Triangle Tactical Podcast and Blog on Guns, Gear, and Competition Shooting
Back in February I wrote a post about being “out” as a gun owner, and how it’s been pretty awesome for me. Late last week a friend told me that I should introduce myself to a new guy at work, just saying “You guys would probably get along really well.”
Being the “out” gun guy/gunblogger at work, that comment could only mean one thing: new guy likes guns.
Today we crossed paths, and I grabbed him and said “So-and-so said I should talk to you, he said we’d get along really well.”
After a short, awkward pause, I said “I’m told you like guns.”
He lit up like a Christmas tree, and we spent my entire lunch break talking shop. He recently moved here from New York, and is one of the few that have a NY concealed handgun permit. Not only that, but he even has a non-resident permit from another state so he can carry in more places. He’s a bonafide gun guy.
If I wasn’t out as the gun guy, we probably wouldn’t have ever had this conversation.
Are you out? What are your reasons for being out or not being out?
I’m out, as the gun guy at work. It’s nice, I have met a few other guys that shoot, but I’m the only one that is shoot competitively (IDPA, 2 Gun). All the other are more of the hunting type.
Everyone at work knows I enjoy shooting (gun guy seems to imply I know more than I actually do). Most people in the Cub Scout Pack know too. I don’t go out of my way to advertise it with the elementary school parents though. More risk, very little reward opportunity there.
Fortunately….. I’m from the south. Born and raised in a gun loving family. Now, being in a nontraditional job, as a RN in an ICU, I happy to say that BOTH the guys and the girls that I work with, go to the range and shoot regularly.
I work in the firearms industry so people at work know. But there are a few who have said to me they do not like guns and it shocked me. You work with firearms everyday and you don’t like them? I do have more passion for it than most people I work with. Out of my friends I am the biggest gun enthusiast.
Only places I’m out as a gun gal is at the range really. I’m a healthcare worker and female. I think females in general are more afraid of guns than excited and patients shouldn’t know I have guns. Risks outweigh the benefits so far… but every once in a while I’ll meet someone who’s into guns a bit more openly and I’ll talk shop with them and that’s pretty cool.