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Field Trips to the Shooting Range

Instapundit took his Constitutional Law class on a field trip to a shooting range:
The students got a chance to shoot a variety of guns, from a .45 automatic to a .357 magnum revolver to an HK MP5 submachinegun, which last was especially popular with a couple of the women. Indeed, the bellicose-women trend was pretty visible in the class. All the students had been shooting before, something you probably wouldn't find in a law school in the Northeast or in California, but the women were notably enthusiastic. (One even knew from experience that Tuesday is "ladies' day" -- free range time -- at Guncraft.) I suppose that in some ways the teaching value would have been higher if some of the students hadn't had any experience with guns. On the other hand, perhaps the legal parts of the lesson would have been eclipsed by the sheer novelty of the experience. And I'm just happy to have had a successful field trip in a class that doesn't lend itself to field trips very well.
Denver criminal defense attorney Lisa Wayne has put together a similar field trip for NACDL lawyers at the annual meeting in Denver this August where the theme is forensics. We think it's a great idea and are looking forward to attending.

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