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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.