http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/boyscouts.asp
See link above.
Apparently, this always was the policy at the BSA.
Quoting a 2015 manual doesn’t mean the BSA always had that policy. They certainly did not when I was a Cub Scout years ago. Back then, at a Cub Scout meeting, we threw knives into the ground at each others feet...
Not all scout troops are wussfied
My son is helping hand out hurricane preparedness info at Home Depot this morning
Tonight his troop will be at Miami airport welcoming home WWII vets
I’m proud of him and his fellow scouts, the leadership are all good family men
No homos anywhere to be seen
Poor research on their part. Nothing they did showed how old the policy is. For all we know the book could have been edited in 2014 to support the policy as a soft rollout.
As a kid in the late 80s we had water gun fight a. Nobody said anything about it