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Remember when you could take a gun to school
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After school I would retrieve the shotgun, walk back through the school and get on my buddy's bus and hand it to the driver and get off at my friend's place and go hunt....
It was certainly a different World then !!
I asked Mr. Reid to keep it locked up in his desk so no one would steal it.
It was the Second World War. Kids brought flags, helmets, money, gas mask, one sword. Most all of our fathers had taken an active part in the war.
It was a much different time then. We actually went to school to learn.
Mr. Reid is still alive and comes by the shop once in awhile. [:)]
ALWAYS had my Ruger Model 60, Marlin 30-30 lever, and one of my 12 ga shotguns.
Every day, from the time I got my license until I graduated high school.
Once I started college, too many people on campus and parking was WAY TOO FAR from anywhere I was. Left my guns at home. Kept an old 22 revolver in the glove box.
I took my P-38 to 10th grade history class for show and tell.
I asked Mr. Reid to keep it locked up in his desk so no one would steal it.
It was the Second World War. Kids brought flags, helmets, money, gas mask, one sword. Most all of our fathers had taken an active part in the war.
It was a much different time then. We actually went to school to learn.
Mr. Reid is still alive and comes by the shop once in awhile. [:)]
EXACTLY... There was never an issue of being concerned about using the damn thing. Just theft.
Early 70's, I would get on the school bus with my cased Ithaca 37 and a back pack with a couple boxes of shells in it. I would hand the gun to the bus driver and he handed it back when I got off at school. I would then walk to the 2nd floor administration office and hand it to the principle. He would ask who I was hunting with after school and put it in a closet in his office.
After school I would retrieve the shotgun, walk back through the school and get on my buddy's bus and hand it to the driver and get off at my friend's place and go hunt....
It was certainly a different World then !!
Yep.
Used to walk from home to where I hunted before I had a license to drive.
Never was asked what I was doing with a rifle on my shoulder...
Or what my intentions were... Or if I had papers.
of course in between classes some of the kids in my class had it in the hall way pointing and waving it . no swat team no butt chewing occurred [:0]
at the end of the day I took it back home no problem .
looking back , yes , the other class mates should not have taken it to the hall way and maybe the teacher should have ask to keep control of it except during the sales pitch .
he was a good old fellow I would guess about 50 at the time and had been a teacher for many years . but at that time no one was scared just smiling