Number Of Women In Some Shooting Sports Nearly Doubled In Last Two Years

By Tom Knighton

Anything that grows shooting sports is a good thing. New shooting sports competitors often mean new shooters. New shooters mean new voters to defend our Second Amendment rights. It’s generally a good thing, as a general rule.

It’s even better when it’s a group of people who most don’t think of when they think about shooting sports competitors.

Excerpts from a new research project released on Tuesday show the number of women involved in the shooting sports has increased over the last two years with some shooting disciplines seeing as much as a 189 percent boost.

Shoot Like a Girl, which offers gun-training classes geared towards women across the country, released some of the details of a survey it conducted in 2017. The company said its findings were compiled with data from more than 2,600 women shooters. It said the number of women who completed its survey allowed it to generalize the results to all women shooters with a 99 percent confidence level and 2.6 percent margin of error.

The company said the results are evidence that the number of women interested in guns and the shooting sports continues to grow each year.

This is welcome news. The only aspect of …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms