# Growing up, did your school allow guns?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [February 29, 2016, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487 "2016-02-29T10:54:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@DrumBum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrumBum)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487/41 "2016-03-01T15:55:42Z")
Up to 5th grade I was in schools on the Army base and only the MP’s had working guns. When we were at International schools I never saw any guns except when we went by the embassy.
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### Author:  [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487/42 "2016-03-01T16:16:14Z")
Early 1980’s High School, Melbourne, Australia.
Not my high school, but the one down the road (Scotch) had boys who were in the cadets carry their rifles to school during cadet training days.
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### Author:  [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487/43 "2016-03-01T17:32:04Z")
No guns in the school as far as I know. Probably some in the trucks of the good ole’ boys (hunting, as others have mentioned).
We didn’t have a rifle team.
Small town in Florida, mid-1980s.
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### Author:  [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487/44 "2016-03-01T17:50:51Z")
Mid-late 60s, my Jr high had “clubs” for the last period on Tuesdays and Thursdays. There was a gun club. I wasn’t in it, but in the yearbook there was a photo of one of the members holding a bolt action rifle. I figured they took a bus out to a range now and then. I guess they’d have to bring their own rifles. :: shrug :: I know the folk music club didn’t supply guitars.
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### Author:  [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2016, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487/45 "2016-03-01T17:58:15Z")
was in high school in the early '90s, and _hell no._ IIRC just having one on school grounds was likely to get you expelled and escorted out in handcuffs.
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### Author:  [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/growing-up-did-your-school-allow-guns/747487/46 "2016-03-02T20:10:51Z")
Upstate NY. Never had any schools with shooting teams or rifle. I assume guns were banned, even in cars, but can’t say for sure. No one ever tried, IIRC.
I had one friend who owned a gun and would shoot at his grand parents farm. He smoked a pipe (student smoking was permitted in my high school) and for “grins and giggles” as he always said took a large empty rifle shell casing (30-06?), melted solder in it, filed it down to resemble a bullet and used it to pack the tobacco on his pipe. He enjoyed watching strangers who didn’t know what it was freak out.
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