Welcome to the form 4473. That question has been on the form has been required since 1968 and has always included democratic questions.

Q9:  Did previous versions of ATF Form 4473 include demographic questions?
Yes, per federal regulation, all previous versions of ATF Form 4473 have included demographic or identifying questions, including a question pertaining to race of prospective firearms purchasers. Title 27, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), section 478.124 (formerly 178.124), has required collection of information concerning the race and other identifying information of the transferee on Form 4473 since 1968.

https://www.atf.gov/firearms/atf-form-4473-faqs#:~:text=Title%2027%2C%20Code%20of%20Federal,on%20Form%204473%20since%201968.

And it is against federal law for the ATF to retain the information contained in a Form 4473 (although it appears that ATF may have an illegal database of 4473 information, but that has nothing to do with ethnicity).

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My experience is that the vast majority of gun owners at a range don’t care who or what you are, except that you are a fellow shooter. And the people who make up the shooting community tend towards being helpful to new shooters.

As for the “Republicans playing on fear,” I see much more fear mongering coming from the left than the right.

All in all, EVERYONE has a right to self defense, regardless of race, creed, sexuality or gender identity so I have no problem at all with trans Americans arming themselves. Hell, I gave my trans daughter a pistol for protection several years ago and made sure knew how to safely use it.

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The phrase “use force to defend our rights” is ambiguous, not least because trans people are wont to claim as “their rights” social rules to which no national consensus has ever been attained.

To avoid ambiguity which might be interpreted as an intention to commit murder if not allowed to have one’s way, let us more precisely say:

“Trans people have the same right to defend their lives under the statutes and case law concerning the use of deadly force in self-defense as anyone else.”

This includes defending themselves from murder (and murder of trans people is not unknown).

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Hahahaha. Totally unintended!

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Setting aside the assumed gendering, note the implicit bias in this statement. Why would he “let on” anything, notice or not? Isn’t it possible he had no reaction because he didn’t -care-?

There is a narcissism involved here, that “I must be noticed and responded to” and if that need is not met, it must due to some disguised contempt or fear.

The idea that many, if not most, people don’t give a rat’s patootie about you or what you do as long as you leave them alone, appears a foreign concept to many iconoclasts of all stripes.

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Pun intended? 😉

Glad your point made it through in context.

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