GOT A GUN? By ABBY ELLIN
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“I would feel much more comfortable with a gun in my purse,” says Monica Schaeffer, a 30-year-old public relations executive, here practicing her aim (but alas, not wearing required protective goggles).
- NYP: Jennifer Weisbord

August 18, 2002 — Leslie Entin never planned on packing heat. Not as a kid growing up in Queens, not as vice president of Selection de Givenchy in Manhattan and certainly not after giving birth to her daughter, Mia, who’s now 5.
But then came Sept. 11, and like many other people, Entin changed her views about a lot of things. Now, this 40-year-old Upper East Side mama is learning to shoot a gun.

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