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Did you take a gun to school for a project?
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I purchased a modern sporting rifle about 1976, and still being on good terms with the ROTC instructor in High School, he invited me to teach a class on it.
So, I walked into school thru one of the many open doors with my rifle in a black Assault Systems case, pulled out the HK91, and gave five classes on it. Gave the history, tore it down, passed it around, seniors and freshmen alike. No problems at all, a small southwestern Missouri town of about 40,000 then. Then, no open carry was allowed by municipal regulation, tho. Now, open loaded carry is legal and fairly common. Just avoid schools, churches, the post office, etc.
Things change. I sold the HK and later built an AR. Much better rifle, and shoots much cleaner, too.
So, I walked into school thru one of the many open doors with my rifle in a black Assault Systems case, pulled out the HK91, and gave five classes on it. Gave the history, tore it down, passed it around, seniors and freshmen alike. No problems at all, a small southwestern Missouri town of about 40,000 then. Then, no open carry was allowed by municipal regulation, tho. Now, open loaded carry is legal and fairly common. Just avoid schools, churches, the post office, etc.
Things change. I sold the HK and later built an AR. Much better rifle, and shoots much cleaner, too.
1911 guy
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We used to take .22 and 20 gage to school, drop them off in the principals office and squirrel hunt on the way home. Only allowed o do it opening day, though.
Nwflycaster
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Yes, for an English speech class, I once did a demonstration speech on small bore four position shooting and brought in my Anschutz 1413. That was many many years ago now, and I'm still shooting the same rifle today with all original parts except for replacing a worn out rail once. I certainly can't shoot it like I did back then, but I still enjoy it.
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In the fourth grade (1971) I took an SKS, that was recovered from the battlefield in Vietnam where my Marine father earned his Purple Heart, to school for show & tell (with prior approval of school officials). I hand carried it as I walked thru the neighborhood to and from school by myself (absolutely no adult supervision) and when I got to school it was put in the classroom coat closet. No big deal.
351 WINCHESTER
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No, but I could have. We had a student that brought in his single barrel shotgun to make a new stock and forearm in woodshop. The only stipulation was that it was to be locked up when the student was not working on the gun.
FYI I carried a small pocket knife from third grade on and never once had a problem. Of course back then when a male student got out of line he had a choice. Swats with a robust paddle or inside or outside suspension. We never had any real problems.
FYI I carried a small pocket knife from third grade on and never once had a problem. Of course back then when a male student got out of line he had a choice. Swats with a robust paddle or inside or outside suspension. We never had any real problems.
Outlaw Man
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Not truly a firearm, but my physics project fired projectiles propelled by homemade 22 blanks. We'd pull the bullet in the classroom - and cover it with wax. Probably not the smartest part of our project. It was 1998.
I carried a pocket knife almost daily.
I carried a pocket knife almost daily.
Graduated 1970, large Kansas high school, we had a rifle club and a shooting range in the building with a bunch of target .22 rifles. The city police dept would come out and give us safety lectures. I once took my own .22 rifle to school to shoot on the range. Nobody ever shot anyone.
9mmfan
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No, I was a little late to the party for that. I did take a model (just like a plastic car model, assemble it yourself) of a flintlock pistol for a presentation of different firearms actions. It was in my locker, visible, when the Assistant Principal walked by. He raised his eyebrows, I explained that it for a class project. He nodded, grunted and went about his business.
My teacher said she found the presentation interesting.
My teacher said she found the presentation interesting.
DougW
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In the 70's my High School ROTC had operational 1903A2's and ammo in a wood cabinet for drill and rifle training and competition. Shotguns were in gun racks in the parking lot in early September for dove hunting season.
In the late 60's and early 70's I would carry my Remington 870 20ga Wingmaster in a soft case through the terminal at Love Field and carry it on to the Braniff flight to Houston or Harlingen, Texas. Stewardess (Flight Attendent) would stick it in a "closet" and I would retrieve it on the way out of the plane.
Good old days.................
In the late 60's and early 70's I would carry my Remington 870 20ga Wingmaster in a soft case through the terminal at Love Field and carry it on to the Braniff flight to Houston or Harlingen, Texas. Stewardess (Flight Attendent) would stick it in a "closet" and I would retrieve it on the way out of the plane.
Good old days.................
I drove to high school most days because a bus didn't come that far. I had a rifle and a revolver in the car at all times.
I use to take any new gun I got during highschool to the Principal's office and he would call the Ag teacher and BB coach to come to his see what I had.
I got called to the office to see guns that others brought to school too... Fair's fair!!
School was canceled on opening day of Elk season because most of the boys, some of the girls, and many of the teachers including the Principal, were "gone hunting".
I use to take any new gun I got during highschool to the Principal's office and he would call the Ag teacher and BB coach to come to his see what I had.
I got called to the office to see guns that others brought to school too... Fair's fair!!
School was canceled on opening day of Elk season because most of the boys, some of the girls, and many of the teachers including the Principal, were "gone hunting".
MedWheeler
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Closest I ever did (high school, in the 1980's) was a very realistic cap gun for a drama production. I was portraying a plainclothes LEO, and had found a snub-nose revolver lookalike in a K-Mart store. It was black, with a brown faux-wood stock, and a metal cylinder that even swung out to the side to take the then-new "ring caps" that were much louder than the old paper-strip ones.)
My part called for me to display the gun on-stage at one point, and fire it off-stage at another.
One of the performances was at a nursing home, and my female teacher's only reaction to the gun I was using was that she thought I was "gonna give those old people a heart attack!"
My part called for me to display the gun on-stage at one point, and fire it off-stage at another.
One of the performances was at a nursing home, and my female teacher's only reaction to the gun I was using was that she thought I was "gonna give those old people a heart attack!"
In the late eighties, my sophomore science fair project was comparing lead shot and steel shot patterning. Took my shotgun and some shells to physics class. My teacher had a fancy camera that would take some micro-pictures of the pellets, so I could show the uniformity of the harder steel pellets. Then, in 11th grade, my project was comparing .22 penetration after I deformed the tip or sides of the bullets. Wasn't too scientific, but I didn't care. Heck, I even got to tour the Remington plant in Lonoke.
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I brought my Marlin bolt action repeating .22 rifle to my sophomore high school wood shop to make a custom black walnut stock for it. This was in 1965 in Cupertino, California (Homestead High School). When I asked (thinking that he would not allow it) he said it would be fine, he would lock it up in a cabinet when I was not in class and I could have it out on the floor for work. Nobody blinked an eye.
I completed the bedding and rough outside shape before the end of the school year. I had it in my class for at least a month working on it. I still have it down at the barn in my storage room thinking I would eventually finish it (48 years later and it is still sitting there).
My son now has that rifle and he is welcome to take this project on someday where I left off.
Dan
I completed the bedding and rough outside shape before the end of the school year. I had it in my class for at least a month working on it. I still have it down at the barn in my storage room thinking I would eventually finish it (48 years later and it is still sitting there).
My son now has that rifle and he is welcome to take this project on someday where I left off.
Dan
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I love this topic Bendor and want to thank you for opening it up. Love reading the responses. I graduated from high school in SE Oklahoma in 1986. I had a pocket knife in my right front pocket, a loaded 22 pistol and a loaded 30-30 Winchester rifle in my pick-up, a can of Copenhagen in my shirt pocket and a hunting/skinning knife on the dash of my truck as well.... These were everyday and all I have to say is -------- I fit in with the rest of the guy's! LOL
College was different, but I still had'em. Just not in the truck or dorms. I had to keep them off campus. That was the law.
The Dove
College was different, but I still had'em. Just not in the truck or dorms. I had to keep them off campus. That was the law.
The Dove
Quentin
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Never took a gun to school but did pour enough gunpowder in my science class volcano to make it real exciting! 
This was back in the late '50s.
This was back in the late '50s.Going to rural high school in Tennessee in the early 70's. When squirrel season opened every truck in the parking lot had a shotgun or .22 hanging in a gunrack. Fast forward to today, if a gun is spotted, a swat team is called in. Those day's are gone forever.
Red Wind
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Never. In the Miami of the 1950's, guns were the furthest thing from our minds. From 1950 to 1960, 3rd grade to 12th, I never had a single conversation about guns with a fellow classmate or teacher.
Now, coral snakes, scorpions, cottonmouths,alligators, bows and arrows, and girls, yes!
Now, coral snakes, scorpions, cottonmouths,alligators, bows and arrows, and girls, yes!
km101
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I went to HS in rural E. Texas in the mid 60's. All the boys that were old enough to drive usually drove old beater pickups. And most if not all had some kind of rifle or shotgun in the rack in the back window. You were considered to be kinda' odd if you didn't. We used to go dove hunting after football practice and the coaches would go with us. Everyone knew the guns were there (they could see them) and nothing was ever said about them that I knew about. And it was understood that most of us had a .22 pistol or a centerfire .32 or .38 in the glove compartment.
At the small college that I attended in Central Texas in the late 60's everyone dressed up for Western Week and many people wore their Western Gunfighter rigs to school. Many were either loaded with blanks or were black powder guns loaded with "wax loads".
All of this was accepted and was not considered out of the ordinary.
Today such shenanigans would result in swat teams, lockdowns and multiple prosecutions! As said before "My how times have changed." and NOT for the better!
At the small college that I attended in Central Texas in the late 60's everyone dressed up for Western Week and many people wore their Western Gunfighter rigs to school. Many were either loaded with blanks or were black powder guns loaded with "wax loads".
All of this was accepted and was not considered out of the ordinary.
Today such shenanigans would result in swat teams, lockdowns and multiple prosecutions! As said before "My how times have changed." and NOT for the better!
jenrob
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Took my father's 22 rifle to school for show and tell. Walk right in the front door went to my locker and put it in there. Been a while but after one of my classes before I got to show it in class. They didn't come looking for me but they came by when I was getting into my locker. The principle and science teacher walking down the hall stopped and asked me about it. Then asked me if I would bring it to the office and just leave it there. Still got to show it and after school I walked right out the front door.
Racinfan83
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Yes. And on any given day you could walk outside to the parking lot and find lots of guns hanging in rear window gun racks. Windows down too. Early 80's. We hunted before and after school.
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