Many members of my immediate family are fairly hardcore anti-gun zealots – and I know from my long experience of them (and also talking to them about the details of their beliefs) that they have NO FRICKIN’ IDEA in the world how guns work. Try to explain it to them and they get exasperated because their lack of knowledge is SO deep and pervasive. Offer to take them to the range and let them experience it for themselves, and they will usually decline, because “guns are icky”. When I have been successful at getting ardent anti-gunners out to the range, it is usually transformative for them. Hard to continue believing Shannon and Mini Mike vs. you own lyin’ eyes. Several have ended by saying something like “Well, I can see why you like it, and it isn’t what I thought it was, but it’s not for me.” OK, cool – nobody else is obligated to like what I like – but they at least now had ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE (vs BS anti-gun propaganda), so I was satisfied with that.

I even started a low-key movement by trying to persuade my shooting buddies to “Take an Anti-Gunner to the Range” movement. Those that bothered to do so reported similar results to mine. I commend it to the POTG as a useful strategy – hard to believe the BS put out by the anti-gunners when you’ve actually fired a few for yourself, and KNOW that most of the propaganda is a lie. Just sayin’.

Any hearing is a formality and any decision in favor of liberty is only temporary assuming it isn’t immediately quashed 9th circuit style. Funny how the system almost always defaults to letting the tyranny stand during appeal but not the liberty.

Their shitty arguments are a big middle finger to all of us and they get off on it.