Michael Bane reports on the changing shooting culture. It is well worth reading …

We talked about the transformation of the gun culture a couple of weeks ago on the podcast. Here’s my nut graf: The gun culture has morphed from a hobbyist culture focused largely on hunting and somewhat on formal competition (back in the 1960s and earlier) into a more coherent culture built around self-defense, concealed carry, RKBA issues, training, competition and some hunting. The elements of our culture that are growing, as noted by another poster, are self-defense/concealed carry…and that growth is in demographics where we historically have never been strong — women, young men, etc.