I said touch, not know...
Good gun safety starts with good gun knowledge.
Honestly everyone is different. Based on my experience 10 is a time in a kids life that is very important (double digits) and should be met with an equal level of responsibility.
I'm pretty sure I was playing with bb guns before 10 though so I guess I just see it as progressing from...
squirt
to
nerf
to
bb/pellet
to
22's and going to shoot "real guns" with Dad.
Ok well at 8 my son and I milled a lower receiver for HIS AR15.
We went over the history of the constitution as the week before we had gone to DC and he read the original document to me.
After we were done I had him assemble it, and explain each part by its name, and what it did, and why it needed to.
Afterwords I fired the first mag to test it for function.
Then I had him shoot at various made targets so that he would gain the respect for it...know what it is capable of
First week of Jan before I left....he and one girl he likes wanted to go to the range.
He showed her how to shoot...explained it to her and showed her how to hold it. Proper trigger discipline and such.
After words he showed her how to clean it....explained it to her and since he was in a cast she did as instructed.
He is 11 now...sharing something I, his father had made sure he knew...he passed that knowledge to her.
Now soon as I get home she is saving money to buy bullets....of course I won't allow her to pay for them because that isn't what is right....
But I assure you that you nor anyone else can tell me that isn't wholesome as fuck
Amen.
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