Did you take a gun to school for a project?

Graduated from HS in '74. We could take our own .22 rifles to school to shoot on the 50 ft. indoor range when the ROTC rifle team wasn't practicing. Plenty of rifles and shotguns in trunks, gun racks, and on back seats in the student parking lot. Took a double barrel coach gun to drama class as a prop, and also took an 870 to speech class for a segment on proper gun cleaning.

Those of us who were in ROTC had unfettered access to fully functional M14 rifles with "da switch", and we would take them twice a year to the range on the nearby Army base for a familiarization shoot. Since most of us were Army "brats", many of us had several magazines at home, full of military 7.62x51 NATO ammo. There was never a thought about using these to shoot up our school, but we had them just in case the "commie bastards" parachuted in as in "Red Dawn".

Now the poor neutered boys in our schools can't even take a pen knife to school, and I feel sorry for these emasculated kids. The unofficial school "uniform" (but not on ROTC uniform days when you stuck it in your pocket) was a 4" Buck folder in a leather belt pouch. We didn't have stabbings or shootings, if you had a beef with a fellow student you settled it man to man with your fists (and you didn't get suspended for it either).

How things have changed.
I went to pick up my six-year-old sister after class one day in 1980. I walked onto the unfenced playground and sat on a swing until school let out. While I waited I noticed something sticking out of the big sandbox. I walked over and picked up the USMC Ka-bar and sheath that someone left there. I stuck it in my back pocket and went back to waiting.

I was seen with the knife while waiting.

No lock-down.

No police swat team.

-And no, no one claimed the knife - I kept it for years thereafter.

Yep, things have sure changed.

Dallas, TX 2011. I was working as a teaching assistant in a math department at a large University in a bad neighborhood.

1. A bill allowing concealed carry on college campuses was up for vote. Most of the professors opposed it (they thought all *something* would break loose if it passed). If the bill passed, however, all of them were planning on carrying concealed as soon as they could get the permit.

2. Everyone carried the largest knives they could legally own.

3. The graduate students in the math PhD program regularly left ammo in their cars.

4. The woman I was working under was contemplating if her 6 year old daughter was too young for her first rifle.

5. Grad students teaching courses and professors were encouraged by their students to go out shooting.

6. When the semester was over, everyone that had permanent resident status or citizenship and could legally possess firearms in the US was taken to the shooting range. Everyone loved going there.

7. Pre-class discussions often involved talking about what you were going to shoot that weekend.

Sure, in the early 1960's.

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Gun? What about bullets?

Take a gun to school? Look what happens not days if a bullet even gets into a classroom: http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=745123

We had one day in history class to show off military rifles and memorabilia and that was about it.

Most of the time there was a shotgun in my car in the parking lot, it was rural northwest Iowa and pheasant hunting ends at 4:30 so there wasn't enough time to go home and get a gun. I parked my car across the street from the school in a church parking lot, so I never actually had a gun on school property. Otherwise if someone found out I suppose I could have been in trouble.

I graduated in 2006.

I don't know about "project" but I had several times ridden to school on the bus with a rifle for after-school rifle team practice.

1977-1979... not so very long ago chronologically but eons ago socio-politically, more's the pity!

I attended a Catholic grade school in the sixties. I was allowed to take my father's .45 1911 and his .25 Colt for show & tell. My classmates and teachers were not alarmed, rather they thought how cool my father was.

Graduated from a Central Louisiana school in 81. And I always had a 30-06 or a 12 gauge in the rack of my pickup and a Super Blackhawk in the box. As a matter of fact I don't remember anyone of the trucks that didn't have a gun in the window including the teachers. And we all parked out by the Smoking area!
Yeah, things have changed.....

Not as a project. I did have my rifle at "school" was homeschooled, so that might not count. The principle (my Dad when he's home from work) carries and the teacher (my Mom) has her SP101 near by.

during hunting season we kept guns in the truck all season long. but this was in the early 70's. that was during a time when gun racks were in every pickup truck back window.

I carried a gun every time I picked up the grandkids----as I was only picking them up it was legal

For show &t ell, my first gun, a side by side 16 gauge savage 311, was told I should break it down (3 pieces) for the bus ride and leave it in the principal's office until show & tell time, oh, and you probably shouldn't bring in any ammo I was told.
Yeah, how times have changed.

In the '50s I took a BB gun to school in the 6th grade, for a play. It was a CO2 replica of the Colt SAA. I even had a charged cylinder in it. No one checked it, which in retrospect was a stupid oversight, and I "popped" it on stage several times, being careful not to point it at anyone.

As an adult, I took my Great Great Great Grandfather's Civil War Harper's Ferry rifle to classes our sons were in, grades 3 to 5. I also took my replica 1858 Remington and 1851 Colt Navy. The teacher was a gun buff and Civil War buff and loved it.
Today I'd be arrested.

We used to bring our shotguns to school as town kids so that we could ride the bus home with the country kids to spend the night and hunt. Routine was keep the shells in your pocket and give them to your teacher to be returned at the end of the day. Place the gun in the back, action open and don't touch until final bell. Ride bus, action open and shells in pocket. Never had an incident.

In 1971, I was taking a college Marketing class, and was required to do a role playing demo, for the entire class. I chose to market the Browning line of pistols. Brought a loaded High Power into class to be used as my visual. No one blinked an eye.

Gosh, how times have changed.

Early to mid-1980s I lived in a Dallas suburb. I took a muzzleloading pistol to history class for show and tell, just asked permission and that's it. Later I brought a Civil War era bayonet. I friend brought a functional but unloaded P-38 that his grandpa captured in Germany. And some of us had guns in our vehicles during hunting season, and we all carried pocket knives, and there was also a police officer on duty at the school as part of the drug program.

A friend brought in his M-1 Garand for a class in JROTC. Watched my first ever live action demo of M1 Thumb...never knew a thumb could bleed like that.
Showed my P-38 to my Senior Army Instructor in the Supply Room, and he was quite taken with it - his father in law was actually Nazi SS, which was a weird story all of it's own.
This was the early/mid 1980s. Do it now, go to jail.

Yes- 1993 at Boulder High School in Boulder, CO.

Brought my Gew 88 Commission Rifle, Lebel bayonet, and Grandfather's sword for a presentation on WW1 for AP US History.

Stored the whole collection in the Vice Principal's office for the rest of the day- no fuss or bother.