Our Mission Statement

To provide a safe, supportive, and encouraging environment for women shooters of New Mexico, and to:

• Seek out and identify women shooters and potential women shooters;
• Endeavor to provide information regarding shooting resources for women shooters throughout the entire state of New Mexico;
• Endeavor to increase the number of shooting opportunities for female shooters of all ages;
• Assist in helping women to locate resources to become trained and proficient in the art of shooting for sport and self-protection;
• Increase the number of women shooters;
• Provide opportunities to identify and improve shooting skill levels.

Community Outreach

In addition to our primary purpose, we have 2 main outreach projects.

Since we were no longer able to keep up with the amount of litter on the section of Old Highway 66 we had adopted, we are currently investigating alternatives for our main project.

Second is our charitable donations. At Christmas, we collect for one or more selected organizations that help local women. Some of the organizations to which we have donated in the past include the Women’s Veterans of New Mexico, which supports homeless veteran women, and Bethel Community Storehouse in Moriarty for those in the East Mountains who find themselves in need. We accept items based on the needs of the organization(s) we have selected.

We always welcome and appreciate anyone who would like to join us in these endeavors!

History of the Women's Shooting Connection

Jeanne

A few of us ladies had been shooting at MAGS Indoor Shooting Range in Moriarty on Wednesday mornings. One Wednesday in the fall of 2014 we had all finished shooting for the day and we gathered in the MAGS Member’s Lounge and began talking about how we enjoyed shooting so much and “too bad more women didn’t have the opportunity we had.” We wanted women’s shooting to become “more” than shooting on Wednesday mornings. The more we talked and brainstormed, the bigger and more grandiose our imaginations became! Then we talked to other women who were not shooting that day about our conversation. They liked the idea too. So, we decided, “let’s do it!”

Our organization “to be” would never have been possible if it weren’t for MAGS Indoor Shooting Range, a beautiful top-notch facility in Moriarty, New Mexico. The Range opened in July 2013. Most of us took beginning women’s shooting classes from NRA instructor Jodi while she worked there. Some of us didn’t know “beans” about a gun, other than that guns were very intimidating and darn scary!

Our first meeting was held on December 13, 2014, called to order at 1:20. The organization’s birth and a new page of history of women’s shooting in New Mexico began!

2^nd Amendment to the Constitution of the United States

“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

The 2^nd Amendment was adopted on December 17, 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights. The wording came from nearly identical clauses in some of the original 13 state constitutions.

Article II, Section 6 of the New Mexico State Constitution

“No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”

Note that Chapter 29, Article 19 NMSA 1978, titled the “Concealed Handgun Carry Act”, adds an exception to the general prohibition against carrying concealed weapons: carrying with a concealed handgun license.