An interesting article from the Washington Post Magazine entitled: The Heavily Armed Millennials of Instagram. The author interview Mat Best of Black Rifle Coffee among others. I think it offers a relatively fair assessment of the influence of main stream social media and popularity of tactical weapons.
I just love that there’s so many drop dead gorgeous women who are part of this new firearms culture. Alex Zedra, Mat Best’s wife Noelle, Samantha Bonilla, Lauren Victoria Young, Alesha Bush, and Charissa Littlejohn are all good Instagrams to follow. Also, Playboy model Leanna Decker is a gun enthusiast, and actress Ariel Winter from Modern Family has strongly hinted that she’s pro-gun as well.
And you can tell by that read, that WaPoo hates reporting every bit of that.
Funny, I just read that article from Matt Best’s Facebook page Drinkin Bros… lol
Heck of a lot of people these days that run in this…breasts and guns, they sell.
Can’t read without WaPo online subscription. 
I don’t think so, I think their angle is to show a glimpse into the crazy to reaffirm the assumtions of their base readership.
The war on terror has done great things to advance gun culture and rights domestically, socially speaking. The popularity of ergonomic semiauto firearms has skyrocketed because of it. The mellenial tactical community phenominon just a cultural outgrowth of it. My hope is that it segues into principled support for the foundations of liberty and not just yet another supurfeloys identity piece in an online fiction pageant. At least a positive cultural image of guns is a good starting place.
Well, the good news about that is, all five subscribers will agree with it!
JMHO, but I’d also credit the Millennial/Xennial/“Gen Y” culture having gone to war in the Sandbox and Rockpile… just like the Boomers and last-hurrah Cold Warriors who went to Desert Storm, they wanted an at-home facsimile of what they had Over There much like how many WWII vets brought back their Garands and M1 Carbines.
And I’m seriously jealous. What did we have, Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider who created a sensation when she actually purchased a pair of HK USP Match handguns for her personal collection.
Well, there WAS Leslie Easterbrook… (Callahan from Police Academy)
I think we call that “cyber stalking.”
When you have portions of the article like this:
If this sort of commercial opportunism makes you uncomfortable at a time when the country is suffering from a never-ending gun violence epidemic — 39,773 gun deaths in 2017, the highest number on record in America — you’re probably not alone. Especially when you consider the kind of guns that dominate the tactical community. Best and his followers aren’t interested in collecting hunting rifles or shotguns, Lord no. There’s even a derogatory term for people who still use those things. They’re called Fudds, as in Elmer. What’s in vogue are semiautos. Sleek high-capacity weapons originally designed for military use and now favored by school shooters. The preferred gun of mass murderers — the AR-15 — is also the preferred gun of the sexy millennials of Instagram.
You know it’s slanted in a huge way.
Oh, I just follow them for the gun aspect of it. I like to see some of the new firearm releases, and they often have good training videos and new techniques to study. Yes, they’re beautiful women who also post bikini pictures, but that’s irrelevant.
…Is what I tell my wife.
“The preferred gun of mass murderers”
Like Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot?
Reporters in the U.S. are an embarrassment…
akchuallay…
bombs are the preferred weapons of mass murderers with planes coming in a close second
What you call “stalking”, I call loving from a distance, sir
Armed with pastel handles and pink holsters, women are storming into gun sales
These gals — Glenda Craddock and Amy May — are among those revving up the trend in Hampton Roads. Through shops and gun groups aimed at women consumers, they’ve helped launch new offerings in the $13 billion industry — purses with built-in gun compartments, brightly-colored gun accessories, specialized clothing, even bras with a place to stash a weapon. Women are taking over shooting competitions and sharing their accomplishments on social media.
Meet the new gun-slingers of the world.
https://pilotonline.com/sports/outdoors/article_e56948ea-3b5c-11e9-b019-d3a05a53fb5f.html
LOL at thinking Mat Best’s Instagram is edgy. If you do, you haven’t spent much time on IG or you don’t know where to look.
Wait! I thought women were supposed to be good little victims that peed on themselves to stop a rapist and waited patiently for the police to arrive?!