Idiots.
I have been shooting since I was 7 years old under the supervision of my grandfather. At 13 I was allowed to keep a 410 shotgun and a 22 bolt action rifle in my room with ammunition. I had past my grandfather’s tests of responsibility.
I today am 69 years old with many firearms as I am a collector of fine weapons and an active shooter. I shoot every weapon I have with the exception of one that is so old I am afraid it would blow up. It is quite valuable and very old.
I have never used a firearm in an illegal manner.
Circa 1966 Lockport, Louisiana High School, often we would go hunting after school. The weapons were in our trucks. The principal knew and the cops knew. They knew because they could see the shotguns in the gun racks in the back window of our trucks. This was normal. The concept of using these weapons in an illegal manner was foreign to our thought processes.
If this were today there would be a Swat Squad at the High School.
Sadly times have changed!
I started my kids shooting and hunting when they were 5 and 6 years old.
Son at 5 because he was already a pretty big kid, daughter at 6 because she was smaller.
They both got their first shotguns on Christmas morning 1988.
Neither one of them has ever used a firearm in an inappropriate or illegal manner.
They both had to go through and pass (no help from dad) the NRA Hunter and Shooter Safety course before being allowed to get their first Hunting License.
We have had a lot of good hunts (even on the days we were skunked) since then, I look forward to many more before I cash in.
Sadly times have changed!
Oswald used a 4X scope to “undo” the Kennedy Admin.
The “Conspiritorialists” would have you believe that this was an impossible undertaking.
Any 13 year old, properly trained, could have done this - WITHOUT - the scope...
Right with you my FRiend.
I started Shooting with my Dad and Brother when I was eight.
Also had a .410 Single Shot and a .22 Bolt Action (from Sears I think)...
My Brother and I shared a Room, and we had those two Guns as well as his 30.06, his Winchester Model 1892 and his collection of Ruger Pistols in our Closet along with a shitload of Ammunition.
To this day my Brother and I combined have killed one less Person than Ted Kennedy did using his Oldsmobile and four less than former SOS Hillary “The Butcheress of Benghazi” Clinton did due to her incompetence.