[endthematrix]

My wife was reading Lilek's Bleat and she showed me a scanned Daisy ad that was before my time. How times have worsened for America's youth at large. It's time we bring back the shooting sports to our children and instill the values and responsibilities they entail.

Link to 16 Daisy ads:
HERE

[gogov]

Still got my Daisy 760 power master. No need for them to ask me anything.

[envisio]

Do I really need to say it?

[xsrdx]

We are unable to ship airguns into Chicago, Morton Grove, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Manhattan, Queens, New York City and Staten Island. Persons in New Jersey need a permit for any air gun. Persons in Michigan need a permit for any pellet air gun.

That's a nice list of places to avoid.

Thanks!

[vietvet67]

You'll shoot your eye out. :-)

[Rebelbase]

That poster at #1 reply is a disgusting example of the privileged, white European middle-class values that built this country and are resident in our contemporary institutions.

/Michelle Obama

[sarasota]

Think I could take out starlings with one of those?

[hellbender]

Persons in New Jersey need a permit for any air gun.

I can't believe it. There's actually been some progress in Mafia Joisey. Back around 1960 airguns were completely illegal there. Not that some people didn't have them, hehe.

[ozzymandus]

Golly, I bought a Red Ryder a few weeks ago (damn mice!), and nobody asked me my age at Wal-Mart. I didn’t even have to fill out any forms. The gun sure had a lot of plastic parts on it, though. Of course, so does a Colt 1911A1 nowadays.

[vpintheak]

Yesterday my wife told me this story:
My wife was watching my son who is 6 was shooting his BB gun for a while at cans. After a little while he sat down on the lawn and was just looking around. After about 5 minutes or so, my wife asked him what he was doing. He asked her, “Have you seen any birds, mommy?” She said no, and he replied, “Darn, I want to shoot some!”
Just warms my heart, I tell you.

[Conservative4Ever]

[sigh]....we are the worse for the changes.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"State laws prohibit us from shipping or selling slingshots to residents of Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, New York, New Mexico and Washington, D.C."

Good thing that David did not meet Goliath in any of these states. The battle might have come out different.

[P8riot]

I started my 6yr old with a Crossman air/BB/pellet gun when he was 4. Now he can bullseye NRA smallbore targets at 50 yds with my 45 yr old Marlin .22 bolt rifle, and is almost as good with my 10/22. His hands are almost big eneough to get around the grips on my Walther P22, and he is deadly at 15 yds with my .22 Bearcat.

[ottbmare]

My ex bought our kid a BB gun last Christmas. Ex gave him some instruction in proper handling and care, and had no sooner turned his back than the boy shot out a $600 French door. It was really fascinating to watch the glass slowly, slowly crackle and fall out.

Generally I’m all in favor of kids having guns, but our kid is ADD, and an idiot could have predicted this. X was not prepared to pay for the damage either. I think it’s going to be awhile before I let him have my 9 or the 12-gauge.

[MediaMole]

Parents should be the decision makers on when their child is responsible enough for a BB gun.

OTOH, if an 18 year old is mature enough to vote or join the Army, he should be able to buy a BB gun. (It is legal in my state.)