A mother of fifteen years grew up around guns but realized she didn't know how to safely handle them until she had kids. That gap led her to become a certified instructor and open a shooting school in Connecticut. She's reaching out to other mothers who have guns at home but feel uncertain, offering to teach them firearm safety.
It's Mother's Day 2021, and I've been a mom for 15 years, and I just want to make this really quick video because if I weren't a mother, I would have never gotten into firearms. Why is that, you say? Well, my husband always had firearms, and we had firearms in the home, but it was not until I had children that I realized how little I knew about firearms. I'd been to the range, they'd put a loaded gun in my hand, I'd pulled the trigger. If you asked me, I went shooting, like, oh yeah, I've been shooting, not a big deal. Until kids arrived. When kids arrived, then I realized how important it was that I was not afraid of those firearms that were in my home. And I was just afraid of becoming an accident. I didn't know how to touch them. I didn't know how to hold them. I didn't know how to load. And more importantly, I didn't know how to unload them to make them safe. So the birth of my children was the beginning of my firearms experience. Since then, I've become a competitive shooter and an instructor and opened my own shooting school here in Harwinton, Connecticut. My desire as a mom is to help you, another mom, who may have firearms in your home but really don't know anything about them. I'm not looking to get you to become a Nikita or some crazy ninja warrior with firearms. I just want to help people go from clueless to confident and help them go from afraid to confident, because that's what I found when I realized the importance of being able to handle the firearms that were in my home. So if you're a mom watching this, please know I am here for you. Thanks. Have a great day.
