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Gun safety, community ties are main targets at annual BB gun event
Friendly shoot-off between 4-H club team, law officers now in 12th year
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Hall County Sheriff’s Deputy Jeremy Prickett retreives his target Saturday during the annual Cops and Kids BB Gun Challenge at Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center in Gainesville. - photo by Erin O. Smith
Saturday morning began with a bang at Chicopee Woods Agricultural Center as children and law enforcement officials lined up with BB guns in a friendly shooting competition. The annual event began after Sherman Pass, coach of the Hall County 4-H sharpshooters club, had seen too many tragic stories involving children and improper gun safety and decided to do something about it. “Twelve years ago, I had a vision to do something, to have a positive between kids and guns, and how better to that than to involve law enforcement?” he said.