They need to be 18. Or if anything happen, you or any adult will be responsible. Airgun not same toy we use to grow up with as a kid. Modern airgun can take down deers and elk. They would easily kill a person.
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AGE?
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If he was ONE VERY VERY EXCEPTIONAL YOUNG MAN maybe, just maybe but 2 boys 9 yrs old TOGETHER. NO NO NO Something will happen maybe good ,maybe accidental discharge, no harm done, but the multitude of possibilities is out of this world. an adult male managed to shoot through his eye into his brain and died. perhaps he was trying to look down the barrel. adults have accidental discharges, 2 young boys? I'm concerned.
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The one thing that hasnt been addressed is....what happens to the parents if the child makes a big mistake!! I can see lawsuit city!! Whether personal injury or property damage, whew...the parents will be the ones in prison, child endangerment, negligence, parental control and responsibility, just to many lawsuit / criminal charges to think about here.. Then ifvthe child makes a gross mistake he/she could be scared for life!!! No way in hell would I let that happen. My kids started shooting at 10 but NEVER alone or unsupervised, until at least 15/16 yrs of age.
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I literally stopped breathing as I read this. Good that you were able to think through the stress of the situation and pull dad aside. I was at the range with another member and he later told me that he saw a kid fooling with the action on his dad’s hunting rifle situated in a Lead Sled while dad called a cease fire and walked down range to pull a target. This kid had to have been 12-14 years old from what I remember. There are reasons we have laws and accepted practices within hunter safety and firearm training.
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If using good sense with 9 year old kids is being old fart like, then get me a walker, and strap on a fresh depends, and I'll go with you LOL!
TODD
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Got into plinking and airguns at 6-7... I'd say by 9 I was allowed to shoot paper target in the backyard (had to ask permission 1st). and by grade 5 or 6 we were allowed to take our airguns to school (had to be stored in the teacher's locker) to go dispatch black-birds afterward
- It never crossed my mind to do something stupid with a airgun (or a sling-shot)... than again, we had the fear of god (and our parents) that should we ever did something stupid, we'd loose our rifle forever!
- It never crossed my mind to do something stupid with a airgun (or a sling-shot)... than again, we had the fear of god (and our parents) that should we ever did something stupid, we'd loose our rifle forever!
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Yep got to have a law for everything because common sense and responsible parenting just isn't enough anymore.
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The content wasn't spurious. The content was true and painfully true. Someone whined to a moderator because they could not tolerate what it said. So the content was censored. I think we should get used to that as well. More regulation hoorah.
Moderator edit for spurious content
The content wasn't spurious. The content was true and painfully true. Someone whined to a moderator because they could not tolerate what it said. So the content was censored. I think we should get used to that as well. More regulation hoorah.
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What responsible parenting? They can't maintain their commitments and 1/2 don't even consider marriage first. Poor innocent children.
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NOT ITS NOT UP TO THE INDIVIDUAL or should not be to decide. That’s exactly how trouble happens. Every one of us thinks our kids are superior myself included . That’s why laws are required and should be obeyed and enforced and if no laws apply the greatest degree of caution should be I used. Now I am not saying that a degree of judgement shouldn’t be applied and I think that’s the consensus of the opinions expressed but we all need to error WAY to the side of caution. A gun is equally as dangerous as a car and I would suggest 16 is about the time a kid SHOULD be responsible enough. But even then. If you have more then one 16 year old involved you are asking for trouble. Same with cars. Today is different then yesterday just because of the increase in population density but we know as kids many of us probably most of us got away with things that were decidedly unsafe. Especially driving . Maturity is part of it but experience is as well. I shoot at a gun club and there are pretty strict regulations. Why? Because even as adults we tend to not always use our best judgements. As far as I’m concerned the more supervision the better. In fact I told my younger shooting buddy. “ keep an eye on me”. He was surprised by that statement and ask why. I told him he’d understand when he reached my age (75) . I didn’t mean just with gun safety but just to be aware of potential trouble. A potential to slip or fall or a health related emergency. Facts are facts and accidents happen and kids are kids and while I can’t say every sixteen year old can be trusted am sure no nine year old has had the experience necessary even if he has the maturity ( which I doubt) It’s our responsibility to each other. We had a fellow killed in the neighborhood. Fourteen year old cleaning a rifle shot his father. In this case age might not have been a factor but it points out the potential for all of us and how supervision never ends. Or should not. If the Dad had just reminded the son. And it could have been the other way around . Age is only one factor but it’s a BIG one
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It also depends on the "backyard". If the kid is working with 10 acres, then I say have at it. But otherwise, common sense says they should be supervised.
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It's all up to the kid shooting, i was careful at 7, friends in the neighborhood were not trustworthy at 17, I'd invite them over to check them out yourself, who knows they could be your new shootin buddies.
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