GUNTRY CLUBS !

FRISCO, Texas ­­— It’s the lunch hour on a recent Wednesday,

and pricey sedans outnumber pickups parked at the
crowded parking lot of the indoor Frisco Gun Club.

Inside the club, men sit in leather chairs

and do business over a gourmet lunch.

A middle-aged woman browses a spacious shopping area

and eyes a purse designed to conceal a handgun.

The club’s marketing manager talks up a

future pizza-and-pistol family night promotion.

All the while, less than 100 feet away,

more than a dozen shooters blast targets on ranges
where a state-of-the-art ventilation system purifies the air.

While the $12 million Frisco Gun Club bills itself

as the “nation's premiere indoor shooting range,”
it is certainly not alone. In gun-friendly locales
from the Rocky Mountains to Miami and Vegas
to Virginia, more than a dozen “guntry clubs”
have gone into business in the past three years.