Then the moment arrived, as Bruce instructed us to load our ammunition and roll the targets out to 3 yards. I watched my wife shoot first, as she unloaded the Kahr's 6 rounds of Smith and Wesson .40 caliber dead center into the target, punching a nickel-sized hole where the X had once been. She was used to putting lead into paper at twenty yards, so three seemed like a turkey shoot. I glanced at the target to the left of me. The handicapped man was sitting on a small bench on his walker, holding the 0.38 in what can only be described as a "Highly Modified" weaver stance. His pistol propped up on the reloading tray, the muzzle tracing lazy figure eights over the target, he popped off a couple of rounds. There were several random holes in the target in front of him. I became alarmed, at the mental image of this man with a gun, accosted by criminals. I feared for him trying to arrange a sitting position in a hurry, working the walker and gun simultaneously.
“Didn’t the State require that the marksmanship portion had to be done standing”? I wondered. I realized that if a person is carrying both a walker and a gun, they should be held to the same testing standards as everyone else.
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