Hokkmike
Member
I suppose I am probably one of THR's older shooters. Not real crotchety old but up there. I was reflecting to a friend about things that I have done with firearms in the past that would now land me in a State Police barrack or local Sheriff's holding cell. We ARE losing our freedoms.
1. When I was a junior in college I had one rifle for deer hunting. It was a well used model 94 Winchester in .32 Special. I would lean it in the closet of my dorm room and absolutely nobody cared. I could walk from my car in and out of the building and the only people to stop me were admirers of firearms or other inquiring hunters.
2. In my first few years of teaching, UPS delivered by new Smith & Wesson model 1500 .243 to the high school. I remember getting it at taking it in to the principal's office so that we could both pick it up, fondle it, and admire its lines. Do that now and leave in handcuffs.
3. Not too many years a go students, mostly older teenage boys, could give a speech on his shotgun, deer rifle, or black powder set-up, and bring their weapon in to the school. They would simply place them in the corner of the principal's office or lock them in the closet of my room until they were needed for the speech. We did keep the bolts removed.
4, Up until recently I could keep a loaded pistol inside my locked car under the seat. (I have a Permit) Now, if you so much as drive on campus with a ,22 shell in your car you could end up leaving in somebody else's well lit (flashing lights) car.
5. Here is the latest. Students can not even draw pictures of guns with out arousing great fear and concern. I guess it is pretty obvious what they are being taught. And THIS in a school that still has a rifle and shotgun team.
Well, that's how much things have changed.....
We are gradually being made (as gun enthusiasts) into mindless fanatics.
1. When I was a junior in college I had one rifle for deer hunting. It was a well used model 94 Winchester in .32 Special. I would lean it in the closet of my dorm room and absolutely nobody cared. I could walk from my car in and out of the building and the only people to stop me were admirers of firearms or other inquiring hunters.
2. In my first few years of teaching, UPS delivered by new Smith & Wesson model 1500 .243 to the high school. I remember getting it at taking it in to the principal's office so that we could both pick it up, fondle it, and admire its lines. Do that now and leave in handcuffs.
3. Not too many years a go students, mostly older teenage boys, could give a speech on his shotgun, deer rifle, or black powder set-up, and bring their weapon in to the school. They would simply place them in the corner of the principal's office or lock them in the closet of my room until they were needed for the speech. We did keep the bolts removed.
4, Up until recently I could keep a loaded pistol inside my locked car under the seat. (I have a Permit) Now, if you so much as drive on campus with a ,22 shell in your car you could end up leaving in somebody else's well lit (flashing lights) car.
5. Here is the latest. Students can not even draw pictures of guns with out arousing great fear and concern. I guess it is pretty obvious what they are being taught. And THIS in a school that still has a rifle and shotgun team.
Well, that's how much things have changed.....
We are gradually being made (as gun enthusiasts) into mindless fanatics.