I believe MIT has had a shooting club since more or less the year it was founded.
It definitely had one in the 1970s.
There’s a radio talk show host about age 65, grew up in Queens:
He has memories of TAKING THE SUBWAY with is .22 rifle..!
And there was a shooting team at his high-school.
I HAD A SHOOTING CLUB IN MY HIGH SCHOOL. I think this GREAT!!!!!
Hmmm... A reasonably fair, and at times almost positive article about guns and shooting from the Washington Post can only mean one thing... The entire staff of senior editors must be down with the flue. I can see no other explanation for how this got printed.
My Brother took his .22 Rifle to High School back in the late 50’s. He was in the School Shooting Club. There was a Range in the Basement of the School.
We lived on Long Island, New York.
My local college had one of the top women’s rifle teams in the 50s. I used to help a local instructor with Boy Scout gun safety courses on their range. Full of gun grabbing libs now.
Due to the gun industry’s largesse!? WTF are they talking about? Did something radically change in collegiate shooting funding? I certainly don’t remember any gun industry money when I was shooting in college and my team went to the NCAA championships every year.
It is Zen, and Zen archers understood this for centuries before gunpowder arrived in Japan. Like Zen meditation, it involves focus, shedding of distraction, and the shooter emerges relaxed and refreshed. You don't need to be Annie Oakley for that to happen.
That's fine for target shooting. You really don't want to be in that state in a tactical situation because you need to pay attention to more than just the target. But target shooting time is meditation time, at least for me.
The kids over at MIT have had a shooting club since Methuselah was in diapers.
And they’re darn good, too.
Countless awards.
Utterly false to pretend it’s a new phenomenon.