You've Got to be Kidding

[firedoc5]

Weyland, back when you were in High School, per the year of graduation on your web page, the schools probably still had classes in firearms handling and safety, probably in good relations with the National Rifle Association.

Obviously, I am in a different state than you, different rules and regulations. From when my elder brother was still in Brooklyn Technical High School, in the mid 1960s, I don't think they taught that, at least within New York City.

But then, again, one of my lieutenants mentioned she had taken a High School course on firearms handling, in one of the nearby counties to New York City, taught by the father of the actors, the Baldwin brothers. She is at least 20 years my junior, as you also must be.

So, per the statement of demonstrating how to tear down, clean, and reassemble an M-1 .30 carbine in a school, think of it as "that was then, this is now", and "that was there, and this is here."

Yes, times have changed, and the jury is still out as to if it changed for the good, or the bad.

If you're 52, then I'm just ten years your junior. Granted, where I went to high school is a whole lot different than NY state. Here the first day of deer season is still an excused absence.

[Richard B the EMT]

Actually, a slight bit older. Figure me as a May 1954 edition.