There’s a brand of 22 rifles named cricket that are specifically designed to teach children how to shoot they’ve got built-in safety locks that are a bitch if you lose the key

I was just in the bass pro shop in Memphis the other day, and I did in fact see light caliber rifles specifically marketed for children to use.

They do in California too. It’s the whole country.

…i mean, i got my first BB gun in third grade and my first twenty-gauge in fourth grade, both youth firearms for christmas in texas; our semi-automatic twenty-twos were hand-me-downs from younger cousins in mississippi who’d graduated to thirty-thirties…