I can't believe I'm even writing this but: I just had 'gun culture' forced on me but from the left.

I am Australian. I'm not a gun owner but I don't have any issues with other people owning them. There's a shitload of restrictions on them here, most of our guns are shotguns and rifles, you have to for extremely good reasons to have a hand gun. I'm not political, I couldn't give a rats ass, I think politics and the system as a whole is a utter joke but I try to vote for the people who aren't outwardly trying to fuck over the country.<br><br>Today I went to go see my 94 year old grandfather who has a few acres out in the country. He hates guns but his son (my uncle) loves them. For a 94 year old, he goes pretty well, not too many physical limitations at all.<br><br>Anyway, I was out there helping him with some stuff and my uncle was in one of his sheds cleaning his hand guns, he was telling me about targets he's hit and how he's been to these competitions and stuff, all very cool. Then all of a sudden he says "OP, do you want to feel a fair dinkum gun?" (fair dinkum means real, genuine, authentic), I'm like wtf is this, this is very out of character. He goes over to a safe and pulls out an AK47, I swear to god I nearly shit myself. I asked him wtf and where did he get it from, he said "I'm a member of a communist gun group, a group of 50 people who are all about taking back the means of production, we want Australia to be a socialist nation, we believe the people should own the guns and the factories and farmlands and the government run the infrastructure and services."<br><br>I tell him that, yeah, that does sound very fair dinkum.<br><br>So then he shows me 5 more, and a bunch of magazines, but one of them was destroyed, he said the cops had found it, but one of the guys in the group is a cop, and that person was the one who found it and they were like "oh no, you're not getting this back". He then pulls out a bunch of pistols, including another hand gun and what looked like a fully automatic sub machine gun. I was absolutely floored. Then he took me out into the bush and was shooting them all into this dirt mound, he even let me fire a couple of the hand guns.<br><br>The entire time he was going on about the revolution, and how we need to take control of the means of production away from capital. I'm sitting there, just thinking about wtf, how on earth did I end up here. But at the same time, it was an experience that I'll never forget, I had such a good time. It was exhilarating, it's not something you get to do everyday.<br><br>Then his wife comes out of the house and asks what that noise is and he's like "oh just taking some pot shots" and she goes "ok". I couldn't believe it.<br><br>After we finished and he took me back to my car, he handed me one of the hand guns, I'm like wtf, I don't think you can just give people guns, and he's like "it's for the revolution, hide it away and when the time comes, you'll know". I don't know what I'm going to do with it, definitely going to bury it deep somewhere.