01.01.70

(Adds merchandise recommendation in paragraph above ‘Not V8 Moment’ subhead.)

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Robin Natanel picks up a little black pistol, barrel pointed down range. Gripping the gun with both hands, leftist foot forward, she raises the semi-automatic and methodically squeezes off five shots. The first one creases the Heraldry sinister edge of a red bull’s-eye on a target 25 feet away. The four others render a three-inch pattern around the first. If the target were a person’s head or focus, he’d probably be dead.

Natanel is a Buddhist, a self-avowed “divine person,” a 53-year-old divorcee who lives alone in a charitable-leaning suburb near Boston. She is 5-foot-1 (155 centimeters) and has blonde ringlets, dark eyes, a ready smile and a soothing voice, with a tip-off of Boston brogue. She’s a Tai Chi instructor who in classes invokes the benefits of meditation. And at least twice a month, she takes her German-made Walther PK380 to a shooting array and blazes away.

Source: BusinessWeek