Regis Giles glides from chair to podium with the lithe, twitchy ease of a big cat, hazel-eyed and trailing a honey-colored mane, all 20 tawny years of her packed into a skintight electric blue stretch-satin cocktail dress. She doesn't look like this when she's spearing wild boar on the shores of Florida's Lake Okeechobee or taking aim with her favorite CZ 550 rifle, but today Giles is addressing America's largest annual conservative convention, in Washington, DC, so she's sexed it up a bit.

Besides being a hunter, she's an entrepreneur. From a website called Girls Just Wanna Have Guns, she peddles T-shirts, buttons, and coffee mugs, but no actual guns--yet. That's only because she must wait until she turns 21 to get a federal license to sell firearms. Meanwhile, she's bagged her own reality hunting show, Primal Urge, slated to air on cable's Pursuit Channel (devoted to all things hunt) in 2012.

Giles keeps her speech short, sweet, and to the point. "I'm sick and tired of seeing defenseless girls being abducted in broad daylight," she says in an unstudied nasal drawl. "My company stands for those girls who've decided to arm themselves with a gun that will pump lead into an attacker at 1,200 feet per second. I wanna see more headlines stating 'Girl kills attacker with gun' than 'Girl found dead after being raped and choked to death.'" The audience packed into the Marriott's Grand Ballroom erupts in cheers, stomps, and whistles. She's brought the house down.

Like all goddesses, Regis Giles may be considered the progeny of two greater deities: Gloria Steinem and Glenn Beck. In real life, Regis' dad, Doug Giles, is a conservative radio host, the self-described "pastor" of his own "Clash Church," and a man who calls himself "a big pain in the butt to people who dislike God and the U.S.A." Her mom homeschooled her and now teaches low-income kids in Miami, where the couple live.

My voyage into the perfumed, gun-totin' world of the young women of the Right, in Elle.