Well, I will admit to never being called a "rifle loony", at least to my face. However, I have been called a number of different names, "gun nut", "rifle fanatic" -I rather like that one-, "the nut case with all the guns", -don't particularly like that one-, and a few that wouldn't go well in mixed company. I have also been accused of being a bit to "intense" about guns in general, rifles in particular. Now, down in my part of the South, being "intense" about something has a fairly specific meaning. It may, or may not be a good thing, depending on the context of how it's used.
So what it boils down to, I don't give a damn what I'm called, as long as I'm left alone to do my thing. Yeah, I'm a little "intense" about that...
