Tag Archives: Female

Judy Woolly

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  • 1980s Moved from Massachusetts to Montana
  • 1986 – 1990 shot professionally at events & competitions around the country
  • 1990 professional shooter and instructor for Smith & Wesson
  • 1990 & 1991 world female speed shooting champion
  •  first professional woman shooter since the great Annie Oakley
  • Two World Speed Shooting Championships
  • Chevy Truck Shooter of the Year Award, inaugural year
  • first woman ever allowed to compete at the Buckmasters Invitational in Alabama
    – took second overall
  • 1996 – 1999 Smith and Wesson Academy shooting instructor
  • travels to Arizona for Babes with Bullets, shooting camps for women
  • use their Montana land as a tree farm

Suzanna Hupp

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1958

  • Chiropractor
  • 1996 – 2007 Texas House Representative
  • she has spread the word about a right-to-carry
  • Testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws
  • 2021 working in the TX AG office
  • 2021 in attendance at the committee hearings on Texas Constitutional Carry

Luby’s massacre

(October 16, 1991, Her parents were killed durring a Mass Killing at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, She had her CWW in the parking lot, per Texas law)

Peggy Tartaro

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1955

  • 1979 joined Gun Week newspaper
    – held positions in circulation and advertising through 1989
    – published by the non-profit Second Amendment Foundation Inc
  • 1989 Joseph Tartaro (father) took over the then-new “Women & Guns” magazine
  • 1989 associate editor “Women & Guns” magazine
  • 1993 became Executive Editor
  • 1990- 2019 Editor of Women & Guns magazine
  • 1997 trustee of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  • treasurer of Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
  •  managing editor of The Gun Mag.com
  • 2007  NRA’s Sybil Luddington Women’s Freedom Award
  • member of Shooters Committee on Political Education (SCOPE, Inc.)
  • NRA Life Member
  • served for several years as a member of the National Rifle Association’s Women’s Policies Committee

Sonny Jones

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  • 1988 attended (the third) Gun Rights Policy Conference GRPC
  • Feb 1989 launched Women & Guns
    was inspired  after covering the Gun Rights Policy Conference for Machine Gun News
  • Sonny wrote almost the entire first issue herself, 16 pages of black and white print with no ads, with a focus on an in-depth feature article on concealed- carry options for women.
  •  Fall of 1989 2nd Amendment foundation acquired Women & Guns
  • 1989 – 1991 Sunny moved to Washington & remained editor of W&G
  • 1991 started to work for the NRA
  • Oct 1993 NRA “Refuse to Be a Victim.” began
  • 1994 appointed to Womens Personal Safety Office

Sandy Froman

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1949

  • Sandra Froman
  • 2005 -2007 • President of the National Rifle Association
  • raised in the San Francisco, California
  • 1971 • Stanford University
  • 1974 • degree from Harvard Law School
  • 1984 – Married to Bruce Nelson
  • 1992 • NRA Board of Directors
    – lifetime appointment on the NRA Executive Council
  • 1998-2003 • 2nd Vice President of the NRA (under Charlton Heston)
  • 2003 – 2005 • NRA 1st Vice President

Margaret Thompson Murdock

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First markswoman in history to win an Olympic medal
(men and women competed against her)

August 25, 1942

  • She learned how to shoot by following her father to the rifle range
  • Attended Kansas State University
  • competed on the Kansas State University men’s rifle team
    – winning two Big Eight Conference championships
    – the university’s first female student to earn a varsity letter
  • four-years in the U.S. Army,  assigned as a shooting instructor at Fort Benning, achieved the rank of major
  • 1966 World Champion in Women’s Standard Rifle
  • first woman to win an individual open World Shooting Championship
  • 1967 she won two gold medals in small-bore rifle at the Pan American Games and set a world record, for men or women, in the kneeling rifle shooting
  • 1976 first woman ever on the U.S. Olympic shooting team
  • 1976 silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics
  • first woman to win a medal in Shooting at the Summer Olympics
  • 1977 retired from competitive shooting at age 35 and become a registered nurse
  • 1992 named to the U.S. International Shooting Hall of Fame
  • In international competition Murdock set four individual world records and nine team world records
  • She is a member of five halls of fame, including
    USA Shooting Hall of Fame and Kansas Sports Hall of Fame

My first year at K-State, I couldn’t shoot on the team because I was a female. I could practice with the K-State team but I couldn’t be on the team. They got a new coach and he thought it would be a good idea for me to be on the team since I was shooting better than everyone else. ”
— Murdock, reminiscing in 2011

Joyce Lee Malcolm

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(October 17, 1941)
– 1994 author  To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right

Marion P. Hammer

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April 26, 1939

Grandmother, 2A Activist

  • She learned to shoot “squirrels and rabbits for dinner” with a .22 bolt-action single-shot rifle
  • Florida’s top gun lobbyist
  • 1974 – Present – NRA lobbyist from Florida
  • 1976 – Today – Runs the Unified Sportsmen of Florida (USF)
  • 1987 – Lobbied for Florida concealed-carry (CCW) 
  • 1988 – creator of the NRA Eddie Eagle Program
  • Created the Range Protection Act.
  • 1993 – Outstanding Community Service Award from National Safety Council
  • 1995 to 1998 – 1st female president of the National Rifle Association NRA
  • 2005 – Florida Women’s Hall of Fame
  • 2005 – Involved in the Florida Stand-your-ground law – “one of the chief architects”  first to be passed in the United States