Bahtatboy

http://www.cobone.com/deals/abudhabi...club-kids/1570

Err...

ctfc

Nothing wrong with this. My kids are around this age and both have used air rifles (as advertised) and been clay pigeon shooting in the UK with .410

Not sure I'd want then running around with semi-automatic or automatic weaponry, but air rifles and shotguns are perfectly fine in a safe environment.

shiva

Guns don't kill people it's the ****wits wielding them you have to worry about

Norm_uk

I'd bet money people who take formal firearm training and learn how to handle them responsibly are far less likely to be involved in any kind of criminal activity with guns than people who don't.

N.

flares

My kids are also around this age and I think I'll let them stick to the placcy light sabres. They may sting but there's little chance of them graduating to the real thing in later life.

Agree with Bahtat bit uneasy about that pic.

Millhouse

ah, but where you uneasy about the picture for the adult offer?

flares

didn't get that far...will check now

ah OK...James Bond theme night at the Ally Pally

shiva

Apart from the occasional nutter and mental breakdown the vast majority read99.whatever % does not involve legally held firearms, it's the very reason why gun laws in the UK are so ****ed people who shoot legally and responsibly are being hammered because of a criminal element who aren't hindered by any law changes anyway.
Load of bollocks

As an aside the pic is shocking as it demonstrates rule one of firearms handling ie never poi t a gun at anything you don't want to kill or hit. For that reason I'd steer clear of the company, if they can't get that right the rest will almost certainly be shite as well.

Hello.Kitty

my dad was a trained firearms instructor and later a gunsmith so we have grown up with an impressive array of weaponry around the place. He taught us how to handle and respect them from an early age. I remember him letting us investigate a Bren gun on the landing (before they got banned, of course) and then going rabbit hunting when I was about 7 or 9. I can't remember which gun was "ours"... a 410?

His latest thing is black powder pistols - made his own, in fact. They are fun. I'm actually a decent shot too... not that you'd guess from my fluffy exterior!

Shiva - most of what you've said was drilled into my brother and I from the day we could understand.

Welivehere

One of the truest statements I ever read was on an army firing range:

Accident don't happen, they're caused.....

Basically ditto and Shiva and Kitty, if treated with the correct amount of respect and with adaquate training almost anyone, with an IQ above that of a pot plant or toaster, can handle a firearm safely....

hnd

Both of us used to have licensed shotguns in the UK, not to mention an airgun which we used to shoot the little furry, long-eared beggars which were eating our home grown veggies in the garden - with great success, I might add - and which we also ate. Rabbit cooked like coq au vin is delicious!

Firearms/shotguns etc aren't in themselves dangerous - it's the people in whose hands they are which make them lethal.

The Dean

........ and what the hell is "Learn to Salsa or Tango" doing in there???

There are some sick bastards about!!!

Millhouse

Oh those long happy summers using the air rifle & pistol in the back garden shooting the birdies...

kittycat1

I wonder if the man that invented the gun regrets his invention... ( obviously if he was alive)

I used to live on a rather rough estate in London, to the point that my local was closed down due to two people being shot dead ina bit of a shootout, and I can remember going to a party where the cloakroom had several guns in there. To have someone shot would just cost you a mere 200 quid. In my opinion one of the worst inventions of all time. What happiness have guns bought into the world?

Why anyone would want to teach their kids how to handle weaponry is beyond me- send them off to self defence classes or something. To teach kids to enjoy shooting is a sad state of affairs in my opinion.

Millhouse

More than you would think. Without war there can be no peace and all that.