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Gwen Patton is with Pink Pistols, an international LGBT gun rights network, whose membership has already climbed from 1,500 earlier in June to over 7,000 just last week. Let's get rid of that vulnerability.'Īnd that vulnerability can sometimes cause anxiety – even for a gun owner within the gay community. 'And we got the family back together, and I said, ‘Well, how many of these can we possibly do?' And my mom just looks up and says, ‘Well, all of them!' So, it became our calling now: Let's arm and empower this group of people that's been historically known as a vulnerable group. 'I started getting cold feet right around 200,' he says. He had to consult with his mother and other members of the family business. Sanford says he even wondered if they could actually afford to offer up the $69 classes for free. And we're now at – I believe the last count was 13 classes, and we're up over 550 people signed up.'Ī friend who is a gun owner within the gay community suggested the idea to Sanford after the Orlando shooting. 'What we thought we would get was maybe two classes with 15-20 people each. 'It's been far more than anything we could've ever imagined,' says the shop owner.

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He says ever since they started offering free concealed handgun classes to LGBT individuals, 'the response has been out of this world.' Jeff Sanford is manager of the Shiloh Gun Range in Northwest Harris County. But some members of the LGBT community in Houston have responded in a different way. In the wake of the Orlando mass shooting, President Barack Obama and many others called for gun control.

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