School modifies policy allows trap team photo with guns

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School modifies policy allows trap team photo with guns

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Nice a move in the right direction. Must be a 'flyover state' I'm, counting roughly 60 students on the trap team.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/04/2 ... m-yearbook" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Team members had been told the yearbook photo would not be included because of the school's policy against against showing firearms in photos. Some parents were concerned enough they were considering raising the issue during a school board meeting Thursday.

On Thursday afternoon, however, the Big Lake school district said it agreed to modify its no-guns-in-pictures policy to make an exception for the trapshooting team.
Team members, coaches and parents say the guns should be viewed as a piece of equipment used in the sport, much like a baseball player holding a bat in a photo. Before the district shifted it position, parent Rick Anderson told WCCO-TV "political correctness has gone way overboard."
Previous related article re: high school trap shooting.. https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/06/08/trap-shooting" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
It's also Minnesota's fastest growing high school sport. In 2008 only about 30 students statewide competed in sanctioned trap shooting events. This year (2015), 8,600 took part. Flaig's Hermantown team is one of more than 200 preparing for the Minnesota High School Trapshooting Championship that begins later this week in Alexandria.

That's absolutely spectacular !!
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