A Pasco County couple commissioned a revolver-shaped swimming pool

Louis Minardi’s backyard pool may be Florida’s hallmark: the custom-built pool is shaped like a six-shot revolver in a state famed, and sometimes infamous, for guns, gun politics, and gun culture.

“All the neighbors who bought houses here came,” said Minardi, who lives near Tampa. “They all ask, ‘Is this guy nuts?’

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The history of the revolver-shaped pool dates back some 40 years to an idea proposed by Minardi’s school friend Albert Jones III, a contractor who said he was bored with building more traditional shaped pools.

Minardi was initially reluctant, but the idea resonated with him given his lifelong relationship with guns. Minardi, now 67, said he grew up hunting with friends and remembers getting his first firearm, a double-barreled shotgun, when he was in high school but was already mindful of gun safety.

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“I was the shortest and smallest guy growing up and bought a damn 12 gauge,” Minardi said.

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“Things were different back then,” he said. “You are 12 years old and your mom tosses you a box of ammo and a shotgun. But they trust it. They knew we knew what we were doing.”

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Minardi said he started the gun business with his brother after attending classes in 1976.

History courtesy of A fresh look Florida via The Associated Press

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