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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Exactly! Ive got the Dad cleaning his guns thing a few times when i showed up to a girls house. The only time i got the impression they were anything but Mall Ninjas was when ones father was cleaning a 410 shotgun. See if hed been trying to intimidate me he'd have been cleaning his most impressive gun. This guy saw his guns as tools and had one in the rack on his truck, on his quad, above the back door. He never said anything threatening or was anything but the nicest, sweetest guy ever. It made me realize the other guys were the rebel-flag-dick-substitute type gun guys.
gpt
My wife’s dad is a huge gun nut.  He never once felt the need to put on some sad show of cleaning his guns or anything like that.  I knew she would kick me to the curb long before he had a say in the matter, and it seems to me any dad who raised his daughter right would be able to trust that is the case with his own daughter as well.