The record-setting championship West Virginia rifle team visited the White House Friday and met President Donald Trump. They visited as part of the Collegiate National Champions of 2016 and 2017 event.
The team won its fifth straight NCAA championship back in March with a record score. The NCAA reported on the win…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The No. 2-ranked West Virginia University rifle team claimed its fifth straight NCAA title Saturday in commanding fashion, shooting a championship-record 4723 aggregate score at the 2017 NCAA Rifle Championships inside Ohio State’s French Field House.
Owning a two-shot advantage thanks to a winning, 2336 smallbore score shot Friday, WVU secured its nation-best 19th national championship with a season-high 2387 air rifle score.
In addition, two of the team members won individual titles. Including a freshman:
In addition to the team title, freshman Milica Babic became the second Mountaineer rookie in as many days to win an individual title, as she shot 208.1 in the final to claim the 2017 NCAA air rifle championship. A native of Belgrade, Serbia, Babic entered the final in first place with a 598 (100-99-100-100-99-100) relay score.
Amazingly, Milica’s room-mate also won an individual title.
Classmate Morgan Phillips, who won the NCAA smallbore title Friday with a 464.3 final score, finished second behind Babic with a 207.2 mark. The final two shots were tight between the roommates, as each shot a 10.9 in the second-to-last shot.
For her efforts all weekend, Phillips earned the NCAA Championships’ Top Performer Award.
“Morgan shot a personal best both days, and that’s unbelievable at an event like this,” Hammond said. “She’s so calm but also mentally tough. She did a great job.”
No word on whether or not the team kibitzed at all with the Secret Service marksmen. Given the team’s performance shooting under pressure, they might have some tips to pass along for POTUS’s protective detail.
One person not seen at the White House this week: Hillary Clinton. Somehow I suspect that if she’d won last year’s election, WVU would still be waiting for their invitation to Castle, the Secret Service’s code name for the White House.
You guys do realize the GCA 1968 was based on the Nazi Era waffengesetz right? We literally have Nazi gun control laws. Gca ’68 was a damn near verbatim of the 3rd Reich’s waffengesetz, which actually loosened firearms regulations in Germany when compared to the post WWI Weimar Era waffengesetz.
Write its cost and how would you dispatch it here to me? While my home address is:
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Sweden is much more ‘socialism’ than today’s China.
Ah, well, here’s a project for Tess of the Durbervilles, there: make the world you would like to live in. (“We are the change we want to see.” is self aggrandizing solipsism, and look how many people buy it, still.) Go make a better militia.
It’s nobody’s job to give you the militia you imagine, any more than we owe you a pony.
The U S constitution organizes how we’ll govern ourselves: that’s what “republic” means. There is no “they” making the decisions or delivering stuff. “They” is “us.”
The U S constitution isn’t a lyric fantasy of what the world “should” be. It’s mostly negative rights and operating protocols because government is a dangerously powerful tool, we won’t agree on a lot, and most things are none of each others’ business.
Utopian dreams tend to make Mugabi’s, until they’re finally deposed. The Soviet constitution was a breathtaking picture of the ideal world they’d make. The sketched utopia always implies “By any means necessary.” and it turns out none of the wonder comes to be, while the means are realized and they suck. The Soviets had The Gulag Archipelago, among other things.
If you can’t fit what you want into federal compulsion, maybe try another way. Or show us how to make better militia, n get us on board. When most schemes hit reality, they don’t work.
“Solving” a “problem” for real is hard. Taking guns away from the bad people you take them from good people too; bad people get them anyway; and your removal machine has its own problems. How do you fix the militia without keeping Cajun boats from coming to Texas? How many people you willing to drown?
Every time something bad happens, we hear the chorus of “Something must be done!” How about something useful? Doable? More good than harm? Really all those things, not imagined.
The rest of us aren’t evil, we’re dumb. We don’t know how to get you your pony without making a bigger mess. That’s probably a good way to think about imaginary schemes. They’re ponies. They’re cute at a distance, but have you seen what comes out of them? … and it never stops.
Last thing id want to whip out in church is my gun, its for fun…Now, my firearm?
No, you cant see my firearm thanks for asking.
The first sentence of this article doesnt make any sense. She’s been a victim because her co workers know shes carries a weapon? Who writes this stuff…
I’m with RF. Old dude is too demented to carry a gat. Age has nothing to do with lacking sense…perilously close to 65 myself. Nobody knows what and if I carry!
When Kansas honored our right to carry, the first thing I told my son’s was ” your gun is like your penis, you just don’t go yanking it out in public”, and ” everybody’s got a gun, so don’t get cocky”. . ……. This is not related, but I’m really getting angry with these Muslim American refugees hating the country they’ve fled to.
The only answer is to educate the public on what conservation means. Unfortunately not even the organized hunting groups are focused on this issue.
Pleasure hunters are the worst. They can only tell you how much fun they have. They can’t articulate hunting science, or the dangers of older bull animals to the herd.
Bill Jordan, Skeeter Skelton, Ed McGivern, Jack O’Connor.
This sounds like garden variety carelessness and disregard for the four basic safety rules not necessarily related to age. Years ago, a senior executive for my then employer made the same mistake with his .357 Ruger Blackhawk. He was sitting with his ankles crossed and got both of them with one shot.
Even though there has actually been no such executive order, otherwise you would have cited it. But, you didn’t, because it never happened. Just like literally everything else that you’ve ever claimed.
Little Tess’e Poo should spend a little time reading through the Federalist Papers. I’ll bet she’d be absolutely amazed at how much you can learn when you study the history of the country you live in. ????
Depends on how high mobility ranks in your matrix I guess and that will vary based on what you’re doing.
Overall I’d say the M2’s service record speaks for itself.
So having no firearms will make me safer? That’s genius, but I wish this scientific revelation had been known before the world’s all-time greatest reverse-psychology gun salesman Obama hoodwinked me into enriching Big Firearm & Ammo by stockpiling an arsenal in my bunker.