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These locals brushed up on gun safety at police firearms safety course
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Sgt. Doug Whiddon, range master, left, instructs Deangela Chastain on how to shoot a gun during a firearms safety course put on by the Gainesville Police Department on Saturday, Nov. 10, 2018. - photo by Austin Steele
About 25 enrolled in the free Citizen Firearms Safety Course hosted by the Gainesville Police Department. After meeting at the police department for a morning lecture, the class went out to the department’s firearms facility to put into action what they already knew and everything they had learned.