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Boulder City, Nev. (CNNMoney) Guns with slim profiles, pink stocks and glittery grips are aimed at one of the industry’s fastest-growing clientele: women. “Make it pretty and make it purple,” said Tori Nonaka, a purple-haired competitive shooter and “Glock Girl” at the SHOT Show. Nonaka and her colleague Michelle Viscuzi, an Army veteran, were selected […]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) If you’re a woman, and you’re licensed to shoot, then your skills are in hot demand. The market for female gun instructors is booming as more women want to learn to shoot — both for self defense and for sport, said Tina Wilson-Cohen, who owns She Can Shoot, an all-women firearm and […]

VISTA — A new gun store in downtown Vista is sporting a firearms simulator like the kind police use for weapons training, but this one is open to anyone — not just law enforcement. Empowered Firearms owner LeAnne Farmer says her store, which opened Tuesday, has the only such simulator in the county available for […]

This shows why simply owning a gun for home defense is not enough. You MUST get formalized training from professional instructors! And practice! The Shooters Hangout A Houston homeowner died Monday night in a shootout with two men forced their way into his home while he was with his girlfriend. The Houston Chronicle reported that […]

Two downstate firearms instructors have been decertified for failing to provide the required amount of training to students seeking concealed carry firearms permits, Illinois State Police announced today. Ninety-eight students certified by the instructors did not get the full 16 hours of training required by the state to carry a hidden handgun in public, police […]

School officials in Pueblo County, Colorado are bucking the anti-gun trend and recently approved a field trip for middle school students to a local shooting range where they learned about gun safety and how to properly handle a firearm. The gun safety and marksman group Project Appleseed, an activity of The Revolutionary War Veterans Association, […]

Jitterz Java, a Spokane coffee house, was robbed twice in February. Given that track record, the store’s owner has adopted some new preventative measures. She’s letting her baristas pack heat on the job. As spokesman.com reports, “…on Sunday, a man who appeared to be armed ran off after a barista grabbed her gun and called police.” The local 5-0 […]

There has been a surge of people ready to get their hands on a conceal and carry permit after a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling last month that relaxed the California’s laws on the issue. Sacramento County alone has 7,000 people on the waiting list. Typically, San Joaquin County has 20 appointments per […]

A new Pew Study has discovered that despite President Obama’s repeated claim that 90+% of Americans want increased gun control, the majority of millennials oppose further gun control measures. The study reveals that millennials, those born between 1981 and 1996, largely reject the call for increased gun control 50-48 percent. While the margin may be […]

The stereotypical gun owner in America is evolving. From the rancher in Texas who sleeps with a rifle next to his bed to the Democratic female business executive in Washington, D.C. who wants to feel protected while walking home from the bus stop, the last year of gun purchases shows a new demographic of Second […]