running into pro gun people that really arnt

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During a few group conversations With coworkers guns and gun politics have come up mostly
coworker #1"company phone xy needs to be taken out and given a few rounds of twelve gage"
coworker #2 "figured you would prefer punching some holes in it with that 45 hue hue hue" or some politico is pushing this or that here in Arizona with the general response of "duh that's not going to fly here"
and various other things, only to have them clam up when I go a little bit into detail about this or that and I see the realization drift over their face that I do indeed own guns and then clam up and move on to other things while looking at me like somthing gross and sticky they just touched on accident,
So have any of you ran into any faux pro gun people?
How did you deal with them
 
Not any longer. I stopped listening to blowhards long ago. These people are not pro gun they just lack the ability to express themselves without resorting to bluster and chest thumping.
 
I just realized I have several such people like that on the in-law side of my family, even though they all live in western PA and claim to be "pro gun" and "carry every day." Haven't worked out how to deal with that/them yet.
 
There are all kinds of blowhards. The kinds who pretend they served in the military, the kind that pretend they are fitness buffs, the kind that pretend they are politically well connected, etc...etc...

As mentioned above, the best thing you can do is ignore them. I actually even feel a little bad for them. How sad is it that they have to invent aspects of their lives to give themselves meaning and sound interesting to others?

In the OPs example, those don't sound like they're trying to be "pro-gun." They just sound like they are trying to sound knowledgable about guns. Perhaps they play video games, and their gun knowledge comes from that?
 
I try and take people who are on the fence about guns to the range.:D After I take them once they will want to go again..:)
 
Most of the people that I know like that claim to be knowledgeable about laws and regulations. I feel it is my duty as a responsible gun owner to educate them on their ignorance of the topic so they don't continue to spread false information. I've come across many people who misinterpret gun laws or just plain fabricate something out of thin air.
 
One issue is that they know so little they think that I am the one laying on the BS. They stop talking or change to another subject because the real game is to be the dominant alpha male. So, off to some other topic where they are the know it all.

That leave the renaissance man - the guy who does dabble in a lot of other stuff - getting cut off a lot.

Remodel, do carpentry, wiring, plumbing? Know the difference between code then and now on a working basis? In our family we remodel and even hire each other - outside of that we can't have conversations with the neighbors or friends. Clueless.

Work on your own cars? In our family we install engines and transmissions, build hot rods, and such. I replaced the motor, then the trans in my daily driver the winter before last. Everybody else farms it out.

Guns? Build your own AR 6.8 hunting rifle, and then a pistol? Study the NFA and can you list the specific local differences in state law why the AR pistol enjoys significant advantages over a SBR in a state that allows open carry? Study the history of the use of open tip match bullets and post correctively when someone starts spouting off nonsense about "The Geneva Convention outlawed hollow points and we can't use them!"

Hey guys, where you going, we were having a nice talk. Don't you want to discuss an analysis of Home Defense shooting lanes and why your pet load is junk because you could be shooting into your neighbor's living room window?

Guys? Guys?

Oh, nevermind.
 
Perhaps they play video games, and their gun knowledge comes from that?
eh only one one that's gotten squemish about me talking guns plays video games as far as i know and hes never spoke about guns one way or the other and he only got weird when me and another Co worker (he likes any thing technical) were talking about lining the barrel on 22lr printed guns,
the main two blow hards are old enough to be my grandparents (one went on a special mission recently to find a new flip phone) I have my doubts about them playing alot of call of duty
 
I think that to some extent, most people do this.

ex. 1
While discussing different AR configs (on break, of course ;) ) the summer intern (smart kid who plays video games a LOT) chimes in to correct my lead designer (a USMC reservist, who is a qualified marksmanship coach) about how the M-16 really works..... (he's never fired or even held any AR or an M, but knows all about them).

ex. 2
I take lead designer to the range and we're chatting it up with some other guys and they ask him "were did you ever learn to do it that way", and he replies "while I was deployed in Afghanistan"...... (since I'm the guy who approves his time off for extended drill and AT, I know for a fact that he never deployed anywhere).

Best if we can all learn to say "I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam" and be at peace with it.
 
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