Posted on 03/21/2023 5:28:49 AM PDT by marktwain
About two years later, on June 22, 2023
Buy one when you are 17.
When I was growing up in the 50’s-60’s with the other baby boomers, I got my first gun at 12, as did most of my 12-13 YO friends. In every case I know of your dad took you to the store and bought it for you. We all had dads and they paid attention to what we were doing. Many had fresh memories of WW2 and Army training so teaching their kids basic safety was an inherent process. Yes, we took our guns to school to show off. That didn’t bother anybody, but the teacher was mildly concern with what your attention was too that day, not the gun. Nobody got shot or injured except a few rabbits, squirrels, and birds.
What’s changed? I’d start with “we all had dads, and they paid attention.” The government is constantly trying to adjust laws to address problems created by social decay rather than addressing what’s causing the decay.
It’s a stupid law. At one time, 12-year-olds could legally buy guns at gas stations.
I think I was closer to eight. Daisy Red Ryder. Then I got a Daisy CO2-300 rifle when I was about 10, and Dad got the associated CO2-200 pistol. Had an indoor BB trap and shot down the hall, with a blanket backstop beyond that.
I got a bolt action .22 with peep sights a couple years later (12?) to do the NRA 50’ junior rifleman program, whatever they officially called it. Indoor range, about 10 targets on a sheet, with the ten-ring about the diameter of a .22. You progressed from prone to sitting to kneeling to standing, got badges and patches for your shooting vest as you achieved certain scores.
Our instructor was an old retired Army NCO who had almost certainly been involved in some or all of WWII/Korea/Vietnam. Almost certainly had spent some time as a DI, knew how to instruct marksmanship. Good times.
Good thread Mark!
Thanks for the wonderful old sign with real, authentic Key Lime Pie pictured. Really hard to get it without a bunch of foo foo on top, but this is the real deal.
I think I mentioned that Trader Joe has a decent version in season, no foo foo and real Key Limes.
When exactly is Key Lime season?
I was on a bus to basic training on my 17th birthday in '66. About 8-10 weeks later they had me on the range teaching me how to fire scary 'assault weapons', machine guns and grenade launchers.
So when I was discharged 3 years later when I turned 20. After a Vietnam tour with the air mobile infantry, numerous firefights and killing who knows how many enemy, I would not have been able to buy a gun under these rules? ...... ok, makes sense /s
It think you are mistaken, and have the arrow of causality reversed.
May progressives applaud the decay. Many of them planned the decay. Their policies are the cause of the decay. From this article:
Progressivism’s ascendancy in K-12 public education dates back to John Dewey in the early 20th century. But it was Mr. Dewey’s associate, secular humanist Charles Potter, that provided the most explicit revelation about the goal to dominate the influence on the hearts and minds of children through the classroom. Recognizing that many Americans were church-goers at the time, Mr. Potter boasted in 1930, “What can theistic Sunday School, meeting for an hour once a week, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?”
Back you had to be 21 to purchase handgun ammo, I knew two different guys who became peace officers before they were 21, and had to have their mommy buy bullets for them.
Beats me. I thought it was all year 'round!
here’s the chance for florida republican representatives to embrace this age group and encourage them to vote for their constitutional rights...
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