[Slings and Arrows]

I found this in a thread called "gun nuts?" on rec.guns. IMO, it is truly an idea whose time has come.

FReegards,
Slings and Arrows

[Perseverando]

Wrong symbol. X has already been taken. Remember Malcom "X" and the X on hats and other clothing.

[sinkspur]

I don't WANT anybody to know I've got a gun.

I want 'em to have to guess.

[Barak]

Libertarian L. Neil Smith addresses this issue to some extent in his speech You Can't Fight A Culture War If You Ain't Got Any Culture. Something very simple, that even a child could draw--on the order of the Christian fish, or the Jewish Magen David, or the 60's anti-war movement's chicken foot, or the transsexuals' combined male/female symbol, or the homosexuals' pink triangle, or the neo-Nazis' swastika.

An X might serve, although perhaps it's too simple. How about an X inside a circle, the way it really looks on a target? The X's bars would cross at about a 60-degree angle (not 90 degrees), and the tips would not touch the circle.

Can we get one of our graphic designers to come up with a prototype?

We could also use some sort of standardized greeting among ourselves. "Molon labe" and "FMCDH" are common, but their place is between folks inside the gun culture and enemies of the gun culture, rather than among gun folks. Claire Wolfe has suggested "Four nineteen!" for lovers of liberty, since so many historical events of interest to libertarians happened on April 19th. I like that a lot, but it's not gun-culture-specific. "Lock and load!" makes sense only in regard to the M1 Garand--plus there's way too much bozo-grade testosterone in that one for most occasions. "Keep your powder dry!" is nice, although it's oriented more toward black-powder people than toward the rest of us.

Ideas?

[Nateman]

We already have it: The minuteman holding his rifle. It even made it to the back of the Mass. quarter, the most liberal state in the nation!

[Britton J Wingfield]

There is a symbol once used by hobos that means "a man with a gun lives here". Hobos often left symbols to give each other advanced warning about particular stops along the rails.

Geeks With Guns posted a picture of this a while back.

[Old Professer]

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[CPOSharky]

Slings,

Going back a ways (showing my age) to the old National Match Rifle course - 5-ring and V-ring for a tie breaker.

I can't think of anything negative attached to that.

Old pharts know about it. Folks who care will find out. Idiots wouldn't know or enough enough to find out.

Graphics folks, could make a good icon?

[Dick Bachert]

I kinda like this:

[correctthought]

An upside down "V", the symbol of the Spartans, the people that brought you Molon labe.

[Shooter 2.5]

No secret handshake?

[smokingfrog]