Posted on 05/17/2004 6:03:27 AM PDT by Puppage
My only apprehension at this article is that the location and activity is publicized to the "million" moms and others who would rather ban all private gun ownership outright. After all, if the town of Greenwich banned sledding, one can guess accurately what will happen to a kids-with-guns program when a few PTA liberals read the nooz paper about it.
Yep when I right click the X, it's photobucket.
Sorry to hear that. I like the service and the quality of the pictures. I started with OneBigVillage but they stopped letting me send pictures. I'm going to resize the first picture as soon as it's deleted. From now on, I'm going to shrink everything I send out.
The gun club has a great program for kids. It's odd to converse about guns with a fellow competitor who's half your size. The kid in the foreground at the High Power match is loading his own mags. I wouldn't trust most adults to load mine. It's also odd to see the kids act so intelligent while they're shooting but after a match, one of the adults had to tell them to stay out of playing in the rain puddles.
I don't know why the firewall at work doesn't like photobucket, no problem at home.
When I was in the USAF stationed at McConnell AFB, Kansas in the early 70's, a bunch of us became instructors in the state safe hunting program. We held classes on base and used the range for hands-on safety portion and target practice.
Safety is so simple that it eludes most people who haven't been trained. It is good to see more young people learning to shoot and learning it safely. Now that my kids are grown and I have more time, I need to get involved in the Alabama Safe Hunting program.
My kids knew more about firearm safety at 6 than the average adult male does.
The kids get it but some of the adults don't. I think it's because children are always being shown something different and the world is so new to them. They can accept learning new things constantly.
The biggest danger I have seen is letting the adults and parents accept bad behavior because it was "an accident" or it was a "mistake". I told our kids if they shoot me, I'll just shoot them back. One kid who always got away with anything he wanted to because the parents went through a bad divorce finally understood I didn't believe in accidents.
It also helped they didn't know I was bluffing.
Excellent form!
I take a lot of heat because I truly do not believe there is any such thing as an accident when humans are involved. Of course the flamers have yet to give me an instance that I could not pick apart.
Kinda sucks that my daughter has to wait until she is 12 in the PRNY.
Then again, our Jr's did win the Nat'l championship this year.
Connecticut?
Astounding.
I'm a little concerned about the way she is holding her shotgun....Is it just me or is this a bit unsafe?
Geez, looks like Chelsea.
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