Straight Shooters: Meet the Gay Gun-Rights Activists – Four years ago, Chris Cheng—a Chinese-Japanese-Cuban-American Google employee—started watching Top Shot, a History Channel reality show where contestants shoot their way through a series of complex competitions. Cheng, who as a kid had sometimes gone shooting with his Navy veteran father, started getting into the show.  One day, while watching season two with some of his Google coworkers, Cheng told them: “Hey, everyone, this is gonna sound crazy, but I think I’m going to apply for Top Shot.” He remembers his colleagues thinking he was nuts. “They looked at me like, ‘You barely shoot, you don’t have any accolades or trophies or awards or anything in the shooting world. What makes you think you’d even stand a chance with some of these lifelong, seasoned professional marksmen?’ “