When my kids and later grandkids were very young (around 5 years old) I took them out to shoot a handgun. That's really all it takes. The report and recoil is terrifying. A Glock turns into a single-shot when fired by a little kid. After that, they all simply ignored the guns laying around the house. No exceptions. All of them had BB guns at 8 years of age. Two of them are currently in the military and one is LE. All of them love and own many guns. It's kind of like a stick of dynamite. Once you see what it can do, you decide to leave it alone until you are old enough and wise enough to learn how to handle it.

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Dr. B