I was flipping through the channels a couple hours ago and stopped on NBC when I saw a slow motion .22 casing ejecting from a target gun. What is this? I thought...
NBC was doing a big profile on a biathalon (skiing and shooting) athlete. They had the reporter - a 50+ year old who said he was from Texas show up with his shotgun because he said he'd need it to shoot the targets as well as the athlete. The athlete showed him out the Olympic target shooting works and whatnot, then they went back to the studio and the reporter said he trap shot and loved shooting targets and did it all the time. The reporter mentioned he was covering the Super Bowl last week in passing. FWIW, the other host was a woman with a British accent and seemed interested in the story.
So...I saw it as a positive on the shooting sports. Score one for the good guys I guess!
Didn't the last Olympics the US Trap team won a ton of gold medals and they didn't mention it at all? I seem to remember reading something about that in the NRA magazine.