My rules are simple - no toy guns that look anything like real guns. Water guns (super soakers) are okay, but my kids start with real guns at a young age.
They are allowed to shoot starting at about age 5, with very close supervision. They are allowed to ask about shooting and about touching guns at almost any time, but touching any gun without permission carries a one year ban on all shooting. Violating a gun safety rule, even a little, carries the same one year ban, None of my kids have ever received that ban, but they know they would if they crossed the line.
My rules are simple - no toy guns that look anything like real guns.
I was crossing a parking lot when a man appeared from behind a van holding an Uzi and yelling angrily at someone I could not see. His young boy then also walked into view. I think he had taken the very realistic toy away from him for some infraction. Our eyes met and he turned red realizing he had scared the hell out of me. We looked at each other for a moment and then he walked to the van, threw the toy in,and walked away.
“AFFIRMANCE OF A POWER,-THAT THE RIGHT OF A PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. Who fought the Battles, of Lexington,Bunker Hill and Saratoga?
...Who saved Baltimore? ... Who obtained the victory at New Orleans?
These militia, trained and disciplined in their own houses; not practised in the field, but BRINGING THEIR GUNS WHICH THEY WERE TAUGHT TO USE WHEN CHILDREN..”
p.111, p.168 are sourced from �Proceedings and Debates of the Convention of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Vol. 4, by the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention, 1837-8