Giving kids guns

dav1965

I have giving 3 of my 4 kids pistols. My oldest is 25 and she has not got one yet. She has 2 kids and i am scared she will leave it out and the kids will get it. Every once in a while she asks me about it. I show her the gun she gets when i am ready. If i die she gets about 15. I split all guns up equally amongst the kids, wife, and grand kids.

m88.358win

Go with your gut feeling.

Navybat

Don't second guess yourself...do what you know is right.

Rosie

I have 5 daughters and taught them all how to shoot. First 4 I would give a gun to anytime but the youngest one can't control her temper when she gets mad and theres no way in hell I will give her a gun. She asked me for a little 38 but I told her no. Told her I would buy her pepper spray or Tasers Etc but no guns. She is still a little pissed at me after two years!

n/a

Stop infringing on her rights,[}:)][}:)] If she wanted to buy one, could you stop her????

Also make it plain to her the laws on the storing of firearms with children in the home..

Mobuck

If she wants a pistol before you're ready to give her one, she should buy her own.
Sounds like my BIL. His mother has setup a plan to give him half her farm is she dies or becomes debilitated. He's trying to take possession of "his" half while I still rent the whole thing from MIL. She forces me to allow him entry because he's her baby otherwise I'd tell him to flakeoff.

Alan Rushing

quote:Originally posted by Rosie
I have 5 daughters and taught them all how to shoot. First 4 I would give a gun to anytime but the youngest one can't control her temper when she gets mad and theres no way in hell I will give her a gun. She asked me for a little 38 but I told her no. Told her I would buy her pepper spray or Tasers Etc but no guns. She is still a little pissed at me after two years!

You know that you are calling it right with her. [^]

nmyers

My kids didn't get any guns from me until they bought a gun safe.

Neal

yoshmyster

I guess you think or know her as careless. I'd hate to have my hand as a contibutor and/or cause of misfortune.

I reckon if she asks about a gun I'd ask "are you responsible now?". If she gets mad I'd say I worry about your kids.

slumlord44

You know your kids better than anyone else. Follow your gut feeling. Every time I didn't follow my instincts, I have been sorry.

bigdaddyjunior

My kids, and now grandkids, are not exposed to any danger from guns. They are immersed, surrounded, inundated and carefully educated from when a crawling infant, curious toddler, endless questioning pre-schooler and finally as another shooting American kid, who can never be convinced that keeping and using guns is anything, but a birthright, with or without some amendment. I trust all of them with any gun I have, so do not deny access. Besides, one of them will have to fill in, if I am away, when someone, or something, shows up needing shooting or running off.