AK: Girls just like to have Guns

Gun Watch ^ | 13 December, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Tia and pistols near Yuma, AZ

In Alaska, a couple is not content with teen age girls learning how to shoot .22 rifles and pellet guns.   Not that their 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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[riverrunner]

Nice handguns

[madison10]

The photo doesn’t match the article is it AZ or AK? Guess it doesn’t matter. LOL the scenery in this case is still the same.

[marktwain]

The photo is of a teenage young woman with handguns. Close enough.

[madison10]

:) That’s what I thought.

[Azeem]

And that’s why many women dislike the gun culture including my wife, who is an avid shooter and Glock fangirl.

Heels. Two pistols (one pointed straight up)? No eye protection. No visible ear protection.

Nothing in that picture says safe shooting.

[Billthedrill]

Women hate guns. Until they shoot them for the first time. ;-)

[marktwain]

She is not shooting. She is posing.

[max americana]

What guns?

[Tupelo]

You are right, the photo is staged. And not very well.

[Azeem]

Let me post Jeff Cooper’s rules for gun safety. I’m pretty sure I don’t see any exceptions for ‘posing’.

1. All guns are always loaded. Even if they are not, treat them as if they are.

2. Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (For those who insist that this particular gun is unloaded, see Rule 1.)

3. Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target. This is the Golden Rule. Its violation is directly responsible for about 60 percent of inadvertent discharges.

4. Identify your target, and what is behind it. Never shoot at anything that you have not positively identified.

[marktwain]

So, what safety rule is she violating? Finger off the trigger on the gun she is not pointing at the target. Guns not pointing at anything she is unwilling to destroy.

[Popman]

Heels. Two pistols (one pointed straight up)? No eye protection. No visible ear protection.

Plus that handgun she is holding in her left hand looks Smith & Wesson 460 Magnum...(I think)

It would break her wrist first time she shot it.....

[freeandfreezing]

So which rule do you think the young lady in the picture is violating?

[marktwain]

It is a 627 Taurus Titanium .357 magnum.

[eartrumpet]

Here’s a picture of Cooper breaking all his own rules. I guess he wanted to kill the photographer.

http://www.rasbandfamily.net/images/articles/20061001163646255_1.jpg

[Azeem]

Let’s start with a dual pistols.

Is that safe? If both pistols were loaded, do you think she would do that? If the pistols were loaded, would she have eye and ear protection on?

That would be a violation of Rule #1.

Is up an appropriate direction to point the muzzle of the revolver in the left-hand (with plenty of soft sand around her)? Does she have any idea where the bullet would drop if she had an AD? The muzzle is also very close to her face. The flash from the gap between the cylinder and barrel would not be pleasant.

That would be a violation of Rule #2 and Rule #4.

There are far too many morons who give their gf/wife a revolver too powerful (usually a .357, .44 or .500) and the barrel nails them in the head on the recoil.

[eartrumpet]

How many rules is Cooper breaking in this picture? (He's 2nd from the right)

[Azeem]

Col. Cooper looks a bit younger in that pic so the rules probably didn’t exist (in the current version) when that pic was taken. I think the classic four rules were published in the early 90s (don’t quote me though).

And that is stupidity at it’s finest. Guys like James Yeager get ripped for shooting with photographers in front of the firing line and rightfully so.

The first thing my wife said about the original picture (and I would say the same about your pic) is “That’s stupid. Guns are not toys.”

[eartrumpet]

Col. Cooper looks a bit younger in that pic so the rules probably didn’t exist (in the current version) when that pic was taken. I think the classic four rules were published in the early 90s (don’t quote me though).

Ahh, I see. So if that picture of the babe with the two handguns was taken in the late 1980s, she is completely safe, as is the Col. in the picture. Until he wrote down some rules, everything was allowed.