[ArmyTeach]

"When I was in high school —1,200 kids, I could have gone into the parking lot and found over 200 rifles and shotguns in students’ cars and pickups ... most in plain view in gun racks... all the vehicles unlocked and all of the guns loaded. Funny thing, my husband said the same about his high school in semu-rural Mississippi/Arkansas in the '60s.

[muawiyah]

i recall the same thing in suburban Indianapolis back then ~ PLUS ~ there was a rifle cabinet in the main offices so you could check a particularly valuable gun after morning hunting.