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by RPBrown
Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:28 am
Forum: Never Again!!
Topic: 4yo kills self with grandmothers gun
Replies: 12
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Re: 4yo kills self with grandmothers gun

rotor wrote:
MechAg94 wrote:
Soccerdad1995 wrote:This reminds me of my last trip to Cabelas. A guy was there with his wife and 5-6 year old son. He was looking for his first gun, and asked the clerk if it was possible to install a manual safety on a Glock because he really liked that gun but needed a manual safety in case his son picked up the gun. After a few questions from the clerk, it became clear that the guy planned to keep his loaded gun in his unlocked night stand and not in a safe. Thankfully, the clerk was very adamant that he needed to get some type of safe for the gun.
Millions of kids have grown up with loaded guns in houses without safes. There are other ways to handle this, but all require a plan and commitment after recognition of the problem.
Absolutely correct. Although I did not attend high school in Texas, my wife did and she said all of the guys had their rifles on a rack on the back of their pickups. This would obviously not fly today. My 11 year old grandson is very skillful with safe use of a gun. I don't think we are all safer with the present laws than we were in the past.
It still happens in very rural areas of the state. I frequently visit friends in west Texas (Big Spring) and most of the high school age boys in the smaller towns still have rifles or shot guns in a rack. However, I remember having one in my pick up when I was in high school in Fort Worth but that was a loooonnnng time ago.

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