yes, anyone can say a blank image/quote/symbol means…xyz
but when it’s a large group of people using them as “code talk”…then it’s not equivalent to a single news outlet with a single story
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So I guess that’s where we’ll just have to agree to disagree (and that’s the great thing about our Country the freedom to do just that and still live in peace).
Using the arguments you’ve presented here the U.S. Flag would be a hate symbol as they are frequently used/brandished by groups like the kkk, neo-nazis, etc. A group of individuals have already come out against the Betsy Ross flag claiming it was a hate symbol and a major shoe company capitulated to their absurd claims. Many are saying the Gadson Flag (popular among the 2A crowd) is also now a racist symbol.
I refuse to yield to those types of efforts because I know the truth and am happy to engage others in an educated conversation when it comes to those types of things to help them understand the truth as well.
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@Terence1 Hello friend,
Nine Line Apparel sent out a joint marketing email around 10:30 EDT this morning. I’d recently, within the last month, joined their email list so… (Well, that and a couple of purchases recently too… don’t know if it mattered)
Anyway, If you’re already a client of USCCA it may well amount to nothing to see here for the membership - new recruiting perhaps?
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@Ben_Blanc You bring up a good point. I had no idea someone got it in their head that the “O.K.” finger symbol means something to a particular group… and now, supposedly, Everybody knows this and 'for gosh sake, don’t you get caught using it!"
I mean, if it was a horizontal action of the OK finger sign AND the person using it says at the same time “Be seeing you!” I’d get very worried.
But that’s because of something a PSI Cop and another guy used to really freak out the Commander of Babylon 5 in a science fiction story; and it would mean the fix was in and war with the shadows is coming really soon.
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@CHRIS4 And we all know what it means when it’s shown below the belt…
ha! Caught you looking, two virtual slugs for you!!!
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Really? I didn’t know that! I’ll have to check my email. I’ve bought just a little bit from them myself and I’ve been looking at a couple of sweatshirts for my boys for Christmas… Shhhhh! Don’t tell them!
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absolutely not, the American flag is the American flag!..and for the record, identifying with viking warriors is NOT common place as you stated, maybe amongst YOUR circle, but definitely not AMERICA as a whole.
here’s an idea, maybe try identifying with your fellow Americans…surely we have past American quotes, sayings, symbols…and even warriors worth mentioning…
besides most of the rhetoric i refer to does not even have american origin…some old crazy other country stuff…like viking warriors
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Well………
In fact an entire State (and I’d venture to say three to include North and South Dakota) identify with that symbol……
And then…….
So I guess it just depends on which groups you’re listening to. And as far as “old crazy other country stuff” we all have roots elsewhere and have brought the best of those parts of those countries to be incorporated here making our Country Great.
But we’re waaaay off topic here. I think you’ve got some pretty good leads on some great gear that meets your criteria and avoids your concerns, many of which I’m happy to own and wear around the range.
Happy shopping I hope you find something that you’ll be proud to wear and represent the 2A community…and welcome to the board. 
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@scott52 it’s not about attire, its about hidden, and sometimes not so hidden messages…focus
@JamesR i agree, some have brought good parts…but you must also agree, some have brought bad…but again, i just want some cool t-shirts…thanks again for suggestions, i’ll be sure to check em’ out
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my apologies if i’ve offended…sometimes it’s not our beliefs that are offensive, but the manipulation of them by certain groups of people…again my apologies if i mispoke or was not entirely clear in my comments.
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The older I get the less inclined I am to be a walking bill board for aything other than the USCCA and NRA.
Visit our website, the NRA website and Colin Noir’s website for “non redneck inspired” pro 2nd Amendment attire.
How you make the jump from that to white nationalism escapes me.
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I think you’re reading way more into those than is intended.
The series “Vikings” has inspired a lot of Viking related gear, nothing more.
Folks on the left put labels on anything they can to force compliance with their agenda and it’s a shame that we keep letting them take ever more of the language and our right to free expression away.
I’m not going to wear confederate gear but I’m also not going to aid them in their quest.
At some point we have to “resist” the resit movement ourselves.
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I don’t think anyone’s taken offense, I certainly have not been offended by you.
If we can’t have these types of discussions here in our Community, (calm, respectful) how the heck are we going to have them out there “on the streets” and be articulate in presenting our points of view while considering the other sides?
I think the only “party foul” we had here was straying so far from the original topic. 
It’s all good brother, I see your pov and while I may not agree with all of it or you with my pov retorts to yours, it was a good conversation. 
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Colion Noir has a nice line of shirts from his NRA YouTube.i have 6-7 of em…
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Some of us are actually descendants of the norse. I will rock a Valhalla themed shirt, and if some snowflake doesn’t like it they can “try” to peel it off of me. Seriously, courage and honor are not dirty words, I refuse to let extreme left wing looney toons make them such.
Edit: I’m also pretty fed up with this whole “unless you’re XYZ race you can’t be proud of who you are.” It’s a giant steaming pile of manure.
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I dont think you can assume that 9line has a white supremacist intent by calling out a Valhalla reference.
Historical Norse religion has no written history of it’s own, anything written comes from outside the Norse culture itself, and is therefore second generation at best. There is no tradition of whites only in older renditions of their religion, that only enters with the white supremacists themselves and is a perverse adaptation to suit their own ends.
When evil co-opts an existing idea, that does not make the existing idea evil.
Nineline’s shirt is a voice for the nobility and value of the warrior spirit, not a subliminal call out to the evil of racial hatred.
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That said, I have viking heritage, a Viking Pirate Captain, to be precise. Not giving up my rightful heritage because some evil nutjobs are misusing it. If we yield the ground because they are misappropriating it, they win. If we drop it like a hot potato because they misuse it, and someone might be offended, we lose.
This is one of the reasons I am “out there” about firearms and 2A… if we retreat in response to people being offended about what is true and what is our right, we will lose far more than our printed shirts.
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If I May…
IN MY OPINION, there is no such thing as ‘white nationalism’. White is a race, not a country. I am an AMERICAN NATIONALIST who happens to be a white male, and have American Nationalist friends who are black, Hispanic and Oriental. I am also not, and never will be a hyphenated american… I am just a plain old American that loves his Country, loves his Flag, and really does not care about the opinions of the nutjobs on the left.
More on topic, i own several nine-line shirts, all of which support 2A and our Country. I wear them ‘downtown’ frequently.
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I like that definition. (Yes, I left off the “nutjobs” part because while I don’t care about the opinion of those trying to manipulate the conversation with bad facts, I refuse to stoop to name-calling - or even acknowledging them - most of the time. I’m human and oops from time to time. 
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your OPINION is wrong…here is a small list of groups in America that self identify as white nationalists
- 11th Hour Remnant Messenger was a group founded by two wealthy retired entrepreneurs who believed that whites were the true biblical Israelites.
- American Renaissance, is a “race realist and white advocacy website”, formerly a monthly magazine, published by the New Century Foundation.
- American Freedom Party, formerly known as the American Third Position Party, is an American political party which promotes white supremacy.[30][31][32][33] It was founded in 2010, and it defines its principal mission as representing the political interests of white Americans.[34]
- American Nazi Party, is an antisemitic, neo-Nazi organization based largely upon the ideals and policies of Adolf Hitler’s NSDAP in Germany during the era of the Third Reich. It also supports Holocaust denial.
- Aryan Brotherhood of Texas is, according to the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center, one of the largest and most violent white supremacist prison gangs in the United States, responsible for murders and other violent crimes.[35][36]
- Aryan Nations, is a white supremacist neo-Nazi organization founded in the 1970s by Richard Girnt Butler as an arm of the Christian Identity group known as the Church of Jesus Christ-Christian. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has called Aryan Nations a “terrorist threat”,[37] and the RAND Corporation has called it the “first truly nationwide terrorist network” in the US.[38]
- Asatru Folk Assembly, part of the racist (“folkish”) branch of the Heathenry movement.[39]
- Council of Conservative Citizens, is an American political organization that supports a large variety of conservative and paleoconservative causes in addition to white separatism.[40]
- Creativity Alliance, (formerly known as the World Church of the Creator ) is a white supremacist political organization that advocates the racialist religion, Creativity . Mainly religious rather than political, the radical Creativity Alliance or Church of Creativity, founded by Ben Klassen in 1973, worships the white race itself rather than any deity, and advocates a radical form of white supremacism known as RAHOWA.
- EURO, is a white separatist organization in the United States. Led by former Louisiana state representative, presidential primary candidate and Grand Wizard of the KKK David Duke, it was founded in 2000.[41][42]
- Hammerskins, also known as Hammerskin Nation, are a white supremacist group formed in 1988 in Dallas, Texas. Their primary focus is the production and promotion of white power rock music, and many white power bands have been affiliated with the group.
- Identity Evropa is an American neo-Nazi and white supremacist organization established in March 2016.
- Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as The Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present [43] organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy and nationalism. The Klan is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.[44] It is estimated to have between 5,000 and 8,000 members, split among dozens of different organizations that use the Klan name as of 2012.[45]
- National Alliance, is a white supremacist political organization. It was founded by William Luther Pierce, and is based in the Pierce family’s compound in Hillsboro, West Virginia.
- National Association for the Advancement of White People, is a white supremacist organization in the United States incorporated on December 14, 1953 in Delaware by Bryant Bowles which presents itself as a civil rights organization such as the NAACP.
- National Policy Institute, is a think tank based in Augusta, Georgia in the United States. It describes itself as the right’s answer to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- National Socialist Movement (United States), a party founded in 1974. Since 2005 the party has become very active, staging many marches and demonstrations.
- National Vanguard, was an American National Socialist organization based in Charlottesville, Virginia, founded by Kevin Alfred Strom and former members of the National Alliance.
- Nationalist Movement, is a Mississippi-based, white supremacist organization that advocates what it calls a “pro-majority” position. It has been called white supremacist by the Associated Press and Anti-Defamation League, among others.[46][47]
- Occidental Quarterly, is a printed far-right quarterly journal with a web segment, TOQ Online, including interviews, essays and reviews on the website.[48]
- The Order, or Brüder Schweigen (“Silent Brotherhood”) was a white supremacist Revolutionary organization founded by Robert Jay Mathews, active 1983-1984, probably best known for the 1984 murder of talk show host Alan Berg. Berg’s killing was to be the first in a planned series of assassinations, followed by attacks on the United States government, all meant to bring about a race war which would result in fulfillment of White Separatist ideals (see Northwest Territorial Imperative).
- Pacifica Forum, is a controversial discussion group in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It has been listed as a white nationalist[49] hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
- Phineas Priesthood, is a Christian Identity movement that opposes interracial intercourse, the mixing of races, homosexuality, and abortion. It is also marked by its anti-Semitism, anti-multiculturalism, and opposition to taxation.
- Volksfront, describes itself as an international fraternal organization for persons of European descent.[50] It has been called “neo-Nazi” and a “racist-skinhead group” in press reports.[51][52][53] The Anti-Defamation League has called the group “one of the most active skinhead groups in the United States.”[54] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has added Volksfront to its list of hate groups.[55]
- White America, Inc., a group founded in Arkansas to prevent racial desegregation of the state’s schools.[56]
- White Aryan Resistance, is a neo-Nazi white supremacist organization founded and led by former Ku Klux Klan leader Tom Metzger.[57]
@Ben_Blanc; I disagree. The definition of Nationalist is a person that pledges allegiance to his Country. A Racist believes that their RACE is superior to all others. Every organisation thst you listed is RACIST, regaedless of the contents of their name.
NATIONALISM is a good thing, everyone should pledge allegiance to thier country. THAT is Nationalism. P. S. Wikipedia is a leftist outfit that is anti-American.
@Dawn; I apologise, Madame. I had not intended to hijack this thread. Ocurrances like this make me believe that I should keep my mouth shut. I’m outa here.
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