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

And both country music stars made headlines for this, encouraging fans to make sure they can defend themselves after recent horrific events.

Hammack made his announcement this week.

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“Something happened recently that made me feel very, very insecure,” he wrote on Instagram Stories, along with a photo of a gun, a box of bullets and targets on a table. According to the Taste of the Country. “I’ve been learning defensive maneuvers and strategies from a professional ever since.”

Taste of Country did not reveal what Hammack’s frightening situation was, but added that he now feels confident in his “capacity to react in high-stress moments.”

“Taking these self-defense courses gave me great security within myself,” he wrote. If you own a gun for self-defense reasons, I highly recommend you attend the courses. The reassurance I now have about my capacity to respond in high-stress moments provides sweet relief from the fear I have been experiencing lately.

“I pray that I can only shoot paper targets FOREVER and I will never have to defend myself with OR without a gun,” he added. “But I invested in myself through these courses so that I could sleep better at night.”

This comes after Allen revealed on Instagram that he bought a gun after saying he was robbed at gunpoint in Nashville last week.

“Seriously speaking… I was robbed at a grocery store in East Nashville a few days ago.” wrote. “I’m fine (except for a few bucks), but it was a feeling I couldn’t get over. Even though he had a muscular build and was covered in tattoos, it didn’t matter. He had a gun but I didn’t. “I felt helpless, taken advantage of, and hurt myself more than anything.”

Allen wrote that he had always been “uncertain about the gun” before the incident.

“But today I am a proud new gun owner,” he wrote. “This is strictly self-defense and I will NEVER feel like this again.”

He also thanked a friend, who he said was a “senior,” for helping train “so that I can now protect myself safely.”

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

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