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-If you have kids, find another means of self defense. Not sure about the public, but on the federal side we are actually required by agency policy to lock our weapons up at home. The "pistol under the pillow" crap in hollywood is a good way to get hurt.
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I have to totally disagree with this one. My children are probably more trained than I am with the weapons. The oldest is probably a better shot than I am. I know they have more practice in than I do.
It depends on the training, responsibility level, and maturity of the kids than anything else. We also never did the "don't touch it" thing. We did the "if you have to touch it, this is how you do it, but it is better to go get an adult first". If I would have told my boys to "don't touch it", well, they never did well with the "don't do it" thing.
We also started gun education at 18 mos. You can start going over the rules with them that young. It doesn't really stick for a while, but they can repeat the rules really well now because they have been hearing them all their life.