How A Girl & A Gun Is Changing Who Shoots — and Why
How A Girl & A Gun Is Changing Who Shoots — and Why. Robyn Sandoval on building the largest women's shooting club in America, why most new female gun owners are now the first in their household, and how training { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization", "name": "Greyhive", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://greyhive.com/static/uploads/images/ae198483-01c9-44b4-a16a-03f516ceaf66.svg", "width": 512, "height": 512 }, "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/greyhive", "https://www.instagram.com/greyhive/", "https://www.youtube.com/@Greyhive", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/greyhive/" ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website", "url": "https://greyhive.com", "name": "Greyhive", "description": "Greyhive is a censorship-resistant video platform for the firearms, 2A, hunting, and outdoor industries — where creators build, review, and monetize unfiltered content.", "publisher": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#organization" } }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/c/laser_ammo_channel#person", "name": "Laser Ammo", "url": "https://greyhive.com/c/laser_ammo_channel", "description": "Laser Ammo is a Greyhive creator producing original 2A, firearms, hunting, and outdoor content.", "image": "https://greyhive.com/lazy-static/avatars/cf29ba13-8669-4248-87e2-f6de3a1308a7.jpg" }, { "@type": "Article", "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/robyn-sandoval-girl-and-gun-women-shooters#article", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com#website" }, "mainEntityOfPage": { "@id": "https://greyhive.com/blog/robyn-sandoval-girl-and-gun-women-shooters" }, "url": "https://greyhive.com/blog/robyn-sandoval-girl-and-gun-women-shooters", "headline": "How A Girl & A Gun Is Changing Who Shoots — and Why", "name": "How A Girl & A Gun Is Changing Who Shoots — and Why", "description": "Robyn Sandoval on building the largest women's shooting club in America, why most new female gun owners are now the first in their household, and how training builds real-world confidence.", "articleSection": "Training & Skills", "articleBody": "A Girl & A Gun is the largest women's shooting club in America, running girls' night out events at 350 ranges nationwide and training thousands of women across competition, defensive pistol, vehicle combatives, long-range rifle, and hand-to-hand skills. In a long-form interview on Laser Ammo's Making Shooters Better , hosted on Greyhive, president and CEO Robyn Sandoval walks through how the organization grew, why most new female gun owners are now the first firearm owner in their household, and what actually separates training that changes lives from training that checks a box. Sandoval's own story sets the tone. She argued for gun control her entire life and didn't buy her first firearm until 2011, when she was a mother of three watching Hurricane Katrina footage of women handing their children to strangers at the Superdome. Her husband's line — \"if people are that desperate, someone's going to kick in our door for things that you've stored. How am I going to stop them?\" — ended a ten-year standoff. Two weeks after her first girls' night out at a local range, shooting 100 rounds through a Glock 23 in .40 S&W, she was back coaching the next nervous newcomer. What follows is a training philosophy built on the idea that confidence, accuracy, and community scale together — and that the fastest-growing demographic in American …