wasn't written for the guy in Arkansas who owns guns and whose family is comfortable with them. This book was written for people who may not be aware of a certain way of life. Can you find your way around New York City's subway system? Does that make you stupid or ignorant? I don't see how this can possibly be viewed as a bad thing for gun owners and the shooting community. I don't plan on reading or buying the book, its not going to show me anything I haven't seen, it wasn't written for me. Maybe the next time you're "discovered" you could act like a social being, or continue to perpetuate a stereotype, your choice. But if meeting new and different people is the worst thing in the world, can I interest you in some arctic real estate?

Very cool. I'll have to get one for the coffee table (where the wifey will be tempted to read it while I'm not around :wink: :wink: )

@Sam1911 - +1

I think books like this written by people from blue states will help people understand our sport/hobby/way of life