Black guns matter: So, who's on board with a ban on pink firearms this Women's Day? Updated with pink camo

Brett T. | 5:38 PM on March 08, 2017

Here’s one campaign we’ll admit we didn’t see coming on this International Women’s Day: should pink guns manufactured for and marketed to women be banned in favor of classic black?

https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/839579349783298049

Our first reaction? No, of course not. There are enough politicians and well-funded advocacy groups trying their best to ban any gun of any kind for any reason.

We don’t think Adam Weinstein is arguing for a real “ban” in his piece for Task and Purpose, though he does make it clear he’d prefer an end to candy-colored hardware:

… the way we begin to have a more inclusive gun culture is by liberating women from the pink ghetto of their Cabela’s and Walmart sporting goods sections.

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In this culture obsessed with status objects, pink guns become an “acceptable” entry point for your moms and girlfriends and sisters. A lot of them may be okay with that, because they think pink is pretty. But is their pink-thinking the result of serious contemplation, or our society’s reflexive gender norms?

You’ll never know until we smash the norm. Ban pink guns. Women deserve black parkerized Barretts and so, so much more.

Women absolutely do deserve black parkerized Barretts, but is it so bad to be pro-choice when it comes to guns? Maybe.

https://twitter.com/hannahgais/status/839579554574397444