It’s been a hell of a ride folks
I made this blog in December of 2012. I was in a pretty rough spot and @warheads-r-us was twisting my arm to make a tumblr so I did for the shiggles. I hardly knew anyone on here and Gunblr was still starting to stretch it’s legs so all I did was spam pictures of guns, mostly not my own, that I’d hoarded from my years on /k/.
The blog started to blow up. I used to write down how many followers I had when I went to sleep and wake up with 500 more, it was insane. People started to ask about the man behind the blog, I started posting about my recovery from my spinal cord injury and weekly physically therapy updates. I became a part of the community here, back when we really had one, made so many amazing friends, and met a few lovers.
SHOT 2015 was when I really realized this blog had gotten out there, at the time I only had around 13k followers but I had seven or eight people come up at the show and say hi and that they liked the blog. I’ve talked to so many of you over the years, helped a lot of people through various struggles and been helped through my own. Those of you who’ve been around awhile have seen me realize my dream of becoming a gunsmith, supported me through it, and enjoyed the shenanigans as I’ve been working in my field. I really appreciate all the love and support y’all have given me. The response from you guys when my sister’s house burned down and we managed to raise nearly 10k dollars for her through the GoFundMe me still brings tears to my eyes when I think about it. Thank you all again.
I’m really going to miss this place, but the ambiguous NSFW ban is going to kill this site without a doubt. Even if it doesn’t outright kill the gun community here, I don’t think it will be long before the vague NSFW rules apply to “scary” things like gun blogs. We certainly don’t have the tight knit community we once did, but nothing stays the same forever.
Like I’ve said a few times before, I will be relocating to my Instagram also named Coffeeandspentbrass. Please follow me there if you have one so we can continue the good times and shenanigans.
Stay frosty, my friends, keep your booger hooker off the bang switch. I love you all and remember fuck communism and fuck fascism.
Yours truly,
-Todd.
