Shooting Club at my company

[learn2shoot]

I work for a big company which has many "affinity groups" which include traditional Tennis, Skating, Golf, Flag Football groups as well as "GLOBE" a less traditional group - Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Employees Group. I have talked to a few people internally who are interested in starting a employee shooting based affinity group. I have talked to the people in charge of setting these groups up and have been told I am welcome to start the group. This group (like all groups) must receive approval from the legal department.

My question is this, does anybody here work at a company (preferably a large company) which has such a group. And can you provide me with information on how your group is run, what kinds of events you have...

Also has anybody started such a group and received positive feedback or some form of retaliation.

Any insight would be helpful.

 

[pharmer]

Do some covert research. If you work for monster.com, sara lee, 5/3 bank or the like you could run into trouble. Find out the "policy" of the company in regard to firearms/2nd amnd. Plan accordingly. joe

 

[MisterPX]

There's a shooting club, not at where I used to work, but where a few of my friends work; Insinkerator. They do a bullseye league, with the shoots being at various times on preset days, due to 3 shifts. One man is in charge, and collects the scores from the 2 other shifts., and does the rankings.

 

[Wiley]

Give NRA HQ a call. They should/may be able to help setup the club.

Some of the folks here can give you the phone #.

 

[MrZ]

"Give NRA HQ a call. They should/may be able to help setup the club..."

That's right up their alley.

A company marksmanship team would be awesome.

 

[Rumpled]

My father worked for Southern Pacific Railroad (now UP) before he retired and they had a Rod and Gun club. They had lots of activities and party boat trips and hunt trips.
Sorry, can't give you any details about setting up.

If my company had sponsored clubs, I'd give it a try.
Most everyone already knows I'm one of the gun nuts here.

I don't think they'd sponsor clubs ever, though.
Even when the company arranges trips to Angels games; they state that is is not a company sponsored event very vehemently - even though I make my check for the tickets out to the company!

 

[nplant]

I started an informal "club" if you wanna call it that. My company wouldn't let me use ANY company resources except for email. So I mainly started recruiting folks by word of mouth.

We meet on the last Friday of the month at a local range. Myself and some others provide the basic training for people new to shooting, and one guy even offers to pay for new shooters' first times. It has been working well, and I've yet to hear anyone say that they didn't have fun.

Good luck on your quest! Make sure to allow for new folks to join and learn - it's what keeps the sport (and the 2nd Ammendment) safe.

-Nathan

 

[Mauserguy]

In my office we have a very strict Workplace Violence policy. Having said that, we also have an informal "Toyota Disgruntled Shooting Society". We get together out in the desert several times in the winter. It's a lot of fun.
Mauserguy

PS: I don't work at Toyota, but rather a similar japanese company.

 

[M2 Carbine]

It's been years ago (1961) but at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab we had a shooting team. It was all really quite normal. While not sponsored by the Lab, they were in full support of it. Like having a trophy display case and weekly scores in a hallway.

The Security Guards even challenged the local county police to a annual shooting match.
There was only one "annual" match though. The guards beat the Police so bad that that we couldn't get them to come out and play again.
The match was a big thing in the company newspaper.

Bringing a gun to work to show it around wasn't unusual at all.


Times have really changed.

 

[pax]

Microsoft's Seattle facility has such a group, or at least, they did a couple of years ago.

pax

 

[trbon8r]

If they give you any grief at work, tell them that the company gay group is more hazardous to the public health than any shooting group could ever be. Their "loaded" weapons are far more dangerous than any firearm could ever be.