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We Have Masks

Masks are required wearing in many states and businesses right now, so why not be safe and fashionable at the same time? With a wide variety of designs to choose from, and now just $15 at our TeePublic store, you can make a statement that’s guaranteed to get attention and maybe even start a conversation about how gun rights are queer rights. Each mask…

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Bloomberg to Gun Culture: “Help Me!”

Thank you, Michael Bloomberg, for finally admitting that gun owners are correct. Oh, I’m certain that he didn’t mean to do it; after all, the non-opinion piece titled You Just Panic-Bought a Gun. Here’s How to Handle It Safely  was written by Alain Stephens, not Bloomberg himself, but as it was published in Bloomberg’s anti-gun organ The Trace on March 20th, and as…

Quarantine Madness Raffle

Congratulations to our winners! Dark Angel Medical DART Class and Trauma Kit: Xander Opal Sentinel Concepts Class: Bradford Chatterjee Tatiana Whitlock Class: Weerd Beard Asfaliea Designs Blue Purse: Tracy Thronburg Asfaliea Designs Brown Purse: Jamie Somerville PMAG D-60 Drums: Michael Farnette, Wyatt Parsons, Alexander Gubenko, Eric Baumwell Magpul Hunter X-22 Stock: John Somerville Magpul Bipod: Michael Farnette Big Tex Gift Code: Michael Farnette Sentinel Concepts Backpack: Xander Opal Victory Aegis Belt: Xander…

Operation Blazing Sword Adds Chris Cheng to Board

Operation Blazing Sword Adds Chris Cheng to Board Chris Cheng, History Channel’s Top Shot Season 4 Champion, joins Operation Blazing Sword/Pink Pistols Board of Directors (Daytona Beach, Florida) Operation Blazing Sword is adding its newest member, Chris Cheng, to the Board of Directors. Cheng made his name winning History Channel’s Top Shot Season 4 competition in 2012, earning a $100,000…

Spring 2019 Update

As we close out spring and welcome the beginning of summer, I’d like to take a few moments to let people know all that Operation Blazing Sword and Pink Pistols have accomplished lately. Training and Education Operation Blazing Sword continues its pattern of teaching, on average, at least one queer person how to safely operate a firearm every other week.…

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Pulse: Three Years Later

Pulse: Three Years Later Gwen Patton, First Speaker Emeritus, on What Pulse Means to the Pink Pistols Three years ago, a 23-year-old security guard armed with a .223-caliber rifle forced his way into the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida. He then went on to shoot the persons he found inside, wounding 53 and killing 49. He was killed after a…

Founder

Founder of the Pink Pistols Passes Away Oct 23, 2018   PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA (Oct. 23, 2018) – The Pink Pistols mourn the loss of their founder, Douglas “ Krikket” Krick. On October 21, his mother Anne Shutters Krick announced that Doug had taken his own life after a lifelong battle with depression. “Doug changed the course of my life, and…

Merger

World’s Largest LGBTQ Pro-Gun Group Forms Sept 23, 2018     CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (Sept 23, 2018) – The 33rd Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference (GRPC 2018) in Chicago became the site of a historic announcement for the LGBTQ community. The Pink Pistols – the nation’s first pro-gay, pro-gun group – is joining forces with Operation Blazing Sword, a program dedicated…