[Johnny_cash]

In the early 1970s I remember being able to take my deer rifle to school and put it in my locker.

At the end of the school day I would put on my hunting gear (mostly my same clothes I always wore except a few extras like gloves, orange hat a bigger knife instead of the pocket knife that was always with me even at school and some bullets).

I would have the bus driver drop me off about a mile from home and slowly hunt my way home.

Hell I remember my brother buying an old military 30-06 bolt action for $35.00 a few months before hunting season with the transaction taking place at school.

The bus driver saw it and when he pulled up to our house he blew the horn (that usually meant trouble when my mom would here it) and he said to my mom “Do you know that your kids have a gun?” and my mom answered “Yes I do and I gave them the money to buy it” and that was it.

Yes those were the good old days.

[Johnny_cash]

Hear not here....whoops

[MarkL]

In the mid-1970s, I was on the JROTC rifle team at my high school, and we shot in the basement of the school. The US Army supplied Remington and Winchester target rifles, as well as W/W T-22 practice ammo, all of which were stored in the school's "armory," which was vault in the basement. We had a 50' range and would practice after school or during free periods.

Mark