Sounds like a great reason to try and introduce some ladies to the range and the ability to defend themselvesEven though gun shops may be seeing more women firing at the range, the gender gap remains when it comes to personally owning a firearm. A 2011 report released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, about one in four women claims to own a firearm, but 46 percent, or one out of every two men, personally owns a gun