Youth Safety & Range Class Ages 11-18
Objective:
Equip youth with essential knowledge, practical skills, and hands-on experience to foster safety and responsibility around firearms. This class aims to deepen understanding and respect for firearms while emphasizing caution and responsibility in both controlled environments and unexpected situations.
Target Audience:
Youth, ages 11-18
Class Outline:
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Advanced Firearm Safety Principles
- Introduction to the importance of firearm safety in more complex situations.
- Reinforcement of foundational safety rules:
- Always treat every firearm as if it's loaded.
- Never point a firearm at anything you do not intend to shoot.
- Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to fire.
- Be aware of your target and what’s beyond it.
- Expanded discussion on how firearms work, covering .22 pistols and rifles in addition to BB guns and air rifles.
- Understanding the mechanics and identifying components of .22 firearms.
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Responding to Found Firearms
- Review of steps to follow if a youth finds a firearm, with additional insights tailored for older participants:
- Do not touch the firearm.
- Move to a safe distance.
- Notify a responsible adult immediately.
- Prevent others from approaching or interacting with the firearm.
- Discussion on recognizing unsafe firearm handling in others and reporting appropriately.
- Review of steps to follow if a youth finds a firearm, with additional insights tailored for older participants:
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Handling and Familiarization with Firearms
- Hands-on demonstration focusing on:
- Proper handling techniques for BB guns, air rifles, and .22 pistols and rifles.
- Safely carrying, loading, and unloading firearms.
- Checking and maintaining the condition of a firearm (basic inspection and cleaning methods).
- Comparison of non-lethal firearms to .22 caliber firearms, highlighting key differences in handling and safety precautions.
- Hands-on demonstration focusing on:
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Shooting Range Activities
- Guided practice on the range with certified instructors, adhering to strict safety rules.
- Supervised shooting practice with:
- BB guns and air rifles for continued skill-building.
- .22 pistols and rifles to introduce participants to more advanced handling and marksmanship techniques.
- Focus on:
- Precision aiming and proper stance.
- Controlled firing techniques and maintaining accuracy.
- Respect for the environment and other participants on the range.
- Debrief after range time to reflect on progress, lessons learned, and areas for improvement.
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Deep Dive into Firearm Awareness
- Age-appropriate exploration of firearms laws and responsibilities:
- Understanding local firearm regulations.
- Recognizing and addressing unsafe or illegal firearm usage by others.
- Reinforcement of safe practices when encountering pistols or other firearms in any setting.
- Age-appropriate exploration of firearms laws and responsibilities:
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Wrap-Up and Skill Reinforcement
- Recap of key takeaways:
- Advanced firearm safety rules.
- Proper handling and usage of BB guns, air rifles, and .22 pistols and rifles.
- Procedures for handling found firearms and unsafe situations.
- Distribution of advanced safety resources and guides for participants and their families.
- Q&A session with instructors for deeper insights and clarification.
- Recap of key takeaways:
Additional Notes:
- Instructors: Certified firearm safety professionals experienced in working with youth of all ages.
- Materials Provided: BB guns, air rifles, .22 pistols and rifles for practice, safety goggles, ear protection, and an advanced safety guidebook.
- Parent/Guardian Involvement: Optional orientation session to review class content, objectives, and firearms used in the curriculum. Parent must be present entire session.
Youth Safety & Range Class Ages 11-18
By Jamie Green
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Last updated May 23rd 2022
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"Ozark Sportsman" (the “Company” or “We”), respects your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit this website (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
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On this Website.
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In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
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Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
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When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
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Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
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Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
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INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
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By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, insurance information/any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information“);
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About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information:
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Directly from you when you provide it to us.
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Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
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Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering for a service on our Website or using the interactive map feature. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
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Records and copies of your correspondence (including name, email addresses and other information, if provided), if you contact us.
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Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
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Your search queries on the Website.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
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Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
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Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically is only statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
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Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
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Speed up your searches.
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Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
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Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
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Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
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Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
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We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
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To present our Website and its contents to you.
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To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us.
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To provide you with information about our services
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To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
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To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
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To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
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To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
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In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
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To fulfill any purpose for which you provide it.
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For any other purpose with your consent.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
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To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
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To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
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To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
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To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have consented to these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
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To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an e-mail address to use the “e-mail a friend” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that e-mail and your e-mail address to the recipients.
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For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
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With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
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To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
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To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
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If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
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Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
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Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address] used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out at any time by logging into your customer account through the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile. You can also opt-out at any time by sending us an email on our Contact link. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. [This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.]
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
ACCESSING AND CORRECTING YOUR INFORMATION
You may send us an e-mail via our contact link to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us via the Contact Us link.
DATA SECURITY
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by e-mail to the e-mail address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
CONTACT INFORMATION
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact via our Contact Us link.
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