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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For students high school age, the Arlington County public high schools, and some but not all Fairfax County high schools, have rifle teams. Students can join without any experience, and once they improve they can compete at the varsity level and get a letter. That’s the case in Arlington. [/quote]

FFX school board voted to eliminate the last public HS athletic rifle team years ago.  It was one SB member back then who lead the effort, merely because she harbored extreme anti-gun views, and somehow stretched that to HS competition target sports.[/quote]

You might be confused with the closure of rifle ranges inside school buildings. All
of Arlington’s high schools had rifle ranges in the buildings. FCPS probably just closed the high school rifle ranges. FCPS and APS have always had rifle teams since as far back as the 1920s.

The ranges on the Arlington campuses were closed a while ago (before the high schools were all rebuilt), but the high school rifle teams have always competed as APS varsity sports. They are popular sports to this day. With the Olympics around the corner I wouldn’t be surprised to see participation numbers increase. [/quote]

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