Hi all. I am really excited about the EAW, and meeting/working with all of you. I have occasionally given gun culture thought, but not enough to pursue it as a story topic. With that said I am really excited about "gun culture." Working on a current story about scrappers here in the bay area, I came across this gun while exploring the homeless camp where some scrappers live. Luckily I photographed it. Not too much later after returning to this portion of the camp it was gone. 

I never picked it up, figured out whether it was real, or who it belonged to. Looking at this photo it makes me think about how guns, real or fake, can be used as a status symbol, to boost one's ego, or to intimidate.