Gun owners, social media and the rise of a new firearms culture

[Korgs130]

An interesting article from the Washington Post Magazine entitled: The Heavily Armed Millennials of Instagram. The author interview Mat Best of Black Rifle Coffee among others. I think it offers a relatively fair assessment of the influence of main stream social media and popularity of tactical weapons.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-of-instagram/

[BoringGuy45]

I just love that there's so many drop dead gorgeous women who are part of this new firearms culture. Alex Zedra, Mat Best's wife Noelle, Samantha Bonilla, Lauren Victoria Young, Alesha Bush, and Charissa Littlejohn are all good Instagrams to follow. Also, Playboy model Leanna Decker is a gun enthusiast, and actress Ariel Winter from Modern Family has strongly hinted that she's pro-gun as well.

[The_War_Wagon]

And you can tell by that read, that WaPoo hates reporting every bit of that.

[C-grunt]

Funny, I just read that article from Matt Best's Facebook page Drinkin Bros... lol

[hotrodder636]

Heck of a lot of people these days that run in this....breasts and guns, they sell.

I just love that there's so many drop dead gorgeous women who are part of this new firearms culture. Alex Zedra, Mat Best's wife Noelle, Samantha Bonilla, Lauren Victoria Young, Alesha Bush, and Charissa Littlejohn are all good Instagrams to follow. Also, Playboy model Leanna Decker is a gun enthusiast, and actress Ariel Winter from Modern Family has strongly hinted that she's pro-gun as well.

[JoshNC]

Can’t read without WaPo online subscription.

[jerrysimons]

And you can tell by that read, that WaPoo hates reporting every bit of that.

I don’t think so, I think their angle is to show a glimpse into the crazy to reaffirm the assumtions of their base readership.

The war on terror has done great things to advance gun culture and rights domestically, socially speaking. The popularity of ergonomic semiauto firearms has skyrocketed because of it. The mellenial tactical community phenominon just a cultural outgrowth of it. My hope is that it segues into principled support for the foundations of liberty and not just yet another supurfeloys identity piece in an online fiction pageant. At least a positive cultural image of guns is a good starting place.

[The_War_Wagon]

I don’t think so, I think their angle is to show a glimpse into the crazy to reaffirm the assumtions of their base readership.

Well, the good news about that is, all five subscribers will agree with it!

[Diamondback]

JMHO, but I'd also credit the Millennial/Xennial/"Gen Y" culture having gone to war in the Sandbox and Rockpile... just like the Boomers and last-hurrah Cold Warriors who went to Desert Storm, they wanted an at-home facsimile of what they had Over There much like how many WWII vets brought back their Garands and M1 Carbines.

[SteyrAUG]

I just love that there's so many drop dead gorgeous women who are part of this new firearms culture. Alex Zedra, Mat Best's wife Noelle, Samantha Bonilla, Lauren Victoria Young, Alesha Bush, and Charissa Littlejohn are all good Instagrams to follow. Also, Playboy model Leanna Decker is a gun enthusiast, and actress Ariel Winter from Modern Family has strongly hinted that she's pro-gun as well.

And I'm seriously jealous. What did we have, Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider who created a sensation when she actually purchased a pair of HK USP Match handguns for her personal collection.