For decades, the image of gun ownership in America was white, rural and Republican, but that’s been changing, according to gun clubs, trainers, Second Amendment advocates and academic researchers.
They say more liberals, people of color and LGBTQ folks have been buying guns for years and particularly since Trump’s reelection in 2024. This story was based on more than 30 interviews. David Phillips is on the training team of the Liberal Gun Club, which has chapters in more than 30 states and provides a haven for liberals to train and learn about guns. He says club membership has grown from 2,700 in November to 4,500 today. Requests for training, he says, have quintupled.
“The concern is about the supporters of the right-wing who feel that they have been given permission to run roughshod at least, if not commit outright violence against people they don’t like,” Phillips says.
I’m on the left, never been anti gun but never owned a firearm till this gestapo crap started. I do not recognize the authority of ICE to question me, as a born US citizen I am not required to carry proof of citizenship. They come to my front door I’m not opening it and if they break my door down they’ll have my Beretta 1301 answering. I’d rather die in a firefight and taking some scum down with me than getting disappeared to some foreign prison because I had the audacity to be born brown.
I was a range officer while in the military. If anybody in WNC need some training I would be happy to help. Training and practice is the key to firearm safety.
And just like that, the GOP will be in favor of gun control.
California’s famous anti-gun policies were born out of Republican fear of the Black Panthers.
This is bad. They are gearing up for the next civil war. They just don’t know it yet
The civil war has already started. One side is gearing up too late.
Remember folks: don’t just buy it, train with it.
And if you can get like minded friends to do the same even better.
Personally I’m not a fan of handguns, I prefer rifles but both are good at poking holes.
Also be sure to pick a firearm that takes a common type of round, the last thing you need to worry about is trying to find some obscure round type when you need it.
9mm Parabellum and 5.56 NATO?
What does Project 2025, “Make a Christo Fascist Shithole,” say about gun control and 2A?
I thought that was a good question so I looked it up, not least because one of the right’s oft-repeated accusations has been that “the libruls want to take our guns!” which to me means that the right has been thinking about taking them all along.
Historically, authoritarian regimes are NOT big on letting citizens defend themselves against government, which is how the US got the Second Amendment to start with, so I’m still low-key convinced that the long-term strategy here is to create an environment of regular stochastic terrorism until the military is fully on board, and then to react to that public carnage by declaring all privately-held firearms illegal as part of the move to full martial law.
But in the meantime, as the Brady Campaign, a long-established gun control group, says, for Project 2025 the plan is “Guns everywhere.”
Project 2025 also seems to have a particular aversion to state-level concealed carry laws, and wants to overturn those as well.
There is a good amount of information out there if you’re interested in looking further but that’s the gist of it. Project 2025 = guns are good, and lots of 'em . . . at least for now.
