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My kids started learning about guns and stressed the safety at about 5. They each had their own .22 rifle by the age of 9 with the rule if they ever took them out without my wife or my consent, the rifle would be sold. My son, who is the middle child of 5 was the only one that did. He had to show it to his buddy at about the 3 week mark. I set it up with a buddy of mine to "buy" it. We made the exchange in front of my son. After a year of the two older girls and I going to the range or shooting at the farm I asked my son if he had learned his lesson. Of course he said yes so I "bought" his gun back and gave it to him. Told him if it happened again he would not get another until he was old enough to buy it himself. He asked how old that was and I said 21.
Over the next few years he helped teach the younger girls. Now the same rules have been applied to the grandkids. They are now all over 12 and so far so good