Pistol Champion Allan Harding Comments on Bill C-71, Competition

Allan Harding with shooting glasses. Source: Allan Harding.

TheGunBlog.ca — Allan Harding, the 2016 and 2017 Canadian National Pistol Champion, is the only male pistol shooter competing to represent Team Canada in the 2018 International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup Series. He spoke to TheGunBlog.ca about competing around the world while managing a team of software engineers for Adobe Systems, the road to the 2020 Olympics, and Bill C-71, the Canadian government’s proposed law to make it tougher for federally licensed gun owners to buy, own and use firearms.

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Olympic Shooter Lynda Kiejko Is First Canadian in Video Series

Lynda Kiejko Olympic Shooter Team Canada

Lynda Kiejko is featured in a new video by the Olympic Channel. Source: OlympicChannel.com

TheGunBlog.ca — Check out this video profile of Lynda Kiejko, the Olympic shooter and government adviser on gun policy. It’s the first time the Olympic Channel featured a shooter and a member of Team Canada in its new series.

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Where to Shoot 3-Gun in Canada? See the Hunting Gear Guy’s List

Looking for a place in Canada to shoot pistol-rifle-shotgun matches in the expanding sport of 3-Gun? Then check out the list of clubs published today by the Hunting Gear Guy.

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Did You Know? Olympic Shooting Facts

Shooting is one of the original sports of the modern Olympics, having been part of the first edition of the games in 1896.

The founder of the modern Olympic Games, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, was a French pistol champion.

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Q&A With Team Canada Pistol Shooter Lynda Kiejko

Lynda Kiejko, Team Canada 2016 Shooter. Credit: Heather Rattai Photography

Lynda Kiejko qualified as one of two shooters representing Canada in next month’s Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The 35-year-old resident of Calgary will compete in the women’s 25-metre pistol and 10-metre air pistol.

Kiejko began shooting at the age of 11 after her father, a three-time Olympic shooter, now deceased, set up an air-pistol range in the basement of their home. Her home range today is the Calgary Rifle & Pistol Club. Her older sister, Dorothy, is also an Olympic shooter.

The following are excerpts from a Skype interview with Kiejko on July 14. Click here for the full transcript as a PDF.

For more information, visit Kiejko’s website at CanadianShootingStars.com, or her page on the Canadian Olympic Team’s website.

Q: What excites you the most about Rio?
Once I fire that first shot, I’m officially an Olympian. After that, I just get to shoot. I get to do what I love to do. This is such an incredible opportunity that I get to do it on such a great world stage.

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