In Iowa it was illegal for a child under 14 to fire a handgun???
An Iowa House of Representatives committee has approved a bill that would lower the age at which children in Iowa could use guns with a parent’s supervision. The Judiciary Committee approved House Study Bill 201 Wednesday by a 19-2 vote. The measure would make several changes to the state’s gun laws, including legalizing the use of a suppressor to silence a weapon. The bill would also ban public access to a database of names of people with permits to carry and purchase weapons.
Full article/video HERE.
When one talks about creeping loss of rights, this one ranks right up there as far as I’m concerned…
I had my first ‘real’ gun at age 8, a single shot Stevens .22. By the time I was ten, I’d shot a SAA Colt quite a few times (under supervision by my grandfather), at twelve I got a .30-30. At fourteen I was given a pistol when I started driving.
And I wasn’t the only one. We were taught gun safety from the time we were old enough to toddle around…
This just amazes me. If I’d lived in Iowa, I guess I’d be in jail for teaching my daughters and my grandson to shoot at TEN!!!
WTFO???
What happened to our freedoms???
Huh. By the time I was 18, I was carrying a Beretta in some not nice places.
Pops taught me pistol on his old P-95DC around 9/10.
He gave that gun when I was 12 and he upgraded to a Springfield Operator.
No clue, I grew up in Maryland not long ago, My siblings and I all shot with our dad before we were 10, and everyone in my scout troop went shooting at scout camp at 11/12 even if they hadn’t grown up in a family with guns.
Now that I think about it, scouts might have had a higher minimum age to shoot but i know everyone did it when they could.
The Scouts sort of have an age restriction, but it is more so that to be a Boy Scout, and only Boy Scouts and Venture Scouts can use firearms, you have to be at least 10 with the Arrow of Light or 11 years old. The Cubs (little guys in blue) shoot BB guns and pellet rifles.
Also, some councils may restrict shotgun merit badge to Scouts 14 and up.
The pistol program is restricted to Venture Scouts only, who are girls and boys over the age of 14.
Freedom went out the window when real men and women settled the west, making it safe for liberals to follow and start passing laws restricting those men and women and their offspring.
And they had breechloaders already when you were a kid?
I got my first .22, also a Stevens bolt-action, at age 6. As an aside, our daughter the Appleseed instructor recently awarded a “Rifleman” patch to an 8-yr-old girl, who qualified with a magazine-fed bolt action rifle.
Gotta love Alaska. Iowa? Not so much.
Another law I have no intention of obeying,
“When one talks about creeping loss of rights, this one ranks right up there as far as I’m concerned…”
What am I missing?
Doesn’t this legislation move in the direction we want?
“At fourteen I was given a pistol when I started driving.” That caused me to picture you as a 14 year old hauling a$$ down a dirt road while waving a gun in the air…
Hey Old NFO;
I was going to let you slide…but I gotta say it…when you were a kid…the percussion cap was replacing the flintlock. the rules were different…On a serious note, I let my son shoot a pistol when he was 9. he has been shooting rifles since 8 years old. Mac is correct on the age thingie for Boy Scouts…That is how I know Mac…he found out that I had a blog and he was telling me about this cool site ran by this cool guy named “Old NFO”. So I pulled out my phone and pulled up my email right after you had responded to one of my “Monday Music”. I showed him the email and it tripped him out…Small world….I didn’t know that my friend Mac was the same “Mac” that commented on your blog. Funny how that works;)
SPE- Yep!
Axe/SPE- True! Scouts were the ‘entry’ for the city kids that didn’t shoot… 🙂
Murph- That’s true! Re the rest 😛 Yep, even had real revolvers… 🙂
Rev- Y’all are pretty much out of sight, out of mind up there…
WSF- Agreed!
Ed- No the creep is the fact that such a law exists in the first place! I’m glad it MAY be fixed, but Iowa was the frontier at one time, meaning kids carried guns on a routine basis there…
PH- It was in the glove box, I needed both hands to drive and shift…LOL
Bob- Understood and that IS funny… 🙂
Got it.
BTW, both my boys were shooting my pistol as young as 6.
I as young as 10.
Mom taught us to shoot (she was the Sheriff) when were 10ish. I remember all the 7 up cans I blasted. It was taught as not just fun – but a grave responsibility. If we took it lightly, we knew there would not be further opportunity to learn.
Brigid- We only got Dr. Pepper cans…LOL I had to shoot the 10, 2, and 4… And yes, it was a RESPONSIBILITY we were taught!
There will be a lot of Boy Scouts who won’t qualify for a marksmanship merit badge… and those under age with the damning scarlet and white circular badge may need to go to prison.
Ed- No problem, and starting them young teaches the responsibility…
LL- True!
Yesterday the Omnibus bill HF527 passed in the Iowa House (75-24-1) with no debate. In it will change the law for children under the age of 14 to be allowed to use handguns (rifles/shotguns not restricted) under parent or adult supervision. It goes to the Iowa Senate next and hopefully the Governor for signature.
I know I was shooting Dad’s pistols before I was 14, under his watchful eye of course…and I was raised in Iowa. Makes me wonder how long this restriction has been in place…
I fired a .22 at eight, .410 at ten and a .12ga at 14
Did they also raise the age at which children can be kidnapped or molested? Or does the god-given right to self defense not start until a magical 21st birthday?
Terry- Thanks!
Larry- Yep… No idea.
Rick- we all did.
Prof- Of course not… And there isn’t a right until 21… Safety and all that… sigh