on a lighter note...

[jpr9954]

This sign is needed near all high school and university campuses!

 

[F. Vaccaro]

This sign is needed near all high school and university campuses!


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You bet, even some downtown street crossings!

 

[jpr9954]

Just in time for Halloween.

 

[Sabattiboy]

We weren't allowed to even point our BB/ pellet guns at any body for any reason.

But we were allowed, and quite often used: hard plastic and cork bullets, hard plastic cannon balls, other hard plastic and hard rubber balls were thrown as grenades, and plastic suction cup dart guns to shoot each other playing cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, and war. And it wasn't just kids playing, we even had our parents and adult neighbors joining in the fun.

Ah, those almost forgotten memories.

We were responsible for where the muzzle was pointed at all times no matter what. BB or pellet. Not allowed to be in any BB gun wars etc. That would have brought an a$$ beating.
I thought other kids got the same firearms training we did. Turns out no kids I ever knew got firearms training.

 

[Sabattiboy]

Would this have made more sense when it was known as Trans Jordan?

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So take their support to the Hamas and Palestinians and see how they are received.
Best write out a last will and testament first.

 

[Nyati]

 

[Nyati]

 

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[Nyati]

 

[Dr Ray]

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Me too

 

[cash_tx]

Here's one for all you PETA fans. ;-)

 

[Ridge Runner]

We were responsible for where the muzzle was pointed at all times no matter what. BB or pellet. Not allowed to be in any BB gun wars etc. That would have brought an a$$ beating.
I thought other kids got the same firearms training we did. Turns out no kids I ever knew got firearms training.

Ok. Let's not define a generation gap here. Yet we must define the generation gap here.

We got firearms training when we got our first BB/pellet guns.

Three basic rules:

Consider all guns are loaded!
Never point a gun at someone!
Never point a guy at any thing (we) didn't want to kill!

Our stepdad reinforced the 10 Commandments of fire arms safety when he took us out and taught us how to shoot his .22 Hi Standard Double Mine and again with his single shot shotgun.

Although, I guess, I (we) should have, started this by giving the year(s) and how things have changed.

Our BB/pellet guns weren't very powerful; the next stage higher compared to cork pop guns; unless they were the pump up or CO2 kind. As the pump up or CO2 at maybe out to 15 yards could possibly kill a rabbit with a pellet to the head.

Our spring-plunger BB/pellet guns might dent a piece of onion skin typing paper at 5 feet. I'm talking back in the early, early 1960's (ie like 1962-63 or '64 maybe).

I degrees, anyway once we were introduced to "real" firearms. We never looked back to playing with BB or pellet guns.

At about 7-8 or 8-9 respectively; Every Thing firearm related was serious. Because now (back then) we used "real" firearms!: for me it was a 22 cal rifle (and later pistol) and a .410 shotgun; my brother .22 cal rifle and a 16 gauge double barrel (twin hammer and trigger) shotgun.

OK, Fast Forward. By the late '60's through the '70's, from the mid '70's through today BB and pellet guns have evolved a 1000%+ times fold.

Sabastion: All I can say is that unless you grew up in the '50, '60's, real early '70's. You and your generation will never know the joys we had. And for that I can honestly say is a very, very bad thing. And actually a major contributor to today's problems with the younger citified, etc. kids today.

 

[Woodcarver]

Daisy Red Rider was the weapon of (only) choice back then. It did raise a pretty good welt on my cousin's belly when he threw open the barn door and took one at 5', lol. If our parents had caught us, we would have been thrashed soundly; probably with our own belt!
And yes, my Dad pounded the 10 Commandments of Gun Safety into me and my siblings. But sometimes kids do stupid things. (We all still have both eyes too!)

 

[Newboomer]

Ok. Let's not define a generation gap here. Yet we must define the generation gap here.

We got firearms training when we got our first BB/pellet guns.

Three basic rules:

Consider all guns are loaded!
Never point a gun at someone!
Never point a guy at any thing (we) didn't want to kill!

Our stepdad reinforced the 10 Commandments of fire arms safety when he took us out and taught us how to shoot his .22 Hi Standard Double Mine and again with his single shot shotgun.

Although, I guess, I (we) should have, started this by giving the year(s) and how things have changed.

Our BB/pellet guns weren't very powerful; the next stage higher compared to cork pop guns; unless they were the pump up or CO2 kind. As the pump up or CO2 at maybe out to 15 yards could possibly kill a rabbit with a pellet to the head.

Our spring-plunger BB/pellet guns might dent a piece of onion skin typing paper at 5 feet. I'm talking back in the early, early 1960's (ie like 1962-63 or '64 maybe).

I degrees, anyway once we were introduced to "real" firearms. We never looked back to playing with BB or pellet guns.

At about 7-8 or 8-9 respectively; Every Thing firearm related was serious. Because now (back then) we used "real" firearms!: for me it was a 22 cal rifle (and later pistol) and a .410 shotgun; my brother .22 cal rifle and a 16 gauge double barrel (twin hammer and trigger) shotgun.

OK, Fast Forward. By the late '60's through the '70's, from the mid '70's through today BB and pellet guns have evolved a 1000%+ times fold.

Sabastion: All I can say is that unless you grew up in the '50, '60's, real early '70's. You and your generation will never know the joys we had. And for that I can honestly say is a very, very bad thing. And actually a major contributor to today's problems with the younger citified, etc. kids today.

I'm a 40s and 50s kid. You are right. Those were the best times. I left home in 60 for the Navy and hardly recognized anything when I got out in 64. The country really went to hell.

 

[Ridge Runner]

You bet, even some downtown street crossings!

Hell fire.... everywhere.... Damn a$$holes on their phones could care less. More interested in chatting or whatever on their Damn phones than paying attention to where they are walking.

I've scared the shit out of a few of them by timing --- honking my horn just short of stopping to give them the right of way, ( in downtown Nashville).

Very Short Version!: I won't say where no when;

I had one smart ass, that wasn't such a smart ass when he and his buddy saw a cocked and loaded 44 mag pointed at them. They suddenly decided to put down their Damn phones and hurry (as in run) out of my and (traffic's) way.

Would I have shot them(?)..... Well let's just say they came out between two parked vehicles and "I didn't see them till it was remorsefully too late." "Honestly it was an accident officer!" I was slowing down for the stop sign. Couldn't have been going more than 25 mph (on a 30 mph roadway), when "they" suddenly came out between the 2 "properly" parked cars, distracted and absorbed on their cell phones.

 

[Ridge Runner]

I'm a 40s and 50s kid. You are right. Those were the best times. I left home in 60 for the Navy and hardly recognized anything when I got out in 64. The country really went to hell.

Yep! It's really sad. The proverbial "quick buck", has demonized everything!

It is truly ashamed that "kids" to day value a fast dollar over a tradition of: What they could leave their grandchildren children.

This is why billionaires in real estate profit!

NO RESPECT FOR THE LAND!!!!.....GOD!!!.....and COUNTRY!!!!....! That we knew!! And That Is The Most Terriblest Shame!!

 

[Zambezi]

Ok. Let's not define a generation gap here. Yet we must define the generation gap here.

We got firearms training when we got our first BB/pellet guns.

Three basic rules:

Consider all guns are loaded!
Never point a gun at someone!
Never point a guy at any thing (we) didn't want to kill!

Our stepdad reinforced the 10 Commandments of fire arms safety when he took us out and taught us how to shoot his .22 Hi Standard Double Mine and again with his single shot shotgun.

Although, I guess, I (we) should have, started this by giving the year(s) and how things have changed.

Our BB/pellet guns weren't very powerful; the next stage higher compared to cork pop guns; unless they were the pump up or CO2 kind. As the pump up or CO2 at maybe out to 15 yards could possibly kill a rabbit with a pellet to the head.

Our spring-plunger BB/pellet guns might dent a piece of onion skin typing paper at 5 feet. I'm talking back in the early, early 1960's (ie like 1962-63 or '64 maybe).

I degrees, anyway once we were introduced to "real" firearms. We never looked back to playing with BB or pellet guns.

At about 7-8 or 8-9 respectively; Every Thing firearm related was serious. Because now (back then) we used "real" firearms!: for me it was a 22 cal rifle (and later pistol) and a .410 shotgun; my brother .22 cal rifle and a 16 gauge double barrel (twin hammer and trigger) shotgun.

OK, Fast Forward. By the late '60's through the '70's, from the mid '70's through today BB and pellet guns have evolved a 1000%+ times fold.

Sabastion: All I can say is that unless you grew up in the '50, '60's, real early '70's. You and your generation will never know the joys we had. And for that I can honestly say is a very, very bad thing. And actually a major contributor to today's problems with the younger citified, etc. kids today.

Growing up in Bulawayo, Rhodesia we knew about gun safety! Whenever we went out to family farms or "out of town" places there were always FN's, Uzi's and 9mm out and ready for use. They would be leaning against the kitchen or lounge walls etc. Loaded and ready for action...

Kids would be running around BUT we knew, without a shadow of doubt, that if we touched them our asses would be black and blue until the day we died! We'd skirt those weapons like we would a coiled puff adder!

We knew about gun safety but we also knew what we were doing when we played with our pellet guns, bows and arrows, blow pipes, catapults etc. Yes we were naughty buggers sometimes but we weren't idiots (although some might disagree)

I think my order of experience was No.1 pellet gun, No.2 pellet gun, .22, FN, 9mm, Uzi and then my dad's O/U Berretta shotgun... best days of my life!

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Boyd Brooks]

 

[Boyd Brooks]