Posted December 22, 2016 2:49 pm by Comments

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USA -(Ammoland.com)- NRA Training Counselor Bernard Martinage grew up in Paris, France. Before he was 10 years old, his grandfather taught him how to hunt, shoot, and survive in the wilderness. He traded cards in school in order to buy his first .22 and a few years later, he bought his first pistol, a Colt Navy Brass black powder. As he got older, he joined the Association Nationale des Tireurs Amateurs et Collectionneurs (ANTAC or the “National Association of Amateur Shooters and Collectors”) and continued developing his rifle skills when he was deployed to the Congo in the 1980s.

Wanting to follow in his grandfather’s footsteps, Bernard went to a culinary school in Burgundy for three years to become a chef, but ended up working in the customer service area of the hospitality industry. Shortly after, he moved to the United States where he met Paul Ortenzio, who at the time was a SWAT team member and Commander as well as a State Certified Firearms Instructor and Range Master at the Bergen County, New Jersey Police Academy.

“Paul treated me like a son and spent years opening me up …Read the Rest

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