"Women with guns a growing phenomenon" - Page 2

limatunes · April 2nd, 2007, 09:18 PM

It's about time some media figured out we women like guns, too!

SixBravo · April 2nd, 2007, 11:16 PM

Haha Just about every girl I know gets pouty and upset when they find out I went shooting without them. Its a great social outting for everyone. Not just guys and their sons. I've yet to meet a gal who gave shooting a fair chance - and hated it.

sjp2452 · April 6th, 2007, 01:57 PM

The Desert Eagle does come in a .357Mag chambering...and it's possible that a woman would take comfort in a really big gun at the range. But I'm guessing its much more likely she was shooting a .357Sig and the reporter's just a duphus.

aepilotjim · April 6th, 2007, 04:28 PM

SM looking for SF 30-45, into evening walks, old movies, driving with the top down, handguns and rifles. Please send pictures of rifle.

glockgirl16 · April 6th, 2007, 11:03 PM

i find that guys are freaked out by me shooting. one of my ex's got me started so he didn't care but I have scared a couple off.... dang college town liberals.

somehow my bright pink comforter doesn't match my g19 on the nightstand in their mind.

sgtD · April 6th, 2007, 11:49 PM

Glockgirl, sounds like you need to move to Kennesaw. You know, "It's the law in Kennesaw" and all that.

Anyway, as to women and guns in general: I never wasted much time around a woman if she wasn't willing to sling some led. I can't wait to get my daughter started. This weekend is Easter, so we'll be having the big family get together & shooting party after church at my dad's house. Shooters will include wife, sister, mother, aunts and other female guests. It's a family tradition, you know. Hardly what I would call a phenomenon, but then again, I'm not a liberal reporter.

God, family, and guns... how can it get any better.

tanksoldier · April 8th, 2007, 03:17 AM

Text of an email I sent to Ms. Morente:

Quote:

Ms. Morente

In your story you write:

KIMBERLY SHRUM grips a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver and aims at a target 25 yards away.

Bang.

A hot shell casing hits the floor, joining hundreds of others littering the concrete at Jackson Arms Indoor Shooting Range in South San Francisco. KIMBERLY SHRUM grips a Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum revolver and aims at a target 25 yards away.

Bang.

A hot shell casing hits the floor, joining hundreds of others littering the concrete at Jackson Arms Indoor Shooting Range in South San Francisco.

Revolvers do not eject their shell casings as they are fired. The shooter ejects them all at once by hand from the cylinder after they have fired al the rounds in the cyliner. Either the shooter was not firing a revolver, or a casing did not hit the ground as described. It may seem a small thing, but to anyone with a passing familiarity with firearms such a detail robs your story of it's credibility. Since it is impossible for you to have seen the event you describe in your article, one wonders if you were even present at such a range.

As someone who is greatly in favor of the citizens of this nation exercising the rights that I have fought to preserve for them, especially where they are restricted and denied as much as they are in California, it is troubling to see an otherwise outstanding article tarnished through such carelessness.

As a suggestion you might want to include in a future article the incredible restrictions California places on all citizens, including women, who are simply trying to exercise the second most important right enumerated in the Bill of Rights, the one which "shall not be infringed". I would suggest you compare California to Florida as they have similar demographics and culture. Other interesting comparisons might be made with Pennsylvania, Montana, Utah, New Hampshire and Colorado.

Better luck next time,

tanksoldier

sgtD · April 8th, 2007, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tanksoldier

Text of an email I sent to Ms. Morente:

Tank Soldier:

I was thinking that you did good with the email, until I read the part where you compared the culture in Florida to Califonia.

COMPLETELY UN-CALLED FOR. It may take several days of range therapy for me to get over an insult like that. In the future, please refrain from such degrading commentary when refering to the gunshine state.

limatunes · April 9th, 2007, 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glockgirl16

i find that guys are freaked out by me shooting. one of my ex's got me started so he didn't care but I have scared a couple off.... dang college town liberals.

somehow my bright pink comforter doesn't match my g19 on the nightstand in their mind.

Pink and black go together!

I don't scare the guys away, I make the nervous.

I go to the range by myself, carrying (of course), with my cover garment on. I pay for my range time, put on my ear protection and go into the range. By this time everyone who isn't used to seeing me there has stopped and is watching me out of the corner of their eye. I put down my bag, hang up a target, run it down range, get out my ammo and my sharpie, take off my cover shirt and that's when I get the looks. My spare mag on my left hip, my Kimber on my right.
I open my case and there are my other guns.
I unload the defensive rounds, load up on FMJs and start blasting away.

Almost every single time a few people step up behind me to see my target.

I see some gals at the range, but they are usually with someone--a husband or a boyfriend or the only girl in a group of four or five guys. I'm the only gal I've seen at the range by herself. I think that's what surprises some. When my husband is with me I don't get nearly half the looks I get when I'm alone.

Raider39a · April 13th, 2007, 07:07 PM

please forgive me for a brief period of chauvinism: there is nothing hotter than a woman who can handle firearms. I first observed this phenomenon observing female Marine officer candidates in Quantico shoot for quals... they were proficient, confident, and in great shape.

I guess it is the projection of strength, technical know-how, and/or "can do, I can take care of myself attitude." I am not sure but it is illuminating.

how many of our number is this forum are of the female persuasion anyway?

April 6th, 2007, 11:49 PM	#16
sgtD Distinguished Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Kansas Posts: 1,652	Glockgirl, sounds like you need to move to Kennesaw. You know, "It's the law in Kennesaw" and all that. Anyway, as to women and guns in general: I never wasted much time around a woman if she wasn't willing to sling some led. I can't wait to get my daughter started. This weekend is Easter, so we'll be having the big family get together & shooting party after church at my dad's house. Shooters will include wife, sister, mother, aunts and other female guests. It's a family tradition, you know. Hardly what I would call a phenomenon, but then again, I'm not a liberal reporter. God, family, and guns... how can it get any better. __________________ When you've got 'em by the balls, their hearts & minds will follow. Semper Fi. Last edited by sgtD; April 7th, 2007 at 01:19 AM.

April 13th, 2007, 07:07 PM	#20
Raider39a Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: CT Posts: 179	please forgive me for a brief period of chauvinism: there is nothing hotter than a woman who can handle firearms. I first observed this phenomenon observing female Marine officer candidates in Quantico shoot for quals... they were proficient, confident, and in great shape. I guess it is the projection of strength, technical know-how, and/or "can do, I can take care of myself attitude." I am not sure but it is illuminating. how many of our number is this forum are of the female persuasion anyway? __________________ "embrace the suck" - our warriors in the sandbox... it implies that do the best you can in impossible conditions. "no plan survives intact upon contact with the enemy" - wisdom of the Grunts.

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April 6th, 2007, 01:57 PM	#13
sjp2452 Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 209	The Desert Eagle does come in a .357Mag chambering...and it's possible that a woman would take comfort in a really big gun at the range. But I'm guessing its much more likely she was shooting a .357Sig and the reporter's just a duphus.

April 6th, 2007, 04:28 PM	#14
aepilotjim Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Tulsa OK Posts: 232	SM looking for SF 30-45, into evening walks, old movies, driving with the top down, handguns and rifles. Please send pictures of rifle.

April 6th, 2007, 11:03 PM	#15
glockgirl16 Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: GA Posts: 20	i find that guys are freaked out by me shooting. one of my ex's got me started so he didn't care but I have scared a couple off.... dang college town liberals. somehow my bright pink comforter doesn't match my g19 on the nightstand in their mind.