Local Gun Shops

[North Country Gal]

Marine, thank-you for sharing that. What a wonderful story from a time when the world was a very different place for kids. I grew up in that era, too, and looking back, we kids had an amazing amount of freedom compared to kids these days.

I remember us running around the neighborhood with BB guns, pellet rifles and sling shots and no one questioned it at all. We were just being normal kids, right? Later we would ride our bikes out into the country taking our 22s with us for an afternoon of shooting 22s down at the creek. Just what kids did in our small rural town in those days.

I'm sure that somewhere in this country kids still do this, but you'd have to search hard to find that place. I often look back, now, and wonder how it all disappeared. Not getting political, here. Just being grateful that I had that freedom.

[CT_Shooter]

One of my favorite memories from my childhood, involves a local gun shop....

... I spent a lot of time in that gun shop during that two years we lived there. When we finally left, the gunsmith's wife got tears in my hair. I think I left some on her apron. I learned a lot during that time. Mostly about the way you should treat people.

I can still summon the smells of that shop late at night when it's quiet and the house is asleep. Leather, hoppes, gun oil and pipe smoke.

It's easy to tell that you're an avid reader because you're also a talented writer. I love to read your stories. Thanks for sharing this one.

[BrokenolMarine]

One of my favorite memories from my childhood, involves a local gun shop....

... I spent a lot of time in that gun shop during that two years we lived there. When we finally left, the gunsmith's wife got tears in my hair. I think I left some on her apron. I learned a lot during that time. Mostly about the way you should treat people.

I can still summon the smells of that shop late at night when it's quiet and the house is asleep. Leather, hoppes, gun oil and pipe smoke.

It's easy to tell that you're an avid reader because you're also a talented writer. I love to read your stories. Thanks for sharing this one.

Thanks, my wife explains it differently. She says I'm full of it.

[Mags]

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I remember us running around the neighborhood with BB guns, pellet rifles and sling shots and no one questioned it at all. We were just being normal kids, right? Later we would ride our bikes out into the country taking our 22s with us for an afternoon of shooting 22s down at the creek. Just what kids did in our small rural town in those days.
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Likewise when I was a kid.

[Mags]

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The man behind the counter seemed annoyed that I disturbed his reading ...

There's a gun shop in Carefree AZ like that.

[BrokenolMarine]

The gun shop owner paid me in 22 long rifle because my friends and I were allowed to run up and down the river and plink. We shot acorns, pine cones, small sticks. We never shot things we weren't supposed to... We knew the consequences, and we weren't worried about law enforcement.