Looking at some photos at old-picture.com, I found this one dated 1927 and titled "George Washington Univ. Girls Rifle Team".   This photo is especially apropos with the recent focus on the gun ban in DC and how acrimonius that debate has grown. 

GWU is right in the heart of DC and in case you didn't realize, that is the Lincoln Memorial in the background.  That means these girls are walking around the National Mall with their rifles.  Oh the humanity.  It must have been a bloodbath that day.

I tried to dig up some more information about the GWU women's rifle team.

Here is another photo I dug up of the girls in 1929 after they had won the first national rifle championship:

This is feminism in action, long before Title IX or anyone thought of an ERA.  The gals are still parading armed on the National Mall.  Imagine how the law would respond today by this harmless assemblage of all American girls in DC?  Probably with less consideration than even a senator's aide receives.

GWU has apparently long done away with its marksmanship programs but I can't find an exact date.   Even though they several times held the national championship, GWU has refused to recognize any of these scholar-athletes in their hall of fame.  Not even for a distinguished alumni such as Walter Stokes who was a champion marksman at the national, world, and olympic level and coach of the national champion women's team.  

Here is a picture of Stokes in 1924, the same year he took a gold and a bronze at the Summer Olympics in Paris.

This post started by being about DC gun control but I'm going to end it by saying that I'm going to nominate Walter Stokes to for the GWU Athletic Hall of Fame.   They say that nominations may be made by "friends of the university" so I'll give it a shot.