Kids and toy guns

Hi, I’m Tim Sisarich and just recently I went in search for a couple of sets of cowboy guns for my four-year old boys. You know, the kind with the wide belt and twin holsters.

I hadn’t gone out of my way not to buy them buy guns up to this point. Nor do I really have any staunch view of the dangers of boys and guns ... it's just sort of the way it turned out. So I popped into the local toyshop to discover that the only guns they sold were strange looking space lasers, with flashy buttons, lights and sounds. They didn’t even look like guns!

To my surprise, they inform me that they don't stock those sorts of guns ... Nor did any of the other 6 toy stores I went to.

Can you believe that?

Activities with Teens - Shooting!

Being a father and thinking of new activities to do with my 3 teenagers I tend to think like a man! I find it a lot easier to think of things to do with my son (Christian), like going fishing in cold stormy weather.

A couple of weeks ago I took Christian Small-Bore shooting, at a local shooting range, that holds open club nights for guests to attend.

Well it took a little planning; I had to ensure I felt he was old enough, so I waiting till he turned 14, this was going to be Christians very first time shooting any gun.
For myself I had to be sure that everyone was going to be ok about me taking Christian shooting.

I think I made a bigger deal out of it than it needed to be, as long as I was going to be with him every step of the way, it was going to be ok with everyone else

I guess for myself it was more about my past as I had been shooting from 8 years old, not because my parents supported it (I didn’t even have toy gun) but my friends had air rifles and their fathers had rifles and shotguns. When I was old enough, I did what my father said not to do, which was join the ARMY, where I was trained to shoot a range of weapons, safely and with purpose.
My parents still believe "guns are dangerous."