"We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future."
- Franklin Roosevelt
Hampton Roads Young Gunz - Duly registered with the
Commonwealth of Virginia May 20, 2000 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 frequent Club Sponsored NRA Sanctioned Competitions.
Melanie Baker-Gard
NRA Club Administrator
757.484.9566