Sara Tipton’s Holiday Joy With Her Anti-Gun Relatives. Or Not.

By Sara Tipton

I have anti-gun relatives, mostly on my mother’s side of the family. In their defense, they also loathe my Jeep. Some think that my brother (what with his one-ton diesel truck) and I are demonic. Apparently, two siblings can be the sole causes of global warming because of their cars and guns…or something. I have in-laws that are anti-gun as well but . . .

they usually just avoid my pro-gun Facebook posts while managing to remain my friend. Anyway, I’m planning a trip to Colorado for the holidays. It will include my usual interface with my anti-gun relatives, and a review of a kydex holster for TTAG. Get this: the holster is an outside-the-waistband pancake holster.

Open carry is perfectly legal in Colorado, thank goodness. I don’t have my non-resident permit as of yet, although those plans are in the works. Nonetheless, I need to carry and after a few of my relatives responses to my writing job here at TTAG, I am wondering if I should unintentionally offend them by carrying during Christmas dinner.

After all, they really hated these two of my recent articles: Why Gun Sales Skyrocket After A Shooting and Being Fat Is More …Read the Rest