Posted on 04/16/2016 11:59:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
While not as heavily reported in time past, women are becoming major players in the gun industry and ownership. Contrary to popular belief, women are not stalwarts of gun control politics–they want to protect themselves as any other American. That’s why across the country record numbers of women are lining up to obtain their gun permits. In fact, since 2007, there has been a 270 percent increase in women having concealed carry permits. So, the truth of the matter is that women have always been around guns; it was that no one was catering to their needs, especially when it comes to concealing their firearms. CNN had a segment and story about this last February at the annual SHOT Show hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation:
Women are buying handguns in record numbers — especially weapons that are small enough to conceal.
But they are frustrated by the lack of firearm accessories catering to them. So some are starting companies of their own to tailor products to women.
“I thought to myself, ‘Where’s all the women’s stuff?'” said Lorelei Fay of Boise, Idaho.
Fay couldn’t find a suitable holster when she got her own concealed carry license. Her mother had taught her to sew, so she made her own: an elastic belly band with a holster for her Sig Sauer semiautomatic handgun. It also has pockets to hold two backup magazines.
When her friends laid eyes on it, they wanted one too. So she stitched up some of the corset-style holsters and starting selling them in 2014.
Fay called her company Miss Concealed.
[…]
Tessa Renaud, an Ob-Gyn from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has also made a business out of self-protection. She got a concealed carry permit when she used to work in the ER because her shift ended in the wee hours and she wanted to be armed when she walked alone to her car.
[…]
Renaud started Lethal Lace about two years ago with her husband, Mike, an ex-sheriff and stay-at-home dad for their six kids. They said they sold 1,000 of the products last year, with revenues totaling $25,000 December alone, which was their best month. The wrap holsters cost $58.
Oh, and Fay’s company has also had record sales, especially after the San Bernardino shooting. As women buy more firearms to protect themselves, the number of women-only firearms courses has also increased, like the one Shirley Watral of ALTAIR Gun Club:
Watral was kidnapped and held hostage for nearly 12 hours. The man who kidnapped her was eventually put in prison.
Her kidnapper may have been locked up, but Watral remained scared.
“I didn’t want to be that person that was scared to death to step out of my house. For years, I was. I lived in fear, even after the threat was gone,” Watral said.
Her courage came back when she started shooting.
“I liked it. When I took the class, when I left the class, I felt empowered. I felt confident. I had stepped out of my comfort zone,” Watral said.
Now, Watral is helping others do the same.
Lesley Frost attended the seminar that was sponsored by ALTAIR Gun Club. She went because she wanted to learn “more about personal safety.”
“Everything you hear about in the news and things that happened, just personal awareness in different situations to heighten that knowledge for myself,” Frost said.
Watral remembers when she first took classes. She was one of the very few women in the class. She’s hoping the seminars will show women that gun club isn’t just a boys club.
Michelle Blaisdell also went to the class.
“I think a lot of women when they think guns; they think only men. I think having an only women class is really great because it gets more girls to go out there and learn a lot about guns,” Blaisdell said.
More than 60 women signed up for Tuesday’s classes. But there wasn’t enough room to accommodate them, so the organizers plan on having another seminar in about two month
If only Cosmopolitan, and other anti-gunners, knew about this surge in female gun ownership, then they wouldn’t embarrass themselves by doling out half-baked and fact-free nonsense like don’t date so-called “gunsplainers.”
But...but...we’re being told “more & more guns in fewer & fewer hands” and that those are mostly old fat white guys whose votes don’t matter because they’re dropping like flies and America doesn’t like guns anymore and Obama was right about “bitter clingers” and the new world order is finally here, comrades! Celebrate with some kale!
;^)
To take into the new unisex restrooms no doubt.
There are going to be some mighty surprised horny Muslim refugees. The Infidels are a tad different here than in Europe - men and women.
But younger girls and boys must be hyper protected in the towns the Muslims flood. This sex twisted bathroom thing where men use women’s bathrooms is bad timing with the Muzzie invasion. But why should liberals care. All that matters is the mentally ill man who thinks he’s a woman. We are going to need public bathroom armed guards, especially at swimming pools.
Well, this should make the coming gun confiscation attempts much more interesting.
Puts a new twist on .guv’s ‘war on women’.
all teasing aside, women (and men) need to prepare to protect themselves in USA... Obama is mass-importing hundreds of thousands of young fighting-age (mostly) men from IslamoNazi krapistans from Afghanistan to Algeria and beyond....right into USA!!!!!!!!
(not incidentally....the first place many of these foreigners go in America to spend their time at... is the firing range..).
Moreover, you don't shoot something with that much recoil as your first gun. Get a .22 and familiarize yourself with how a gun works. Then move up to something with more recoil.
Exactly what I was thinking and exactly what I was taught.
The young lady in the last gif seems to be handling the recoil quite well. :=)
My wife’s shopping for a .300 Blackout upper for her AR.She already has a suppressor to fit.
We need to vote for a presidential candidate with the passion and PROVEN HISTORY, so we can be sure we keep our Second Amendment rights, and that would be TED CRUZ!
“How Scalia and Ted Cruz Saved the 2nd Amendment
“....I represented 31 states in the Heller case, which upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms. ....(snip)”
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