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Americans Sharpen Shooting Skills
FOX News ^ | June 18, 2004

Posted on 06/18/2004 9:49:44 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR

LOS ANGELES — Shooting for sport is becoming more and more popular across the country.

Along with Pilates and windsurfing, clay target shooting (search) and handgun target shooting (search) are some of America's fastest growing sports. Some 20 million Americans participate in recreational gun activities.

Those who shoot clays call it "golf with guns."

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: California
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To: 7.62 x 51mm
The EPA is in the process of shutting down all indoor ranges for lead contamination, I just learned at a meeting of one of the several clubs I also belong to.

I am aware of that and, quite frankly, I am privy to certain information because I am on the executive board.

Oh, well, hello Pennsylvania!

61 posted on 06/19/2004 11:22:02 AM PDT by Siamese Princess
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To: bayourod
Must be something John Kerry does.
I wonder type silly outfit you have to wear to do it.


62 posted on 06/19/2004 12:50:29 PM PDT by in the Arena (James Wayne Herrick, Jr. Captain/US Air Force - MIA - Laos - 27 October 1969)
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To: in the Arena
In that upper right picture, he looks like he's never fired a shotgun before. Putting the butt on your shoulder might be a good idea, johnny boy.
63 posted on 06/19/2004 1:14:36 PM PDT by Bob
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To: activationproducts
We are supposed to be a nation of riflemen but I am afraid that day has gone.

Fear not! Reports of the demise of the Nation of Riflemen are highly exaggerated and premature.

Best regards,

64 posted on 06/19/2004 6:27:06 PM PDT by Copernicus (A Constitutional Republic revolves around Sovereign Citizens, not citizens around government.)
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To: activationproducts
Are you a cook or a rifleman?

A technical intelligence officer. A handgun would have been all they would have issued me. Of course a few of my slightly older colleegs told me about finding more serious firepower on their own. Everything from serious handguns, like .44 Magnum (AF issue was only a .38Spl) to Shotguns to M-16s to grenade launchers. :)

65 posted on 06/19/2004 9:47:42 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: Siamese Princess
I would like to buy an M-1 carbine, but it is even illegal to OWN one in the People's Republic of New Jersey.

Then MTT (Move to Texas), where it's not only legal, it reqires no permit or other "permission" from the State. If you buy one from an indivdual, as I did, it also doesnt' require any federal paperwork. Sarah Brady and Diane Fienswine hate Texas. :) Same goes for a Garand or a semi-auto version of the M-14, (M-1A or other clone).

66 posted on 06/19/2004 9:51:43 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Who's going to pay for this government training program? Why can't people learn this in the private sector, the way our Founding Fathers envisioned?

Actually they envisioned the states doing it according to rules and regulations approved by Congress. They modeled the original militia system after that of the Swiss, which was then quite similar to what it is now, save the types of arms used.

From Article I, section 8: Congress shall have the power to

...

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

67 posted on 06/19/2004 9:57:26 PM PDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
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To: bannie
I already have my swiss K31 in my closet.
68 posted on 06/19/2004 10:06:30 PM PDT by BOBWADE
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To: wardaddy

When Helmet-Hair was King.


69 posted on 06/19/2004 10:21:16 PM PDT by Old Professer (lust; pure, visceral groin-grinding, sweat-popping, heart-pounding staccato bursts of shooting stars)
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To: Bob
In that upper right picture, he looks like he's never fired a shotgun before. Putting the butt on your shoulder might be a good idea, johnny boy.

That only works if there is a spine connected to it. ;-)
70 posted on 06/19/2004 10:27:55 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberalism is a Hate Crime)
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To: TERMINATTOR
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71 posted on 06/19/2004 11:09:19 PM PDT by ezo4
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To: in the Arena
LOL!

Awesome site!

Thanks..

72 posted on 06/20/2004 7:36:02 AM PDT by Trailer Trash (Force equals mass times acceleration.)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
I think a fair example of what could happen to California is Kosovo. Like California, Kosovo was clearly Serb terrority. Like California, immigrants felt a claim to Kosovo.

Exactly.

73 posted on 06/20/2004 7:41:22 AM PDT by MarMema (Up, up, up, there's nowhere to go from here but up.)
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To: tet68

Do you shoot clays with a rifle? Last guy I heard of who did that was Henry Bowman.


74 posted on 06/20/2004 4:11:10 PM PDT by TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig (You can turn your head away from the Berg video and still hear Al Queda's calls to prayer.)
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To: big ern

Sometimes but not thrown, we shoot golf balls at 50 yds though.


75 posted on 06/20/2004 4:38:13 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: television is just wrong

Sign me up.

www.fredsm14stocks.com


Go to Fred's site, lots of good info there.
He sells the AQT targets and a lot more.


76 posted on 06/20/2004 4:41:48 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: tet68

I hear a BBgun and thrown Ritz crackers work wonders at some of the shooting schools.


77 posted on 06/20/2004 4:45:11 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: El Gato

I don't want our military budget sapped to train a bunch of punks how to 'play soldier', when they'd rather be out smoking pot, drinking beer, and slavering over skimpilly clad women. I don't want those punks anywhere near Iraq, even if they were trained. I want our tax money spent on volunteers. If someone wants to hone his fighting skills at home, great. I salute him. But until we get this failed war-on-poverty straightened out, until we quit trying to stop hospital construction to save flies, until we allow drilling in ANWR, until we switch to a national sales tax, until we allow school choice for all parents, we don't have a lot of cash to throw around.


79 posted on 06/21/2004 2:03:34 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (We must decide between the UN and Victory.)
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To: TERMINATTOR
SportShooter.com

US Practical Shooting Association

Shotgun Sports

80 posted on 06/21/2004 7:36:26 AM PDT by xsrdx (Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas)
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