The Pink Pistols formed around 2000, after gay journalist Jonathan Rauch – still outraged by Matthew Shepard’s 1998 murder, and knowing gay men who stopped attacks with guns – published an ...

Pink Pistols members show the target they just shot up. (Pioneer Press: Richard Chin) At a recent gathering of the group at Bill’s Gun Shop & Range in Robbinsdale, there were several newcomers ...

Members of West Hollywood’s Pink Pistols, an LGBT gun community, take a defensive shooting course in Southern California. By Hailey Branson-Potts . Sept. 9, 2016 9:09 AM PT .

Pink Pistols: Meet the man encouraging the LBGT community onto the gun range in the wake of the Orlando shootings. For years, Tom Nelson tried to get other gay people to join his shooting group.

Besides Pink Pistols, since 2016 other LGBTQ pro-gun groups have also organized across the country. The Trigger Warning Queer & Trans Gun Club, out of Rochester, ...

Originally formed in 2000, the Boston Pink Pistols group had disbanded but was revived after the 2016 Pulse gay nightclub massacre in Orlando.

Browsing pink pistols in the gun store shop Karen McCloud, 48, (blond) is an ex-military and Jasmine Alequin, 22, her fiance. "I don't care if it's pretty so long as it works," said Ms McCloud of ...

Pink Pistols Gun Group. By Craig Stevens, Lauren Powell. August 23, 2016. Share. Since the attack on Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, many in the LGBT community have decided to arm themselves.

I’m not alone on this: Even the most die-hard gun enthusiasts have their issues with pink pistols, too. “Pink guns are just a marketing ploy to raise the demographic profile of women in the ...

And the Las Vegas chapter of the Pink Pistols, an LGBT gun club, has seen a significant spike in its membership. In the week after the Orlando shooting, its Facebook ranks grew by 300 percent.

In shared photos, they clutched hot pink pistol grips with manicured hands. ... If you told me 25 years ago, we would be selling pink guns, I would've lost the farm on that bet." This holiday, ...