"Don't Tell Mom I Own A Gun; She Just Thinks I'm Gay."

The "Pink Pistols" receive more grief from other gays about their gun ownership than they do from conservatives about their sexual preference.

The GUN-RIGHTS group known as the "Pink Pistols" is gaining membership nationwide, hoping to thwart those would attack them based on their sexual preference.

Interestingly, group members are finding they are being discriminated against a lot more because of their belief in the Second Amendment than for their sexual preference. "I know of absolutely no conservatives that have attacked us", says Washington Lobbyist and group member Austin Fulk. "I've gotten a lot more grief from gay people for owning guns and supporting the Second Amendment than I ever have from gun owners for being gay."

In fact, it is groups like the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force that wish to get in the way of the Pink Pistols' civil rights, and deny them the means of self defense.

"We are not going to settle our score as a community by having a shoot-out at the OK Corral," the Task Force's Sue Hyde said recently.

Maybe not, but Pink Pistols member Doug Krick has a more realistic take on the right to arm oneself in the face of physical harm.

"There is a certain segment that believes that the world would be better without guns, therefore the message is to ban guns," Krick told the New York Post. "That would not be desirable, even if you could. As the saying goes, `God made all men, Colt made all men equal.'"

There's also a nice picture of a pink pistol with the caption "Pink Pistol: replacement for the scarlet letter?"