Mickey Lane’s tires crunched to a stop in a gravel parking lot in South Hill on a recent Sunday morning. The 42-year-old single mother stepped out of her car at Paul Bunyan Rifle & Sportsman’s Club with her semiautomatic handgun.
Lane carried her unloaded Glock G43X to the pistol range, where more than a dozen women were gathered for a biweekly meeting of their shooting group, the Puyallup chapter of A Girl & A Gun, a national women’s firearms organization.
No men would enter the shooting bay for the next few hours — the group is for women only…