Welcome to Santa’s gun club

Dec. 2 – The Scottsdale Gun Club in Arizona puts a twist on the traditional Santa photo. Alicia Powell reports


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Welcome to Santa’s gun club

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  1. Where might Santa be if he isn’t in his workshop?
  2. Where is the gun club?
  3. Which word tells us that this is an unexpected place to have a ‘seasonal’ photo?
  4. What can visitors do?
  5. What represents hundreds of thousands of dollars?
  6. What are people able to express at this event?
  7. What is the price of the gun pictured?
  8. How many people came previously for the photo opportunity?
  9. What does the store hope for this year?
  10. What do we learn at the end of the piece about the guns?

Why might this piece be considered rather ironic?