I will just come out and say it:: I do not like pink guns. I do not like any color that some marketing company has come up with to sell “the little ladies” a gun.
Imaginary marketing proposal meeting:
“Hey, I know, let’s make the guns fun colors! Then the ladies will all buy them, cos you know girls are just about coordinating their colors and nothing says “girl” like pink!”
So, the manufacturers are pandering down to us, putting us at the same level we were when we picked out our first Barbie (I never had a Barbie-my brothers would have just decapitated her and we all would have used her for target practice).
The GMs think we’re so stupid, we only consider the color of the gun, not the reason we are purchasing the gun. We (ladies) need to think long and hard about what that gun can do, and what we will do to use it. (hint: you can not shoot just to “wing” someone. You have to be prepared to KILL someone. Hopefully, you’ll take a little time to wrap your head around that before you head off to the gun shop)
Best color for a gun: black. Holders: whatever color you like. Purse: JUST SAY NO TO THE PURSE. If you really really think hard about what your gun can do, there is no way you would want it in something that can be taken from you. On body carry is the best.
Oh, and the other thing I have against pink guns? I’m a breast cancer survivor, so to me pink means something else. It represents a time in my life when I had no control. When I was a victim.
These “Hello Kitty” pink AR-15s remind me of Lionel Corp’s “Girl’s Train Set” of 1957 which featured a pink locomotive & tender, & boxcars in pastels. It bombed. If a girl wanted a Lionel train, she wanted it the same as what boys liked.
Even then there were attempts at `lady’s guns’. Hi-Standard offered their snubnose Sentinel .22 with white grips & the frame anodized in gold, burgundy, or aquamarine. So few sold they’re quite valuable now.