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Pawpaw wrote:There's lots of good info in this thread. viewtopic.php?f=144&t=83710

I explain how I handled it and my son chimed in too.

And this thread

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=81822&p=1043806#p1043806

Ericjd0887 wrote:Just curious to know if anyone here have children and have introduced them to guns? How did you go about it and at what age? And have you let them shoot them? and if so, what type of firearm?

I'm in the same position as you. I have a boy who will be 4 in Sept. and a one y/o daughter.

I'm ready to start talking to my son about guns, but my wife is not ready for me to. I'm going to have to go ahead and do it soon, because I think that his toddler friends are already talking about guns. He saw one of my American Rifleman magazines and told his mommy that it was "the gun that daddy is gonna use to shoot bad guys".

Neither his mommy nor I have talked to him about my guns. But I plan to take the approach that AJ Sully did and let him hold my handguns after I clean them and before I load them. Maybe when my son is in kindergarten is when I'll let him start shooting BBs or airsoft, and we'll work our way up from there. His granddad has bought a Davey Cricket .22 that will be his first "firearm".