[lesser_satan]

I graduated in ‘94. The shop teacher was a hell of a gunsmith, and kids brought guns in all the time for him to work on. There was never a single problem.

[TKDietz]

I’m a public defender. I had a client last year who had taken his antique M1 carbine to a gunsmith to get an estimate on some work. Later that day he stopped by the school to pick up his cousin. He was parked in the long driveway in front of the school waiting for his cousin to come out, with the gun laying in his backseat. A passerby saw it and called the cops. He was arrested and charged with a felony even though he had no bullets or even any clips. When I showed the prosecutor a letter from the gunsmith saying the guy had actually brought the gun in that morning for an estimate, the prosecutor was decent enough to work the charge down to a misdemeanor, but this man still had to pay over a grand in fines and costs and do ten days of community service. I remember being in high school in the early eighties and it was nothing to see rifles and shotguns in gun racks in students’ trucks.