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‘Chicks with Guns’: Some 15 million US women pack heat
msnbc.msn.com ^ | 28 September, 2011 | Laura T. Coffey

Posted on 09/29/2011 6:37:51 AM PDT by marktwain

Pop quiz: Name one accessory that grandmothers, moms, girls, wealthy socialites, middle-class females and low-income women might be likely to own — and cherish — all across America.

If you answered “a gun,” you’d be correct.

Based on polling research and gun-sale statistics, an estimated 15 million to 20 million women in the United States own their own firearms. Dozens of those heat-packing women are documented in “Chicks with Guns,” a new book by photographer Lindsay McCrum that is sure to challenge almost anyone’s assumptions about gun ownership.

“Their numbers are really high but their profile is actually really low,” said McCrum, who spent three and a half years capturing artistic and arresting portraits of women with their weapons of choice.

“I was so surprised by the variety and breadth and diversity of these women with their weapons of choice.

(Excerpt) Read more at today.msnbc.msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: banglist; book; gun; women
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41 posted on 09/29/2011 6:14:41 PM PDT by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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bump.


42 posted on 09/29/2011 6:15:41 PM PDT by rambo316
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bump.


43 posted on 09/29/2011 6:15:49 PM PDT by rambo316
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44 posted on 09/29/2011 6:21:40 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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45 posted on 09/29/2011 6:23:27 PM PDT by 2111USMC (Not a hard man to track. Leaves dead men wherever he goes.)
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That’s horrible! Innocent rapists and kidnappers are going to disfranchised due to such workplace hazards!


46 posted on 09/30/2011 2:54:38 AM PDT by Byzantine Basileus
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BUMP! For a Friday night!


47 posted on 09/30/2011 6:26:30 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Look for the union label, then buy elsewhere.)
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/11/photographer-lindsay-mccrum-commemorates-chicks-with-guns.html


48 posted on 11/27/2011 11:18:06 PM PST by thecodont
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