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Gee whiz Lone Wolf, your posts could have been posted by myself.
My attitudes towards my kids and guns are exactly the same. Exactly.
I got my boy a .22 Cooey single-shot for Christmas. He'll be 14 in August and when you turn 14 here you can hunt with your dad. He was thrilled. He has shot plenty when out in the bush with me, but of course that's not the same as owning your own gun, especially at age 13.
Nowadays you gotta take all kinds of courses in order to hunt, and other courses in order to own a gun, up here in the land of 'social engineering,' and man oh man the courses are extremely tough, including questions about firearms engineering! The little trooper took his courses just last week and passed with a 92 mark on one test and 98 on the other. I'm not against training for gun owners, but I think mandatory training of the type they enforce up here is ridiculous. It is really, really comprehensive, way beyond reasonable. But he pulled through.
Anyway, I can remember going down to the local department store and picking out a Cooey .22 single-shot out of the discount bin for $25 and taking it home, uncased, on the city bus.
Times have changed. Imagine trying that now!
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