Yeah and the dreaded F word was an insult but that’s what all my gay friends called each other in the day.
He is shunned among liberal gun nuts like me
Sorry, but, umm…you are aware that “gun nut” is not a compliment, right? Nor a neutral term. It’s pretty directly an insult towards people who oppose common sense gun regulation à la Australia. Because they are “nuts”, meaning crazy.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
In my area of California while the crazy element is still present it generally means they mod their weapons in particularly volatile or weird ways, maybe they have an obsession with a particular era of weapons as well. Honestly it’s a pretty informal term where the only useful measurement is that most folks who could be described as gun nots probably press their own ammo.
So it can be a neutral term depending on region at least, either that or my Redneck is showing. Frankly speaking though I have seen folks (usually yuppies) throw fits because folks have either rare or “scary” looking firearms, apparently there was an incident at a gun range relatively near me where some stupid bitch called the cops cause a dude pulled out a Browning Automatic Rifle.