Welcome to the Post 1084 Shooting Sports Club.

The purposes of this club are as follows.

1.       To provide an opportunity for young people to learn firearms safety and basic marksmanship.

2.       To introduce the shooting sports to community members and to educate them about shooting

3.       To provide participants in an existing youth organization an opportunity to achieve objectives related to the shooting sports, e.g. Boy Scout merit badges, 4-H awards, Law Enforcement Venturing program.

4.       To use the shooting sports as a vehicle to help young people develop leadership, discipline, concentration, sportsmanship and responsibility.

We feel that the easiest and most productive method of preventing accidental firearm deaths is through education of their safe use. It is the responsibility of every parent and grandparent to ensure that their children learn firearms safety from a very young age, even if you do not own any firearms. You teach your children to say no to drugs, not talk to strangers, and not to play with matches don’t you? Unfortunately too many children fail to learn this potentially life saving information. Firearms are a permanent part of our culture, and self-control not gun control must be taught to our children.

Introducing children to the shooting sports is an excellent way to teach self-control. Skills learned in shooting are valuable in other aspects of life. Learning to be a safe shooter teaches responsibility. Learning to hit a difficult target teaches self-discipline and self-control. Learning to hold a firearm steady and hit the target teaches concentration. Knowing that the shooter alone is ultimately responsible for his or her performance teaches self-reliance and enhances individual esteem. As you can see it is no wonder that children in shooting sports programs often increase their grade average.

Shooting is a safe sport; in fact injuries are so rare in target shooting that accident records are not even kept. Shooting is safe because it has a strict code of safety that all shooters follow. Like water safety training, the firearm safety training associated with a shooting activity is of a lasting value, even if the young people don’t develop an ongoing interest in the shooting sports.

Amendment II - Right to bear arms.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when yong, how to use them." (Richard Henry Lee, Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, initiator of the Declaration of Independence, and member of the first Senate, which passed the Bill of Rights.)

"The great object is that every man be armed . . . Everyone who is able may have a gun." (Patrick Henry, in the Virginia Convention on the ratification of the Constitution.)

"The advantage of being armed . . . the Americans possess over the people of all other nations . . . Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several Kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." (James Madison, author of the Bill of Rights, in his Federalist Paper No. 46.)

Universal Gun Safety Rules:

POSITION - The scope of all the positions for shooting handguns is beyond the range of this site. Same with arguments for said discussions. Put simply, there are one-hand, and two-hand positions; Offhand, and rest; considerations such as target/combat, etc.. For the purpose of this page, I will show you the method taught me, which I have found to be the most practical.

SIGHT ALIGNMENT - If you look at the sights on your handgun, you will find that they are very similar to the iron sights on your rifle. I was taught to inscribe a "D" shape with the movement of your arms, timing your trigger squeeze with the alignment of your correct sight picture and the bull.

TRIGGER SQUEEZE - Some handguns have fairly heavy, or jerky triggers. The effect being all the more noticeable. I prefer a medium weight trigger that travels smoothly with crisp release. Don't modify your trigger if you do not know exactly what you are doing. See the discussion for trigger squeeze below.

FOLLOW THROUGH - Only in the movies does the good guy fire 6-? rounds all on target(?) In reality, your pistol wil recoil. As with rifles, follow through means holding the weapon on target throughout the firing procedure, and reacquiring the target in a smooth motion returning from the recoil

Source: http://sportshooter.itgo.com/handguns.html

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