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Gun ownership for women is on the rise<\/a>
\nA new study finds that close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since 2019 have been female. A Girl and A Gun is a local women’s shooting league out of Michigan.<\/p>\n

TAYLOR, Mich. (WXYZ) \u2014 A girl and a gun, a fitting name for a shooting league created for women by women.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of like being on a bowling league, only we shoot guns,\u201d said Audree Danielson.<\/p>\n

A new study finds that close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since 2019 have been female. In Michigan, a growing number of women are learning how to use a firearm. Images showing unprecedented turnout \u2013 1000 to 2000 women \u2013 wrapped around the block during the pandemic to attend the free firearm training event Legally Armed in Detroit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have been consistently teaching ladies-only classes without even intending to because they\u2019re coming out of the woodwork,\u201d said Danielson.<\/p>\n

Danielson is a firearms safety instructor specializing in helping first-timers, much like myself, buck the fear.<\/p>\n

Hunting, political tensions, armed self-defense, COVID-19 anxiety; researchers say several factors have pulled women into the fold.<\/p>\n

For Rachel Gottler, it was about conquering a challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI enjoy the competitive side of it,\u201d said Gottler.<\/p>\n

For Michelle Kinna, personal safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was nervous. I was by myself,\u201d Kinna.<\/p>\n

But for Stephanie Ciner, it was a far more personal undertaking.<\/p>\n

\u201cI turned around masked, bag, gun, man coming in,\u201d said Ciner.<\/p>\n

At the age of 17, Ciner was held hostage as a patron at a bank during a robbery.<\/p>\n

“We were this close, he got into my space, and he had a gun at my head,\u201d said Ciner.<\/p>\n

For decades, she was terrified to be in the same room as a gun… until the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just kind of had it with fear,\u201d said Ciner.<\/p>\n

Drawing inspiration from Danielson, a fellow female who was just the mentor she needed to take her power back.<\/p>\n

For these women, it\u2019s the feeling the knowledge provides.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow better to learn how to do this, be amongst my peers and with all women,\u201d said Kinna. \u201cIt\u2019s different. It\u2019s a different environment.”<\/p>\n

Women like Danielson paved that judgment-free zone. She spent years as a minority- the lone woman in a sea of men.<\/p>\n

With that\u2014 came adversity, but nothing quite as memorable as the shocking thing told to her by one man in the early days of gathering as a women-only group.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe could exchange recipes, we could gossip like chickens in a coup, but we could not formally learn to shoot without the help of masculine entity of some kind,\u201d said Danielson.<\/p>\n

Sparking a camaraderie that has inspired a new wave of women to step into the unknown, to lean on each other, and lean in at the chance to \u2018shoot like a girl!’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gun ownership for women is on the rise A new study finds that close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since 2019 have been female. A Girl and A Gun is a local women’s shooting league out of Michigan. TAYLOR, Mich. (WXYZ) \u2014 A girl and a gun, a fitting name for a … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78523,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78522\/revisions\/78523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}