Thread: Guns in schools

Remember posting something about this not too long ago - and here is the follow up

Children hold assault rifles as part of Army school visit - NZ Herald

Good on the Army.

Giving kids a dose of real education.

And what's wrong with the Army recruiting in schools giving kids another bloody good career choice to think about.

The Gangs already do this .... Don't see Nikki Kaye calling for and immediate policy on this issue now do we!

When I was at intermediate in the 70s we had a Youth Aid Police Officer come talk to our class.

Some kids got ruffed up a bit and had the cuffs slapped on them and we all got to handle her police issue revolver.

She also strongly promoted a career in the police force as an option for us all.

It was a bloody good talk that I remember to this day.

Cheers
Pete

Going back further to the 50's we had Cadet training every Wednesday afternoon at High School did parade drill with deactivated .303's got taken to the army range at Ardmore
to shoot .22RF and later on .303's and Bren guns,
None of my school mates ever robbed a Dairy

Don't see anything wrong with it at all. I'm sure the army would have taught the kids the basic principals of safety and great leaning experience that they wont forget in a hurry. I did trapshooting all though high school and as far as I know i'm not a psychopath . I think they should make some sort of firearm training/use, whether shotgun or rifle compulsory.

Fucking The kids will remember that day as cool forever. Beats the hell out of the day the Vegan Society gave out carrot sticks.

the comments on stuff are overwhelmingly supportive. Good to send another message to the politicians in a public setting.

Originally Posted by shooternz

Going back further to the 50's we had Cadet training every Wednesday afternoon at High School did parade drill with deactivated .303's got taken to the army range at Ardmore
to shoot .22RF and later on .303's and Bren guns,
None of my school mates ever robbed a Dairy

Yep did the same thing. Although formal cadets had been canned at that stage and only volunteer cadets was run for a while at our school.
Got trained to strip and reassemble a Bren blindfolded. Main point I guess was to familiarise us with barrel chages in the dark.

Shot 22s at the army range in the inner city. Oh shock, horror, terrible stuff!
Mind you the range was outdoors with a backstop not that high.

Had an annual shoot with No 4s and the Brens.
Rumour had it that years previously the cadets had colluded to all shoot at once at a gum tree to the left of the target's storage shed in an attempt to cut the tree down. A good story but I doubt it was true as each of us when we went down on the mound was supervised one on one.

Got to play with Sterlings and a 106mm recoiless rifle. (50 cal single shot Browning on top of it to fire a spotter b4 setting off the biggie.)

No Greens or do gooders to shut us down in those days. And ditto, no armed robbers emerged from our school. We were all better off for the dicipline.

Oh I did love that Bren gun, 27 .303 rounds, me and the rest of us on the range were told to fire 9 bursts of 3. boring, I flippled the lever to semi-auto, shoot 8 rounds, went back to full auto and empted the mag, who would notice? They did

Did the same at my old high school the range was in a corner of the playing field.

Originally Posted by doubleRB

Oh I did love that Bren gun, 27 .303 rounds, me and the rest of us on the range were told to fire 9 bursts of 3. boring, I flippled the lever to semi-auto, shoot 8 rounds, went back to full auto and empted the mag, who would notice? They did

Ha ha yeah with us the army guys picked up all the empties and made sure the number tallied with the number of live rounds that was issued.

Good on em'!!

Damn. We should have had all that stuff in my days at school. Probably would have got into the firearms a lot earlier than my mid 40's, which is pretty good since I'm only 21 and a bit now. By the sounds of it it may have helped straighten out a couple of the ratbags that went on to become career crims.

The .22 rifle range at Hastings boys high is still there.

And was still in use when I was there in the late 70s

Cheers
Pete

Originally Posted by P38

The .22 rifle range at Hastings boys high is still there.

And was still in use when I was there in the late 70s

Cheers
Pete

Hark you ya young bugger. High school in the late seventies. Unless you were a teacher of course.

Originally Posted by Rushy

Hark you ya young bugger. High school in the late seventies. Unless you were a teacher of course.

Hahahaha

I'm pleased you think I'm a young bugger,

I feel like young bugger now with me new bits plumbed in.

Although my 6yr old granddaughter recently asked me what it was like in the olden days and was surprised when I told her " Buggered if I know I wasn't there".

I was a Turd in 1976

Cheers
Pete