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Liberalgunowners: Gun-ownership through a pro-gun liberal / leftist lens.. Gun-ownership through a pro-gun liberal / leftist lens. Founded 2012 · 312.4K members

313.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.5K upvotes, which works out to 24 per 1,000 members.

24peak upvotes per 1,000 members
313.7Kmembers
7.5Kbest post
712most comments
605posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

36% 25% 17% 11%
Image 36% Text 25% Gallery 17% Question 11% Video 6% Link 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

:post-guns: guns 238 :post-discussion: discussion 122 :post-question: question 93 :post-gear: gear 51 :post-training: training 27 :post-politics: politics 16 :post-news: news 14 :post-ammo: ammo 14 :post-events: events 14 :post-humor: humor 13

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Rest in peace to a true Backwoods Barbie.

↑ 7.5K 💬 101 image 2026

From our friends at murderedbywords:

↑ 3.1K 💬 179 image 2026

Meet the Sex Workers Forming Gun Clubs for Self Protection

↑ 2.1K 💬 48 link 2026

In Rochester NY we had a couple event inviting leftists who had never shot before to come to a range and get some hands on experience. About 40 peopl…

↑ 2K 💬 41 image 2026

In Memoriam

↑ 1.5K 💬 37 image 2026

Pre midterm election purchase

↑ 1.5K 💬 169 image 2026

Malcolm Gladwell on the foolishness of "Assault weapon" Bans

↑ 1.4K 💬 263 video 2026

What has been your range experience with left-leaning swag?

↑ 1.4K 💬 463 image 2026

Let’s make October John Brown Month

↑ 1.4K 💬 60 image 2026

Newsom signs new gun control laws, including one requiring owners to take a 4-hour class

↑ 1.2K 💬 555 link 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/liberalgunowners, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/liberalgunowners?
r/liberalgunowners ("Liberalgunowners: Gun-ownership through a pro-gun liberal / leftist lens.") describes itself this way: Gun-ownership through a pro-gun liberal / leftist lens. It was founded in 2012 and has 312.4K members.
How many members does r/liberalgunowners have?
r/liberalgunowners has about 313.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 605 of its posts; the biggest reached 7.5K upvotes, which is 24 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/liberalgunowners?
"Rest in peace to a true Backwoods Barbie." reached 7.5K upvotes and 101 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/liberalgunowners.
What subreddits are similar to r/liberalgunowners?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/liberalgunowners?
Of the posts we hold, 36% are image posts and 25% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/liberalgunowners?
Across 605 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 20:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (566 avg upvotes), Monday at 20:00 UTC (437 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/liberalgunowners?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/liberalgunowners has 710 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/liberalgunowners, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.