Wednesday, August 19, 2020 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Sisters man promotes gun safety
By Jim Cornelius
Editor in Chief
Patrick Maley has a pas-
sion for promoting safe, com-
petent firearms use.
Maley is principal instruc-
tor of Cascade Gun & Safety,
which he launched this year
in Sisters. An NRA certified
pistol instructor and range
safety officer, Maley has a
particular focus for his work.
<I really want to focus on
women, couples, and first-
time shooters,= he told The
Nugget. <From our perspec-
tive, the more knowledge you
have, the safer you are.=
First-time firearms pur-
chase have skyrocketed in
2020 as concerns around the
coronavirus pandemic and
social unrest have led many
to determine that they need
to have the means to protect
themselves and their loved
ones. A substantial propor-
tion of new gun-owners are
women, a data point Maley
has seen play out on the
range.
Maley asserts that simply
owning a firearm does not
impart safety and security. It
is critical to learn to handle
a firearm safely and compe-
tently. His goal is to help his
clients learn to be comfort-
able, confident and calm= in
handling firearms, both for
sporting purposes and for
self-defense.
Maley9s practice focuses
mainly on handguns.
The instructor strives to
make it as easy as possible
for his clients to find the right
firearm for them and to learn
to use it competently. If a cli-
ent does not already have a
firearm, he will help her find
the most suitable one. In fact,
that can often work out best,
rather than trying to adapt to a
pistol that doesn9t quite fit the
hand or carry comfortably.
<It9s like buying a pair of
shoes,= he said. <Is it com-
fortable? Does it fit?=
Cascade Gun & Safety
offers eight hours of class-
room instruction, and three
to four hours of live fire work
at the Redmond Rod & Gun
Club.
He tailors instruction to
meet individual needs and
goals.
<Each one will have dif-
ferent needs, desires and
capabilities,= Maley said.
<My goal is to help them
achieve their desires, what
(ITAL) they (ITAL) want.=
Ongoing training is critical
to maintaining skills 3 and it
can also lead to discovery of
new sporting opportunities.
<We have multiple disci-
plines there (at Redmond Rod
& Gun Club) that they might
be interested in,= Maley said.
<We have the facilities to
graduated them on to the next
level.=
He9s willing to stick with
his clients along their journey.
<As long as they9re
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Patrick Maley of Cascade Gun & Safety loves teaching first-time gun
owners to be safe and capable with their firearms.
passionate and take it seri-
ously, I9ll stay engaged with
them for as long as they
want,= he said.
Maley9s own passion for
firearms instruction began
when he shepherded his four
sons through Scouting and
served as an instructor for the
firearms merit badge. Over
the years, his involvement has
waxed and waned depending
on life circumstances. After
his recent move to Sisters, he
decided to fully commit to the
passion.
After joining the
Redmond Rod & Gun Club,
he <just kept going and tak-
ing the course= to earn NRA
certifications. Maureen
Rogers, who operates the
training program Lady Gets
A Gun, urged him to become
an instructor.
Cascade Gun & Safety
offers classes every two
weeks. The schedule can cur-
rently be accessed at bit.ly/
nraSISTERS. His website
at, www.cascadegunsafety.
com, will be up by the end of
August.
Beyond individual devel-
opment, Maley has a lofty
goal for his program. He
hopes to help make Sisters
Country <the safest, most
self-reliant area of the
country.=
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Protesters hold up U.S.
detention for 12 hours
BEND (AP) 4 U.S.
Border Patrol officers late
Wednesday, August 12, used
pepper spray on demonstra-
tors as they pushed their
way through a crowd to
get to two men detained by
immigration agents inside a
bus that could not move for
about 12 hours because of
the protesters.
The men under detention
were removed by the 20 bor-
der control officers.
The Bend Bulletin
reported the men had been
in the custody of U.S.
Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officials since
mid-Wednesday, when hun-
dreds of protesters prevented
the bus they were on from
leaving a parking lot.
The Border Patrol offi-
cers used pepper spray to
disperse the protesters near
the bus as the two men were
taken out about 11 p.m., the
newspaper said.
<They 4 despite our best
efforts at a peaceful protest
4 took them to get away,=
said Morgan Schmidt, a
staff member of Bend9s First
Presbyterian Church who
identified herself as a clergy
witness.
Immigration attorney
Micaela Guthrie said the
detained men have lived
in Central Oregon for over
a decade, Oregon Public
Broadcast reported.
ICE spokesperson Tanya
Roman said in a statement
the two people arrested had
histories of criminally vio-
lent behavior, though Roman
didn9t offer specifics.
<While ICE respects the
rights of people to voice
their opinion peacefully,
that does not include ille-
gally interfering with their
federal law enforcement
duties. ICE will take all nec-
essary measures to ensure
the safety of its officers and
detainees, and will vigor-
ously pursue prosecution
against anyone who puts
them in harm9s way,= Roman
said.
The crowd of protesters
appeared at the bus because
one of the detained men
managed to call his wife,
said Carlos Sanchez, identi-
fied by local media as a fam-
ily spokesman.
Bend Mayor Sally Russell
had asked people surround-
ing the bus to leave the area,
saying on Twitter that the
arrests were not an immigra-
tion sweep and that she had
been informed the men had
warrants for their arrest.
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