Recruited 3 more today

[poikilotrm]

A few years abo I decided to take an asian approach to preaching the 2nd Amendment to the Great Unwashed.

Most NRA hat wearing types go for the hard direct sell. For a number of reasons this is a bad idea, especially with new shooters. I have decided to take an alternate route. I use my silenced Ruger with new shooters, and I prefer to approach women, especially women in their 20s. Why their 20s, is Jeff a dirty old man?

Well, yes, yes I am, but that's not why. Whey then, you ask? Because if we can get young women to feel comfortable with guns and have a pleasant first experience, they will have no qualms about their children learning to shoot, and will be more favorable towards private gun ownership overall.

I had a young lady today who's first firearm experience EVER was with my silenced .22/.45. She loved it. Her friends were telling her how cool that was, and it will make an impact on a subconscious level that is permanent.

Get out there and encourage young women to shoot your suppressed .22s guys. Do it in a fun, non-threatening way. Let them know that silencers are perfectly legal, and that they make shooting a lot more fun.

Many women will shoot my .22, then shoot their boyfriend's pistol, then vociferously express their preference for a silenced weapon. This in turn makes guys want to buy a can so they can make the girls happy, and thus drives silencers ever more into the main stream.

Do it guys, be emissaries.

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Outstanding! Psy warfare FTW

[Bone16]

Many women will shoot my .22, then shoot their boyfriend's pistol, then vociferously express their preference for a silenced weapon. This in turn makes guys want to buy CANS so they can make the girls happy, and thus drives silencers ever more into the main stream.

Do it guys, be emissaries.

Fixed it for you!

Actually not a bad way at all to "win the hearts and minds"!

[Sleeper362]

Outstanding! Psy warfare FTW

This is how it has to be won. Hearts and minds was lost on the people of AFG because they hate people with hearts and women with minds. Here in America this approach would go much farther. I push guns for women and go at it on the level that NO ONE will be more powerful than they are short of facing a
Tank or Jet if they have a firearm in hand. I tell them that if anybody on the planet should have a gun, it is a woman, the smaller and less capable the woman the greater the need. Then I hand them something appropriate according to their reaction. It wins them over. I would also hate to be the man in the house and have my wife more pro-gun than me.

[MJF1911]

It seems to work well for me. I built a bunch of steel targets and shoot steel challenge. Anybody that wants to shoot can come on out. This was my shooting group a few weeks ago:

[warjunky1428]

I would like to visit Montana again....

Maybe in the spring so that I can visit the a dropzone or two as well.