I’mma be honest, while I understand your distinction, those using the phrase “gun nut” without a shred of irony do not. To them, you’re one and the same.
Collector? Don’t you mean “why do you need that many guns, you gun nut?”
Fuck it, I for one embrace the label. Honestly if anything, all conflating the two actually serves to accomplish is to normalize the actual “nuts” as “nerds,” rather than making the nerds out to be nuts.
Don’t you mean “why do you need that many guns, you gun nut?”
I’ve seen this argument used in the context that the average gun owner in the US owns 2-3 guns. For context, that’s not the number of guns in the US per citizen, it’s the number per gun owner.
The person complaining was saying that nobody needs more than 1 gun. This is a good example of non-gun owners getting reactionary because they don’t know what they’re talking about. What if someone owns a rifle, shotgun, and a pistol? That’s 3 guns, all of which serve very different purposes.
Plus a lot of people don’t seem to factor in that sport shooting is a thing. Personally, I regularly take a dynamics class, where you go through a variety of scenarios where you’re moving between positions while shooting. There’s also competition formats that do this too.
Not only that, people don’t seem to understand that competition guns and everday carry guns are usually fairly different too. Much like how I wouldn’t want to drive a Lamborghini to pick up groceries or haul a trailer, I generally wouldn’t want to use a Sig P365 (a concealed carry gun) for a competition.
Honestly maybe that’s the answer. You can like guns without being all “don’t tread on me armed militia 2nd amendment” someone calls you a “gun nut”, just say you’re a “gun nerd”.
Right there’s people you see on the range with tricked out rifles with hand picked components, and then there’s mall ninja bubba open carrying four pistols at the food court
As someone who went down that path, no.
You’ll become a gun nerd, likely a collector, but not necessarily a gun nut.
I’mma be honest, while I understand your distinction, those using the phrase “gun nut” without a shred of irony do not. To them, you’re one and the same.
Collector? Don’t you mean “why do you need that many guns, you gun nut?”
Fuck it, I for one embrace the label. Honestly if anything, all conflating the two actually serves to accomplish is to normalize the actual “nuts” as “nerds,” rather than making the nerds out to be nuts.
I’ve seen this argument used in the context that the average gun owner in the US owns 2-3 guns. For context, that’s not the number of guns in the US per citizen, it’s the number per gun owner.
The person complaining was saying that nobody needs more than 1 gun. This is a good example of non-gun owners getting reactionary because they don’t know what they’re talking about. What if someone owns a rifle, shotgun, and a pistol? That’s 3 guns, all of which serve very different purposes.
Plus a lot of people don’t seem to factor in that sport shooting is a thing. Personally, I regularly take a dynamics class, where you go through a variety of scenarios where you’re moving between positions while shooting. There’s also competition formats that do this too.
Not only that, people don’t seem to understand that competition guns and everday carry guns are usually fairly different too. Much like how I wouldn’t want to drive a Lamborghini to pick up groceries or haul a trailer, I generally wouldn’t want to use a Sig P365 (a concealed carry gun) for a competition.
Honestly maybe that’s the answer. You can like guns without being all “don’t tread on me armed militia 2nd amendment” someone calls you a “gun nut”, just say you’re a “gun nerd”.
Right there’s people you see on the range with tricked out rifles with hand picked components, and then there’s mall ninja bubba open carrying four pistols at the food court