Congratulations to Jeanine Gill, Shooting Range Owner and Woman Pioneer of the Year

By Beth Alcazar // 01/02/2018


It’s always exciting for me to hear about the successes of other women in the firearms industry, and one of those victories that came to my attention recently was about Minnesota’s Jeanine Gill, President & Owner of Osseo Gun Club & Pro Shop, who was awarded

“Woman Pioneer of the Year” from the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-MN) for extraordinary success and achievement in a predominately male-dominated industry.

The NAWBO awards focus on the many accomplishments and contributions of exemplary women who have contributed to the women’s business community and who continue to build a legacy for future generations of entrepreneurs. But Woman Pioneer of the Year is particularly noteworthy, since it signifies that Jeanine has achieved success as a female business owner in our oftentimes male-oriented world of firearms.

It’s also refreshing to see that a national entity like NAWBO (headquartered in Washington, D.C.) desires to “effectively represent the full diversity of the women business owner community,” and they gave this much-deserved recognition to a woman who clearly supports the 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Amendment and even owns and operates a shooting range … of all things!


Jeanine is certainly a unique and exemplary woman who had a passion and a goal … and followed it through to fruition. At age 50, Jeanine left her career job of 20-plus years to construct and open a family-friendly public gun range located in downtown Osseo, Minnesota. The indoor, 20-lane facility features three separate indoor ranges for rifle and pistol, a 7,000-square-foot retail area, two classrooms with a variety of training opportunities, a firearms simulator room for virtual training and on-site gunsmith services.