Posted July 3, 2015 1:24 am by Comments

By Gregory Smith

The media claims gun owners are dying, think again:

After years of gun control proponents claiming gun owners are a dying breed of old white guys who keep the gun industry afloat by hoarding more and more guns to themselves, NBC’s Today show aired a segment showing that millennials have stepped up to become the new face of gun ownership in America.

Today opened the segment by citing polls that reinforce the typical stereotype of gun owners—they are “predominantly white, predominately male,” and “mostly” over the age of 55. Then, everything changes as Today looks at the new generation of gun owners—consisting of “all kinds of young people” who “line up to shoot” at gun ranges that cater to young professionals and at outdoor shoots that center on female involvement as much as male.

Not only is millennial gun ownership not just male, it’s also not just white. Today makes this clear by interviewing young black shooters and showing Hispanic shooters at the range.

Today explains that this “new generation of gunslingers” is “flourishing on reddit, Facebook, and YouTube.” Unlike previous gun owners, they are “young” and “diverse,” and represented by shooters like Kirsten Joy Weiss, a 28-year-old whose “Annie Oakley-style trick shots have …read more

Source:: Selling the Second Amendment

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