Country music stars show off firearms, encourage self-defense after scary incidents

Caylee Hammack shared on Instagram this week that she has been working on her shooting skills, and Jay Allen did the same about a week earlier.

And both country music stars made headlines with that, while encouraging fans to make sure they are able to defend themselves, after facing scary incidents recently.

Hammack made her revelation this week.

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"Recently something happened that made me feel very very unsafe," she wrote on her Instagram stories along with a photo of a handgun on a table, a box of shells, and targets, per Taste of Country. "Since then, I have been learning defensive maneuvers and strategies with a professional."

Taste of Country noted that Hammack did not explain what her scary situation was, but said she added that she was now confident in her "capacity to react in high stress moments."

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"Taking these defensive courses has given me such security within myself," she wrote. If you are a gun owner for self defense reasons, I highly suggest looking into taking courses. The reassurance I have now in my capacity to react in high stress moments is a sweet relief from the fear I had been living in recently.

"I pray I get to shoot only paper targets FOREVER & I never have to defend myself with OR without a weapon," she added. "But I have invested in myself thru these courses so I can sleep better at night."

This comes after Allen revealed on Instagram last week that he got a gun after he said he was robbed at gun point in Nashville.

"Serious talk ... I got held up at a grocery store in East Nashville a few days ago," he wrote. "I'm OK (besides being out a few bucks), but it was the feeling that I couldn't get over. Even with having a muscular stature and being covered in tattoos, it didn't matter. He had a gun, and I didn't. I felt helpless, taken advantage of, and made at myself more than anything."

Allen wrote that he had always "been on the fence about a gun," prior to the incident.

"But today I'm a proud new gun owner," he wrote. "It's strictly for self-defense, and I will NEVER feel that way again."

He also thanked a friend who he said was a "veteran" for helping train "so I can now safely protect myself."

Many of his followers were quick to voice their support for the move.

Taste of Country called Allen "an up-and-coming artist in Nashville for the better part of a decade."