31 Vintage Photos Of Old-School Parenting That Would Horrify People Today

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The Youngest Gunslinger In The West

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Gun ads were pretty common back in the day, and in the 1960s, you could buy an R.B. Mark 1 Anti-Tank rifle for under a hundred dollars or cut out some coupons to order a new Remington Nylon 66 for Christmas. It also wasn’t unusual to wrap a rifle or shotgun and give it to your child for Christmas. Many old folks love to reminisce and cherish the thrilling transition from boy to man when they received their first .22 single shot rifle. Daisy Outdoor Products, known for their BB guns, even had an ad about buying the entire family a set of firearms for the holidays—a gun for every member age seven to seventeen. This cutie pie in the photo looks a couple of years shy of seven though.

Countless things can go wrong if you keep a gun at home and you have kids, from your child finding the gun and accidentally pulling the trigger to mistaking a family friend as an intruder and shooting your guest. Just imagine how bad things can get if you have a loaded gun in a toddler’s hands.