Good for them! When I was growing up, my friends and I would go out goose hunting before school. We took our guns along to school and left them, unloaded in our unlocked vehicles, while we attended school. Never had a problem, no one ever bothered with them. Times have sure changed, and not for the better.
Sounds like a very idyllic time of our history, before everybody became terrified of being sued (and started taking Prozac).