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I learned to handle firearms from

my grandfather,who spent several years as a millitary firearms instructor.Training is EVERYTHING!!And you are

absolutly right.Some states at least require some level of qualification befor handing out concealed weapons

permits,but the requirements as a whole are patheticly inadaquate.Many of the deaths that occur surrounding firearms

are accidental and avoidable and should be prosecuted more severly simply for the fact that incompetence and

stupidity are no excuse for poor handling of a weapon.Another unfortunate occurance are the incompetent seeing

firearms as a "macho" expression of thier manhood.Firearms dont make a man,and this issue is not stressed

enough.Learning safe handling of firearms from television and movies is pure folly but unfortunatly common.

As

for your daughter being a good shot,this may interest you.Girls make better students than boys do! Girls,because

they have little if any ego tied up with thier marksmanship and a higher level of hand-eye coordination and better

fine motor control than men tend to be excelent shots and very easy to train to a very high degree of

proficency.With less ego involved,they listen better to instruction,apply learned technique better and arent prone

to a competitive adreniline rush when they step to the firing line.As a result,girls can realy shoot! I know a

couple of sisters who grew up hunting and shooting that used to frustrate thier dad with superior marksmanship both

on the range and in the field,and he was a damn fine shot!My mom was the same way.She could shoot circles around me

any day of the week and only rarely picked up a rifle.But she had learned from my grandfather when she was just a

pup.

Encourage your daughter to take up the sport seriously and you could very easily have an Olympic shooter or

Camp Perry competitor on your hands.