Given your guns to your kids...

[sipowicz]

My kids aren't into guns. They are way to interested in dynamite and C4.

 

[Old Unk]

.45 Colt Commander-electroless nickel
10/22
Colt HBAR
66 4"
ProTech TR4 auto knife

to my 53 yr old son..and I'm not even close to done.

Have given the following to brother, BIL, LEO SIL and 3 nephews;
..and it is ALL stuff, right?

AMT .380 Backup
Ithaca 1911
Beretta 92
Henry Golden Boy
10/22
M1 Springfield

I like the idea of family having heirlooms while I'm still around to see them enjoy them as much as I did.

Best

 

[venomballistics]

DAMN, who told you about the pink shirts?

and the music lessons
That strikes a chord so to speak.
I give as many of the kids in the High school choir church, at least as many as will listen, guitar lessons.
The fastest route I know is based in heavy metal rhythm guitar.
Use the gain irresponsibly pound out power 5ths till faces melt, then Ill show ya the rest of the chord shapes a bit later.
sometimes I get questioned on this ... then I say "Malmsteen, Hammet, Satriani, Vai, Hendrix, Mustaine, and Eddy VanHalen" ... "these are household names ... now name as many concert violinists from the past century"

 

[rn4j0r]

Just make sure they dont have any major depressing or bipolar type issues. If they are level headed, you should be fine.

 

[S&W357]

When each of our four kids (3 boys and 1 girl) left the nest, they got their pick of a handgun to take with them.

These kids had been trained about the seriousness of firearms since they were in diapers. Each one took Hunter Safety twice...once when they were nine years old and again when they were twelve (the age they could apply for a deer tag).

As a result, I feel confident that my children are responsible with firearms and I don't think twice about giving them guns.

I'm thinking, S&W357, that if you didn't feel your adult children were responsible, you wouldn't have given them the guns in the first place either. Am I right?

Yes -your right. It's the grand kids that she is worry about--i think? She knows that our son can handle a gun and my daughter. It's our 3 month old grandchild ---when he or she get older. That's why
i need to buy my son a good strong safe. My daughter doesn't have any kids.
Let me open my safe up and ask the wife again. LOL

 

[shouldazagged]

My kids aren't into guns. They are way to interested in dynamite and C4.

But what do they play with outdoors?

 

[shouldazagged]

... then I say "Malmsteen, Hammet, Satriani, Vai, Hendrix, Mustaine, and Eddy VanHalen" ... "these are household names ... now name as many concert violinists from the past century"

I could, but you have fine taste in guitarists.

 

[guzzi]

Last summer I gave my son a 638 as a gift as I already had another one, he grinned from ear to ear and asked me how I knew that he and his wife wanted to get their CC permits. When she joined him later at the house he showed her the NIB 38 and she giggled and thanked me as well. My boy is an arson investigator for the FD and a reserve town marshall in a nearby town. He went thru the law enforcement academy and qualified with a G21 but as it was dept. issue they have a rule, carry only when on duty so they could not use to qualify for CC. This Christmas I gave him my Gen 3 OD G23 w/ TG Night Sights along with the mags and original box with unopened instructions and a box of WWB 180gr fmj for practice. You would have thought I gave them a $1000.00 bill!
He later asked me why I wanted him to have one of my favorite pistols and I told him that I wanted to see him enjoy it while I was still alive... I keep getting calls from him checking up on me and I finally figured out why. With all his LE training he suspected that I was going to do something bad to myself. Tonite's call cleared up that fear he had, I simply wanted to watch him and his wife shoot these guns and enjoy the shooting sports as much as I have in the last 40 years...

 

[Warren Sear]

it depends on the kids, some yes, some NO, some HELL NO. I'd hate to see a treassured gun you passed down end up in a pawn shop for 150$ to buy beer, cigarettes and scratch off's, or worse.

I think that happens quite often.

Guys; let your kids buy their own D guns. LIKE YOU DID.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

J. R. WEEMS answered just fine, IMO, in post #2. I was going to add that you know your own kids well enough to know whether you should be giving them guns. Then you proved it in post #11. I agree that a good long-gun safe would be a great present.

You really don't need our advice. You're doing just fine on your own. I think you just started this thread to see what everyone else was doing.

 

[walnutred]

We exchange New Years gifts rather than Christmas gifts. However this year I gave my 23 year old son a circular saw. While I do not expect him to hurt himself statisticaly he's more likely to hurt himself with a power saw than with the shotgun I gave him a few years ago.