Frank, I bet you were as "on target" with your shooting as you are with this statement!
Well, kinda:
- Usually qualified Expert or Distinguished in smallbore rifle in high school/college competitions.
- Mostly Expert & several Distinguished awards in NRA sectionals with Detroit Edison Pistol Club[SUP]1[/SUP].
- Expert High Power Rifle (M1), National Rifle & Pistol Championships, Camp Perry, Ohio, 1962(?) Army ROTC, sponsored by the Fifth US Army Advanced Marksmanship Unit, Fort Knox, KY.
- Expert Rifleman, U.S. Army marksmanship qualification.
My introduction to stupid gun laws:
In Detroit at the time, carrying unloaded target pistol(s) from home to the range in a locked case in the trunk of the car was technically "carrying concealed weapons" (there was no distinction between that and having a loaded pistol in the "glove box"!) and required a CCW license, which at the time was issued solely upon the discretion of some police bureaucracy, with no appeal or recourse, and the application form was on par with filling out the US Office of Personnel Management's 127 page Standard Form 86 for a security clearance, plus providing a completed "application for sainthood" in the Catholic Church.
([SUP]1 Detroit Edison Pistol Club, 100 West Willis Street, Detroit, MI,
The building is still there today (see Google Street View)!, the range was on the 2nd floor.)
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