largecaliber
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Tell us your short story of how you have stood up for gun rights? I think it would serve many well to hear these stories and maybe make them take action themselves which would benifit us all.
Tell your short story
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SquirrelNuts
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I teach others how to shoot. I have taken at least a dozen people to the range for the first time who had never so much as touched a gun before.
SquirrelNuts
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I am a NRA member as well, and have signed up several others.
DataMonkey
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A few of my buddies and myself take newbies to the range "on us". Any friends or acquaintances get a full in-home safety lecture and hand-on demo. Then they go to the range and don't pay for a single thing their first day: they use our guns, our ammo and we pick up their range fees. If you're not hooked after that, it isn't possible.
We've turned several people into gun nuts.
We've turned several people into gun nuts.
Before my accident, I was a Hunter Safety Instructor. We had a lot of discussion about the 2nd, not just safety. Even now as a Graduate Professor, I persistently challenge the contemporary "guns-are-evil" view. How many graduate professors give the gun-grabbers Hades-on-High right in the classroom?! 
I even take my graduate students shooting...but, no extra-credit.
Geno
I even take my graduate students shooting...but, no extra-credit.Geno
Nugilum
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It is my sacred duty and privilege to teach Boy Scouts how to properly handle a firearm and shoot during summer camps.
chris in va
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Informally taught a few people to shoot. Educated a couple fencesitters. Wrote my representative on a couple issues. Attended a couple open carry events. Took the Appleseed course. Took an LEO-in-training to the range, his first time shooting anything more than a 22. He was surprised I "had so many guns", which amounts to 4 rifles.
+1 on taking people to shoot.
Sadly enough, there have been no shortage of out-and-out socialists/statists at my Jesuit University, or at my law school (in South Carolina!), but some weren't too far gone to have agreed to join me for a range outing.
Most really enjoyed it. I don't know if I made fellow gun nuts out of them, but I was sure to point out that what they were enjoying wasn't the guns themselves, but the liberty of using them - it wasn't the act, it was the opportunity.
I think they came away understanding my position a little better, and appreciating that, even if it's not their cup of tea, they have no right advocating the placement of a prior restraint on our right to engage in any hobby or pursuit we may choose to.
Sadly enough, there have been no shortage of out-and-out socialists/statists at my Jesuit University, or at my law school (in South Carolina!), but some weren't too far gone to have agreed to join me for a range outing.
Most really enjoyed it. I don't know if I made fellow gun nuts out of them, but I was sure to point out that what they were enjoying wasn't the guns themselves, but the liberty of using them - it wasn't the act, it was the opportunity.
I think they came away understanding my position a little better, and appreciating that, even if it's not their cup of tea, they have no right advocating the placement of a prior restraint on our right to engage in any hobby or pursuit we may choose to.
rojocorsa
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I convert people. I converted a friend who in turn converted two more. In the end we all went shooting...the Nighthawk Custom we used was really fun.
Readyrod
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One of my profs in university converted me by taking me out shooting a few times. At least he planted the seeds. Traveling in dangerous places after university just reinforced it. These days you just gotta be dumb not to want to protect yourself. And trying to stop others from protecting themselves is just plain surreal.
ByAnyMeans
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I am an NRA member and engage anybody I can in gun-rights debate but always in a respective manner. I take as many as I can to the range for a first time session in a safe and "all about them" environment. It has turned many a people to shooting.
Kentucky Kernel
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I'm a professor and although my subject is molecular biology, I use the bully pulpit to teach personal responsibilty and self-sufficiency, which includes the right to defend one's self and loved ones. In an academic environment, I find myself surrounded by anti's, but they do not have much of a response when I tell them that it is unreasonable to pick and choose which amendment to applaud and which one to criticize. Many academic anti-gun people stand behind the First Amendment, but dismiss the need for the Second Amendment. I feel that the Second Amendment actually ensures the protection of the First Amendment.
KK
KK
searcher451
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Within the past year, I've helped four people get their concealed permit, three other people get Utah permits via the mail, and am currently working with two other people to help them get their Oregon permits. Representing the gun community positively is something that all of us must do, and I take that responsibility seriously every day.
Hungry Seagull
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Ive already have had experienced many people in the local area sharing thier knowledge with me in small ways. It will not be too long before I start to return the favor.
The best I can do is encourage the new customer who is in a gun shop for the very first time to buy a gun for protection. Even though Ive got the shooting range stuff laid out in front of me at the moment.
The best I can do is encourage the new customer who is in a gun shop for the very first time to buy a gun for protection. Even though Ive got the shooting range stuff laid out in front of me at the moment.
timn
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Another gun smith and I work most of the local gun shows. We generally have a few pieces for sale and trade along with lots of parts.
We mostly go as a way to advertise our sevices.
I have a very large plastic pretzel jar with a 2A Defense Fund sign on it and will ask people to donate a buck or two. I split the money between the NRA/ILA and the GOA. I'm aware of only two instances where folks stopped, read the sign and literature and donated without being asked.
Sadly, a good weekend nets about $15.00.
Sometimes, when I take a break from the table, I'll sit a spell with the old gentleman that has the NRA table out front and help him with trying to get people to join.
I wish I could do more.
We mostly go as a way to advertise our sevices.
I have a very large plastic pretzel jar with a 2A Defense Fund sign on it and will ask people to donate a buck or two. I split the money between the NRA/ILA and the GOA. I'm aware of only two instances where folks stopped, read the sign and literature and donated without being asked.
Sadly, a good weekend nets about $15.00.
Sometimes, when I take a break from the table, I'll sit a spell with the old gentleman that has the NRA table out front and help him with trying to get people to join.
I wish I could do more.
shotgunjoel
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I had a teacher in high school, when he was teaching the Constitution and the Bill of Rights he went on about how the 2nd is all about the National Guard and such. I asked him in front of the class how it was about the NG when the NG wasn't founded until 1903, more than a century after the 2nd was written. Oh I also asked him what it meant when it says "the people" That one really tripped him up, it was kind of hard for him to admit because he was always so smug. There were some people that thought that he was right before that changed sides. Felt good about that one.
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