Touch them? Yes. Load them? Nooooo. I always had access, but never did anything foolish until he got me my first Remington .22 when I was 13, but then he never took me to the range but maybe once. He was getting up in years (77 years old, yes I was born when he was 64) and always a procrastinator. After a year or two of dry-firing in my bedroom, I decided to shoot the gun up through the ceiling of my bedroom closet. I have no idea why. I bet the hole is still there.
The only other time I fired that gun was to kill a rat at about 20' outside my bedroom window, with a 24" tree-stump as the backstop. Still very stupid.
Lesson learned: If you buy your kid something, follow up. Take them shooting.
He made the same mistake when I wanted an electric guitar. He finally broke down and I got a Sears $99 les-paul copy, but he would'nt buy me the amp. There are some things that the older generation just did'nt understand....
The only other time I fired that gun was to kill a rat at about 20' outside my bedroom window, with a 24" tree-stump as the backstop. Still very stupid.
Lesson learned: If you buy your kid something, follow up. Take them shooting.
He made the same mistake when I wanted an electric guitar. He finally broke down and I got a Sears $99 les-paul copy, but he would'nt buy me the amp. There are some things that the older generation just did'nt understand....