 She also loved guns, and Vance said the entire family was surprised to discover she had 19 fully loaded weapons scattered around her house. Mrs. Vance died in 2005. Now, the mainstream media wasted a little time in pouncing on the senator's grandmother. Salad.com posted a headline saying that gun extremists have a dream ticket. The fact is that just about everybody in the country has a gun-toting, Bible-clinging grandmother, and every now and then, those grandmas are prone to use salty language.