Gun Control & RKBA

benEzra

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4. The "true purpose" of the bill is to prevent parents from being jailed

Thu Feb 25, 2016, 06:48 PM

Feb 2016

for teaching their child how to shoot, using a handgun instead of a long gun. Previously, Iowa had a weird law on the books that made shooting with your kids a crime if it was a pistol instead of a rifle.

I learned to shoot at a young age, under close parental supervision, using a .22 pistol and a .22 semiautomatic rifle. That would have been a crime in Iowa, even though I'm sure the law was universally ignored if people even knew about it.

How would you feel about a law that made it a crime to take your kids fishing? Anyone who opposed such a ban just wants kids to drown, right?

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Never too young: Iowa house passes bill to let children of all ages handle guns [View all] Eugene Feb 2016 OP

What's the panic? The first gun I shot was a .32 revolver at age 7... Eleanors38 Feb 2016 #1

Greatly reduces the chance of a parent being charged when a child shoots a sibling, another GoneFishin Feb 2016 #2

No, it doesn't. Straw Man Feb 2016 #3

Visual and verbal contact will not prevent mishaps. No matter the circumstances one can always GoneFishin Feb 2016 #5

The "true purpose" of the bill is to prevent parents from being jailed benEzra Feb 2016 #4

Have any parents been prosecuted for this pistol vs. rifle thing? I doubt it. GoneFishin Feb 2016 #6

So what is going to be different now? Straw Man Feb 2016 #8

This doesn't authorize kids to use guns without close parental supervision. benEzra Feb 2016 #9

My kids have been shooting since 4 and 6....both are scary accurate. ileus Feb 2016 #7