BarryinIN Posted February 16 Report Posted February 16 April 19 this year marks 250 years since Lexington and Concord kicked off the US Revolutionary War. To mark the event, the California state association has started to coordinate a ceremonial commemorative shot at 8:30am, the time the famous shot was believed fired at Lexington. The idea was to have shots fired at 8:30am across the state of CA. It’s starting to spread across the nation. Some in Wyoming have picked it up, and I just saw a post on Ohio’s state association site. It sounds like details are still being worked out, but at present they are thinking it’s easiest to do it at 8:30am in your time zone. That would be the easiest, but I'm hoping it can be done simultaneously instead. I agree this would take some planning and compromise, because Californians won’t want to do this in the middle of their night, and those in Massachusetts won’t want to wait until hours after 8:30 so they don’t. We will see. I will keep you posted. If this gets wings, I want to push the board of my gun club to open the gates to anyone who wants to have a safe place to participate. CA Rifle and Pistol Association article: https://crpa.org/event/shot-heard-around-the-world/ Much longer article in the (Wyoming) Cowboy State Daily: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2025/02/10/shot-heard-round-the-world-observance-could-bring-california-wyoming-together/ Quote
BarryinIN Posted February 16 Author Report Posted February 16 The Ohio state association has posted info, but I didn’t see anything about coordinating events in that state. https://www.buckeyefirearms.org/headline-gun-owners-sought-fire-another-shot-heard-round-world Quote
BarryinIN Posted April 19 Author Report Posted April 19 I don’t know where else it may have been done, but it was done at my range. Quote
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