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I read that FSW Members are big on gun ownership and shooting. Is such preoccupation with firearms really all that necessary?

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I read that FSW Members are big on gun ownership and shooting. Is such preoccupation with firearms really all that necessary?

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Yes. The FSW is firmly defends a vigorous shooting culture as a necessary foundation of a free society. We actively nurture the concept of citizen rifleman, the backbone of a nation’s defense which also daily reinforces our individual responsibility and resolve to remain free. “Arms are the only true badges of liberty. The possession of arms is the distinction of a free man from a slave.” —Andrew Fletcher, A Discourse of Government with relation to Militias (1698), p.47 “The unarmed man is not just defenseless, he is also contemptible.” — Machiavelli “Pick up a rifle and you change instantly from a subject to a citizen.” — Jeff Cooper, The Art of The Rifle We in the FSW are Westerners. We believe devoutly in being armed. We do not surrender our personal weapons—anywhere, anytime. To do so would place ourselves in the physical powers of strangers whose intentions and mercies can never be known to us in advance. When others seek to deny us the means of defending our lives, why should we

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