Do you have any hardcore anti-gun family members?

[rugerman]

None of mine are, all my relatives are from the rural south and grew up either hunting or just shooting the varmit that was raiding the hen house and in most cases eating what they killed. The usual family reunion is like a show & tell for your newest gun.

 

[ADKWOODSMAN]

We won't let that type in the family. One son-in-law has a very liberal mother from NYC. He's O.K. but she's a pill!

 

[SSN Vet]

executive for fortune 100 company........ and for whatever reason that crowd is very left and anti-gun

I have observed the same thing and given that the political right is usually associated with corporate business interests, this has baffled me quite a bit.

I think the following contribute to this phenomina....

1. Urban types growing up with no time in the woods are often the ones getting their law degree or MBA and going for the corporate pie.

2. Corporate types are often happy to let the gub'ment borrow, build and grab, as they will be the ones who have their contract lawyers bidding the projects.... hence you get more pro big gub'ment liberals in the mix.

3. Corporations are the classic deep pocket targets of all kinds of litigation, and have their every move analyzed by the legal team. So lawyers wind up having a lot of influence in corporate life, and they seem to predominantly be "gub'ment is the solution" type liberals.

For all that, I still don't get it.

 

[Josh45]

Um nope. Can't say anyone is. Both sides of the family seem to be pro gun. The wife's and daughters don't care for them much tho.... But every male family member has at LEAST one.

 

[41]

Before moving to college I honestly did not know anyone who didnt have atleast 1 gun in their house

 

[Heretic]

If they're anti-gun, they're not part of my family anymore.

 

[Arkansas Paul]

"Friends" that are anti gun? Can't say I have any "friends" that are anti gun. If they're anti gun they're automatically no friend of mine.

As harsh as this may seem to some, I agree.
You can't choose your family, buy you can choose your friends.

 

[sarge83]

I have a sister-in-law that is an anti. This battleaxe reminds me of Rosie' O'donnell PMSing 24X7X52 about something. If I were married to her I would shove her in front of a speeding coal truck and if I couldn't move her jump in front of it myself. She is anti-gun real and toy and knows I carry as well as my Dad and other brothers. She came to my parents house for thanksgiving one year and proclaimed there would be no toy guns around her girls so no toy guns to be played with. My kids and my other brothers kids ignored her and we told our kids ignore her as well. She ended up huddling her girls in a room like they were surrounded by savages. She ranted and carried on to her husband, my whipped brother until he asked my Mom if they could put them away until they leaved. Mom wanted to keep the peace so we honored my Mom's request.

However, the next year we were having a 4th of July BBQ at my house and they showed up. Of course my kids were playing army with their other cousins and having a fine old time as I have a big yard and wrap around porch. When the witch walked in with her girls one of them said mommy they are playing army can we play! The witch makes eye contact with me and we locked on each other for 10 seconds or so before she replied to her daughter. No dear you can't play, this is your uncles house and his kids and the others can but you can't. Smart for once, had she said otherwise her bulbous behind would have been sent packing. She hasn't been back since.

 

[EVIL]

Sort-of.

Most of my extended family are Democrats. That being said, even my father who owns 5 or 6 guns and who goes hunting and to the range with me several times a year is a Democrat. Most of them are more "centrists" than out-right statists or socialists. Many own long guns. Most think that guns should only be used for "sporting purposes" and think that the evil NRA has way more influence in washington than any other lobby (I wish!) However, I have noted that this attitude has softened in the last decade or so amongst my family as society has also become at least more 'indifferent' about guns on the left. Maybe they know it is a political loser in the USA. Anyway, no one gives me a hard time, as the all like & respect me & my ability to win this argument un-emotionally.

My wife's family contains a lot of shooters and handgun competitors, but still I am probably the most "pro-gun" amongst any of them, and I am the only one actively engaged in 2A political advocacy. Most are independants with out any political affiliation.

My wife was not "anti-gun" when we got married as much as unfamiliar and nervous, and a natural mother's worry about her kid's safety with gons in the house, when I began to buy more and more. However, over the years I have won her over due to my safe and responsible gun ownership. She has 2 pistols and a CC liscence now, though she mostly relies on me to carry when we are out together. I don't think she enjoys shooting all that much, but she respects that I do, and understands the necessity for her to practice regularly to be a proficient, responsible firearm carrier. The CC course (hearing all the same stuff but from someone else other than her husband) actually cemeted her belief in the necessity to be armed. That being said - to her a carry firearm is more just a matter of practicality and guns to her are just 'tools' that require safty percautions like a power drill, circular saw or chainsaw. She doesn't love them like I do. She also doesn't see why I need to spend so much money on them and buy so many. But she has come a long way, so for that I am happy.

 

[Dr Dave]

When we emigrated to America from England, my immediate family had to think about guns for the first time. They are rabidly liberal, believed anything their tv told them, and became strongly anti-gun. I however, have always loved guns, but didn't realize I'd never owned any till 2000, when I started my collection.

I remember trying to soften my sister up a bit by showing her how to tell if a revolver was loaded. I took out my Rossi M88 .38 snubbie, removed the Nyclads and showed her there was nothing in the cylinder. When I reloaded it, she became very upset, started visibly shaking, and begged me to unload it again. It was as though I was showing her my homemade bomb. All their information about guns came from the tv.

When she married a Class 3 guy, who basically owns, or has owned, one of everything, she agreed to go shooting a bit. The only firearm she liked shooting was a Beretta .25, and actually admitted to me she kept it by the bed as a home defense weapon.

I was all happy with this and asked her what her defense load was. She told me she used her 'bad-a$$ bullets'. They were a Winchester XTP copy. I, trying not to be a caliber snob and extinguish the smoking flax, tried to tell her there was no such thing as 'bad-a$$ bullets', particularly in a handgun and especially in .25, but she totally disagreed.

Then I found out that she kept the Beretta in a RABBIT PUPPET, so the bad guy would be surprised when she reached for the comforting rabbit and the rabbit shot him. I kind of flipped out, but she understood she would probably have only one, unaimed shot from inside the puppet, but she was ok because of her bad-a$$ bullets. She has since stopped keeping the Beretta, because, 'my husband will protect me'. Again, based on information from her tv.

My mom had been threatened by my sister's ex-boyfriend, and her husband has tried to kill her a few times (poison, drowning, electrocution), so I tried to tell her a firearm might be a good idea. One time she sheepishly and ashamedly admitted, 'Well, actually I do have a gun'. I'm all happy and want to see it. She'd borrowed a Wesson revolver with a 6" barrel that weighed more than my dog. I'm thinking that wouldn't be my first choice for a 73 year old woman, but trying to be supportive looked it over.

It was a .22, and the rounds looked 'funny'. It took me a minute to realize they were BLANKS!! Freaking BLANKS!! I tried to question her about the sense of that and she replied, 'Well, I wouldn't want to SHOOT anybody!'

That's when I took the revolver off her and gave up. Their arguments are not based on logic or reason, but emotions fed to them by the media.

 

[coloradokevin]

Yes, sadly. My two cousins, who were raised by my liberal psychologist aunt and uncle (who aren't nearly as bad as their offspring) are so far beyond anti-gun that it isn't even funny.

Their argument is that guns are the root of crime, and that people shouldn't own guns because it makes them more likely to commit suicide (among other baseless arguments).

 

[Warp]

No, not really.

One aunt from Iowa really does not like them but she doesn't say much or seem overly bothered by my carrying one.

 

[Skydancer3006]

I fired my first firearm when I was 7 years old. It was a 7.65 Mauser Argentine (Manufacture date: 1895) - Of course it was not in 1895 that I fired this rifle.
My Uncle taught me to shoot with this rifle, a German Luger, and a shotgun. Although my Uncle wasn't what you would call a gun enthusiast he firmly believed in the 2nd Amendment. Today, my personal collection would make his eyes pop.
I carry concealed - everywhere...all the time. What am I afraid of?...Not a darned thing. If I cannot carry in a certain place; I choose not to go there.

To my knowledge I have no Relatives who are "Anti-Gun", and I am not the kind of person who attracts Friends who are "Anti-Gun".
Having said all that, I have some Friends who choose not to have any guns in their home, and I respect their choice. They know that I carry and they don't seem to mind when I show up at their home carrying my sidearm (I keep it very much concealed - out of courtesy) - they know that it is there, but out of sight / out of mind. I asked them the first time that I went to their home if they minded and their basic response was along the line of...as long as it remained concealed - they were non-committal. In other words - They know me - They trust me.

My personal feeling:
I consider the ownership and safe and proper use of firearms to be a moral and ethical responsibility. I believe that having the means at hand to provide for my own protection and that of my Family so as not to have to place that responsibility on Society, to be a moral and ethical responsibility encumbent upon me as a Human Being and as a Citizen.
"I carry a gun, because a Cop is too heavy."

It is probably that Mantra that drives most "Anti-Gunners" from my presence.

 

[Shadow 7D]

Once they decide that you are 'Crazy, 'They' indoctrinated him' the relatives pretty much shut up, I keep asking them "why", and giving logical answers backed by fact, and they stopped talking after I asked them why they were red in the face and screaming at me...

So, now that on of 'those' subjects, and when asked, I simply point out that those who can't defend their ideas tend to be indignant when you point out that they are incorrect.

 

[VT Deer Hunter]

Family is ok with guns but not everybody is ok with hunting.

 

[ErikO]

I think that my sister might still be anti-gun but I haven't spoken with her on that subject in about two decades.

My son (9 yrs old) is losing a lot of his gun-fear and should be ready for his first .22 bolt gun within the next two years...he still doesn't understand why I need to go online and look at/talk about guns. He does take very good care of his Nerf guns and stopped shooting his mom and I as much after we started taking him to the range. Now he aims more.

My wife is definately my shooting buddy. This year's Christmas will be an exchange of firepower, I plan on getting her a decent Springfield 1911 that she has her eye on and will let her pick out a gun for me (she already knows that anything from RIA is fine with me).

 

[USAF_Vet]

My mom wasn't much of a gun person until she married my step-dad. He's a former US Army major, Airborne Ranger, Vietnam vet, good ole country boy from Tennessee. He got her into guns. My dad wasn't a gun guy, nor is my brother. My maternal grandmother hates guns; not sure about my grandfather, he's a Korean war vet.
My brother is not into guns at all. Aunts and uncles, no guns. Cousins, no guns. I'm in a small minority of gun owning, hunting and shooting where my family is concerned.

 

[c1ogden]

No. All of my family members can think.

 

[Strykervet]

My wife USED to be... Now she has a CCW. But when we were dating, I bought a Beretta pistol and had to have her keep it for me (I was in the army barracks and didn't want to go throught the hassle of registering it and keeping it in the arms room). She freaked out. Said I couldn't keep it there, her room mate would freak out, somebody could get killed, etc. So I disabled it and showed her it wouldn't work with missing parts. Curiosity got the better of her, and she ended up being a pretty good shot right out of the box.

As far as family, I can't think of one on either side that isn't somewhat proficient with a firearm.

 

[klutchless]

All of my family is pro gun boy Christmas would suck if they were anti gun.The normal presents are hunting or gun related on all accounts even my 3 month old niece has a camo onezee and socks.

 

[mortablunt]

We're all Liberals at my house. I'm even the biggest most leftist Liberal in the whole joint (Democratic Socialist wouldn't be a bad descriptor). I also happen to be the only gun guy. My Dad is British and pretty strongly anti gun. I've finally convinced him to go shooting with me. My mom is a southern gal who doesn't see the point of "assault weapons" and hi caps. My brother doesn't want anyone to own guns. Of course, he is a domineering bully to those who are weaker and incapable of escaping (namely me; it's a reason why I got into guns). My parents don't want me owning, so I do it in secret. My mom thinks that I should grow older and mature before I buy a gun. My Dad has strangely, been the most supportive of my interest in guns. All my friends hate guns. They have refused my offers to show them guns, to take them to gun shows, and to teach them about guns. People at my college give me looks if I don't freak out when somebody mentions being in support of guns.

 

[BK]

Nobody hardcore, but a few just a little uninformed.

 

[Redneck with a 40]

My brother used to be, but working in adult probation, he nearly got stabbed by a thug who was waiting behind a door during a home visit. Since that time, his views have moderated quite a bit on guns, now he's even talking about getting a CCW. I told him that was a good idea, in his line of work.

 

[sansone]

best friend's wife, does that count?
need to remove rifles hanging in bedroom when she comes

 

[MyGreenGuns]

No anti's in my fam, that I know of. Mom's not too comfortable with them, when my bro's and I get into that kinda conversation she says its a "guy thing".

I was hanging out with a friend of mine, we went shooting, and then back to his place for BBQ. His wife came home and we were playing with the kids in the living room talking 'guns'. She chimed in with, "There will never be a gun inside THIS house!" My friend grinned at me knowing I was wearing one on my hip. He must have won her over, the last time I was there he showed me his new shotgun.