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asop
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I remember when you were able to carry a shot gun onto a plane and the "Stu" simply put it in the coat closet and then upon deplaning, simply handed it back to you!
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Wow you are old. It must have been a black powder percussion shotgun. 😄
Drove a school bus in high school, carried a long gun many times to shoot with a friend after end of the evening route.
His family had a few hens that need fixin for the pot, head shooting a moving chicken head is a good bit of a challenge.
Early 70's, I took a cased 12ga shotgun on the school bus with me along with a backpack with four boxes of ammo and a hunting knife. I put them behind the driver's seat when I got on and picked them up as I left the bus. I walked to the 2nd floor of the High School and handed them to the principle. He asked if I was hunting with my buddy Mark over the weekend and put the items in the closet in his office.....After school I retrieved the shotgun and backpack and boarded my buddy's bus. I left the items behind the driver's seat and retrieved them when we arrived at my friend's place....
If a kid did that today, there would be SWAT waiting for him when he tried to get off the bus...
We used to bring knives to school to show them off.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Damn
I carried a pocket knife a buck 110 all thru high school just a old pocket knife before that in grade and middle school , no one was cut stabbed or injured ( well I most likely cut my own finger a time or two )
I took a m1 carbine to school as a " show and tell item" with approval of the teacher , thanks Mr. Koons and RIP other kids in that class with me had it in the hall way showing it off , no one started screaming or no swat team , large LEO turn out showed up just another day in school . I know other kids had guns in there cars any way the hunters trappers especially .
back in the days when guns were good and accepted as just a gun and bad people were to blame not the gun for being the problem
Remember guys bringing them into wood shop to refinish stocks and re-blue barrels.
It was not a big deal to have them in the truck in the parking lot if a couple of you were going hunting after school.
I went all the way thru middle and high school with a knife on my belt, took numerous guns to shop class to do something to even if it was just to show the teacher the wood on it. there was never a day that my 69 chevy pickup did not have a 22 and a shotgun of one sort or another hanging in the back window, along with the ( picnic basket ) beer cooler in the back of the truck. I sure am glad my folks raised us in this lil one horse town !!!! thank you Mom and Dad. (RIP)
I wore a knife on my side all through school. I carried a rifle , shotgun and pistol in my back window of my pickup and it was never locked. I even carried a coyote I had trapped to show and tell! Don
I was on the HS rifle team & often brought a cased 22 to school. Just walked into the office & leaned it in the corner of the safe room. No one cared.
A while back I was clearing security in Burlington VT.
The super hero TSA agent flagged my bag and went straight for my shave kit.
He proudly withdrew an illegal weapon and explained “Sir, this is an edged weapon!”
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To which I replied “cut a piece if paper with it.” 😀
That was the end of my beer bottle opener that had been faithfully in my shave kit for a good 10 years and well over a million miles traveled.
Graduated in 1973 . Always had a pocket knife in my jeans . Most days a shotgun hanging in the rear window of the truck . No one shot up the schools or anything . Our FFA group had several fundraisers thru the years with raffles giving away shotguns , rifles and hunting knives. Even today in our rural areas , fire departments hold raffles for guns and outdoor sports products
Hunted after school with guns in the vehicles
!961, + or - one year, I took a double barreled 20 gauge to high school. Took the shotgun to the principles office, picked it up after school so I could go out and shoot in the general direction of a couple of ring necks and a quail. My shooting skills were limited back then! The critters were quite safe!!
I remember my wife who is a teacher used to do a Hunters breakfast for a fund raiser for her class. We used to start cooking at 2:30 am for hunters coming in at 3:30-4 am.
All of the hunters would bring their guns in to show off to each other and the school cafateria had more guns in it then I have seen at some of the LGS.
These things happened at a time when people had a sense of personal accountability.
During deer season we would hunt before school and just bring our rifles with us and put them in the lockers. We also had a High School trap team and just kept the shotguns in the locker and during lunch we had a Lee reloader set up in the History class room and reload shells
I carried a pocket knife all though high school, but unlike Asop did not fly on Wright Airways.
I was going to Cross Keys High School in Atlanta in 1965. My History teacher wanted to demonstrate the use of a military rifle.
Next morning I walked up to the school bus stop with a British Enfield slung across my shoulder. Got onto the bus the driver didn't say a word. I walked down the hallway with the gun and put it in my locker. I took the gun to History class and then rode home that afternoon on the school bus with the gun in hand. Nobody said a word, except some of the boys admired it.
I have been armed on a passenger plane. But that was on the job bringing back a perp.
Just a letter from the Sheriff, walk around the metal detectors, and there was only one set of seats on the plane where we could sit.
Perp had handcuffs on in the front, leg brace on one leg, an extra shirt over the cuffs, We boarded first, and deplaned last.
I had a pilot say once "Try not to shoot a hole in my plane". It took all of my self control not to reply "Well try not to crash the plane".
Fun times.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
I carried a buck knife in a sheath on my hip all thru high school. Teachers used to ask to borrow it from time to time. Everyone knew it was there.
Early 70's would bring firearms to school classes for projects with like minded teachers wood or metal shop.
Guys had guns in trunks for after school activities and there was never an issue.
Lived in a first ring suburb and would take the transit bus with cased long guns out to the country to hunt and then back.
What has changed ? Proper upbringing and personal responsibility?
Please, what is personal responsibility?🤔
I still carry a pocket knife and a corkscrew in my shaving kit, but is always checked, not a carry on. Been through a bunch of countries with no problems.
brought my 22 rifle to school for jrotc range in the basement. had to leave the rifle in my truck. on the gun rack. nobody cared.
i graduated hs in mid 80s in tn.
IIRC, summer school 1974 I had a Mexican gang member pull a pistol on me at the lockers, a teacher near by came over took the gun from the other guy and took him to the office. He told me to go home, I did and never went back, moved out of the house and two counties away, this was in southern California and the gangs were starting to get pretty bad, once you were targeted they would eventually get you if they could. Guns in school at that time were not common, that same school these days has police officers present and metal detectors... I truly believe that teacher saved my life and his actions are unheard of these days.
Go back far enough there WAS no TSA or airport security screening. Have carried on commercial flights- procedure was to give handgun to Captain on board aircraft. There were no overhead bins- you had a shelf with elastic cords- and the whole aircraft was a smoking zone. Flying Military standby on commercial flight- fare was $19 from Richmond to Columbus GA. Cheaper than Greyhound.
Same here, Also, rode my bike to NG Armory with 12Ga broken open over my shoulder for turkey shoots. My dog Zero ran beside me to keep other dogs from chasing me. Don't try that today.----------------------------Ray
Don't have a clue why I get double entry on Quote.-------------Ray
I bought a pistol at a gun show in a Jr. College in the late 60's & that was in California.
In about 1998, my carry on bag was full of tools. Wrenches, screwdrivers, tire irons, the lot.
I was working for a motocross racing team and I flew from Ohio to Washington. I remember someone looked in the bag and sent me on my way.
I didn't have a bottle opener though!
I remember a publication maybe Weekly Reader that was made for jr high students that had an ad on the back for a Savage/Stevens model 24 22/410 combo gun.
I graduated high school in 87,
I took a flintlock fowler to school for a speech, on the bus, bout 85.
No question when I got on the bus.
Took it to the principal's office only because it would not fit in my locker.
I graduated in 91 and there were still plenty of rifles and shotguns in truck windows, and a good portion of male students carried knives of one kind or another.
i duck hunted many times before school my senior year of high school. i brought my shotgun into the principal's office for safe keeping till time to go home. he was an avid hunter also. i always had to divulge the places hunted and what was taken. occasionally had to share some feathers with him, for lure making.
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I graduated in 77 :
We ( small group of us ) hunted on a regular basis , many times we had our 'hunting' guns in our cars n trucks @ school to take hunting after school with no problems or issues !
This was in small town in So. Illinois !
Thanks !!!
I Grew Old Too Fast (And Smart Too damn Slow !!!) !!!
Aztngundoc-Where abouts in So. Il.? Did alot of duck/goose hunting down there way back!
Probably around Rend Lake then or Carlyle Lake would be my guess. I am in those areas. You duck hunters are fanatics! We possum hunters are more laid back around here.
Had a very close friend born and raised in Cairo. New all the locals and really had great hunts. I remember Cypress and shooting down in a "flooded" Cypress tree area! They really flew thru the trees carrying the mail. Fun Times.
When my best friend and I were going to Christian boarding school in Oklahoma (we lived in Amarillo) we thought we were sooooooo cool because we got some cigarettes and then sat in the smoking section all the way to Tallequah.......well, Tulsa anyway.