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TOTALLY agree. I'd like to start that training EARLY, and on the toys before the BB guns, and then on to the real thing.

19 posted on 03/27/2004 7:05:01 PM PST by Long Cut ("Man, don't hit me with those negative waves SOOoo early in the morning." - Oddball)

" I'd like to start that training EARLY, and on the toys before the BB guns"

No, skip the toys!

All guns are real! Let's treat them all the same and teach it so! Without regard to whether they're BB guns, .22's, or 45-70's.

40 posted on 03/27/2004 7:23:23 PM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)

My father was a gunsmith by hobby. When I was very little, both of my parents were avid shooters in a gun club. Having been raised around it, I ate, drank, and slept gun safety. I had a realistic toy that he made for me out of a gun stock that he had hand carved. With my brother, my dad went the bb-gun route first, and then made him a gun when my brother was about 8. Eventually, he taught my brother how to make his own guns from a nice block of wood, too.

I guess he really started us off with the gun club, then going on deer/dove/quail hunting trips, then he got us guns, real or toy, same rules applied.

90 posted on 03/27/2004 8:45:10 PM PST by msdrby (US Veterans: All give some, but some give all.)

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