{"id":88691,"date":"2022-12-16T09:46:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88691"},"modified":"2022-12-16T09:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:46:38","slug":"88691","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=88691","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

More women buying guns to defend themselves: “The world is changing”<\/a><\/p>\n

Calera, Alabama<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 At a gun range in the heart of Alabama, Gracie Barhill is getting acquainted with her month-old Smith & Wesson 9 millimeter.<\/p>\n

“I’m young. I’m a girl,” she said. “I never know when a threat is going to come.”<\/p>\n

The 19-year-old is taking a self-defense firearms course, “Girls, Guns and Gear,” that’s designed for women who are wary of threats.<\/p>\n

“It’s absolutely undeniable, the world is changing and they want to be ahead of it,” said Scott Recchio, a firearms instructor at the range.<\/p>\n

Last year, one-third of all first-time gun buyers in the U.S. were women, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The trade association said there’s been a 77% rise in female gun ownership from 2005 to 2020.<\/p>\n

Emma Boutwell, who is also taking the women-only class, said she had never handled a gun until recently.<\/p>\n

“I need to know how to defend myself as well,” Boutwell said.<\/p>\n

Gun instructor Beverly Alldredge teaches the women marksmanship, gun safety and situational awareness.<\/p>\n

Alldredge said that instructing women is different than men because “women listen better than men do.”<\/p>\n

“Women are just quicker just to hear and take in what they are being told and applying that,” she said.<\/p>\n

Among Black women, the firearm homicide rate has more than tripled since 2010,\u00a0according to one study<\/a>. Today, nearly 30% of new women gun owners are Black, according to the 2021 National Firearms Survey.<\/p>\n

Nikkita Gordon, who owns the women’s clothing line Cute and Cocky, which is designed to hide a gun fashionably, said she has self-defense plans for both indoor and outdoor scenarios.<\/p>\n

“I think most women, specifically women of color, should have these plans,” she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More women buying guns to defend themselves: “The world is changing” Calera, Alabama\u00a0\u2014 At a gun range in the heart of Alabama, Gracie Barhill is getting acquainted with her month-old Smith & Wesson 9 millimeter. “I’m young. I’m a girl,” she said. “I never know when a threat is going to come.” The 19-year-old is … 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":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88691","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=88691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88692,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88691\/revisions\/88692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}