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Originally Posted by Hektore
It's not crazy. We don't hunt in my house, but most of my friends do. Being given your first gun is a big deal for families of hunters. Grandpa wanted the honor of giving his grandson his first and it will make for a nice story for the 10 month old's grandkids someday. It's not like they're taking him to the firing range at 10 months, it even said in the article they were going to wait till he was 14 until they let him have it.
Illinois requires you to have a permit to own a firearm, junior owns a firearm, so he needs a permit. Nothing crazy about obeying the law.
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Exactly. I know a lot of hunters, though I don't hunt myself, and most of them have given their children firearms. These firearms might be given when they are young, and then kept in a gun safe until the child is old enough to take the firearm on their first hunt. This child obviously won't be handling this firearm until that first hunt at 14, which is an appropriate age for such a rite of passage.
I say kudos to this family for following the law.