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Do you lock your car keys in a safe? Cuz' kids take cars pretty often. I saw a story in the news a couple of weeks ago where a single-digit-aged kid was arrested several hundred miles from home driving to some family member's home.

I'm outta here.



- Jim

G.A. Heath wrote:How about letting him decide?

At the risk of being provocative, we don't let little kids decide whether to brush their teeth or attend school.

I learned to shoot when I was 10. It was at least as regimented as Marine Corps boot camp (I can't say for sure because I never went to Marine Corps boot camp).

I can't remember anything else I did that summer, but I remember learning to shoot.

- Jim

I can't say what a 9-year-old should or shouldn't do. That is a period of growth where a boy could be 3'6" and 80 pounds or pushing 6' and 200 pounds. Many kids that age are throwing 60-pound bales of hay over their heads. Me, I was just shoveling snow and mowing lawns.

IOW, the kid probably can handle a two-pound pistol.

- Jim

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I also think there's a lot to be said for a .22 rifle. It's much easier to shoot a rifle accurately than a handgun, and it's safer in terms of not shooting oneself or innocent bystanders.

- Jim