In their ongoing efforts to attract younger, hipper Gun Culture 2.0ers, the National Rifle Association is adding another voice to their growing stable of non-traditional commentators. Their latest add is garage guy Austin Weiss. Austin’s noticed that there’s a population out there who like them some guns, but don’t want to be seen as liking them publicly. By joining other NRA commentators like Colion Noir, Natalie Foster and Billie Johnson, Weiss apparently wants to do something about that. Anything that normalizes firearms in the eyes of the public and brings more people out of the pro-gun closet is a good thing, right?
*adjusts tinfoil hat*
Is it me, or does everyone famous in guns have the last name Weiss?
If my observations locally are a national trend, there is a large segment of the under 30 demographic that are gun owners. The last two years attending gun shows and going to the range clearly show a major shift in the makeup of gun owners. Most of the people (60%) I see at the shows and gun ranges are under 30.I also see a much larger demographic of younger women owning firearms. The NRA needs to get up to speed when it comes to connecting with that demographic group. I also think the NRA also needs to do a better job with outreach to minorities. This is a golden opportunity for the NRA and other gun rights organizations to recruit younger members, but they will have to do a better job with using social media.
Shout, kick, pepper or bear spray, hollow point, in that order with not a lot of time between.
Most likely, you will never get to the hollow point stage. I was a professional dog trainer specializing in “bad dogs.” I never had to kill one, although I was sorely tempted to beat the hell out of their owners from time to time.
+1
No matter what course of action you take be prepared for an IMMEDIATE confrontation with the owner of the dog. Vicious dogs often have high strung owners.
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Must send Ralph to humping dog’s screaming woman. That would be justice.
Tom
When I took the pepper spray instructor class from Ed Nowicki, one of his co-instructors was a captain from a drug task force. The captain had long experience with aggressive dogs while serving warrants on drug dealers. He had seen dogs hit w/”.357, .45, 9mm. .38, and 12 ga.” he said pepper spray worked best. Just the week before our class, they’d served a warrant and were charged by the dealer’s pit bull in the house. 12 ga. buckshot to the hip and the dog was still coming when the captain fired his pepper spray. It turned immediately, ran under a bed, and stayed there until the vet came to treat it.
$235.00
Why not just go with an MBUS and InFroce WML. Save some dough for ammo….
Thanks again for the constructive advice from those that gave it. If I felt there was any explicit danger I would not go thee with my family.
That being said ANY activity carries certain risks and I simply wanted to get others opinions on my options should the worst happen. I think that a deterrent spray is the best thing for me to add to my pockets and am researching that presently.
So, how many of yall have Guns n Ammo subs, or subs to its related family of advertising-based for-profit GC-sympathetic glossies?
Like Paul, I prefer Gun Tests. Or just going to the range with friends and relations and their arms.
YouTube is great for gun reviews, shop tips, and range tests, but Mountain View (Google) greps and stores views of RKBA-related content. Now that that is cross referenced to other Google products, like Gmail, one must choose between being out about one’s Constitutional proclivities or avoiding the topic/Google/etc. altogether and sticking to realtime.
Shoulda used the edge of a 30round AR mag to remove it.
Well looks like the good idea fairy strikes again…
A geographical oddity… Is it also two weeks from everywhere?
Some fine country you’re surveying through that rifle scope, that’s for sure. Nothing can beat the Paunsaugunt Plateau and the Paria River drainage, but still, a fine view. Makes me want to leave the office right now and carry my rifle in the great outdoors.
What? Is Glock trying to join Porsche, Mercedes and BMW as an overpriced pretentious merchandise item?