3 reasons why it’s great to be a firearms-loving female

By Eve Flanigan

The author engaged in her passion and profession. Despite being labeled, the fastest growing demographic in the gun community, women have always been shooters. However, this may be the greatest time in history to be a gun gal. (Photo: Team HB)
By the account of countless local gun store owners, hunting organizations like National Wild Turkey Federation, and general industry buzz, women are usually named as the “fastest-growing segment of the industry.” Indeed, women in America have used guns and enjoyed shooting since guns began to be used for home and national defense and hunting.
Although it’d probably be relatively easy to do, I know of no academic or market-based research on women and the gun industry that accounts for this growth. Available surveys have focused only on women who hunt.
The difference between generations past and today in terms of girls and women being involved with guns appears, to me, to be the entrance of new populations into gun ownership. The growing presence of indoor ranges in urban areas would support this theory. Personally, I encounter many new female gun owners of every walk of life who are interested in guns for self-protection, with an interest in hunting or competing sometimes following

Source: Guns.com