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PK PISTOLS: LGBT GUN OWNERS UNE ARMG GAY COMMUNY

Meet Pk Pistols, the natnal gay group dited to armg the LGBT muny and fightg homophobia wh firepower – or at least the threat of * gay gun owner *

Meet natnal gay group dited to fightg homophobia wh firepower – and why they thk gay rights and gun rights are a natural f.

STRAIGHT SHOOTERS: MEET THE GAY GUN-RIGHTS ACTIVISTS

Gwendolyn Patton of Pk Pistols says the group chang the perceptn that gay people are easy victims. “We teach queers to shoot then we teach the rt of the world we’ve done . Becuase then they may thk twice about g them as a target.“ * gay gun owner *

But I felt nfint my teacher, Jeff Bloovman, a Philalphia gun stctor and a member of the Pk Pistols, an LGBT group based around the belief that guns n go a long way batg homophobia.

A small, loosely anized group of a few dozen chapters sttered across the stat and Canada, cludg Toronto, San Francis and Charlton, South Carola, the Pk Pistols’ membership has climbed om around 1, 500 earlier this month to about 6, 500 sce the June day Omar Mateen attacked the Pulse nightclub, turng the dance floor to a killg field and crashg together two culture war battlegrounds that rarely nverge: gays and guns.

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While the majory of LGBT people seem to be llg for more regulatn, Pk Pistols and their alli are hunkerg down and takg up arms, bandg together unr the group’s motto, a nontatnal warng to potential gay-bashers: “Pick on someone your own liber.

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