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Pink Pistols helps Nevada’s LGBT gun owners

By WESLEY JUHL
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Gays with guns don’t get bashed.

That was part of Kimberly Lang’s thought process when she bought her first gun last week.

Lang, 26, and her wife, Naomi Ramirez-Lang, 27, had been talking about firearm ownership for some time, but the Mesquite residents always hesitated. They have two children and anything-can-happen concerns with having a gun in their home.

“I’ve always wanted a gun, and nobody in my family’s really let me have one,” Lang said. “I really want to own one for the safety of my family.”


But then on June 12 a lone gunman entered a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida. Authorities have said Omar Mateen shot more than 100 people — 49 fatally — during Latin night at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub before he was killed by police.

The tragedy holds the distinction of being the deadliest multiple-victim shooting in recent U.S. history, and it forced the women to reconsider.

“After the shooting I was like, ‘No, I’m doing this,’” Lang said.

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