Shooting sports more popular than golf and tennis?
It’s in The Paper of Record, so it must be true:
IT may come as a rude shock to fans of traditional country club sports, but more Americans take part in sports involving guns than play tennis and golf combined. The list, of course, includes hunting and recreational shooting, but also a blend called sporting clays, in which shooters plunge into nature not to stalk deer or ducks but to test their skill at hitting clay targets that fly through the air or bounce across the ground.
November 19th, 2004 at 12:00 am
[…] cipate in sports, and I’m sure that any other sport wouldn’t raise a peep of protest. Yet, shooting sports are more popular than golf and tenni […]
November 15th, 2004 at 2:26 pm
Weekly Check on the Bias
Welcome to the November 15th edition of my (almost) Weekly Check on the Bias by media regarding guns and the Second Amendment. Deer hunting season is underway in most states and there’s something comforting about hearing the crack of rifles…
October 10th, 2005 at 10:21 am
[…] Despite millions of TV watching gun owners, every time the Olympics come around, they put their skimpy coverage of the shooting sports on at like 3am on a Sunday evening. On cable. Even though the trap and skeet, target shooting, and plinking together are more than likely the most popular participatory sport in the USA [source]. […]