Do most gun owners drive pickup trucks?

[FrankB]

I drive the Tundra and the ife drives the Avalon. I'm looking forward to checking out the 2007 Tundra.

 

[bumm]

While I do own a rusty old pickup truck that comes in incredibly handy sometimes, I usually drive a Scion xB. Looks like I'm driving a toaster.
Marty

 

[Legionnaire]

Not my primary ride these days, but yes, I own a pickup ... and will again.

 

[the pistolero]

I am getting sick and tired of the pickup truck and gun stereotype. I hear many people state that when they see a pickup truck they are more likely to think the driver owns a gun.

I don't think the pickup truck/gun stereotype in and of itself is something to get riled up about. What offends me is the stereotype some seem to have about those of us who do own pickups and/or guns; that is, that we're all a bunch of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who will shoot someone at the slightest provocation. And I think the people who would say something like that, or cast that stereotype...that testifies more to their own bigotry and insecurity than anything else.

 

[bigmac357]

I dive an '07 Navigator, my wife drives an '06 Aviator - but I love my Chevy S-10 pickup.

 

[SolaScriptura139]

I have never owned a truck, and probably will never own one. For one, I have a family of four (including myself), so most less expensive trucks are out. In addition, most new trucks are ridiculously expensive and I have no pressing need for one. They are also pretty hard on gas, another expense I don't need.

I currently have one car, a 1991 Dodge Shadow America with only 1 side mirror (came that way from factory), no anti-lock brakes, AM/FM only radio, and no rear-defroster. On the plus side, it only cost $600 with 59,000 miles, and it's four-door (I guess "it works" is a plus too). Man, I cannot wait to get a new car.

I dive an '07 Navigator, my wife drives an '06 Aviator

You sound like an airplane crew. Welcome to THR.

the stereotype some seem to have about those of us who do own pickups and/or guns; that is, that we're all a bunch of knuckle-dragging mouth-breathers who will shoot someone at the slightest provocation.

You are telling me that we are actually normal people?

 

[alucard0822]

I have owned 3 trucks over the last 10 years, I do a lot of work where a pickup is neccesary (drywall sheets dont fit in cars all that well ) but my a-b car and the one I always drive to the range is a civic hatchback. I dont like to leave long-gun cases in the bed of the truck and they definitely won't fit on my motorcycle.

 

[TheSunDanceKid]

if a 4x4 89 blazer counts as a truck then i have one it does have the CB and the iner roof mount rifle rack.......

 

[orionengnr]

Yup.
95 Chevy 3500 diesel dually.

I've pulled boats, snowmobiles, motorcycles, you name it.

 

[hexidismal]

I owned quite a wide variety of vehicles, but never a pickup truck. Closest I ever made it was a '95 Jeep Cherokee sport. Normally though I'm a luxury kind of guy. Friends of mine over the years have sometimes joked around with me, saying I like "old man" cars, due to my obvious attraction to Cadillacs and Lincolns and the like. I definitely don't fit the 'ramblin' gun totin' hick' stereotype.

The stereotype is silly though. It makes perfect sense that a pickup truck is a typically optimal vehicle for an outdoorsman. I myself being an avid indoorsman, don't require one.

 

[Lupinus]

chevy pick up, dents rust and some primer on the door

4x4 with big old tires

NRA sticker on the window

Gun rack just to scare the sheep


Ok in truth I drive a mini van cause my car is waiting on me to get money for a tranny

87 GMC S-15 jimmy. Still 4x4 but no big tired or rust lol

 

[TallPine]

I can't imagine not owning a pickup. A car is of little or no use to me.

And yes, mine has the rack in the window, and there is a rifle in it most of the time

My "other car" is a Suburban which is basically a pickup with a station wagon type body. I wish it was a pickup now that the kids have left home. I resent it it being called an SUV as the Suburban/Carryall type predates the "SUV" by about 40 years

 

[Revolver Ocelot]

actually I don't drive, I walk everywhere I go

 

[Eleven Mike]

1) It's a matter of style whether it's called an 'SUV' or a truck.
A fullsize GMC Suburban or Ford explorer may indeed be a 'truck'
What the owner calls it says something. If they call it a truck, NEVER
an SUV, they are probably OK. And they probably own a gun or two.



2) A Jeep Wrangler or any of it's military and CJ forebearers is by definition a truck.

Ha-ha. My dad doesn't even think of pick-ups as actual trucks - too light. A flatbed with heavy springs, I think, is where he believes real trucks begin.

 

[Highland Ranger]

I need a ruling here, does an Avalanche count?

 

[thumper723]

NO

 

[Eleven Mike]

As a pick-up? I think so. But it's not my poll.

On second thought, it may not fit the stereotype.

 

[Shear_stress]

Don't need to haul 4x8 sheets of plywood, so it's a four-cylinder Toyota sedan for me some days, the bus most others. Yep, the bus. I could care less what others think of my choice of transportion.

I do, however, consider power windows and automatic transmissions to be contrivances of Satan.

 

[PennsyPlinker]

Drivin' trucks and totin' guns for years. For a long time the family "car" was a 4x4 crew cab with an 8' bed! The wife drives a Suburban, but I can't get her to carry a gun (yet).

 

[The Rifleman]

1 Avalanche

1 2002 Monte Carlo SS

1 Racecar 2002 Monte Carlo SS Dirt Car...

 

[LoadedDrum]

Guilty.

 

[The Rifleman]

1 Hunting car..

 

[sm]

Old boy has one of the old VWs, the ones with the engine in back, cargo up front and air cooled.

His truck got hit in a parking lot - into the shop it goes..

So instead of having his truck to hunt and all out of - he comes putterin' to camp in a old VW - grinning like a idiot.
Antique plates on this thing and nobody would ever suspect a firearms owner, guns, ammo - anything.

He was getting smiles and head nods about the classic BUG and most likely "saving gas" before he got off the main roads ...

Little sucker will go anywhere...he got his deer and ...one of the others fellas toted it in his truck.

"Small game and bird hunting is fine out of the Bug - just - well - not a good way to tote a deer in , on or around one". He said.

His wife is a shooter and hunter too. She drives a new VW Bug for around town and all. She also has a older small truck she uses to hunt, haul stuff in and whatever.
She went off to hunt a ladies only hunt, so hubby took the antique they piddle and play with.
How come they have married as long as they have...they do not have to hang around each other all the time.

"Kids want to go out to eat, go shoot or something - they show up and pay our way now - we raised 'em, now we collecting the benefits. "

 

[Alexfubar]

Little truck , big dogs , cool guns ...

 

[Zach S]

My daily driver is a 94 Chevy Caprice 9C1. Its gets about 19mpg, rides like a caddy, and corners like its on rails.

I do, however, own a 90 F150. It's 4WD, rolls on 31x10.50s, has numerous dents, and the paint is falling off. If not for the 11mpg it gets, I'd probably drive it everyday. The fact that I started working ~55 hour weeks after I tore it down to replace the rear main and the oilpan gasket is also keeping me from driving it

And I do own an SUV. A 92(?) Explorer. I just use it as a toolbox though, with compressed air and AC power on hand. It'll come in handy in junkyards, if I could ever find time to put the C5 (transmission) in it to replace the failing A4LD.

I reckon I need to take a week off sometime soon. A month off wouldnt hurt, I've probably got around three grand worth of parts to put on my Zephyr...