Could A ‘Nordstrom’-Like Shopping Experience Get Women To Buy More Guns?

Bren Brown and her husband Mike opened the first Frontier Justice in 2015. The gun store features an indoor range and women’s fashion boutique.

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It isn’t every day three women in their seventies walk into a gun store.

Stephanie Nugent is the rookie, a first-time shooter who before today had never held more than a water gun.

Mary Knox is proficient: Two years ago she was “petrified,” but overcame arthritic hands and bought her own pistol for self-defense.