The Hard-Left Shooters Leading a Gun Culture Revolution
Kasarda is dressed in an acid-wash sand T-shirt and tartan cargo pants – “post-apocalyptic cowboy meets daddy,” interjects Gun Bunny. A 51-year-old cis-white man whose love of subcultures spans hacking, industrial music and a stint as a minister at the Satanic Temple, Kasarda eschews the title “leader.” On the contrary, he says he has “a problem with authority” and “flirts” with the idea of anarchy. But there is no doubt that he is largely responsible for building this alternative gun community, which he and others describe as the “punk rock underdogs of the shooting community.”
His movement began about ten years ago with a YouTube channel, InRange TV, which now has around 930,000 subscribers. Kasarda’s videos frequently focus on gun history that he thinks many gun conservatives would like to forget, like slave revolts, Native American tribesmen kicking the KKK’s ass during a standoff in North Carolina in 1958, and a possibly trans midwife in Col. George Armstrong Custer’s cavalry. The channel’s description says it is “actively anti-racist, pro-human liberation and LGBTQ+ rights,” and Kasarda is a champion of “2A For All,” the belief that everyone, especially minorities, should have access to guns. While this might seem like a natural stance for any gun-loving American, Kasarda’s views have so angered right-wing gun nuts that there have been years of discussions about him on AR15.com and Kiwi Farms, a forum known for harassing trans people. “We don’t want to talk about marginalized communities that rely on guns because we don’t like marginalized communities,” Kasarda says, of how people on the right view the problem.
These tensions have worsened under Trump 2.0. After the president’s re-election, left-wing and gay-focused gun organizations and classes, like the Liberal Gun Club and the Pink Pistols, told me they were seeing significant spikes in interest and participation. In early September, media reported that Justice Department officials were considering a gun ban for trans people. In response, a trans gun-related content creator recommended that trans Americans who were considering purchasing firearms should “do it now.”
A few seconds before he was shot, Charlie Kirk shared a myth that trans people spread mass shootings. An attendee at one of his Turning Point USA events asked him, “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters in the last 10 years?” ” to which Kirk replied, “Too much.” Figures from the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit organization, reveal that there were five confirmed trans or non-binary mass shooters between January 2013 and September 2025, making trans people responsible for less than 0.1% of the 5,748 mass shootings tracked by the group during that period.
