After years of sipping from the leftist media koolaid on guns, I told my LA buddy who was taking a little vacation in Arizona - just set foot in a gun shop, talk to the workers and educate yourself on how guns and gun laws
really work. No longer will he ever say shit like "no one should be allowed to buy a semi automatic assault weapon with high capacity banana clips that can kill 30 sandy hook style kids in ten seconds." Sadly he was eyeing his first gun to get but wifey said absolutely
not. Maybe one day.
What are your success stories of converting/educating anti gunners? BTW does Maura let us have Hellions?
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This past summer I went to the range with Jeff and his wife Sherry. Sherry asked me to take her because she knows I shoot, she's terrified of guns and wanted to try shooting one. Sherry can be a *bit* of a drama queen, and she's quite "liberal", aka "progressive", but Jeff's a friend of mine - and they asked.
We started with a .22 revolver, (S&W 617). Showed her how it loads, explained the cylinder rotation and had her shoot at a bowling pin. The first shot she fired literally had her trembling. Okay. Let's do it again. And we did, a couple of times until she was fairly comfortable with it.
Then we moved on to a .22 semi-automatic, one of my Browning BuckMarks. Showed her how the magazine fullfilled the same purpose as cylinder, showed her how the slide would move, explained the sequence of actions when it did so. Loaded ONE round into the mag and had her shoot it. Much easier for her than the revolver - because of the single action and much lighter trigger pull. Loaded two rounds and her cycle through them a couple of times, then a full mag.
When she was comfortable with that, we switched to a .38 revolver, my GP100, loaded with fairly light rounds. That went pretty well, so after a couple of cylinders, we moved to one of my G17 Glocks. Downloaded the mag to one for the first shot and cycled through that a couple of times, then loaded it with three, cycled that a couple of times, then went to a full mag.
Took her up to the plate rack with the G17 and she was hitting them and smiling, having fun.
Not a "convert", but she's not terrified of firearms any more.
Up until now, I've spent summers in a campground in Connecticut. I sold my camper this summer, I've got one more trip to empty the storage unit, then I'm done with Connecticut. I've had a camper there for fifteen years or so, the last eight while I've been living here in Georgia.
I've taken at least half a dozen seasonal campers to the range over the last couple of years and gone through the same exercises that I did with Sherry. Some of them asked me to take them after hearing from their friends about their experience.
I didn't convert anyone to coming out and shooting matches, but I did allay some fears and imparted some education/knowledge. Definitely worth the time/effort expended.