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Chris Cheng

From Recoil Magazine
Chris Cheng—Coming Out Of The Gun Closet
Article by David Reeder

Recently in an article about Austin Weiss I said the “…Second Amendment belongs to Americans. All Americans. Male or female; black, white, purple or green; inked and bearded and pierced or not…” One group I didn’t mention was the gay community.

It’s honestly not something I’d put much thought in; just never occurred to me. Though the experience of Tom Palmer (an openly gay man who used a gun to ward off attackers) in San Jose in 1982 is as significant a gun control issue as that of John Hechinger (one of the major catalysts for the original D.C. gun ban) in 1975, I never considered sexual orientation to be of any significance whatsoever with regard to owning a firearm. In fact, I never considered the sexual orientation – gun ownership equation at all.

Chris Cheng, the Season 4 Champion of the History Channel’s Top Shot, is a great marksman and a staunch proponent of the Second Amendment. He is also gay.

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