In order to educate communities, dealers are holding Family Safety Days at their gun shops. Remember that the main objective for this event is education ment to preserve family safety in the community, not shooting. However, if there are demands you can sponsor a shooting session afterwards.



Pick a Saturday or a Sunday for you Family Safety Day. You can spread the word out by giving an event notice at the local news papers and by making flyers. The flyers don’t need to be artistically elaborated; just write there a simple announcement: “Family Safety Day at Bang-Bang Gun Shop".

At the event, offer lectures and instructions on firearm safety and try focusing on children. Only children accompanied by parents or an adult are allowed to attend. To guarantee your Family Safety Day success, try to arrange some local law officers to present the safety instructions. They have a very positive impact on children. That is because children watch very often cop movies and in their eyes those people appear like common day heroes. Keep you information about family safety very simple and basic and always repeat the fact that children should never be left alone with a gun. You could make something like “10 family safety rules" and this could be the first rule.

You can purchase a banner with “Family Safety Day" to hang in front of your gun shop. It looks good and can be a great publicity for the event. If your budget permits, you can have items with “Family Safety Day" to give away. Most major manufacturers have T-shirts or hats as giveaways and they can send you those goods.

At the end of the “Family Safety Day" event, you will begin to realize that you will not be just a firearm salesman, but the main source of gun safety education of your community.