Public service announcement for you gun owners

[Skinhead]

Evolve -- Playthings

Always lock 'em up if you have kids at home.

WE now return you to our regularly scheduled program.....

[czuch]

Gun control is knowing the kids cant get em, and when to use em,  and are properly trained.
That and two bullets and one hole.

[Detn8er]

          

[Felonious Thump]

Dad had all his guns in a glass front cabinet in the living room, no locks. We all knew how, and when to use them. We also were taught a healthy respect for life. Both are needed by anyone who has firearms. Kids will find a way to get into almost any locked cabinet, or safe. At least that is my mindset fwiw.

[Bigwolf]

My dad's shotguns were all in an unlocked closet along with a couple of boxes of ammo.  Neither myself nor any of my 3 siblings ever got a gun out unless dad asked us to do so.  He also had a revolver in the same desk drawer that we got pencils erasers and rulers out of.  We did not touch that either. 

I don't remember the exact details but several years ago some anti gun people set up cameras in a daycare situation and they monitored two different groups of children.  One group from homes with guns and the other group had no guns in the home.  Their plan was to show how dangerous it was to have guns in the home. 

They put unloaded guns in the box of toys then brought the children in and the adults left the room.  The children from homes with no guns got the guns from the toy box and began playing with them.  The children from homes with guns found the gun in the toy box and immediately began screaming "gun gun" and they all ran away from the toy box.

I am not advocating leaving guns unattended or otherwise accessible.  Quite the contrary!  However, I do wonder about the state of parenting in this nation.

Bigwolf

[MarkT]

Good points.  Growing up, there were things in the house, whereof the wrath of Dad was sufficient reason not to go there.  Of course that was before the days of the current nanny state with the antigunner socialists setting up laws to castrate you if anything happens you should have known to prevent with their opinion of adequate security.  In my day, Dad's wrath was security not to be sneezed at.  Nowadays - not so much. At least legally. Of course if he whipped kids today like he did me, even being a preacher and a professer, he would be cooling his jets in the hooscow and I would be playing with his guns at will.  Of course, he didn't have REAL guns - no battle rifles (except a Mauser 7X57 bolt, Nazi issue), no pistols, a .22 pump and a couple 19th century shotguns.  Still we didn't touch them.

Gun safes now, are rated by how long it takes to breach their security.  I think mine is 5 minutes.  Yeah, it's a real safe.  For home use.  A torch, plasma cutter, or angle grinder would indeed breach it in 5 minutes.  However, no tween kid is going to get in it, only I know the combination (wifey has trouble remembering it) and it's not documented where anyone would ever find it.  Apart from that, no guns aren't in the safe when there's going to be any kids visiting.  This discussion only applies to the days before the horrible boating accident, of course.

I do have a 10/22 which was saved from the disaster.  I've set it up with a 3-9BDC scope; it came with a laser, and I've installed a Volquartsen target trigger. No, didn't go nuts and install a custom floated stock; still retaining it's original character.  Even so, for a .22LR it's a gen-u-wine tack driver now.  Taking it along on the ride to WI so my grandson can use it for additional firearm instruction.  He has shown a remarkable ability with it already.  And really learned responsible gun handling right away.  Gonna drive those lessons home again this trip.

[Skinhead]

Anyone know what brand that double barrel over/under model the kid in the video is wielding?

[IamGCW]

Heck of a way to defend the house. 

Gil

[The emperor has no clothes]

Anyone know what brand that double barrel over/under model the kid in the video is wielding?

Isn't that the "Linda Lovelace" model ?

[BF]

Be careful where you point that thing.  It could put your eye out. 

[Jeff K]

When I first saw this the first thing that came to mind was, if this shows anything at all it shows that had the kids known what it was they found, they wouldn't be playing with it.  

Teach your kids about guns and gun safety and they will be less prone to curiosity and less prone to play with them.

My Grand kids were here for two weeks. They both love to shoot. They spend time with me at the range. I have guns in a locked oak gun cabinet, I have more under the bed, I have ammo stacked knee deep in my closet.

No one got shot. No one picked up a gun. No one played with one.

Those evil guns just sat right where they belonged.

[Gavin_Sons]

My son turns 4 tomorrow. A couple weeks ago my wife told me I need to lockup my carry pistol. I keep it on the top shelf 8 feet off the ground in the kitchen and when I go to bed it gets put in the night stand drawer next to me. We decided to test our 4 year old. So I unloaded it and put it on the book case in our living room. A couple hours passed and he never said a word about it. We cooked dinner and sat down to eat and he looked at me and said "dad, I need to tell you something". I said ok, what is it? Your gun is on the book shelfand it is never there, you always put it on the top shelf, why is it on my book shelf? I said I dont know, why dont you go get it for me. He said no, I never touch your gun or I get spanked and sent to my room. Goes to show that pounding something into their heads will eventually stick. Sometimes during deer season ill leave the .44 mag lever action or my 12 gauge in the corner, unloaded of course. He pays no attention to guns at all. He was raised around them like I was and I have never once had one grow arms and legs andtry to kill me.

[Crackerborn]

I was raised around guns, used a M-1 carbine for a deer rifle at 9 (?) years old. As soon as we could prove to our dad that we could be trusted not to shoot ourselves or the wrong animal, we were in a tree stand. My kids were not so fortunate since my blushing bride didn't share my enthusiasm for the shooting sports. When my oldest was a sophomore in high school she went with some older friends to a shooting range and for a joke , her friends handed her a .44 mag pistol to shoot as a first gun. That was when I took over and the old .22 Mark 3 Ruger was now the gun all the kids love to shoot. The kid that handed my oldest a .44? He is in the Marines and still won't come to the house if he knows I am around even after I signed the the letter to help get him in. I wish he would, I would shake his hand for two tours in Afghanistan and since I'm also sure he wouldn't do the same thing to any other newbie shooters.