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It is our Second Amendment right to own a firearm. Common sense dictates that it be used properly and accurately. Training and practice is the key to safe and secure handling of any firearm.

“Don’t let people put obstacles in front of you, but understand you also have to put in the work” were the words of engineer Raye Jean Montague as recalled by her son. Montague overcame the limitations of technology, the pressures of overwhelming hours, and the obstacles of prejudice to produce one of the major engineering breakthroughs of the time – the production of the first naval vessel designed entirely by computer. Her work brought computers to a new level of use and kept the U. S. Navy on the cutting edge of technology.

We take it for granted, freedom. We think the government gives it to us, freely. But in fact the opposite is true. Almost without exception, the government legislates (makes laws and rules) restrictions, constraints, or mandates that take away our ability to do whatever we want, or not do something.