[GaltAdonis]

Do any high schools have have marksmanship shooting programs anymore?
Mine did, but I graduated in 1982.
We used real guns, and nothing bad ever happened.
Nobody flipped-out and became a “school shooter”.

I guess that society has degenerated so fast and so far since then that such a
thing (high school marksman teams) is unthinkable now.

I suppose between the widely prescribed psychoactive medications and
the loss of civility it may be wise, tragically.
We are on the brink of losing our very civilization, it appears.
Maybe not ‘losing’ it, but watching it being transformed to something far less than it was.
Something crude, juvenile and barbaric.

[gundog]

A local Christian school has skeet shooting.

[Charles Martel]

My high school (1980 graduate) also had a Naval JROTC program. The retired USN instructors' office space doubled as an armory, both for .22 match rifles and for the deactivated Springfields and Garands of the Drill Team. A local Navy Reserve facility with an indoor range allowed us to practice and compete there.

I think the indoor range went away first - the usual EPA lead contamination hand-wringing. Then the .22 rifles went back to DCM and were probably sold through the DCM and later CMP processes.

The school still has a JROTC unit, it still has "ARMORY" painted in military stencil on the Petty Officers' door, but the rifle team shoots airguns now. I'm a bit amazed that they're retained that much.

[Antihero101607]

I guy I work with has a son that shoots shotgun on some team, I’d like to say it’s through his high school. This is somewhere in Jackson county Michigan. So they’re still out there.