“To be honest with you, I still laugh about me owning a shooting range, because I didn't grow up with it,” said Block, sitting in the facility's spacious special events room. FOCUS ON PROTECTION RGR owner Debbie Block aims a pistol at a target inside the facility's 10-lane shooting bay. After all, Block is reminiscing on that clear-as-day memory as she sits inside a business she founded and has owned for the past five years, the biggest indoor shooting range in Northern Nevada: Reno Guns and Range. More than 10 years later, Block can't help but shake her head as she thinks back on her first brush with firing a gun. I hated it, but I wanted to push through it,” said Block, who left the range that day with a CCW permit in hand. Block had to fire the revolver 29 more times to earn her permit. I just wanted to quit it frightened me.”Īnd that was one round in. “It was such an emotional explosion for me. “It was the most horrific experience I ever had,” Block told the NNBV. Shaken by the sound, the reverberation and the kick of the gun, Block's eyes filled with tears. As instructed by her trainer, she extended her arms out, aimed the gun and squeezed the trigger.Ī thunderous bang pierced the air. So there Block stood, staring at a shooting target, feeling the weight of a revolver in her tightly-gripped hands. Firearms Academy - with two business partners, who encouraged her to get a feel for shooting a firearm. At the time, Block was in the process of opening a gun shop in Reno - U.S. It was 2008 and Block was at the Carson City gun range to earn her carrying a concealed weapon (CCW) permit. The first time Debbie Block shot a gun, she burst into tears.
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