ATW: Armed women: More women carrying concealed handguns

By Neil McCabe | 7:32 PM | November 23, 2014

The FOX12 news reports:

SALEM, OR (KPTV) – Two years ago, Wayne Floyd said very few women were customers of his Salem gun shop.

Today, it’s a different story at Blackwater Tactical, and statistics show more women than ever own a gun.

Floyd teaches concealed handgun classes every week. During a recent session, a group of female friends, who work mostly as real estate agents, attended for an unconventional “girls’ night out.”

“I’m meeting clients in vacant properties, open houses, you meet lots of strangers,” said Vera Stanley.

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Neil W. McCabe is the editor of HE's "Guns & Patriots" e-letter and was a senior reporter at the Human Events newspaper. McCabe deployed with the Army Reserve to Iraq for 15 months as a combat historian. For many years, he was a reporter and photographer for "The Pilot," Boston's Catholic paper. He was also the editor of the free community papers "The Somerville (Mass.) News and "The Alewife (North Cambridge, Mass.)." Email him: [email protected] Follow him on Twitter: @neilwmccabe.