Remember posting something about this not too long ago - and here is the follow up
Children hold assault rifles as part of Army school visit - NZ Herald
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Remember posting something about this not too long ago - and here is the follow up
Children hold assault rifles as part of Army school visit - NZ Herald
Good on the Army.
Giving kids a dose of real education.
And what's wrong with the Army recruiting in schools giving kids another bloody good career choice to think about.
The Gangs already do this .... Don't see Nikki Kaye calling for and immediate policy on this issue now do we!
When I was at intermediate in the 70s we had a Youth Aid Police Officer come talk to our class.
Some kids got ruffed up a bit and had the cuffs slapped on them and we all got to handle her police issue revolver.
She also strongly promoted a career in the police force as an option for us all.
It was a bloody good talk that I remember to this day.
Cheers
Pete
Going back further to the 50's we had Cadet training every Wednesday afternoon at High School did parade drill with deactivated .303's got taken to the army range at Ardmore
to shoot .22RF and later on .303's and Bren guns,
None of my school mates ever robbed a Dairy
Don't see anything wrong with it at all. I'm sure the army would have taught the kids the basic principals of safety and great leaning experience that they wont forget in a hurry. I did trapshooting all though high school and as far as I know i'm not a psychopath :ORLY:. I think they should make some sort of firearm training/use, whether shotgun or rifle compulsory.
Fucking Attachment 70203 The kids will remember that day as cool forever. Beats the hell out of the day the Vegan Society gave out carrot sticks.
the comments on stuff are overwhelmingly supportive. Good to send another message to the politicians in a public setting.
Yep did the same thing. Although formal cadets had been canned at that stage and only volunteer cadets was run for a while at our school.Quote:
Originally Posted by shooternz
Got trained to strip and reassemble a Bren blindfolded. Main point I guess was to familiarise us with barrel chages in the dark.
Shot 22s at the army range in the inner city. Oh shock, horror, terrible stuff!
Mind you the range was outdoors with a backstop not that high.
Had an annual shoot with No 4s and the Brens.
Rumour had it that years previously the cadets had colluded to all shoot at once at a gum tree to the left of the target's storage shed in an attempt to cut the tree down. A good story but I doubt it was true as each of us when we went down on the mound was supervised one on one.
Got to play with Sterlings and a 106mm recoiless rifle. (50 cal single shot Browning on top of it to fire a spotter b4 setting off the biggie.)
No Greens or do gooders to shut us down in those days. And ditto, no armed robbers emerged from our school. We were all better off for the dicipline.
Oh I did love that Bren gun, 27 .303 rounds, me and the rest of us on the range were told to fire 9 bursts of 3. boring, I flippled the lever to semi-auto, shoot 8 rounds, went back to full auto and empted the mag, who would notice? They did
Did the same at my old high school the range was in a corner of the playing field.
Ha ha yeah with us the army guys picked up all the empties and made sure the number tallied with the number of live rounds that was issued.Quote:
Originally Posted by doubleRB
Good on em'!!
Damn. We should have had all that stuff in my days at school. Probably would have got into the firearms a lot earlier than my mid 40's, which is pretty good since I'm only 21 and a bit now. By the sounds of it it may have helped straighten out a couple of the ratbags that went on to become career crims.
The .22 rifle range at Hastings boys high is still there.
And was still in use when I was there in the late 70s
Cheers
Pete
Hark you ya young bugger. High school in the late seventies. Unless you were a teacher of course.Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
HahahahaQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
I'm pleased you think I'm a young bugger,
I feel like young bugger now with me new bits plumbed in.
Although my 6yr old granddaughter recently asked me what it was like in the olden days and was surprised when I told her " Buggered if I know I wasn't there".
I was a Turd in 1976 :)
Cheers
Pete
Fuck I got out of the army after five years and got married in seventy six. You are a young buck Pete and don't let your granddaughter tell you any different.Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
You old bugger. I was 2 years behind you.Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
@RushyQuote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
Can I Refer her to you then next time she wants to know about the " Olden Days"?
Cheers
Pete
Nah Maca is a better go.Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
Yep, rushys 'storm in a teacup' pic is right on the money. See all the politicians getting the cotton wool out to wrap kids up even more.
Firearm safety in school is pure commonsense in my view.
Your just a boy! I was 3 yrs married by then!!:O_O:Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
What was it like in the "Olden Days"? then @Maca49 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Cheers
Pete
My mother in law used to get so pissed with me when I asked what her horse was called and what a trap was like to trip round in!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rushy
I told the bitch that used to do the FAL renewals that rifle education should be re introduced back into schools. She was appalled! Told me I had rocks in my head! I thought she was an F. Wit!! My grand kids will all be introduced, every child should understand a firearms!!:cool:
It was more black and white really, safe sex and willing woman, fast cars, easy access to hunting, very little violence, cheap houses, no money, dirt roads, heaps of jobs..... it was bloody awesome!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
Yeah that's kinda how I remember it too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Sunday sessions were quite prevalent too.:thumbsup:
Cheers
Pete
Sounds like where I want to live now:XD:Quote:
Originally Posted by Maca49
Working on cars in dads shed drinking stout and raspberry, naked parties in the back seat of the Cortina drinking blackberry nip! Drinking all night in the local in Carterton, signed in for the night, leaving pissed about 1 in the morning with a bottle of Asti Spumante in a box with two champagne flutes, for a quick bit of in and out on the way home. Awesome!!:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
Ha i was a turd in73Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
I remember shooting a slug gun at intermediate school camp. A couple of my brothers shot a 7.62 x 39 sks and a 12 gauge shotgun at a Christian camp but I don't even remember seeing firearms at school even when the fuzz brought the common whores and the bite your nuts German Shepherds.
I would have loved to shoot a 22. I would have definitely gotten my license when I was 16 rather than 20.
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Nikki Kaye
Training in the 7 basic firearms safety rules should be a compulsory subject in high school.
Cheers
Pete
We had 25m indoor 22 shooting as an elective sport at Wanganui boys when I was there in 85
It would breed better attitudes in our students in general.Quote:
Originally Posted by P38
But sadly, very unlikely to happen.
Not with idiots like Delahunty,
In the early 80s 1RR in Bluff, Durban would sometimes entertain a local high school by demonstrating various explosives down on the beach. An envelope containing a sheet of plastic explosive would be used to destroy a desk and a length of Cordtex in the sand would be detonated.
Sometimes an RPG-7 would be fired out over the sea. If it does not hit a target after ~920m it explodes and one would see a brilliant white flash and then hear the boom from the explosion. Pity that never happened at my high school. :(
Sorry I have an issue with this article - FIRED an assault weapon? I highly doubt it.
Sure, guns are "for killing people". I was in the army and never killed anyone... nor wanted to. I enjoyed my shooting (and was pretty dang good at it!) but my goal was to get to Antartica.
What a psychopath, hey.
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We cant have guns at school, that would mean they would be taught responsibility and discipline and that is something we are encouraged not to teach as parents now.......fucking cotton wool state.
Yes Gibo. Guns are bad, ohhhh. They must be wrapped up, out of sight and never seen. That way when one is seen it is even more mysterious and badder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gibo
A bit like DOC and the battle for the birds. If they kill off almost all the slow breeding native birds, like that seem intent on, and leave a great void for the faster breeding introduced species then the natives will be rarer and any sighting of them will be so much more exciting. Then they'll have more reason to keep doing what they are doing.
Awesome to see this type of Gun education.... for any one!!!.My first introductions was the WGTN Deerstalkers range over in Makara in the 70,s, promoted by the Porirua police at porirua college.. 6 of us went,had the time of our lives.Now,I carry an H&K 40 in the cockpit to keep the peace from worldly idiots that try to take it from me...My point.. The training I received from the deer stalkers assoc has stayed with me,and set the stage,attitude,and competency that comes from firearms education.The dedicated people that are willing to teach this should be applauded
My old mate has traveled the world hunting and has some nice mounted heads. He regularly gets offers to give talks on his hobby at various schools. He told me he always takes his rifle and sits it at the back of the display, he said he loves the discussion that goes on when his talk is finished and they inspect the heads and find the rifle he used to shoot some of the animals, many kids are curious and love to learn about the rifle.
When I was growing up most of the fathers in my neighbourhood were WW11 vets a lot of them had a firearm of some sort .22Rf and shotguns and a few .303's all of the kids knew who had what
and where is was stored, If we asked nicely we got to handle them and got basic safety instructions no one ever took one we had respect for others property unless it was fruit trees,
nobody locked their door back then you could pop up the road shopping for an hour or two and be sure you would not be burgled,
Now the bastards nick your clothes of the line.
