Trap team photo banned from HS yearbook — because guns. But team supporters don’t stand for it.

By Dave Urbanski

Given that trap team members at Minnesota’s Big Lake High School use, you know, guns as part of their sporting pursuits, it stands to reason the squad would pose with the tools of its trade for the yearbook photo.

But there was a little problem with that.

See, the school’s athletic director on Wednesday told coach Rhonda Eckerdt that photos with firearms are verboten — and that the squad’s photo wasn’t allowed in the school’s yearbook.

The administrator said arrangements could be made to have a photo taken of the team without guns, WCCO-TV reported, or a proposal could be submitted explaining why the photo with guns should be granted a spot in the yearbook.

But there was little time to lose. The team had until Monday to submit a new photo. Eckerdt figured she’d have to plead her case to the Big Lakes Schools Board of Education Thursday night, the station said.

Rob Doar, political director of the Gun Owners Caucus, told WCCO that he was ready to join Eckerdt at the meeting — but he also got his own gears of justice cranking.

“We immediately mobilized our supporter base,” Doar told the station. “We sent …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze