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"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt  Hampton Roads Young Gunz was formed May 20, 2000 and Registered with the Commonwealth of Virginia as a Non-Profit Youth Sports Organization OUR MISSION: * To foster the attitudes of good sportsmanship, responsibility, patience, and self-discipline. * To provide expert training, knowledge, and skills in the proper use, care, and safe handling of firearms, with emphasis on pistols.
 * To provide opportunities to participate in specific shooting sports activities and organized local, state, regional, and national level competition. * To develop the important qualities of leadership, loyalty, cooperation, and good sportsmanship, which is essential to good citizenship. * To promote firearms safety, marksmanship, education, training, and the shooting sports. * To prepare youth for leadership and responsible citizenship in society by developing and nurturing the individual - through integrated programs that emphasize the cultivation of character. * To instill self-discipline, personal responsibility, fairness, appreciation for diversity, respect for self and others and the development of character. NRA Affiliate Youth Organization Provides quality instruction that emphasizes firearm safety Gives newcomers an opportunity to give shooting a try Prepares an individual for organized competitve shooting Opportunity to enter the US Olympic Pistol Program Offers an opportunity to earn college schoarships. Using NRA's FIRST Steps Firearm Safety Orientation and the NRA Marksmanship Qualification Program as the base for this program, area youth are afforded the opportunity, under the guidance and close supervision of NRA Certified Instructors and NRA Certified Range Safety Officers, to learn and develop both safety and marksmanship skills.As a result of the skills attained, the opportunity to enter and compete in monthly Club Sponsored NRA Sanctioned Competitions.
A good development program like qualification shooting helps the student learn shooting skills and then introduces the shooter to other steps of development. The Distinguished Expert rating in the qualification program, for example, encourages shooters to fire their qualifying scores in NRA sanctioned competition. Competitive shooting exposes the shooter to other developmental challenges and different shooting venues.
Copyright 2008 Michael Lucas
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