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In Alaska, a couple is not content with teen age girls learning how to shoot .22 rifles and pellet guns. Not that there is anything wrong with that. Air rifles and .22 rifles are excellent tools for teaching beginners to shoot, and for target practice and hunting small game. But this course goes further and involves a wider variety of firearms. From peninsularclarion.com:
In addition to safety, the course includes trigger technique, accuracy practice, shooting from a full range of positions, and a chance to gain experience with a variety of guns. Ted Spraker said that the class begins with shotgun trap-shooting, then progresses to rifles and handguns, and finishes with a course in the AR-50 assault rifle, which Ted Spraker said the girls are “not bashful about shooting.”This sounds like an excellent program to emulate all around the country. I could easily see Texas as the next state to do so. Texas has never been loathe to one up Alaska. Elaine Spraker, one the founders of the Alaskan program has this to say:
“The true value of this program is female empowerment,” said Elaina Spraker. “You take an adolescent girl, and something very positive happens when they learn the power of firearms.”Around the country, women are becoming gun owners and concealed carry permit holders. Good habits are best started when young.
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This isn't anything new. The NRA and certain MeetUp groups have had strictly women's class for years. The book "Silk and Steel - Women at Arms" shows that women have been involved with firearms since the beginning.
Women's ownership rates and concealed carry rates have been trending up for years.
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