A lot has changed in forty years. When I was a kid we would walk through town with rifles to go plinking after school and we were never stopped or hasseled by cops. now they would have the swat team chasing you down and you would be arrested for disturbing the ‘peace’. Even in the town where I live now Pop. 1,200 I was told by the local State trooper that there were complaints that my 15 year old was seen walking down the street with a ‘Gun’. It was a BB gun!And some busy body got his skivvies in a knot about it. Gotta get out of this State.
Come to rural Idaho...it is normal to see a kid riding his bicycle with a .22-250 across the handlebars. Nobody gets excited.