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.…
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 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…