Here is the Machine Gun Blast shirt &
here is the other one they spoke of.
Posted on 11/05/2001 3:38:21 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama
Monday, November 05, 2001
© 2001 Republican-American
By Stephen Mordenti
SIMSBURY — Although the Second Amendment Sisters have been quietly getting out the message that many women want to protect the Constitutional right to bear arms, they made a lot of noise about it Saturday.
More than 400 people, men and women, and many with children, came to the Sisters' Machine Gun Blast at the Metacon Gun Club range to try out their choice of about 50 machine guns and automatic rifles.
"I'm going to fire an AK-47. Every woman should know how to fire an AK-47," said Simone Irizarry, who came from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts to fire the famous Russian rifle.
Nationally, the Second Amendment Sisters have about 150,000 members, said Lisa Akers of New Milford, who is the coordinator of the Connecticut chapter, which sponsored the shoot with the gun club.
The national organization was formed by five women who met on the Internet in reaction to the Million Mom March of 2000 in Washington. They wanted to show that the march did not speak for all women, Akers said.
"Although we don't have professional lobbyists, we all work towards protecting the Second Amendment right to bear arms," she said. "But we also sponsor classes on hand-gun safety. With the right to own a firearm comes the responsibility to use it properly and safely."
Irizarry came with two friends from Mount Holyoke, a small women's college of about 2,000 students, where they started a chapter of the Second Amendment Sisters this year. "We already have more than 40 members," said Christie Caywood, who is the chairman of the chapter.
"And we have a lot of alumni support," chapter Treasurer Elizabeth Abbate of Cheshire said. "I'm what is called a ‘legacy' student at Mount Holyoke, because my mother and grandmother both graduated from the school. We support gun ownership, and are doing our part to get that message out."
Irizarry added, "We don't burn flags or bras. In fact, we've gotten permission to hang a big American flag in the student union for Veterans Day."
She was speaking by the Second Amendment Sisters booth, where they were selling buttons, T-shirts and bumper stickers. A popular T-shirt had emblazoned on it: "Firearms — The Best Feminine Protection."
Out on the range, Carl Giuffre explained the rules to all who came to shoot the guns at 25 cents per round. He was all business as he went over the safety protocol and precautions that would be in effect, though he ended with some humor.
This story ran in the Hartford Courant as well, and noted that even on the ultraliberal campus of Mt. Holyoke, right on top of Amhearst and Northampton (!), there was a lot of interest in the the Sisters!
Maybe people are finally starting to wake up!!
Here is the Machine Gun Blast shirt &
here is the other one they spoke of.
"An armed society is a polite society."
So true. So true. Thanks for thinking of me, Max!
(missya!)
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