Posted March 11, 2019 6:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Photo via Pixabay

Let’s be fair, Time isn’t likely to join the ranks of magazines like American Rifleman on the reading lists of most American gun owners. It’s the mainstream media, especially with all that implies. They’re not likely to be pro-gun.

But Time is also far more likely to be fair than most, which is probably the only reason they’re willing to admit high school shooting teams are becoming a thing. It’s also the only reason they’re willing to admit the NRA is part of the reason.

The Minnesota State High School Clay Target League championship bills itself as the largest shooting sports event in the world. With the bustling crowds and flood of corporate interest, it could be mistaken for, say, a scene on the NASCAR circuit, except that the stars are teenage boys and girls. And they’re armed. That’s the entire point, of course, in a shooting competition, but there are moments when the world beyond scorecards and ear protection edges into view. Bernie Bogenreif, coach for the Roseville Area High School trap team, detects one such instance as competitors from another school line up for a team photo: a couple of dozen kids arranged, shoulder to …Read the Rest

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