No kidding. . .we had a shooting team (.22 rifles) in my Junior High School. . .range was inside the school.
Try and imagine that today.
Yea, we had about 50 M-14s and about 20 .22s. I have a coworker who had a live working M-60 in his JROTC.
Now I hear they cannot even practice with properly shaped wooden rifles in some places. Sigh.
We seem to be raising a nation of wussies addicted to "Duke Nukem" and "Captain Planet".
Try and imagine that today."
I tell my kids that I may be the only human they ever meet who got into trouble for not bringing a gun to high school. I forgot my target rifle on practice day and had to drive home to get it. I was 5 minutes late for practice and the coach gave me a demerit (remember those?) and I was not allowed to start at our next match.
So did my Dad's high school and jr high school. He walked to school every Tuesday with his shotgun for range practice with the school's gun club, and stored it in his school locker until gun club met after school. The range was in the basement of the middle school. That was in 1942. Try that today...
At Canisius College, the ROTC armory was in the basement of the chapel.