My father had his Federal Firearms license when I was a kid. I grew up at Gun Shows; from the time I was 4 or 5 years old I attended 6 or more gun shows a year until I joined the Marines. I then attained my own Federal Firearms license and provided guns and accessories to a great deal of the Marines at Camp Pendleton (yes I was a gun dealer). I also competed for a number of years in target shooting as well as Trap and Skeet shooting. I started shooting when I was about 5 or 6. I owned (in dad's care) my first gun at about age 7 or 8. I purchased my first gun(officially dad's gun) at about the age of 11 (I worked mowing lawns until I saved up enough money to buy a Steven's single shot .410 shotgun)
I am still very pro-gun. However, I've not belonged to the NRA in over 20 years. They represent to narrow of a mindset for me. I support greater controls on the purchasing and ownership of firearms as well as stricter enforcement of existing gun related laws. I also believe there should be mandatory firearm safety courses for anyone who owns, wants to purchase or use a firearm. If a parent leaves a gun so that a child can gain unsupervised access to the gun the parent should be held responsible for reckless endangerment. An owner of a gun should be held responsible for the use of that gun. Therefore, guns and ammunition should be stored separately and both should be locked except while in use. I believe that would result in a reduction of gun related accidents, the number of incidents of guns being used in a rage and the number of guns stolen from law abiding citizens. All that being said, I too still love the 1911 .45. You could drop it in water, throw it in the sand pick it up shake it off and it would still fire. Confidentiality Notice: This message including any attachments is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete any copies of this message. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:159174 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
