When toting guns in high school was cool
New York Post,
by
Anna Sanders
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
4/1/2021 12:30:02 AM
New York City high schoolers used to pack heat as often as they packed lunch.
This month, more than 100,000 city public school kids walked out to protest gun violence — but last century some students attended class armed with their rifles and practiced shooting on school grounds.
Many of the city’s public high schools had shooting clubs and a few even had gun ranges on their premises, according to accounts from the Department of Education and others.
There were at least three shooting ranges in public schools, the DOE said, including Curtis HS on Staten Island and Erasmus Hall HS in Brooklyn.
Another inside Far Rockaway HS in Queens
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Dreadnought 4/1/2021 12:32:45 AM (No. 741393)
Back in the day the rifles were student owned Winchester 52s with Redfield or Lyman sights, or school provided Mossbergs, all heavily used on the on campus enclosed rifle range. Jr ROTC used fully functioning (but never discharged on campus) M1 Garands, M1 carbines and the occasional M1911.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MindMadeUp 4/1/2021 2:07:25 AM (No. 741422)
My dad gave me his old .22 Springfield rifle when I was 12, and we had a rifle range at boy scout camp in the 60's. And in HS, nobody thought twice if you brought a rifle or shotgun to school in your car. As a teen, I bought a .22 semi-automatic rifle from a catalogue and the USPS delivered it by mail. There was a rifle range at the Michigan summer camp where I was a counselor, and, at 19, I was the shooting instructor teaching 12 yo boys to shoot. Guns were considered to be a good thing and owning them your right. They still are and it still is.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/1/2021 2:30:10 AM (No. 741432)
so, there aren't that many kids joining the military, right? why not have firearms training be a part of the high school curriculum, for Juniors and Seniors. they should be taught the use of the fixed sights on weapons and not become dependent on scope sights. in some parts of the country, though, kids as young as 9 already know how to use a firearm both handgun and rifle/shotgun. I had military drill classes as part of the curriculum when I attended Boston Public Schools and it proved extremely valuable when I joined the Army after high school graduation. things were verrrry different, then.
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Rural Maryland, early-seventies. Indoor range that was also used for wrestling practice every afternoon.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
foxglove 4/1/2021 5:10:07 AM (No. 741460)
Gun racks common in trucks at our high school in the 1970’s.
Around 2005 a leader at church wanted all the girls to learn gun safety in case they were ever babysitting at a home and children got hold of a gun.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
foxglove 4/1/2021 5:14:04 AM (No. 741461)
Sorry for a second post about the church leader wanting to teach gun safety. The parents wouldn’t have it even though the instructor was an FBI agent (when it was respected). The parents were to scared of a good thing.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Rather Read 4/1/2021 6:06:15 AM (No. 741471)
When I was in grade school, the county extension agent would come to school and give us gun safety lessons. In high school, the boys would bring in their guns during hunting season, put them in their lockers, and when school was out, they'd get the guns and head out to hunt deer, turkey, dove or what ever the season was.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 4/1/2021 7:36:31 AM (No. 741505)
Grew up in Oklahoma - our high school had a rifle team and also a rifle range in the basement. Don’t recall any mass shootings back then for some reason. Most folks I knew hunted and frequently were responsible for meat on the table.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/1/2021 9:21:39 AM (No. 741585)
We brought our rifles and shotguns to school every day. That was so we could go hunting after school. If we didn't have a car, the coach would keep our guns for us during classes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/1/2021 9:59:54 AM (No. 741627)
My Brooklyn Catholic school had a gun club.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
snowoutlaw 4/1/2021 10:08:45 AM (No. 741633)
We also used to have free speech and the right to assemble. They are all gone.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bison65 4/1/2021 10:22:53 AM (No. 741654)
In 1962 I was a 10 th grader in Baltimore City’s Patterson High School. I was on the rifle team. We had an indoor rifle range. We would pack up our .22s put them on chartered city buses and travel to other Baltimore inner city high schools for competition. Our scores would be posted in the Baltimore Sun paper. Taught us gun safety, marksmanship, and discipline. For many it was the first step on a career of defending the country. I know of no one who used his skills to do harm. Quaint times.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/1/2021 11:38:20 AM (No. 741734)
My (private, K-8) grammar school had a 50-foot rifle range under the gymnasium, where both faculty and older students would shoot .22 Short. Whichever faculty members instructed the students in safe rifle techniques were NRA members with military training. Strict order was kept on the range; the students learned to respect firearms, and no accidents occurred. I'm sure that rifle range didn't last much past my 8th grade graduation in 1969. But we enjoyed it safely.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
SweetPea3 4/1/2021 12:58:43 PM (No. 741797)
My Father-in-Law grew up in Brooklyn, NY, and routinely rode the subway with his .22 rifle slung over his shoulder because of rifle practice at school. Nobody thought anything of it. This was during the 20s and early 30s.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
columba 4/1/2021 1:11:58 PM (No. 741812)
Way back in the olden days we even had fathers in the family. They taught us how to be men.
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