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The Spokesman-Review A Spokane Police Department shooting target  shows hits in the “T-box” zone. Officials are considering spending $2 million on a new shooting range. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)
The Spokesman-Review A Spokane Police Department shooting target shows hits in the “T-box” zone. Officials are considering spending $2 million on a new shooting range. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)

The Spokesman-Review A Spokane Police Department shooting target  shows hits in the “T-box” zone.

One June morning last year, Jack Dailey drove from his home in North Carolina’s Piedmont country, through verdant, hilly farmland to a rifle range near the town of Ramseur. Eleven men and a woman had mustered there for a weeklong boot camp run by the Appleseed Project, a group Dailey started that is dedicated to teaching every American how to fire a bullet through a man-size target out to 500 yards. So far Appleseed has taught 25,000 people to shoot; 7,000 more will learn by the end of this year. Its instructors teach this skill not for the purpose of hunting or sport. They see marksmanship as fundamental to Americans’ ability to defend their liberty, whether against foreigners or the agents of a (hypothetical) tyrannical government. Read more. Mattathias Schwartz, NYTimes.com

H/t Nick Adams

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.