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Re: 9-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Kills Shooting Range Instructor

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I got my first rifle when I was nine years old. It was an Iver Johnson 'Safety Rifle', 22-cal single-shot (virtually identical to the one shown below) .

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When you loaded it and closed the bolt it was already cocked, but the safety would always be ON which you then had to manually release. In fact you couldn't even aim it until after the safety was off as it blocked the view of the rear sight. The only thing I ever shot with this gun were some squirrels and gophers. A few years later I got my first shotgun, a break-open 20-ga single shot. This one you had to pull the hammer back after loading it and closing the breech. I've still got the 22 rifle, but the shotgun went missing just a few months before my father died. I had let him keep it in the shop out in back of the house in case he saw some partridge or rabbits during small game season while he was working out in the shop (our house was set in from the road a bit and was on a 15 acre wooded lot).




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Re: 9-Year-Old Girl Accidentally Kills Shooting Range Instructor
By: ribit
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Fri, 29 Aug 14 1:38 AM
Msg. 01809 of 65535

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...nine is a bit young for a kid to start shooting, but if somebody is deterined to do it, my recommendation is that they start em off with a single shot rifle or shotgun. If a kid pulls the trigger on a gun and it scares em, they are gonna turn around with it in their hand.

...some grown folks will do the same thing.


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