http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2012/12/disastrous-gun-law-sparked-school.html
Yes.....and I would want a bayonet, too.
“I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle,” he said. “Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?”
and a person with half a brain can see there was much less crime back then. that’s how you know they want to take our guns away for reasons other than safety.
Yes, it wouldn't be pretty.
I can remember (older) high schools that had rifle ranges in the basement. Also had archery teams - wonder if they do that anymore either.
I was on my high school rifle team in the 70s. We routinely carried rifles to and from and around the school. We had lockers for them at the school. No big deal.
During hunting season some of the guys typically had rifles or shotguns in their pickup gun racks so they could do some before and after school hunting.
When was that - 1979 or so. These days, a 14 year old with a .22 will get Swat-Teamed.
Sad for two reasons: A 14 year old will get Swat-Teamed, and the term Swat-Team has become a verb.
So has Scalia’s outreach really helped with the Marxist tool Kagan?
I have a very good friend whose mother was born and raised in Manhattan. She used to wear ladies day gloves and long dresses when out and about and riding the subway - and it was just everyday wear. How elegant she looked. Could you imagine someone doing THAT today in NY City?
In 1966 at Northeast Louisiana State College (Now Universty of Louisiana Monroe) we could have our weapons on campus.
We were not allowed to keep them in our dorm rooms but they were secured in the Dorm Mothers Quarters. If we went shooting or hunting we checked them out from the Dorm Mother. On return we would take them to our rooms and clean them and then check them back in with the Dorm Mother. We had no incidents or missuse of these weapons.
Most of us had been using firearms for years before we went to college. We respected them and did not use them improperly.
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In the mid 60s my high school ROTC company walked through the school hallways in street clothes with our M1 Garands all the time. My friends and I rode around town on our motorcycles with .22 rifles slung on our backs and no one gave us a second look. I really miss those days growing up in a free country.
Nobody batted an eye when he walked to and from School. He had a really nice Leather Rifle Case.
He was in the Gin Club and they had a Target Range on Campus. I think it was in the Basement of the Gym.
I grew up in NYC as well and remember having a Lone Ranger cap gun that looked real as heck and I would run all over the street shooting it off and people wouldn’t think twice. But of course this was long before the rise of the gangsta feral created from Marxist policies that obliterated the black family unit.
1970-1971 school year, my 8th grade math teacher (north central Wisconsin) brought a muzzleloader rifle he had built to use in illustrating a geometry concept talking about aim point and bullet drop over a certain distance. It remained in a corner of the classroom for several days without incident.
With all due respect to Justice Scalia: if you harassed an Italian kid carrying a rifle in those days, guys named Knuckles, Guido, and Shoes might show up at your door.
I had a friend who attended Bishop Dubois HS in Manhattan and he reported carrying a rifle at sling arms on the subway to shooting meets at the Knightsbridge Armory in the Bronx. I’m pretty sure that firearms were not permitted on the subway in those days, but a lot things were overlooked when they collided with commonsense in those days. He reported that once a cop asked him what he was doing, and accepted his explanation.
My dad grew up in Brooklyn. He used to take his single shot 22 rifle on the subway heading out of town for weekend camping trips. This was in the ‘30’s and ‘40’s.
My father got me a .22 for my birthday, and we shot it constantly in the back yard.
In Nassau County.
New York.
In 1962.
Speaking like a true conservative jurist.