The Inouye Marksmanship Center is a 12,000 square foot

shooting range A shooting range, firing range, gun range or shooting ground is a specialized facility, sports venue, venue or playing field, field designed specifically for firearm usage qualifications, training, practice or shooting sport, competitions. So ...

located on the campus of

The Citadel The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, commonly known simply as The Citadel, is a Public college, public United States senior military college, senior military college in Charleston, South Carolina. Established in 1842, it is one ...

Charleston, South Carolina Charleston is the largest city in the U.S. state of South Carolina, the county seat of Charleston County, and the principal city in the Charleston–North Charleston metropolitan area. The city lies just south of the geographical midpoint o ...

. It is home to

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The Citadel Bulldogs rifle The Citadel Bulldogs rifle team represents The Citadel in rifle. They compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and in the Southern Conference. The Bulldogs have claimed two national and thirteen conference championships. The team ...

team, as well as the club pistol team, The Citadel's ROTC programs, and the

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. The range is named for Senator

Daniel Inouye Daniel Ken Inouye ( ; September 7, 1924 – December 17, 2012) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Hawaii from 1963 until his death in 2012. Beginning in 1959, he was the first U.S. representative f ...

, who secured federal funding for the facility in 2002. The facility hosted the 2017

Southern Conference The Southern Conference (SoCon) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I. Southern Conference football teams compete in the Football Championship Subdivision (formerly ...

rifle championships, as well as the annual Southeastern Air Rifle Conference championships from 2012–2016, and will host the 2018

NCAA Rifle Championships The NCAA Rifle Championship is an annual co-educational rifle national collegiate championship sponsored by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The tournament includes an individual and team championships consisting of the two ...

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