European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse John s. Fam am leaches handgun owners How to use their weapons at too weal Side Roflo and pistol Range in Manhattan. Learning How to handle a gun by James Barron new York times David Scott says he is not into he became a vegetarian 12 years ago because i Don l behave in killing animals he practices yoga. He spends several months every year at a Retreat in upstate new Yak where he does nothing but meditate. The other Day. He Learned How to handle his 357 Calib i revolver one of iwo guns to owns. La s awful to consider that this Coly is such a that i have to do this said Scoll. A 37 year Ald Brooklyn resident who is concerned about holdups Ai the ire try Vintage clothing store he owns in Park slope i guess i Don i really have to. But i sleep Bellcar kno my i have a gun in he House " soil f. As one of 10 gun owners who each paid $175 to unroll in a Daylong class in defensive pistofcrart1 at a shooting Range except for Iho gun cases Hie brought with them which looked like briefcases. No v a Apons containers they looked like pupils who could have been Mere Lor instruction in a ote Ign Kin Ufir a or ballroom dancing a im.ii.1 before it / lifted out i hair guns and a on then oar Piot Tyror revolvers Are quieter trim unit Lar Ironi Noi less it the West Side and pistol Range the students listened As instructor Demon rated. Step by step Tiu Nghil Way to Load and Al of i on. A Theair Hutkoi j he s Farnam the mime to i i j hrj.-, i tit a i in i 11 a. I i i i j Cecily to Fly a a1 of i a i /. I ."1 -. I. A later the Slu Denta practice tiring Al targets that hashed across the shooting Range. One target looked like a criminal. Another a movie cameraman. The idea was to be Quick enough to shoot the criminal bul not the cameraman. We gel very Lew mistakes said the other instructor Emanuel Kapelsohn. Farnam said the most important requirement to students was i he Lack of a criminal record. They were also required to provide their own weapons and 300 rounds of ammunition in Narn said there woe no never Evvs in \ a class thai is Whit it Cash students have in Var taken their guns out of inc Box the instructors said there had not been 3 surge of inheres a in Iho Wake of inc Bernhard h Goej Case what stimulates an increase in sales is some Leni Blo crime like a said Farnam. Who in a s in Luvot. Col and travels around the United states giving weapons classes and making videos Aboul . Ii could be thai the Goelz Ca ,0 did i til around Here bul i Don t think so " Farnam who is 42 years old and won three a of Jle hearts in Vietnam where he was a Marine second Licule Nant Lold the students thai Isdr goal i to de fend themselves in circumstances Fiuri you certainly die otherwise " he said Hal in such imitations the danger is lethal imminent subs Antivo a id thu Rise unavoidable Tiu eol us in Colorado get the Irner a n Itiat be Yone in now York City g i i1a . J i i i Farnan said i Siw 5 i1 c ing mugged Are i ail in " ill a .1 i in Kelly i i ,. 1-1 was jumped by four Guys who beat me up pretty badly he said. But to said that was real Why he bought his guns rather it was concern about the safely of employees at his store f Trie class is any indication late couple a shools together slays together. Eileen Jennings and her Fiance Bill Cunningham began going to the shooting Rango together several years ago she said she was Onca so interested in guns that she considered becoming a police officer. She look the examination bul ultimately dropped her application because Sliefert if Al jus having an Ini of guns s no Nugh in to a police of Jcck she is now a social worker. I ill i should know How to handle a gun in real Lile situations Jennings said explaining Why she enrolled in Iho class i have no to use it " belly Silberg Leilh an Ollice manager Lor a Manhattan environmental testing Laboratory said that Laking the class was my husband s she said she had inc karate and swimming hut Lound thai neither required she concentration and assertiveness trial it lakes to aim and shool a gun ind she Learned a lol in the Chris room lesion which preceded the hands on Lime in the a corms rare be then some a we id no or thought Ghoul lir a filler you pull the Irinner Hie Bullet goes id the 1,1 i or Jih out ,1" Disaru Vajc if Inouchi Ghoul in " " i t i " , a f Iori a if i i i i in i i i fur Foi Hie ill . Ii a. Ii Vil Rtin n Tirton thl i arc the Hull a i. In i Tniemi t it if. Paye in the St los and
