Man, when I was in High School, late 60s, I was the Brigade armorer for the better part of three years. I had about 30 .22cal rifles, mostly Wichester 52Cs and Ds, with a few Remington 513Ts. At one time we had 40 operable M1 Garands but they were traded for demilled ‘03 Springfields. Any firearms that were brought to school were under my care.
At various times I had SKSs, a BAR, M1 Thompson and M60 NG as well as various sporting firearms.
Ah those were the days
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
A few years back, a high-school student interviewed an elderly relative of mine for a class project or something, about what school was like in the old days.
The kid didn't know what mumbledy-peg was, so my relative said, "well,you take your pocketknife, and..." He didn't get to continue, because the kid couldn't believe that anyone could carry a knife to school. The student asked, incredulously, about that...and I don't know who was more shocked, this kid--or my relative, who couldn't conceive of a boy going to school without his trusty pocketknife!
Talk about generational gaps.