But unlike a basketball game or a tennis match, high school students were handling, loading and firing guns. “There are a lot of misconceptions,” Leif Johnson, the coach of the Lancaster High School team, told me. Parents, teachers and students also stressed that air rifle target shooting had no correlation to the NRA or to the awful events in Parkland. Her older sister Jillian holds three state records in three-position air rifle and now shoots for the University of Mississippi. But on Saturday, the elder Zakrveski’s records stood though Kamille did finish third overall in standing air rifle.

Source: The Guardian March 09, 2018 09:56 UTC