A little older than ten, but she can borrow mine.
Posted on 12/25/2014 2:47:55 PM PST by WilliamIII
Last week a small and seemingly innocuous piece in The Times caught my eye. The short panel referred to the fact that Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's right hand man and the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, had just spent $100 on camouflage hunting clothes for his daughter, Liza, 10, to go with the rifle he bought her last Christmas.
Aghast with what I had just read I blogged about it, commenting that buying a 10 year old a rifle for Christmas was insane, and anywhere in the world that it wasn't considered to be must be a crazy place.
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Yes!
I built a .36 caliber percussion rifle for my daughters 8th birthday.
Is that the Barbie rifle?
“We be a much safer country if every kid in America was given a gun when they reached ten years old.”
In rural Texas where I grew up. Every kid I knew had a 22 and/or shotgun or access to them by the time we were ten. In fact, I actually bought my first gun myself when I was about ten (I’m 69 now so you can do the math) with money earned doing chores on my grandfathers farm. Paid $10 for a 22 at a general mercantile store, picked it out of a wooden barrel full of guns. Bought a double barrel shotgun the same way a few months later. Side note; the shotgun had exposed recurve hammers and had Demascus stamped in the rib running between the two barrels. I wasn’t aware what Denascus meant till I was grown and had long ceased shooting the gun. But, shot a bunch of heavy loads through it and it never came apart. Lucky I guess, lol :)
When I became a licensed driver, my friends and I went hunting, trap and target shooting on occasions. I just went into my Dad's arsenal to get the firearm I needed.
I taught my kids quite young. My youngest daughter is kind of a dead eye with my revolver. My son is a career Naval Officer. We gave him a Baretta as one of his commissioning gifts. I'm pretty sure that was legal in those days, or the statute of limitations passed at least several years ago.
I'll take my grand kids out and teach them the day they ask me. My oldest is eight, so it shouldn't be that much longer.
It's good knowledge to have, and a great hobby. If you do it right, it isn't particularly expensive. I feel sorry for poor souls whose parents never taught them to use firearms. That's a form of child abuse.
No, 10 is too old to get them started. My oldest daughter started asking at 4 but we couldn't find one to fit her until she was 8 so she had to practice with a BB-gun then a pellet rifle in the mean time. BTW, she also worked on her archery during this time
Ryan is a supporter of big government as well. Lying to Conservatives that spending increase over 10 years was actually a spending cut
My kids started getting guns when they were 5, my grandson got his first BB gun at 3 and a convertible .22/.410 when he was 5. He is a champion Skeet and Trap shooter at 18. He loves to hunt and wants to be a Wildlife Biologist.
In the late 80s or early 90s, someone imported a large number of used Egyptian .22 bolt action rifles.
I looked one over carefully and it was clear that it was made by CZ. It had Egyptian Arabic writing but was better finished than any Egyptian gun I have ever seen. It was marked “Maadi” in English but the one I looked at even had the CZ trademark stamped on the action and buttplate.
There is no doubt in my mind that these were made by CZ where they probably marked them.
Now I have had several Egyptian firearms and liked every single one but the finish was never very good. Maybe with the exception of the Helwan 8mm rifle which was a real jewel and at a low price too.
That CZ .22LR was just about as accurate as you could ask for. You could pretty well depend on them to put every bullet into the same hole at 25 yards and that is with different brands of ammo. It shot everything well which is unusual.
I eventually got two more of them but have now traded them all off.
My granddaughter turns ten next month. Her favorite present today was the .22 single shot rifle with a purple stock. She knows gun safety.
Welcome, Low information Voter!
YES!! And our job is to make sure that no Marxist/Communist is voted into office. We should vote for the most conservative person running. Choose and fight wisely in the primaries. But we must vote. We can’t survive another Marxist in office.
OH MY GOD; Her father bought her a tool very similar to a pocket knife, we will all be murdered on the streets.
nope. screwed me over once being stupid enough to vote for tarp, gave him a second chance.
then he paired up as romney’s butt-boy and that was it for me.
plus he’s not strong on illegals.
no more second chances.
it’s not a joke, but you have to laugh else you’ll just go crazy.
Well said. Are you this guy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iaR3WO71j4
He loves to hunt and wants to be a Wildlife Biologist.
A common error. Wildlife biology jobs are scarce, and pay little because there is so much competition.
They may not get much time off during hunting season.
I am not sure what to suggest, but a good idea would be a job that is not popular in the media, but decent and high paying in real life. Nuclear Power Plant operator?
Alaskan School teacher in a remote village?
Nurse, willing to operate in rural America?
No disrespect, but I have known a couple wildlife managers. It is a very difficult field to break into, jobs are very scarce.
I have a nephew who became a federal wildlife officer, but he did it through luck, skill, and a circuitous route, starting in customs in New York City, then into the Federal Air Marshall program, then a transfer to Fish and Wildlife.
What is wrong with buying your daughter a hunting rifle if she likes to go hunting?
Amazing.
Would they object if he gave her a fishing pole?
(Actually they would. Fishing is cruel to fish.)
A little older than ten, but she can borrow mine.
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