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The ISRA Gold Women’s team took Second Place in the two-person team event at the NRA National Matches.  The team was made up of Claudia Boothe, Amanda Ehler and Jennifer Yoder.  Two Person teams can have four people on them who serve as team captains, coaches or alternate firing members. 

At the National High Power Championship, Camp Perry, Ohio, in the Presidents 100 match, 9 of the top 100 shooters are ISRA members from Illinois.

The ISRA is the home of marksmanship in Illinois. 

The Grand American World Trapshooting Championships are under-way at the World Shooting Complex in Sparta, Illinois.  What a great event!  The first few days are dedicated to the AIM youth program championships (Academics – Integrity - Marksmanship). The Illinois State Rifle Association is a chief sponsor of the AIM Program and proud of it, I might add.  Last weekend the ISRA had 60 or thereabouts, volunteers helping.  Thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. Folks like you make all the difference.  

It was great to see all those young shooters there.  They are very good, by the way.  One young man came in who is in the sub-Junior category and I asked him how his practice went. “Not so good.  I only shot a 95”, he replied.  I have never shot a 95 with a shotgun, just for the record.  Good for him.  All the many young people who visited the ISRA store were great.  On Saturday evening, a severe squall with high winds came though about 5pm.

We kept the ISRA store open so anyone who needed shelter had a place to go.  Many of those there were in campers, and they were told not to go back to the campgrounds.  There were naturally a lot of children as well as adults who came in.  I would guess there were about 40 people.  The kids were as good as could be. They sat down and waited out the storm.  There was not a single problem.  I have found that kids in the shooting sports, are well mannered, respectful, disciplined and better students.   Their grades almost always go up when they participate in the shooting sports.  For all those nay-sayers out there, who condemn kids and firearms, you don’t know what you are talking about.

 

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In San Antonio, Texas, a car thief stole a car about 4 am.   The owner reported the theft to the police, but they couldn’t find the car.  The owner found the car about 1 pm that afternoon in a mall parking lot.  The car thief was still in the car with a female passenger.   The owner of the stolen car called the police and approached the thief with his concealed carry pistol drawn, intent on holding the thief until the police arrived.  It was not to be.  The thief decided to draw his own gun and shoot at the owner of the stolen car.   Bad decision.  The thief is now dead.  Of course, you all know how much I care.  The owner of the vehicle was wounded and the passenger in the stolen car is in critical condition.  Of course, the relatives of the thief are crying “vigilantism”.  I still don’t care.   The reason people become vigilantes is because the law doesn’t do anything.

No good deed goes unpunished. A good example occurred in San Francisco.   A security guard was attacked by a thief, and he killed the thief in self-defense.  So, the San Francisco DA did not charge the guard because it was clearly self-defense, but the security guard was fired for not having a concealed carry permit and not being in proper uniform.  What!  You defend your own life, and the lives of others because you didn’t have the right shoulder patch, or maybe none at all, you get punished.

The percentage of gun ownership in the United States has been estimated at about 33%, but recent surveys indicate that it could be as high a 60%.  There are a lot of gun owners who won’t answer the survey form on gun ownership or lie when asked.  Who could be surprised - nobody! 


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The National Shooting Sports Foundation reports the Biden Administration is withholding federal funding for schools, that teach hunter education and archery. Ben Cassidy, Executive Vice President of government and public affairs for Safari Club International said on Fox News Digital, “It is ironic that the U.S. Department of Education is actively denying young Americans the chance to educate themselves on basic firearm education and hunting safety, so they can go afield knowing how to keep their friends and family safe.”  You know I don’t think it is surprising at all.   Many hunters have thought they were safe from government attacks on their sport.  It was never so, and will never be so, until we all get together and recognize what a menace the government is to freedom. 

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