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‘Chicks with Guns’: Some 15 million US women pack heat
msnbc.msn.com ^
| 28 September, 2011
| Laura T. Coffey
Posted on 09/29/2011 6:37:51 AM PDT by marktwain
Pop quiz: Name one accessory that grandmothers, moms, girls, wealthy socialites, middle-class females and low-income women might be likely to own and cherish all across America.
If you answered a gun, youd be correct.
Based on polling research and gun-sale statistics, an estimated 15 million to 20 million women in the United States own their own firearms. Dozens of those heat-packing women are documented in Chicks with Guns, a new book by photographer Lindsay McCrum that is sure to challenge almost anyones assumptions about gun ownership.
Their numbers are really high but their profile is actually really low, said McCrum, who spent three and a half years capturing artistic and arresting portraits of women with their weapons of choice.
I was so surprised by the variety and breadth and diversity of these women with their weapons of choice.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.msnbc.msn.com ...
TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; book; gun; women
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:38:00 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
I own a Glock... don’t carry it around with me, but it’s mine ;)
To: marktwain
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:41:59 AM PDT
by
absolootezer0
(2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
To: marktwain
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:43:01 AM PDT
by
Howie66
(I can see November (2012) from my house.)
To: marktwain
We are good shots too. Criminals beware.
To: marktwain
The females in my household not only enjoy shooting, but they are all quite proficient.
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:45:25 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: marktwain
Nothing more exciting than the smell of female pheromones and gun powder.
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:49:49 AM PDT
by
mosaicwolf
(Strength and Honor)
To: mosaicwolf
Happiness is a warm gun an a hot woman! ;-)
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:52:22 AM PDT
by
itsLUCKY2B
(?Borders, Language, and Culture.?)
To: marktwain
And of course, pmsnbc is shocked, surprised, befuddled, dismayed, maybe even a little frightened.
“ARM THE WOMENFOLK!!!”
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:54:35 AM PDT
by
petro45acp
(NO good endeavour survives an excess of "adult supervision" (hence the American experiment))
To: absolootezer0
There’s a video from the 1980’s of bikini clad girls firing automatic weapons to Heavy Metal music. A fave of mine.
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:57:27 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: absolootezer0
Here ya go... a reference pic of my wife's P22:
(Oh, wait... is that not what you meant...?)
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:58:22 AM PDT
by
bolobaby
To: marktwain; southernindymom; absolootezer0; Howie66; Lilly Rose; DTogo; mosaicwolf; itsLUCKY2B; ...
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:58:22 AM PDT
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: marktwain
That is only about one in ten. Come on girls, do we have to get high fashion firearms to get the rest in the game. Of course it would add a whole new dimension to the runway walk...
And here is Vicki wearing the latest fashions from Paris accessorized with a Heckler & Koch MP7. The 4.6x30mm is a bold fashion statement for ladies stepping out for the evening...
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:58:56 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world and they are all out to get me.)
To: marktwain
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posted on
09/29/2011 6:58:56 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(I can only be series in a parallel universe.)
To: Lilly Rose
And we welcome you to FR! :-)
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posted on
09/29/2011 7:01:02 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(I can only be series in a parallel universe.)
To: mosaicwolf
Nothing more exciting than the smell of female pheromones and gun powder.With just a touch of Hoppe's No. 9 behind the ear.
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posted on
09/29/2011 7:01:54 AM PDT
by
Oatka
("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
To: marktwain
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posted on
09/29/2011 7:05:42 AM PDT
by
SargeK
To: SargeK
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posted on
09/29/2011 7:07:20 AM PDT
by
109ACS
(If this be Treason, then make the most of it. Patrick Henry, May 1765)
To: marktwain
Now, here is a Girl with a real gun. She is an AC-130 Gunner.
Vanessa Dobos is a gunner on a USAF AC-130 Gunship. She has seen action in Iraq and Afghanistan. She likes long walks on the beach, men who are not afraid to cry and puppies.
Her dislikes include feed tray stoppages, tracer flareout of her NVGs and premature fixed-wing strikes scattering her high-value targets.
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posted on
09/29/2011 7:09:18 AM PDT
by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
To: Howie66
Interesting...had a conversation with a business owner on Jekyll Island Ga the other day. She was a transplant from Crapcago. She said when she met some friends for a ladies day of tennis, she found out they ALL carried pocket guns. She said she was amazed but soon decided it was folly not to be armed when one can be. She now carries a .380 wherever she goes.
Love it when the northern trnasplants realize how discriminatory gun laws are against law abiding citizens in the mostly Northern states when compared to the South.
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posted on
09/29/2011 7:12:50 AM PDT
by
Mouton
(Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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