The Shooters Hangout

Thumbtack searches: 7,083 in 2014, up from 2,550 in 2013 Businesses listed: 304 in 2014, up from 175 in 2013 Firearm training is in high demand both from people who just want to learn how to shoot and those who want to become instructors. In the past year, searches for firearm instructors have tripled on […]

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 […]

HONEA PATH, SC (FOX Carolina) – The Anderson County Sheriff’s Office said a woman has been charged after a man died when a bullet missed the protective vest he was wearing when he asked a friend to shoot him. Anderson County deputies said they received a call at 2:41 a.m. from a home on Broadmouth […]

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 […]

A 30-year-old mother is lucky today after the quick-thinking of a stranger helped save her from a mugging. The mother of two who was dragged across a Texas shopping center parking lot this week, clinging to her purse while two suspects in a sedan tried to snatch it. That’s when the stranger, who was armed, […]

Author, economist and researcher John Lott announced on Wednesday that he is creating a new research center to “advance the scientific understanding of the relationship between laws regulating the ownership or use of guns, crime and public safety.” John Lott (YouTube) The Crime Prevention Research Center will seek to educate the “public, journalists and policy makers” […]

“My name is First Lieutenant Patrick Cook of the 49th Transportation Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas, and this past Wednesday I found myself trapped in an enclosed room with fourteen of my fellow Soldiers, one of whom was barricading the door against a madman with a .45 pistol when he was fatally shot.” That’s the way […]

On April 5th, appearing on Fox Business Network’s Cashin’ In, Juan Williams reacted to Army Spc. Ivan Lopez’s heinous crime at Fort Hood by saying he wants “America to be a gun-free zone.” JUAN WILLIAMS WANTS AMERICA TO BE A GUN FREE ZONE. Just one more DISCREDIT to Juan Williams flatlined credibility… How much longer […]