Pink Pistols overhead view of a picto-person aiming a handgun in an isosceles stance superimposed on a pink triangle. The pink triangle, now a gay pride and gay rights symbol, was originally a badge that homosexual concentration camp victims were forced to wear during the Holocaust. According to spokesperson Gwen Patton, "We don't want people to hurt us, we want people to run away from us, and the best way we have found to do that is to be armed." Patton has also stated that, "the Pink Pistols tend to get a better response from firearms supporters than from homosexuals". The group's
David Gwinnutt led him to create the Pink Jack. A simple change to the Union Jack, the Pink Jack has the blue triangle shaped areas, in pink. The pink triangle was a symbol of oppression used by the Nazis to identify homosexuals. It was later reclaimed by gay men as a badge of honour and became a recognised LGBT symbol. Gwinnutt's first experiments with the design were in 1999 but he officially launched it at Europride in London 2006. The design was an instant hit and caught the mood in the UK at the time which was acknowledging equal rights for gay