Context: I went out shooting in the Arizona desert with a friend at a pretty popular shooting destination. We were alone with a mountain as our backdrop and the dirt road behind us. My car was pulled up to this small enclave where we could use my car trunk as the storage and staging grounds since neither of us had tables (we were broke college graduates with not much utilities). I wanted to show my friend my Tavor x95 I got used and how it operated so when I pulled out the rifle for a second or two it was pointed at the road we came from. I lifted it up to the air so it wouldn’t be in anyone’s direction as I demonstrated the bolt hold and release with an empty magazine so he knew how it worked. As I did that however this vehicle slowly drove by yelling at me to keep the rifle pointed down range and that I was also a massive fucking idiot who shouldn’t be allowed to own guns. These two guys seemed to have driven by couple of times out of nowhere while revving their vehicle and I felt this weird cold stare coming from them every time they did. Now, that has bothered me for a little bit because I ALWAYS do my best to try and be as safe as possible even if conditions aren’t as ideal and I hate getting into trouble when it wasn’t my intention. To have someone be that angry at me though for what could’ve been an honest mistake (if that was even that at all) comes across as like a Karen type.

Now I don’t remember all the details but to me we were pretty far enough from the main dirt road and I could’ve sworn I had the rifle pointed up in the air as to not flag anyone. I don’t know what I did what was wrong?

I don’t know. Has anyone ever had experiences like that where someone seemed unnecessarily pushy or aggressive when you were minding your own business? Or maybe I was in the wrong?