'Coming out' to my mother was a little rougher than I thought it would be. Of course my hubby was happy, and we had to have LOTS of long talks with the kiddos about it. There was just something a bit nerve-wracking about telling my mother that I would be carrying a gun. She wasn't opposed to it because she knew that I traveled a lot. She just somehow assumed that it was ONLY for travel and not a daily deal.
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Fast Forward
Mother lost her husband (my parents split when I was 14) and now lives alone. She wanted a gun for Christmas!! So, my brother and I took mom and my SIL to Kay-Jay's. They got to inspect and shoot several different guns. The girls each picked one out, and my brother handed over his credit card for the purchase. I bought the ammo to go along. That was obviously before Christmas. We had our first range day last weekend.
SIL did OK with her LCP .380. I say "OK" because that's a tough little bugger to shoot, and because she's new. She was catching on quickly to being able to load and operate the gun by herself.
Momma shoots like a beast with the FMK 9mm she chose! Getting her to load a magazine and understand the functional aspects of her gun were more of a challenge. She wanted me to just hand it over to her in a ready to fire mode every time she emptied it. She selected this gun because she could rack the slide on it easily. When I asked her to do it that day, she couldn't quite remember how she did it at the store, so we had to re-learn that. When asked at the range desk how many rounds she wanted to shoot she quickly answered 25. Later, she asked "what is a round"? LOL. As soon as we were done she went straight out to buy her own eyes and ears.
Brother and I had fun too. We both shot my 1911 EDC and my Ruger .22 target pistol in addition to the LCP and the FMK. The paper bad guys with the different size holes served an educational purpose too.
I suppose the point of all of this is to say that I was happy to take some special ladies to the range. I was even more happy to be a part of them making a huge choice in their lives and am excited to see where this goes. They are both planning to get CHL's this spring, though neither really plans to carry daily. I hope they change their minds! Baby steps.
Tell me your stories about taking a new lady shooter to the range!