Do you know any black gun owners?

**phixion** · 04-11-09, 07:46

I'm sure I'll get castrated with a spoon asking anything remotely "race related" but I was wondering, do any of you know any black gun owners?

I find it rather discouraging that I know of only one. I have yet to encounter a black gun owner at a gun shop, gun show, range, etc. While I feel that it isn't about "who" the legal, responsible gun owners are but rather that there are more of them out there, I just wish they were a more visual, represented part of the community.

So, do you know of any black gun owners?

**larry0071** · 04-11-09, 07:57

No. I have a couple black friends, but due to typical youth inspired antics, the only guns they own were purchased out of trunks of cars. They do not often go out to ranges shooting or CC the firearms that they can not legally own.

There are most likely a similar percentage of black to white gun owners, but there are 10 times the number of white folks (guessing) so the numbers fall to show many more white owners.

**Iraqgunz** · 04-11-09, 08:06

I know quite a few black gun owners. Most of them are former military personnel who work for my current employer now.

**JediMindTricks** · 04-11-09, 08:31

One of my very best childhood friends is from Trinidad, and he's the proud owner of a WASR10, and a G21. His cousin has a WASR10, a Bushy AR-15, a Mossy 500, and a hand gun (?). One of my neighbors is a SWAT officer.

My Trinidadian friend actually had to brandish his G21 when 5 drunk frat boy types surrounded him in a parking lot and wouldn't let him get into his car after he finished having dinner with some friends. He also mentioned when a convict escaped from from a near by jail, and was roaming around his neighborhood, that he slept on the couch with his WASR10 in fear for his wife's/son's safety. He's a cool gun owner.

Also I have a neighbor that I met actually walking to the polls during the recent election. He voted for Obama, but I made conversation with him respectfully and we have since become occasional running partners. The other day I spoke with him about the 2nd, and it's meaning as well as some history about gun control, and how originally it was used to keep blacks from attaining guns. Needless to say he was all ears, and agrees with all of my points. I think I will take him shooting eventually so he can become another armed law abiding citizen!

**C4IGrant** · 04-11-09, 08:42

Not a single one. Then again, the county I live in has all of 3 black people in it.

C4

**Artos** · 04-11-09, 09:02

Originally Posted by C4IGrant

Not a single one. Then again, the county I live in has all of 3 black people in it.

C4

Same here....have many a hispanic compadre that are gun owners & big time hunters. Lots of them in leo & it's just a regional deal.

**CarlosDJackal** · 04-11-09, 09:27

- A co-worker (black) and her husband (white) are Gun Owners. Although she happens to be very Liberal in her political views.

- A member of one of the local LE Agencies SWAT. Political view unknown.

- A fellow Reserve Deputy and a retired CO. Conservative views.

- A couple of members of my Gun Club. The one I've had the most contact with is a hadrcore shotgunner. Very Liberal politically.

- Another co-worker who happens to b a Ranger (school-wise). Unknown Political view.