A Texas woman alerted the media last week after seeing a gun store advertising its wares with a “back to school sale” set to run from Tuesday to Sunday.
Michelle Simons and her husband spotted a sign at Boyert Shooting Center so “jarring,” she sent a photo of it to a local news station.
“Back to school sale August 13 through 18. Up to 50 percent off firearms,” the sign read.
“Did I really see that?” Simons told ABC 13 in describing the moment.
Simons and her husband, an “educator,” both disapprove of mixing schools and guns. That, she said, is what makes Boyert Shooting Center’s sign so egregious.
“What does back to school have anything to do with getting guns?” she said.
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Simons also told ABC 13 she hopes the phrasing was just “some kind of glaring oversight.”
“In the current climate and in the current culture where we have school shootings just constantly, mass shootings just constantly, it seems like a real poor choice of words,” she added.
Boyert Shooting Center, located in Katy, responded in a statement to ABC 13.
“We have friends and family who are teachers and our way of reaching out and saying thank you is by offering a summer long promotion of discounted training courses, firearms and accessories,” the business said.
“A lot of Texans are not aware, but it is now legal to conceal carry in some colleges, and for teachers in certain school districts to conceal carry as well. We are wrapping up the program that we have been running since the beginning of June, with a huge sale to benefit everyone.”
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