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Women, Stop Watching Oprah and Learn to Love Guns![[New]](images/animNew.gif)
by Karen De Coster |
Although I tend to think that most women don't make sense, period, I especially believe this concerning the gun issue. It's not only difficult to get women to come around to wanting a gun of their own, but they still can't get to the point where they will understand and accept why others want to own them. One reason that women need to get over their hostility to guns is because the current environment – economic depression, looming inflation, and widespread unemployment – will bring forth a new criminal class due to desperation. In addition, the established criminal class will ramp up their activity. Carjackings, home invasions, robberies, abductions, and rape will plague women in hard economic times. So how do we get women to dig guns?
 www.lewrockwell.com/decoster/decoster151.html |
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WOMEN AND GUNS
by Massad Ayoob |
In almost thirty years of teaching female armed citizens, and longer than that teaching female cops, I've come to the conclusion that once you get past old-fashioned cultural predispositioning, women may actually be better and more decisive students of the gun.
There is nothing unfeminine about strength and empowerment. One of the best informational resources I can recommend for either gender is www.corneredcat.com, by the formidable Kathy Jackson. Armed and Female by Paxton Quigley is another great read, and Gila Hayes' new book, Personal Defense for Women came out last fall.
www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob121.html |
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Who Is the Armed Citizen? The nature of armed self-defense in America
by Jim Supica, Director, National Firearms Museum |
Despite what critics and the media would have you and other Americans think, successful defensive gun usage is far more common than even those on our side of the debate tend to understand. Successful defensive use of firearms in the United States actually occurs literally thousands of times a day...
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The Six Things Americans Should Know About the Second Amendment
by Richard W. Stevens |
This analysis covers:
1) The Second Amendment protects your unalienable right to self-defense and freedom from violent harm;
2) What part of "shall not be infringed" do the victim disarmers fail to understand?
3) "Well regulated" means well-trained and disciplined, not limited or controlled by government;
4) Your First Amendment rights, and all others, are protected by the Second;
5) Government can only earn legitimate authority by upholding rights and ensuring justice;
6) Before any government becomes a full-blown tyranny, it must first disarm the people.
www.jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/six-about-2nd.htm |
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The key to freedom is the ability to defend yourself
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Why Switzerland Has The Lowest Crime Rate In The World.
Where has a gun law reduced crime?
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PREVENTING MASS MURDERS IN SCHOOLS AND ELSEWHERE
by Gabriel Suarez |
Some people will be shocked at the tone of this article. They should be. ... Four school shootings in the last couple of months. Add to that the Islamic terrorist in Seattle. We can only speculate why these events happened. We cannot fathom what goes on in the mind of evil. And make no mistake my friends. There is in fact evil out there. But let's see if we can solve this problem of evil men targeting the weak...
There you are with a gun held to your neck. Do you have the skills to save yourself?
www.usconcealedcarry.com 0701-preventing Mass Murders In Schools And Elsewhere |
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Miss Fitz' Guide to Guns (the best guns to look at if you've never owned a sidearm before)
by Claire Wolfe |
You need a handgun. Trust me on this, unless you're a bad guy, a die-hard pacifist, or a government agent, you really do need one. The average woman wants to know just four main things about handguns, once she's decided she needs one: What gun should I get? How do I get it? What ammo do I put in it? How do I shoot it? The experts are fine. We need 'em. But you don't have to become any sort of heavy gun guy to understand the basics of buying and using your #1 self-protection device. This guide starts off with the age-old question: "Should a woman get a revolver or a semi-auto?" I'm not only going to answer it (the answer being Yes, No, and Maybe), but give you a list of the best guns to look at if you've never owned a real sidearm before.
Which to choose? www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe040301.html
How to Make Sure You're Buying a Gun and not a Turkey: www.backwoodshome.com/columns/wolfe040315.html
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Legal Check List: Plan ahead for yourself and your family
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This is a good time to check the batteries in your smoke detectors, throw out the mystery substance in the back of your freezer and finish off those half used boxes of ammo. It is also a good time to review your legal affairs. Here are some things you should think about...
womenandguns.com/1107issue/macnutt1107.html 0711-legal Check List-what You Did-where You Are Going |
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Good Samaritan Gun Use
by John R. Lott Jr. |
A multiple victim public shooting last week outside the court house in Tyler, Texas, stemming from a custody dispute, resulted in the murder of two people and the wounding of four others. Killings like this frequently make the news, and this story was carried by all the television networks and most major newspapers. Seems like pretty standard media coverage. But what makes this case different is that 21 percent of the news stories actually mentioned that a citizen licensed to carry a concealed weapon used his gun to try and help stop the attack.
www.aei.org/publications/pubID.22052,filter.all/pub_detail.asp 050303-jlott-good Samaritan Gun Use |
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Getting Started in Cowboy Action Shooting
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So you want to get started in Cowboy Action Shooting? Okay, pull up your bedroll, get a cup of coffee from the chuck wagon, and we'll sit by the camp fire as I tell you how to go about becoming involved in the fastest growing shooting sport today.
womenandguns.com/1107issue/feature1107.html |
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Firearms handling refresher
by Massad Ayoob |
While gun handling is not a perishable skill, it is certainly a corrosion-prone one. The skills don't really die, but they sure can get rusty fast. A reader suggested that Backwoods Home's firearms editor write a sort of handling refresher on firearms. John liked the idea, Dave Duffy concurred, and so did the gun editor. That's all it takes, folks; Backwoods Home is your magazine, and the staff takes your suggestions seriously.
Since the reader's problems were with handguns, we'll start there with this installment: www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob031207.html
In Part II, we'll cover shotgun handling tips: www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob031221.html
In Part III, we'll cover protocols for handling rifles: www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob040111.html
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Bear Spray, Your Best Defense
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 There is no substitute for conducting yourself appropriately in bear country: Be alert at all times for bear signs, make noise, secure all food and keep a clean camp. Guns and bear spray should always be a last resort for dealing with those extremely rare situations in which your efforts to avoid a close encounter with a bear have failed. However, you can be confident that, when push comes to shove, a few ounces of bear spray can persuade a half-ton of bear to find something else to do.
www.alaskamagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=601&Itemid=141 0805-bear Spray-your Best Defense |
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Be careful: Self-defense, not fire at will
by Anchorage Daily News |
Self-defense law expands rights; Alaskans need greater responsibility in exercising them.
www.adn.com/opinion/story/7723973p-7635627c.html 060513-adn-self-defense-not Fire At Will |
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12/23/07: We All Have a Right to Bear Firearms
by Greg Cox, BREMERTON |
There are many scholarly articles and law reviews that support the view that the right to bear arms is a constitutional guarantee to all of us. If you examine any one of those articles or reviews, you will find that even some of the authors who are against gun ownership reluctantly recognize that the meaning of the word "militia" means all of us collectively and that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" is an individual liberty.
kitsapsun.com/news/2007/dec/23/my-turn-we-all-have-a-right-to-bear-firearms/ 071223-ks-we All Have A Right To Bear Firearms |
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12/03/08: Washington State Concealed Pislol License permits are protected
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The following investigative, law enforcement, and crime victim information is exempt from public inspection and copying under RCW 42.56.240. Click on this link to read - apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=42.56.240
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12/01/08: Why America’s gun owners are justifiably up in arms. The more Democrats “change” the more they stay the same
by Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman |
From the prospect of an incoming president and vice president with decidedly anti-gun-rights voting records, to a liberal West Coast mayor determined to ban firearms by "executive order" without benefit of city council or legislative review, American gun owners have good reason to doubt the sincerity of Liberal Democrats now in control of Congress and soon to control the Oval Office, who claim to support firearm civil rights...
www.saf.org 081201-america Gun Owners Up In Arms |
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11/29/08: SHERIFF IN OREGON WANTS HOLDERS OF CONCEALED WEAPON PERMITS TO REMAIN PRIVATE
by Sheriff Gil Gilbertson |
This Sheriff strongly believes in the Constitution and specifically the Second Amendment -- the right to bear arms. I must also stress the importance to those who choose to use weapons -- they do so in a responsible and safe manner. Many of you may, or may not, have heard of a state-wide effort to disclose the names, addresses and other identifying information of licensed concealed handgun holders, which includes you. I believe people seeking out and acquiring concealed handgun licenses do so for their security whether for business, personal, or family safety. In any case, I also assume they do not wish that information to become public. This is only an assumption on my part, which brings us to the purpose of this article...
www.newswithviews.com/Gilbertson/gil102.htm 081129-sheriff Wants Holders Of Cpls To Remain Private |
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08/19/03: Study finds 'forgotten' high-court gun cases; shows personal right to bear arms recognized over 2 centuries
by World Net Daily |
A six-year study of Supreme Court cases has found scores of "forgotten decisions" affecting the "highly contested" constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Titled "Supreme Court Gun Cases," the study examines 92 cases – 44 of them unedited – and concludes without a doubt "the Supreme Court has recognized an individual right to arms for most of the past two centuries."
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08/07/06: 15 States Expand Right to Shoot in Self-Defense
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In the last year, 15 states have enacted laws that expand the right of self-defense, allowing crime victims to use deadly force in situations that might formerly have subjected them to prosecution for murder. Supporters call them "stand your ground" laws. "If they make a decision to save their lives in the split second they are being attacked, the law is on their side," Mr. LaPierre said. "Good people make good decisions. That's why they're good people. If you're going to empower someone, empower the crime victim."
www.nytimes.com/2006/08/07/us/07shoot.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=todayspaper&pagewanted=print 060807-15 States Expand Right Of Self-defense |
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07/15/10: Court decisions aside, scofflaws have long made gun control unenforceable
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One government after another has implemented schemes for registration, licensing and even confiscation. But those programs have met with … less than universal respect. Again and again, governments have encountered massive resistance to their efforts to identify gun owners and track gun ownership.
The high water mark of American compliance with gun control laws may have come with Illinois's handgun registration law in the 1970s. About 25% of handgun owners actually complied, according to Don B. Kates, a criminologist and civil liberties attorney, writing in the December 1977 issue of Inquiry. After that, about 10% of "assault weapon" owners obeyed California's registration law, says David B. Kopel, research director for Colorado's Independence Institute, a free-market think-tank, and author of The Samurai, The Mountie, and The Cowboy, a book-length comparison of international firearms policies. That one-in-ten estimate may have been generous.
Maybe gun owners are getting more ornery as time goes on. Or perhaps they're just getting more distrustful of the authorities. In fact, American gun owners may have good reason to be skeptical of common assurances that registration records won't ever be used for anything more than tracking lost and stolen weapons.
As it turns out, no matter where you are in the world, when governments impose gun laws that are widely disliked by the people to whom they apply, people disobey those laws. And disobedience isn't just the stubborn reaction of a few holdouts or a sizeable minority – it seems, invariably – to be the policy favored by most of the people subject to the objectionable statute. Given a choice between complying with restrictions on firearms ownership and defying the law, a clear majority of people in most jurisdictions have chosen rebellion. The tighter the law, the more obvious the rebellion, to the point that the vast majority of firearms in civilian hands in Europe are owned outside the law. If history is any judge, that's probably a good thing. But even if you don't agree, this is a world in which civilians are well-armed, and intent on staying that way.
tuccille.com/disloyal/2010/07/15/court-decision-aside-scofflaws-have-long-made-gun-control-unenforceable/ |
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06/27/08: Right To Bear Arms Upheld By Justices In Landmark Ruling
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Americans have a constitutional right to keep guns in their homes for self-defense, in the justices' first major pronouncement on gun control in U.S. history. Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said an individual right to bear arms is supported by "the historical narrative" before and after the Second Amendment was adopted.
www.investors.com 080627-ibd-right To Bear Arms Upheld |
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06/10/08: Just how afraid of crime should we be?
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A little fear is healthy. It's what Anchorage police Lt. Paul Honeman would call "concern," enough to motivate people to take sensible precautions but not enough to cramp their lifestyles. BOTTOM LINE: Living in fear isn't healthy. Taking precautions and upholding high community standards is. Lt. Honeman recommends some basics for safety...
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04/19/07: 25 years murder-free in 'Gun Town USA'. Crime rate plummeted after law required firearms for residents
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As the nation debates whether more guns or fewer can prevent tragedies like the Virginia Tech Massacre, a notable anniversary passed last month in a Georgia town that witnessed a dramatic plunge in crime and violence after mandating residents to own firearms...
wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55288 070419-kennesaw Ga-gun Town Usa |
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04/17/09: Gun sales in Seattle area soar after Obama win
by Steve Miletich, Seattle Times staff reporter |
 When the crook has to wonder if his victim is ARMED, he won't be so anxious to do the crime...
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009073302_gunsurge17m.html 090417-st-gun Sales In Seattle Area Soar |
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04/15/09: Gov. Brian Schweitzer has signed into law a bill that aims to exempt Montana-made guns from federal regulation
by AP |
House Bill 246 was sponsored by Republican Rep. Joel Boniek of Livingston. It applies only to guns made and kept in Montana. Its supporters hope it triggers a court case to test the legal basis for federal rules governing gun sales. The measure is 1 of many introduced this year by state lawmakers across the nation that seek to assert state sovereignty. Along with the gun bill, Montana legislators are also considering a resolution that affirms the federal government only has those powers listed in the U.S. Constitution.
www.kpvi.com/Global/story.asp?S=10190400 090415-montana Governor Signs New Gun Law |
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04/01/07: Juneau School Incorporates Gun Safety into Curriculum
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In a state where household ownership of a gun is the rule rather than the exception, a Juneau middle school has incorporated firearms safety into a classroom curriculum to get to kids early with education and instruction.
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03/09/09: Supreme Court turns down NYC case against gun industry
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The Supreme Court has turned away pleas by New York City and gun violence victims to hold the firearms industry responsible for selling guns that could end up in illegal markets. The justices' decision Monday ends lawsuits first filed in 2000. Federal appeals courts in New York and Washington threw out the complaints after Congress passed a law in 2005 giving the gun industry broad immunity against such lawsuits.
news.moneycentral.msn.com/provider/providerarticle.aspx?feed=AP&date=20090309&id=9678027 090309-court Turns Down Nyc Case Against Gun Industry |
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The Armed Citizen. Real Lives. Real stories. Real defense.
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Welcome to The Armed Citizen blog. Our mission is simple: Illustrate the right and need for self-defense by telling the stories of those saved by using guns, and to convince every human being that self-defense is a human right that must always be preserved.
Ambushed Florida Father in Shootout with Robbers
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The Four Rules of Gun Safety
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Rule One - All guns are always loaded.
Rule Two - Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.
Rule Three - Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target.
Rule Four - Be sure of your target. Know what it is, what is in line with it, and what is behind it. Never shoot anything you have not positively identified.
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| Links |
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Women & Guns
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www.womenshooters.com/index.html |
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Students for the Second Amendment
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Students for the Second Amendment works on college and university campuses to bring the truth regarding our constitutionally protected rights to students who have been misled by the left-wing academic establishment.
www.sf2a.org/ |
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Second Amendment Sisters
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100% pro-choice on the basic human right to self-defense.
2asisters.org/index.html |
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Second Amendment Committee
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The founder of the Second Amendment Committee, Bernadine Smith, is a political research writer and a gun rights activist. She has around 35 years of experience in fighting against political corruption, fraud, and desecration of the rights of the American people. In 1984 she formed the Second Amendment Committee which is a nationwide organization that provides information of benefit to those seeking a peaceful resolution to the gun crisis.
www.libertygunrights.com/ |
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Second Amendment
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Lots of links on this web site.
www.davekopel.org/2dAmendment.htm |
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Save the Guns.com
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Promoting gunsafety, education and activism.
www.savetheguns.com/ |
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National Rifle Association (NRA)
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As America's oldest civil rights organization, the NRA's mission is to preserve and defend the U.S. Constitution, especially the inalienable right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment.
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Louisiana Gun: a resource site for gun enthusiasts and Second Amendment supporters
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United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, Second Amendment "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." (An individual right; DC v. Heller)
Louisiana Constitution, Article I, §11 "The right of each citizen to keep and bear arms shall not be abridged, but this provision shall not prevent the passage of laws to prohibit the carrying of weapons concealed on the person." (Self-explanatory)
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Just Facts: A resource for independent thinkers
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Our mission is to publish accurate and accessible information regarding issues impacting our country. Our objective is to minimize subjective information and to provide highly factual content.
www.justfacts.com/guncontrol.asp |
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GunShowOnTheNet.com: The source for EVERYTHING gun on the net...
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Gun encyclopedia. Information on guns and related.
www.gunshowonthenet.com/page16.html |
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Gun Week
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For the latest gun news, from the most authoritative source.
www.gunweek.com/ |
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Gun Owners of America
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Gun Control Fact Sheet, 2004
www.gunowners.org/ |
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Gun Facts - Your Guide to Debunking Gun Control Myths
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Gun Facts is a free e-book that debunks common myths about gun control. It is intended as a reference guide for journalists, activists, politicians, and other people interested in restoring honesty to the debate about guns, crime, and the 2nd Amendment. Gun Facts has 98 pages of information. Divided into chapters based on gun control topics (assault weapons, ballistic finger printing, firearm availability, etc.), finding information is quick and easy. Each chapter lists common gun control myths, then lists a number of documented and cited facts (with nearly 500 detailed footnotes). Thus when a neighbor, editor or politician repeats some sound bite about firearm control policy, you can quickly find that myth then rebuke with real information...
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Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
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The common sense gun lobby in Washington State.
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| Local gun clubs |
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Shelton Rifle & Pistol Club
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Our Club has a lot to offer, if you are new to owning a gun you will get alot of wisdom from the expert members, and you will be able to hone your skills with all kinds of shoots from fun shoots to competition shoots.
www.sheltonrnp.com/ |
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Poulsbo Sportsman Club
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Club Activities: Black Powder, Civilian Marksmanship Program (Military Rifle) (Juniors), Cowboy Action Shooting, Cowboy Long Range, Cowboy Trap, Hunters Education, IDPA (forming), Law Enforcement Training, , Pistol matches, Shotgun(trap).
Membership: Open to all--NRA membership required.
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Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club
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Kitsap Rifle and Revolver Club is open to the public with a Range Officer on duty Tuesday through Friday from 11 AM until 7 PM, and on Saturday from 8 AM until 4 PM.
Every Tuesday: USPSA/Self-defense practice, 5 PM to 10 PM. All interested persons are welcome to attend. $3 for KRRC members, $10 for non-members; however your first time is free.
The range is located just north of Camp Wesley Harris at 4900 Seabeck Highway NW. Call 373-1007 or email us for more information.
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Bremerton Trap & Skeet Club
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Sporting clays, five stand, duck tower, trap & skeet on the beautiful South Kitsap peninsula.
www.bremertontrapandskeet.com/ |
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