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• Pass the Butter or I'll Shoot!

  A tipster pointed out Christopher Noxon's article on Reuters about boys who will go to any length to find a gun to play with -- including making one out of toast. The funny thing is, I did the same thing...   Read More... Posted Mar 27 2008, 08:00 PM by Brett Singer with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: rosie o'donnell, toys, guns, toy guns, boys, kids and guns

• 5-Year Old Boy Shoots Bear, Grandpa Calls Davy Crocket A Pansie

  As our children grow up, there are firsts and milestones we parents can look forward to experiencing with our hearts swelling with pride, our blubbering eyes welling with tears and with $1500 state-of-art digital video cameras held in our hands capturing the monumental achievement to thereafter broadcast it to the world on our personal blogs or YouTube if it's humorous in any way. Their first tentative steps, first intelligible words, first time they use the potty, their first shaky pedals on a bike without training wheels and of course the first time they bag a black bear 12 times their size with a youth rifle. Read More... Posted Dec 18 2007, 02:00 PM by makeitadouble with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: hunting, kids and guns, gun safety, bear

• Gun Safety: Some Parents Enjoy Russian Roulette

  A survey of 96 pediatrician's offices in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico found one-quarter of 3,754 families had a gun in in the home. In 70% of those homes parents said they hadn't taken "adequate precautions" to store their firearm safely. These are parents who like to live on the edge. I guess? The study suggested pediatricians take a role in promoting gun safety in homes by asking parents if there are guns in the home and if they are stored safely in the same way they ask if your child rides in a car seat. 18 states have child-access protection laws which make parents or other adults liable when an accident or death occurs from a child finding an unsecured gun.  The study defined "safe storage" as "guns being unloaded, locked in a cabinet or with a gun lock, with ammunition stored separately". I wonder how many parents have their guns locked but not unloaded or unloaded, but not locked and that affected the high number of supposedly 'unsafe' homes the study found. I don't own a gun and have no plans to ever own a gun, however it seems to me that the main reason one has a gun is for protection. If the gun is unloaded and locked and the ammunition is stored elsewhere how do you get to it quickly in a crisis situation? I know people can be really stupid but I can't believe over half of parents in the study would purposely put their kids at risk. For gun safety information see The Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence.  Posted Jun 07 2007, 11:03 AM by Melissa Summers with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: guns, kids and guns, gun safety

• 10 Months is Old Enough for a Gun Permit in Illinois

  Ten month old Bubba Ludwig can't vote, he can't legally drink, he can't join the army - hell, he probably can't even walk, but he has a gun permit issued by the state of Illinois. Bubba's Dad is Howard Ludwig. Howard is a columnist and I assume he filled out the form for his child to see what would happen. The child's grandfather bought the baby a shotgun as a gift (don't get me started on that). Bubba's dad filled out accurate information on the application including his 20 pound weight, height and baby picture. The permit was issued with the baby picture on it.   Now Bubba has a legal gun, I guess. He can't buy any more guns in Illinois until he is 18, so it might be a little while before he can start a real collection. I think I am going to be sick. Good for the second amendment and everything, but even Charlton Heston couldn't convince me that a ten month old has any use for a shotgun. Posted May 18 2007, 11:37 AM by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: guns, Illinois, kids and guns, Howard Ludwig, second amendment