Posted on 08/28/2014 7:00:11 PM PDT by DBrow
"Be allowed?" What the heck does that mean?
My 4 kids all went from .22LR to.22mag to .303 Enfield before they were 11. My wife took a little longer to overcome her dread of guns. It took a copperhead slithering between her feet to totally change her outlook. When we go in the scrub she carries a little .410/.45Colt snake-eyes derringer thing.
> Almost certainly yes, but putting a machine pistol in the hands of a little girl is Darwinian.
Has anyone looked into the background of the guy who let his child do this?
Obama was probably “hail Satan”ing when this happened. Satan handed this one to them. I predict a great increase in gun accidents soon....
When I was a Boy Scout, from age 11, at summer camp, we did single shot .22's.
Of course we also made our own slingshots.
Yes 29% 49
Total votes: 170
It means that congress or senate or obambi will soon pass a law making it illegal for a child to fire a gun. Child meaning whatever age they decide.
I taught my son on a Winchester 57 “gallery gun” I picked up at an auction for IIRC $50. Single shot bolt action .22, with a manual hammer.
“”Be allowed?” What the heck does that mean? “
It means, should Congress pass a law outlawing it?
I had a single shot, bolt action .22 Remington at the age of 9 years old. I lived in the country and had to work to buy bullets for it and if I violated ANY safety measures my 6’ 4” dad would literally kick my butt. So, I just didn’t!!
Back then a 50 shot box of ammo (shorts was all my dad would let me have) was about 75 cents. But. it took me about a half day of hard work on the farm as I recall to earn 75 cents from my father. I got to be such a good shot with it (young eyes and reflexes), I could hit a running lizard in a wide turn around gravel driveway we had for turning trailers.
At 12, my uncle gave me a .32-20 Winchester owned by his and my dad’s dad with the proviso that I keep it and give it to my son. I still have it and it is still loaded and sitting right here. I have had it for 54 years or longer than grandpa had it. He used it to arrest escaped prisoners in East Texas.
They want a law to ban it.
No....children shouldn’t learn to shoot guns....
children shouldn’t be brought up in a single religion....
children shouldn’t be taught America is any better than any other country...
Children “should” be raised in a utopian bubble, insulated from reality, and then be let out into the world to deal with life unfettered from cultural bias, imposed by flawed adults.....
You can teach kids all kinds of sexual perversion but by golly don’t teach them how to use a tool.
My Father’s first gun was a Winchester model 57. Daddy was born in 1918 and he probably got around age 10. They ordered it out of the Sears catalog but made the mistake of ordering it with ammo.
At that time the U.S. Post Office would not ship ammo so they had to drive from leonia, Florida to Florala, Alabama to pick it up.
Daddy’s was a very good one, it was about as accurate as you could ask for. We still have that gun but it needs a little work.
170 votes, boy CNN is getting a lot of traffic tonight.
This one’s a tack driver. It’s still in good working order, but the bluing could use a little touch-up.
No, I think German Shepard dogs would make fine instructors.
Stupid question.
Daddy’s old model 57 still shoots great but the knurled knob used to cock it broke off years ago. Rather than ordering a new part someone brazed and L shaped piece of brass to it.
It looks awful but it does work.
My Brother had a Remington model 513 targetmaster and it was and still is a great rifle. Unusually accurate and with two rear locking lugs, pretty unusual for a .22 rimfire. My first rifle at age 9 was a Remington model 514 which is well thought of but mine was inaccurate. It would group around 3 inches at 15 yards.
I later used a drill bit to open up the chamber just enough for a .22WRF to fit. After that crude job the gun began to shoot those WRFs like a house on fire. I later learned they were a couple of thousandths of an inch larger in diameter than the .22Lr series of cartridges.
The bore on my 514 must have been quite a bit oversize.
In Westfield. You could shoot pumpkins with machine guns. It was an annual fundraiser. I had never heard of it, living two towns away. But, by the time I did, it was gone.
Aside from the kids with machine guns, it sounded like fun.
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