Class picture from 1976, with a rifle?

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I found a copy of a high school yearbook (my highschool, not my year) on line.
Now I can remember guys showing up in the mornings during deer season with their rifles in their trucks. I graduated in '86 so there wasn't any real reason not to bring them to school back then, especially in Fayette county, Tenn. But I saw a picture from the 1976 book and the girl was holding a hunting rifle to the guy's back and he had his hands up in the air like she was robbing him. Funny, until I realized it wasn't one of the band's fake, wooden drill rifles. I dropped my jaw at the thought of somebody posing like that today! I still can't believe Sarah Belle Day, the senior sponsor,vice principal (principle?), English teacher, and general enforcer of all rules let that one go in the book. She must've toughened up a bit by the time I came along.
 
Yup, 100% sure. Even had a scope and a sling on it.
We were fancy rednecks, even back then. Besides, our drama club wasn't that advanced. They would have used a real rifle or painted a drill rifle brown.
 
Yup i remember very well. The bell rings at the end of the day. You run to your locker. Grab your rifle, head out the door to go deer hunting. On school property none the less. Only problem we had was beating the teachers to the good hunting spots. Ah the good old days.
 
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Wow.

I can say that when I was a kid, one could walk down the road to a friend's house toting a pellet rifle and not have the cops called, but that's about it.
There existed no zero-tolerance policy back in my school days, but bringing any firearm to school was considered unacceptable.

I listen with jealousy when folks tell me about their trips to the local landfill in their youth to zap rats with .22 rifles, all with the wink and nod of local law enforcement.
Such events might warrant a charge of "Going Armed to the Terror of the People" of some such BS in today's society.

How times have changed.
 
I graduated in 75 and I remember during deer season, we'd have guns in the cars (the few kids that had cars) and putting rifles in our lockers. Things were so easy back then. Funny, no one ever got shot... How would the gungrabbers explain that one?
 
8th grade...1978 or so... for our English class "demonstrate how to do something" project, my best friend brought in his .22 rifle and showed how to clean it. Teacher said ok as long as the principal approved. Principal said ok as long as the rifle remained in my friends locker before and after class. I demonstrated how to sharpen a knife with a 4" folder.
I didn't need special permission as I wore the Buck on my belt everyday.
Town of about 5000 so no Podunk town. Back then the school could make decisions without using zero tolerance crap as a crutch.
Five years ago my sons friend got expelled FOR THE YEAR for bringing an unloaded pellet gun to school in his backpack. 5th grade. . Zero tolerence!
Didn't mean to rant but taking decision making away from schools has really hurt us.
 
I brought my Marlin Model 60 to school in the second grade for show and tell. I still remember Mrs. Gerdes telling me to put it in the coat room until it was my turn. That was in 1983.

Town of about 5000 so no Podunk town.
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I took a fully functional SKS to school for show & tell when I was in the 4th grade (1971). It was a war trophy picked up from the Vietnam battlefield where my Marine father earned his Purple Heart. I hand carried it to & from school. It was stowed in the classroom coat closet during the day. I asked permission to take it, my teacher & principal approved, and it was no big deal.
 
In 1979 I played Abraham Van Helsing, Vampire Hunter, in a school play. My "prop" gun was a real .22 Chicago Derringer loaded with blanks.

The next year we used a flash pot my father built loaded with real black powder.
 
I wasnt around in the 70s. But my aunt and uncle who are high school sweethearts graduated in '76 and in VT and during deer season there would be guns on the racks in trucks. Today in a school saying the word gun or even a picture teachers or other people flip out over it.
 
I took my bolt action 22 rifle to public elementary school for show and tell in the late 70's. I took it on the bus in a rifle bag and kept it in my locker until I brought it out for show and tell. It was no big deal. I think I didn't bring the magazine with it. In the early 80's at a private school a teacher showed some of us boys his AR-15. This was in suburban PA. My friends today are shocked when I tell them about those days, when it was also no big deal to bring a pocket knife to school either.
 
I graduated in '75. Myself and several others routinely had a rifle on the window rack in our trucks and they stayed there til we left for the day. Never a word said about it and never worried about them getting stolen.

I just wish my kids could have it so simple these days.
 
My Dad would have busted my little ass if he saw I DIDN'T have my pocket knife in my pocket! He would have considered me as trying to go out of the house naked! Didn't matter if I was going to school, church, or just out to the back yard. If I had my "britches" on, I had better have my Buck in my pocket!

I usually didn't keep a rifle in my truck window though since most of my deer hunting was on our farm or close to it so keeping it at the house was fine.
 
Graduated in '08 and the only rifles we ever saw were the ones on my shooting team through ROTC. I would get fussed at for even keeping my knife in my pocket for lunch time duties. Todays school system is great, but messed up in many ways.
 
My school has a Rifle team but since no one is really interested to begin with, it currently isn't going. I graduated last June. I did revive it for a time but attendance dwindled to nothing again.
 
I live in Nashville, Tennessee.Took a speach class my senior year...1968. We had to do a demonstration speech so I did field strip and re-assembly of the "Ruger,Standard.22 Semi Auto Pistol"The teacher, principal, my dad all agreed. I handed the gun to the principal before school. He gave it to me at the class room door just as class started. I did mine first and went home...(last class of the day).Gave him a call when I got home...and got a good grade.
I doubt it would be allowed this year.

Mark
 
my grade school principle asked me to bring my shotgun to school and give a talk on gun safety. I did. Nobody was killed or injured.
 
I graduated in '96 in Washington Sate. It was normal to see pickups in the High School parking lot with rifles in the gun rack. No one ever cared and no one ever got careless. In Industrial Arts class we could make fixed blade knives with a blade up to six inches long, but no longer, and even carry them around on our belt. Half the kids were gone during opening week of hunting season.
 
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Half the kids were gone during opening week of hunting season.
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6 or 7 years ago, before I moved here, In PA they give the kids "excused absences" for opening day of Youth Hunt and Opening day of State wide rifle season for deer! I call that PROGRESS!
 
I carried a pocket knife from the third grade on. No one fainted at the sight of a rifle or shotgun. I thank my lucky stars that I wasn't raised in an urban area.
 
I graduated in 1976. In our yearbook we had a section where there were some similar gag photos of senior superlatives. The guy and girl who were voted "most likely to succed" had a photo of them dressed up at a classy location. Then a 2nd photo of them holding a handgun on the principal as he was handing money over to them from the school safe. There were similar photo of the other superlatives. The "most school spirit couple" had a staged photo of them asleep during a pap rally. Things like that.

And yes, it was common for guns to be in the rack of truck windows at school back then. A guy I graduated with had a 1957 Chevy truck that he and his dad restored. When he had the seat covers done he had shotgun shell loops sewn into the edges of the seatcovers with room for about 150 shot shells all around the edges of the seats. They were full of shells with an 870 always in the gunrack in the window.
 
My HS Parking lot was full of guns during hunting season. We even went hunting before school. I remember our HS principal coming out to see how many squirrels we had killed. He did tell us to wash up good and get the blood off our boots before going to first as not to upset the girls. I took my FB coach's duck hunting after school once FB season was over. We stored our guns in our Autos or in Coach Hardings locker in his office.
 
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