Rick's a jerk.
He told my wife she's too good for me. I wanted to keep that a secret.
He's a good guy though. He asked me to help out at year 1 of his "free shooting lessons for women" and at least half of the first 10 years worth of events. Going from ~50 women in a morning at a small range to ~4000 in 2 days at 2 locations - that's some big growth.
We used to BS at the detroit area police buybacks when people were bringing rusty old shotguns instead of stuff we wanted. Been kicked out of the area by police with him once or twice.
And I gotta say though, I never saw anybody in our ragged group of pro-gun folks ever treat him any different or do anything but support what he's doing. Michigan Gun Owners has been sponsoring his annual event for years, and I'll tell you that is an overwhelmingly white bunch of guys. Fenix ammo, NRA, NSSF, everybody sees what he's doing and everybody wants him to keep up the outreach.
I believe this was the very first event.
I picked the best picture of me from the bunch - the one where you can't see anything but my elbows
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