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White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders posted a photo late Wednesday night of herself holding a shotgun with the caption, "Back home where we learned how to do more than just bake pecan pies. #trapshooting #pull" Liberals were naturally triggered, with one responding with photographic analysis accusing Sanders of faking it. Another accused her of a crime:

Shotgun coach Nick Penn states much of common shooting wisdom is incorrect. He helps shooters “shoot straight” with both eyes open. According to U.K. shooting coach Nick Penn, half of the people who take shotgun shooting lessons are wasting their money. Why? He says it’s because they’re told to shoot with one eye shut. Penn maintains that shooting with both eyes open is essential. But there’s more to it than that, Penn says. You should go by feel—more than barrel or bead reference—when you pull the trigger. He says shooting is the only sport in which the proper techniques and...

The Big Lake High School trap shooting team will have its team photo included in the school's yearbook after all. School officials Thursday announced a change to a student handbook policy that excluded firearms or weapons from being displayed. The trap shooting team photo showed all 60 team members posed with shotguns by their side, and its rejection upset team members, their parents and others. The new policy still allows for images that "violate school policy, display firearms, weapons, drugs, alcohol, inappropriate gestures and poses, and revealing clothing" to be edited or excluded. But it makes an exception for the...

Subject: NSSF Bullet Points - Vol. 4 - No. 32, Courtesy of NSSF and Davidson's Vol. 4 No. 32 August 11, 2003 With a combined score of 903 broken targets among the five pre-teen teammates, the Ogden Gun Club Rookie trap team heads home with their national championship trophy. Youth Participation Great at The Grand! Teams from California, Illinois, Nebraska and Utah walked off with national titles as a record 920 youth participants from 35 states competed at the Scholastic Clay Target Program (SCTP) Trap Nationals August 7-9 at the Grand American World Trapshooting Championships. The young competitors, who now make up 15...

Responsible gun safety is no accident - Monday, June 9, 2003 SUMMARY: Following a few simple safety rules and common sense prevent tragedies like this. Bret Chaussee died the kind of death that's practically unheard of in America. The 49-year-old Philipsburg man was shot to death May 25 at a gun club. Normally, your average gun club would have to rank among the world's safest places. The potential danger inherent when you have groups of people with loaded guns makes most gun club members, visitors, officers and managers absolute zealots on safe gun handling. Obviously, something was amiss at the...

Monday, June 02, 2003 Shelby County advantages begin to sway trapshooters By JOHN WALKER jwalker@shelbynews Shelby County will be the new home of the Amateur Trapshooting Association if the current leader of the world’s largest trapshooting organization has his way. And the large majority of the ATA’s members seem to share that opinion, based on a survey recently completed by the group. The ATA must move from its current headquarters in Vandalia, Ohio, due to the expansion of a nearby airport, and time is getting short. “It is expected, as Dayton Airport officials have forewarned us, that after August 2005,...