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Why Are More Women Becoming Interested In Firearms?

SHE CAN SHOOT offers firearms training and has more than 1,800 members in the Capital Beltway area.

For the past couple of years our nation has seen women increasingly becoming interested in purchasing firearms and becoming educated on firearms safety.  

This is not a small spike. It is more like a 65 percent increase that the firearms industry has witnessed, hence the pink and purple firearms that are now out there along with pink targets and accessories.  

SHE CAN SHOOT, LLC, headquarted in Centreville, VA, was responsibile for initiating firearms education and training for women throughout the D.C. metropolitan area by using highly experienced and certified female instructors starting in 2010. Today, SHE CAN SHOOT has more than 1,800 members just in the Capital Beltway area, and chapters continue to open throughout the United States. The education and training is also passed on to each woman's family members and friends as they are allowed to also attend.

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But why the spike and the attention?  SHE CAN SHOOT welcomes your story and comments. Please feel free to forward your story to www.shecanshoot.com on why you as a woman have become interested in firearms.

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