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A Little Gratification

nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
I have the privelege of teaching Firearm Safety for the Citizens' Police Academy. People from all walks of life get a chance to see how a police department operates. My part of it consists of 90 minutes of classroom and 3 hours of range work. The range part is optional, but a popular part of the class.

In my last class there was this one young woman who said some things in class that would indicate an anti-gun bias and/or a fear of guns. I like to try to influence these types in a positive way. I was pleasantly surprised when she showed up at the range. She shot the pistol and the revolver. Then she shot the shotgun with 00 Buckshot at stationary targets and with bird shot at aerial targets.

Her remark after participating in the range exercises, "Hey! This is FUN!"

Made my day.



SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey nunn, quick question, at what part of the academy do the instruct weapons maintenance. in the beginning?
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  • beantolebeantole Member Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nunn: It sounds good and I'm glad the lady liked it. I've always heard one of the best ways to attract people is to invite them to the range and I think it is true. However, my wife took a NRA sponsored safety class and a local reporter came and took the class. The lady reporter
    was treated very well and smiled to the face of the guys giving the course but she later ran a column critical of the NRA and gunowners.
    Guess i should have expected that from a journalist. Most are liberals who hate guns no matter what the facts show.

    Bruce
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    NUNN;
    Do you hold class anywhere near Jacksonville?
    I'm interested in taking classes where I get recognition for the experiance. Such as a certificate or certification.

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I wonder what the female reporter expected. She was probably disappointed, since she obviously came with a point of view. Reporters are supposed to report the news, not make it. She expected a gun safety class, but she didn't see a safe gun... Maybe someone should have told her there is no way to make a gun 100% safe, because they're not supposed to be. Duh.

    - Life NRA Member
    If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • GreenLanternGreenLantern Member Posts: 1,647 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Reminds me of my buddies mom. She couldn't understand why he needed all those guns, so he bought a box of shells and headed outside to let her try out his 9mm. She loved it! So for christmas she got a nice new Browning BDM. I'm jealous, because it was the nicest shooting pistol I've ever fired.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Well I am going to the range this week for the first time, My man is into guns and I want to see first hand (pun intended) what its all about. I have shot rifles, shotguns but never hand guns. As for an instructor, I have the best *L* although he does yell a bit
    Seriously, I had an instructor for the gun safety course in rifles and shotguns and was NOT impressed. As naive and ignorant of guns that I am, I still knew more than he did on the safety end of it. Tell me.. what instructor has a loaded.. yes loaded.. 30-30 in the room when he is teaching a class of 27 people? People that had to handle that gun and knew nothing about it, ie: whether the safety was on etc. Some instructors should NOT be allowed to teach. You sound like the kind of instructor I should have had, nunn
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Have fun blackroses and allways remember, never allow the mussle to point at anything you dont want to destroy and treat every weapon as if it were loaded.


    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    This is a group of citizens, all ages, with levels of expertise from zero to knows-it-all. I don't cover maintenance except as it pertains to safety.

    I only do this through my own agency and am not at liberty to travel and instruct, though I am so licensed.

    Any agency that wants to can start their own Citizens' Police Academy, and Teen Police Academy. For details contact khumble@ci.greenville.tx.us.

    nunn

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i was inquiring in regaurds to the regular police academy,had a cadet in the store the other day that had no clue as to how to maintain her weapon. I think that maintenance should be a starting point.
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    I agree..I for one, know how to maintain them.. restore them if necessary, clean them, and know how to fire them in theory that is.. I have never fired a hand gun, but as stated earlier, do intend to learn this week. As for the other finer points, yes I have done them all..To me, maintainning a weapon is part of safety.
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  • OtomanOtoman Member Posts: 554 ✭
    edited November -1
    I asked my wife to take the basic NRA safety course when she wanted her own sig.(I agreed to take it with her, and believe me we are never to old to learn. I don't know if this is always the case but we shot at the indoor range and then each person had to field strip their gun, clean it and reassemle it with proper instruction. We have a lady in Wichita that writes editorials sometimes in the Thursday Paper. She is a School Teacher by trade but does great pro-gun editorials in the Wichita Eagle. Her father is a policeman and she was brought up right. I usually send her an e-mail when she writes an editorial that really gets me excited. She has written some great ones. Next time she has a good one I will try to cut and post it with her permission. Oto
    OTO

    KIMBER: Pistol du jour
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  • Rob GreeneRob Greene Member Posts: 102 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I work in the media as a news anchor/disc jockey. It's too bad that a lot of the others who work in media seem to forget or ignore that the same Constitution that allows us to say or print anything also gives us the right to own a firearm.

    It is your right to posess a firearm. In case of questions, please refer to ammendment 2, United States Constitution.
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I did a similar deal with the Indiana Dept. of Natural Resourses program (Becoming an Outdoor Woman). Had some ladies who never fired a gun and when the three days were finished one said she knew what her newest hobby was now going to be. Our dept. gives free gun safety classes to the public and for those who want to try a qualifying course, we let them have a go at it and if they make it, we document their scores. It's good PR and our local journalist are pro gun so they give us positive feed back not to mention a good write up in our local paper.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,078 ******
    edited November -1
    Maintenance is covered when I have a new recruit just out of the academy. Fortunately, there is not much to field stripping, cleaning and lubricating most modern pistols.

    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • HighballHighball Member Posts: 15,755
    edited November -1
    " Never allow muzzle to point at anything you don't want to destroy ".....oft repeated,always wrong....
    1. The muzzle must ALWAYS point somewhere....ONLY WHEN YOU TAKE
    DELIBERATE AIM would the above instructions be viable.
    2. Better instructions; Keep muzzle pointed in a direction that will cause the least injury to a human being....with an eye towards soaking up a bullet, so no ricochet.I.E.,that means,point muzzle towards your grandmothers walnut footstool,rather then the people in the room....

    God,Guts,& GunsHave we lost all 3 ??
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  • k.stanonikk.stanonik Member Posts: 2,109 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Thanks nunn, they came in to use the range to practice befor heading back and had problems with their weapon, we were closing so best i could do was give them a crash course in disassemble/ clean/ reassembel. makes me kinda nervous not knowing much and almost done with training, i'm not a instructor but i believe that should be taught first, after all when it comes down to it that weapon and training is what is going to keep you alive if things get ugly.
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