Nope, just cannot abide ugly. I have inherited a slight artistic streak on my Father's side. I have a bit of OCD as well. Not debilitating, just that I find imperfections annoying and my eye is drawn to them. Ugly guns are one giant imperfection. Then there is the whole Mall Ninja, Hollyweird, violence prone, video game culture that curdles the milk in my Cheerios.
Here is my opinion and it is not worth all that much. There are target guns, and sporting guns, and personal protection guns, and rough and tumble guns that lean in the corner by the back door just in case a varmint needs civilizing. Lastly, there are fightin' guns, for fighting men, of fighting age, training, and physical ability. I guess I don't give a wet poop what those guns look like because in that case form should follow function. What ever attributes enhance the weapon's function to aid our fighting men to triumph in combat I applaud. But to build a toy so over grown boys can pretend to be bad ass pew pew nuisances at the range is off putting.
Bill Ruger hired Len Brownell to design the stock of the Model 77 for a reason. Bill understood aesthetics and that aesthetics need not detract from function. Thank God Bill did not live to see the disturbing products his namesake company is offering today, in an effort to pander to a culture neither he nor I understand.
Now for those youngsters that would reflexively label me a Fudd, they would be wrong. My position is the the 2A was a guarantee that the citizenry never be denied the possession of arms period. If they want to own an ugly gun, and play silly games, and fantasize about mortal combat, or just want to see how many empty casings they can keep in the air at one time, so be it. But don't be surprised if you see me rolling my eyes like a teenage girl when I see them doing it.
