Sniper School in the West Virginia Highlands

november 13, 2002  09:40 am
Sniper School in the West Virginia Highlands
San Antonio Current's David Wallis goes inside Storm Mountain Training Center, the "Andover" of private sniper schools. In the rural 208-acre compound military sniper program washouts and other wannabe killers can learn the same long-range shooting techniques the Beltway snipers used. "In a country where the right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution, where the National Rifle Association intimidates legislators into voting against common-sense gun control laws designed to keep children from accidentally shooting other children, learning to kill with long-range rifles is considered not only a useful skill for law enforcement officers but a legitimate leisure time activity," Wallis writes.