CNJFO TEACHES KIDS GUN SAFETY & TO SHOOT!
YOUTH DAY DRAWS 20 1ST-TIMERS & PARENTS!
by Black Wire Media Tuesday June 25, 2019 www.cnjfo.com/join-us
As part of our ongoing commitment to firearms education & awareness, 20 youth ages 7-18 were given a safety class, and then trained by well over a dozen CNJFO Instructor-Volunteers during a LIVE-FIRE Training Session held at the Union Hill Gun Club range in Monroe Twp., NJ last Sunday. Each eager youth was gifted swag bags from our gracious sponsors, fed chicken fingers, hot dogs and mac & cheese and then helped with eye & ear protection prior to the live fire session that featured (5) single-shot Keystone Cricket .22 cal rifles donated to the Coalition by Keystone Sporting Arms, Inc. as part of their ongoing effort to train America's youth in the safe & responsible recreational use of sporting arms.
To supplement Keystone's gift, approx. two dozen firearms from CNJFO Youth Day Committee Chair Eric Saperstein's extensive .22 rimfire collection were on-hand and several Instructor-Volunteers brought fine examples from their collections. Henry lever-action & pump-action repeaters, a Sharps, a Ruger American w/ scope, S&W M and P, and a lot more made up the huge selection for the kids to pick from.
Our Instructors were led by CNJFO Life Member Rocco LaRocca, NRA Training Counselor and owner of R.O.C. Training, based at Union Hill Gun Club. LaRocca & his staff gave a safety brief to the Instructors and then held a basic gun safety class custom designed for our youth participants. Instructors came from as far as Orange Co., NY and Tabernacle, NJ to volunteer at this inaugural Youth Day shoot. NRA-ILA's Mark Galey came from Fairfax, VA bearing swag for all attendees.
OUR YOUNGEST INSTRUCTOR IS A SPECIAL LADY!
USPSA Grand Master & Static Steel Champion Emily Cutts, age 15, from team TandemKross, hails from Tabernacle, NJ. Emily was our youngest Instructor and enjoyed "giving-back" to the sport she loves and we thoroughly enjoyed watching her instruct eager kids taking their first shots with this Jersey celeb! CNJFO President Matt Andras published a Facebook-Live video of Coalition Vice President, David "Rosey" Rosenthal introducing Emily as she was instructing. Joined by her parents Doug & Lorie Cutts, the entire family came to volunteer and support our mission. Doug & Emily each instructed in their own ports while Lorie sold raffle tickets and held everything together for Youth Day Chair Eric Saperstein. We can't thank them enough for their time, travel and dedication to teaching NJ youth to shoot safe & responsibly!
In addition to the Cutts family, several other NJ notables enjoyed bringing wide smiles to the faces of our first-timers. Tony Simon from The 2nd is for Everyone: Diversity Shoot, Mickey Palma of R.O.C. Training, Grant Gallagher from ScotShot Grant (a NRA Training Counselor), CNJFO Trustee Dan Grdovic, Membership Committee Co-Chair Jaime Rivera, Annie Bella, Martin Tremarco, Membership Committee Chair Michele Rivera and Coalition VP David "Rosey" Rosenthal.
The girls & boys each had a parent or guardian with them, and extra "eyes & ears" were made available through a donation by Radians. This enabled moms & dads to capture video & stills of their children taking their first shots with our Coalition Instructor-Volunteers as each child moved from port-to-port thus gaining knowledge on all available .22 rimfire platforms: Single-shot (donated Crickets), bolt-action, slide-action, lever-action and semi-auto repeating rifles.
Targets were donated by long-time CNJFO sponsor Speedwell Targets of Frenchtown, NJ and the .22 cal ammo was donated by new sponsor Cheyenne Mountain Outfitters in Bordentown, NJ. Our friends at Black Bag Resources & NJ Concealment Furniture gave us the Foam Action Sports Blocks (rifle rests), and both Gun For Hire range and US Law Shield gifted goody bags to every shooter. Top Shot's Chris Cheng sent Saperstein a case of his hardcover book; TandemKross, Modern Materials, Coiled Rattler Products, Henry Repeating Arms, and 2A4E all donated swag items. B.S.T. Images provided stills and Robert Gourly provided video coverage of the event.
The Coalition is proud to bring education & awareness of the safe handling of firearms to youth and their parents for they are our most valuable asset to ensure what the founding fathers of this great country of ours entrusted us to look after & cherish---THE SECOND AMENDMENT! Plans for additional "Youth Day" Shoots are being formulated. If you like what we're doing, please consider a tax-deductible donation of any amount to: www.cnjfo.com/Donate . Likewise you don't have to be a firearms owner or even a NJ resident to JOIN: www.cnjfo.com/join-us . We thank you and NJ's next generation of shooting Patriots thanks you too!
Please take a moment and visit our sponsors and thank them:
Union Hill Gun Club ROC Training Keystone Sporting Arms LLC Henry Repeating Arms Tandemkross Cheyenne Mountain Outfitters Radians Top Shot Chris Cheng NJ Concealment Furniture Black Bag Resources The 2nd is for Everyone NRA - National Rifle Association of America Coiled Rattler Products & B.S.T. Images Speedwell Targets
