Chicks With Guns Photo Book Doesn’t Disappoint

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By Jakob Schiller October 26, 2011




Lindsay McCrum's new photo book Chicks With Guns is just what you think it is: Striking portraits of women with their firearms. What's unexpected, however, is the impact of the photos as a collection.

If viewers don't personally know one of these gun-toters, McCrum hopes the book serves as an introduction to a growing community of 15 to 20 million women in the U.S. who own and use guns.

“Usually women with guns are turned into comic book characters — Lara Croft, Kill Bill — and I thought it would be fascinating to find out who the real women in our country are who own guns,” she says.

After three years and 280 photo shoots, McCrum chose 80 compelling and thoughtful frames for her book. Each photo is accompanied by quotes from the subjects about their history or feelings on gun ownership.

For McCrum, Chicks With Guns is not an attempt to enter the ideological debate about guns. Instead, she says she tried to harness the visceral power of photography to provide a more rounded, honest picture of what women gun owners look like today.


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[Abin Sur]

1. Of course it disappoints.

As far as I can tell there isn't a single picture of a hot chick in a bikini holding a gun.x(

[Katya Mullethov]

3. Lynn has got it goin on

That's one of hte best things about getting older . Every year , more and more chicks look really hot .

[SteveM]

7. Ain't it the truth. Closing hour is all the time, now. nt

[We_Have_A_Problem]

14. She is very good looking for her age...

Lives in Houston too :D

[MineralMan]

2. Very odd, that book.

I don't think I'll buy a copy. There were a couple of photos of people looking natural with their firearms. Most, though, looked artificial. I liked the one of the two biathlon competitors, and the one with the cop. Most, though, seemed rather strange to me.

[chibajoe]

4. I have the book, it's ok

Mostly pictures of FUDDettes and their stories of going hunting with dad/uncle/brothers as a kid. Makes a decent coffee table book, but not as interesting as the Armed America book.

[MineralMan]

5. When it comes to books about firearms, I prefer technical

information. I have several books on antique firearms. Photos of people holding guns doesn't do anything for me.

[chibajoe]

11. Well, it's really not a book about guns, it's a book about people

If you're not interested in people (who happen to be female and own guns), then you will probably have no interest in this book. Personally, I find people interesting, and I find guns interesting, so a book about people who own guns is pertinent to my interests.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

9. I prefered Armed America as well

[ileus]

6. 3 or 4 years ago we were out on a back road in Virginia.

Just the four of us riding in the jeep no top no doors riding a back road. We come around a bend and up ahead was an old woman in a dress walking with a cane down the middle of the road in the middle of nowhere. We slowed down really slow and drove around her.....I looked over at this 80+ year old woman (right out of the Waltons) she had a leather belt and a holstered old revolver in an old leather holster. I've alway wished we'd had taken her picture.

[jeepnstein]

8. My grandmother usually wore her pistol...

any time she was out walking around the farm. She lived alone up a holler with no cell phone service. I always stopped at the bridge and made some noise before driving on up to the house, just in case.

[ileus]

10. I have my grandmothers pistol...

It always hung on a nail beside her bed...She never carried it even though my grandfather was shot once by an unknown person on their farm in WV.

[one-eyed fat man]

12. My great aunt was the same.

She carried an old Colt Police Positive. She would take me shooting with her. My father and uncles taught me how to hunt with a rifle and a shotgun, but she was the one who taught me to use a handgun.

[gravity556]

13. My grandmother used to be able to skip a can across the ground

with my great great grandfather's Colt Peacemaker. Her arthritis is too bad for her to shoot much anymore, but every once in a while she'll join in when the family is out camping and plinking. My wife is an excellent shot as well. Not sure why, but most of the women I've taught to shoot pick it up very quickly and it doesn't take them long to start matching me shot for shot.

[AtheistCrusader]

15. My wife can kick my ass at clays/skeet.

Her Remington 1100 tactical doesn't even have a damn choke and she just destroys me every time.