Posted on 01/21/2013 5:47:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Skeet are now a protected species.
I went to a rural school in North Carolina in the 70’s. Pickup trucks had rifle racks on the back glass (full), and I remember showing off my rifle to the principal in the parking lot...and he showing me his!
I recall as a 1971 graduate at Laurel Highlands gun clubs were abundant. From time to time, a buck was strapped to the trunk of their car. Big Daddy Government was not an issue.
In the years before WWII, Germans were teaching their sons to shoot, while the French were teaching their sons to dance.
It took the Germans six weeks to conquer France.
Some Texas schools still have rifle teams and there doesn’t seem to be any problems at all.
I think it may be increasing but I am not sure.
Yep. I grew up in Indiana County and had the same recollections from the mid-80's.
Fremont High School Involvement: F.H.T.T. is a non-sanctioned extracurricular activity not offered by the Fremont School System and is only supported to their legal liability limitations. Although the school takes this stand, they still help the program by allowing school announcements, gathering of academic information, and permitting the issuance of activity letters. This trapshooting program is financed and supported by private clubs and through the generosity of individuals who have participated in the program in past years.
A few years ago a local school district wanted to start a rifle team and they simply put out empty cigar boxes at most of the gun dealers checkout area with a sign that said “Help the Lamar school district start a rifle team”.
I dropped in an extra twenty and mine was one of many. I also saw a hundred dollar bill in the box. I think they were successful in their fundraising as when I dropped in the twenty there looked to be pretty close to a thousand in the box.
When I bought my own .22 rifle at age 11 I already had 3 years of gun safety and marksmanship training.
I wonder if there are even enough schools now with boys not on high-risk medication.
We lived down by the water and there were two fibgers out into the bay that were still undeveloped. They were pretty large parcels of mixed sand dunes, briar patches, woodland and brackish swamp...great places for a bunch of kids to spend all day and never see an adult. When I hit my teens we hunted geese down at the end. It was not at all unusual to see three or four guys walking through the neighborhood with 12 gauges over their shoulders. That sight today would bring DHS SWAT teams.
Both peninsulae were developed in the seventies (hi-end houses). They were all severely damaged by Sandy.
We lived down by the water and there were two fingers out into the bay that were still undeveloped. They were pretty large parcels of mixed sand dunes, briar patches, woodland and brackish swamp...great places for a bunch of kids to spend all day and never see an adult. When I hit my teens we hunted geese down at the end. It was not at all unusual to see three or four guys walking through the neighborhood with 12 gauges over their shoulders. That sight today would bring DHS SWAT teams.
Both peninsulae were developed in the seventies (hi-end houses). They were all severely damaged by Sandy.
I think that the French Upper Echelon’s blind reliance on the Maginot Line might have had more to do with the German victory than did the fighting spirit of the French soldier.
In 1980 (7th grade) I would bring my shotgun to school and keep it in my locker. After school would carry it on to the bus and go to my friends farm to do some pheasant hunting. The good ole days that weren’t so long ago.
Lead shot is the devil.
When I was in 8th grade a kid on the rifle team from the local high school came home with a 22 and killed his parents his sister and the family dog so he could have the house to party. That was in a Chicago suburb 1969.
That was so rare then. It's not so rare now.
“regardless, it was struck down on grounds of federal overreach in 1997.”
Minor factual error: It was struck down in 1995, President Clinton lobbied hard to have it passed again in 1996, with minor changes.
The Gun Free School Zone act is still in effect. The Feds do not prosecute hardly any people on it because they do not want another challenge to the law in Federal court.
Even so, Justice Scalia later changed his reasoning in Gonzales v. Raich to give the Federal Government virtually unlimited power to regulate everything under a commerce clause excuse.
“In the years before WWII, Germans were teaching their sons to shoot, while the French were teaching their sons to dance.
It took the Germans six weeks to conquer France.”
Does this have any implications regarding the coming conflict between “the red and the blue” ??
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