All This Is That: Girls with guns: The Drexel Institute Girls Rifle Team

Sunday, December 06, 2015

Girls with guns: The Drexel Institute Girls Rifle Team

By Jack Brummet, 2nd Amendment Ed.

This is a photograph of The Drexel Institute Girls' Rifle Team, circa 1925. Drexel, in Philly, later became (and still us) Drexel University.

My high school, Kent-Meridian, had a Rod & Gun Club, but we were (back then) a farm town. How about your school?

I wonder if they still have these clubs? I remember people bringing rifles to school, and--I think I remember--their teacher locking them up until they were going out. I don't know where they went to shoot ( I don't remember any [fishing] rods, just guns).

Maybe they went out to the gravel pits, the powerlines, or Ravensdale, Buckley, Hobart, or Cumberland. Those were pretty normal places to go shoot, drink beer, just escape from adults, or smoke pot.

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