I’m sure I’ll get castrated with a spoon asking anything remotely “race related” but I was wondering, do any of you know any black gun owners?
I find it rather discouraging that I know of only one. I have yet to encounter a black gun owner at a gun shop, gun show, range, etc. While I feel that it isn’t about “who” the legal, responsible gun owners are but rather that there are more of them out there, I just wish they were a more visual, represented part of the community.
No. I have a couple black friends, but due to typical youth inspired antics, the only guns they own were purchased out of trunks of cars. They do not often go out to ranges shooting or CC the firearms that they can not legally own.
There are most likely a similar percentage of black to white gun owners, but there are 10 times the number of white folks (guessing) so the numbers fall to show many more white owners.
One of my very best childhood friends is from Trinidad, and he’s the proud owner of a WASR10, and a G21. His cousin has a WASR10, a Bushy AR-15, a Mossy 500, and a hand gun (?). One of my neighbors is a SWAT officer.
My Trinidadian friend actually had to brandish his G21 when 5 drunk frat boy types surrounded him in a parking lot and wouldn’t let him get into his car after he finished having dinner with some friends. He also mentioned when a convict escaped from from a near by jail, and was roaming around his neighborhood, that he slept on the couch with his WASR10 in fear for his wife’s/son’s safety. He’s a cool gun owner.
Also I have a neighbor that I met actually walking to the polls during the recent election. He voted for Obama, but I made conversation with him respectfully and we have since become occasional running partners. The other day I spoke with him about the 2nd, and it’s meaning as well as some history about gun control, and how originally it was used to keep blacks from attaining guns. Needless to say he was all ears, and agrees with all of my points. I think I will take him shooting eventually so he can become another armed law abiding citizen!
Pretty decent podcast. “Here you’ll find some interesting and controversial information about the age old argument of gun control from the point of view of a law enforcement trainer, author, and grassroots activist of color known as the Black Man With A Gun.”
now that I think about it, aside from myself , no I don’t know of any
black gun owners. Never even saw one at any of the carbine or handgun
classes that I’ve taken. I’m the only one that I know of.:eek:
But the reason they have (hand)guns is different from why I/or maybe ‘we’ have them. They live in parts of St Louis City and if your local you know where the high crime zone is and thats where they reside. And most were car trunk purchases. But most would be prohibited from legal purchase due to the stupidity of their youth.
I met a Black gentleman a few weeks ago at a range he was with a White woman in the next stall his name was Aaron both he and his gal were firing handguns and he became intrigued w/my AR so I let him fire it, he had never fired an AR and I thought he would hug me afterwords he was so jazzed and its cool to see somebody get excited over what some take for granted. He was a nice guy, wore his pants where they should be and had a hard respect for the range rules. And then the 8 White guys two stalls down were re-loading and handling their weapons during target swap. Sure I should have said something and I would have if they were wearing camo, but they had plad flannel sleeveless shirts on which scares me more.
I know quite a few, most of whom I work with and they are used for hunting purposes (deer, quail and dove) in general but there are a few others that own firearms for HD/SD. The people that have them for HD/SD actually purchase pretty nice equipment and enjoy going to the range. The typical HD pistols are 1911’s and Glock 17/19. Nearly all lean to the left side of politics but they are still adament about gun rights.
I met a few in Virginia while stationed there (this was only during trips to the gun store or range so limited community interaction).
Here in Cottonwood there aren’t many black people but met one couple who volunteered at the local gun show (Worked for a gun store here so met just about everyone around town who was into shooting).
