After such a cold winter, I'm glad that warm weather is finally returning to Central Virginia.  I'm excited to get outside to my range and do some shooting.  Shooting is my favorite hobby.  I like to practice and sharpen my skills in many different disciplines with different firearms.  Of course, it is more than a hobby since I also have learned the skills (that I will hopefully never need) to defend my life and the lives of those important to me.  If you'd like to take the next step to learn shooting as a hobby or to learn to use a firearm for self-defense (or both!), this is the perfect time.   

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I've written before about the risk of shooting guns in the air to celebrate.  Those bullets will all fall back to earth and could hurt someone or something.  When we talk about the rules of safe gun handling during our courses, we always reinforce that a gun should always be pointed in a safe direction - one that can stop a bullet without damaging anyone or anything.  Unfortunately, there are many incidents every year of gun owners break that rule and negligently shooting their guns in the air.  

I didn't realize that this was a common occurrence in RVA too until I saw this Richmond Times Dispatch article .  The Richmond Police took 181 calls about celebratory gunfire on New Years Eve and New Years Day 2018 and got 11 reports of property damage. (including the window and frame shown above).   I'm thankful that no one was killed or injured.  I work in Downtown Richmond and I really like the whole downtown area.  However, based on this, I recommend staying away from Downtown on New Years Eve and New Years Day!

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