The Belton Gun Club's mission is to encourage organized rifle, pistol and shotgun shooting among citizens of the United States resident in the community, with a view toward a better knowledge on the part of such citizens of the safe handling and proper care of firearms, as well as improved marksmanship. The Belton Gun Club endeavors to encourage and foster interest in the ownership and collecting of fine firearms of good workmanship and quality, and to revere the traditions of our nation and the part in which fine firearms have played in its history. Our further object and purpose is to forward the development of those characteristics of honesty, good fellowship, self-discipline, team play, and self-reliance, which are the essentials of good sportsmanship and the foundation of true patriotism.