Kasarda is wearing a sandy acid-wash T-shirt and tartan cargo pants – “Postapocalyptic cowboy meets dad,” Gun Bunny screams. A 51-year-old cis white man whose love of subculture spans hacking, industrial music, and work as a minister of the Satanic Temple, Kasarda eschews the title of “leader.” Conversely, 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 the creation of this alternative gun community, which he and others describe as “the punk rock outsiders of the shooting community.”
Their movement started nearly a decade ago with a YouTube channel, InRange TV, which now has nearly 930,000 followers. Kasarda’s videos often focus on firearms history he believes many conservatives in the gun world would prefer to forget, like slave rebellions, a Native American tribe member kicking the KKK’s ass in a standoff in North Carolina in 1958, and possibly a trans midwife in Colonel George Armstrong Custer’s cavalry. The channel’s description states that it is “actively anti-racist, supportive of human liberation and LGBTQ+ rights” and that Kasarda is a champion of “2A for All”, the belief that everyone, especially minorities, should have access to weapons. While this might seem like a natural stance for any gun-loving American, Kasarda’s views have angered right-wing gunmen so badly that there have been angry threads about them for years on AR15.com and Kiwi Farms, a forum notorious for harassing trans people. “We don’t want to talk about marginalized communities that depend on firearms because we don’t like marginalized communities,” says Kasarda, who is part of how the right views the issue.
These tensions have become worse under Trump 2.0. After the President’s re-election, left-leaning and gay-focused firearms organizations and classes like the Liberal Gun Club and Pink Pistols told me they were seeing big increases in interest and attendance. In early September, media outlets reported that Justice Department officials were considering a gun ban for trans people. In response, a trans gun paraphernalia manufacturer advised trans Americans who were planning to purchase a firearm to “do so now.”
seconds before that Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed, shared a myth about trans people propagating mass shootings. An attendee at his Turning Point USA event asked him, “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters in the last 10 years?” To which Kirk replied, “Pretty much.” Data from the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive shows there have been five trans or nonbinary mass shooters confirmed between January 2013 and September 2025, making trans people responsible for less than 0.1 percent of the 5,748 mass shootings tracked by the group over that time period.
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