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Coming Soon to Stores: The AR-15 for Kids

Next month, an assault-style rifle could wind up in the hands of children unless regulators step in.
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At a gun expo in Las Vegas last January, Eric Schmid, the founder of WEE1 Tactical, demonstrated his company’s first offering: the JR-15, a play on the popular AR-15 assault rifle designed to look just like its deadly cousin, but 20 percent smaller. “It fits the kids really well,” he told a visitor to his booth. “That’ll give them the confidence to hold this thing the way they should have confidence holding it — no drop down in the front trying to manage a weight that’s not right for them. It just fits ’em, fits ’em really well.”

Long guns for kids have been around for years, typically shotguns or single-shot rifles scaled down for a child. But what has attracted so much attention to the JR-15 is its semiautomatic action, firing with each pull of the trigger — along with the image of putting a mini assault rifle in the hands of children in a country where a 6-year-old just shot a teacher in the chest with a handgun legally purchased by his mother. With the JR-15 in production this year and a limited first run of 1,000 rifles being sent to distributors in February, the attention is only going to grow.
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Fucking groomers.
 
Finally a solution to the major problem of AR-15s being too heavy for children to handle properly. I’ll sleep better at night now.

And kudos on the safety glasses. We wouldn’t anyone to get hurt.
 
I remember the moment my dad - an ardent hunter and lifelong NRA member in the 70s and early-mid 80s - decided that I needed to take a gun safety course. After he'd come back from a hunting excursion, he was cleaning his shotgun on the kitchen table. Now, I knew better than to pick up a weapon, but his was completely disassembled and I figured it was okay to pick up the barrel and look down it. So I did. It was an empty tube, but I couldn't have done anything more irresponsible in my father's eyes.

The gun safety course was sponsored by the NRA (this was around 1979 or 80) and the takeaway from it was that you never, ever, ever, ever pointed a gun at another human being. Not yourself, not someone else, not on purpose, not by accident...never. In the ensuing years I fired everything from a BB gun to a 50 cal muzzle loader, but I always treated a firearm with the utmost respect.

Designing a gun to be carried by a kid? I am at a loss.

Side note...the use of the word "tactical" in the name of the business or product is a dead giveaway that you are being subject to marketing. I know this, because I have done ads for a gun store with that word in their name, and have seen ads for everything from "tactical" sunglasses to "tactical" flashlights to "tactical" diaper bags. And no, I'm not making that last one up.

Apparently when you're in the middle of a firefight with your infant at your side, you need a "tactical" backpack to keep your kid's diapers from "the enemy."
 
I recall being around 6 or 7 when my dad emphasized the importance of respecting firearms and not treating them as toys. However, shortly after, two New Jersey police officers pointed their guns at us over a missed turn signal. It made me question my dad's advice, since he had always told me to only draw a gun if you intend to use it.
 
But on the topic. That's just flat out crazy if they are actually making guns and marketing them to children. The folks in the Tobacco industry should be pissed right along with me.
 
Ford said:
The gun safety course was sponsored by the NRA (this was around 1979 or 80) and the takeaway from it was that you never, ever, ever, ever pointed a gun at another human being. Not yourself, not someone else, not on purpose, not by accident...never. In the ensuing years I fired everything from a BB gun to a 50 cal muzzle loader, but I always treated a firearm with the utmost respect.
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My father had an uncle who served in North Africa and Papua New Guinea in WW2. He was a sniper who brought back his Lee-Enfield sniper rifle Lee-Enfield sniper rifle.
He taught myself, brother and cousins to shoot with it in January 1974. Like your old man he was fierce on never pointing a gun, empty or loaded, at a person. We have never forgotten his lessons.
 
Actually, guns for kids is not new. .22 caliber rifles made in small sizes suitable for kids have been around for decades. I remember seeing those at summer camp many years ago. I was too young to be allowed to shoot any.
 
Gospel said:
I recall being around 6 or 7 when my dad emphasized the importance of respecting firearms and not treating them as toys. However, shortly after, two New Jersey police officers pointed their guns at us over a missed turn signal. It made me question my dad's advice, since he had always told me to only draw a gun if you intend to use it.
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Now that sucks. I'm sorry that happened.
 
"In Switzerland, kids as young as 12 belong to gun groups in their local communities, where they learn sharpshooting. The Swiss Shooting Sports Association runs about 3,000 clubs and has 150,000 members, including a youth section. Many members keep their guns and ammunition at home, while others choose to leave them at the club. And yet, despite such easy access to pistols and rifles, “no members have ever used their guns for criminal purposes,” says Max Flueckiger, the association’s spokesperson.

“Social conditions are fundamental in deterring crime,” says Peter Squires, professor of criminology and public policy at the University of Brighton in Great Britain, who has studied gun violence in different countries and concluded that a “culture of support” rather than focus on individualism, can deter mass killings.

“If people have a responsible, disciplined and organized introduction into an activity like shooting, there will be less risk of gun violence,” he tells TIME.

https://world.time.com/2012/12/20/t...xt=Kids as young as 12,leave them at the club.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multim...eaching-swiss-children-to-fire-a-gun/42277788
 
That's a major tourist thing in Nevada. Taking kids to gun ranges. The whole point is to have "fun" with toys that are banned in your home country. Fun for the whole family.
 
Thomas II said:
"In Switzerland, kids as young as 12 belong to gun groups in their local communities, where they learn sharpshooting. The Swiss Shooting Sports Association runs about 3,000 clubs and has 150,000 members, including a youth section. Many members keep their guns and ammunition at home, while others choose to leave them at the club. And yet, despite such easy access to pistols and rifles, “no members have ever used their guns for criminal purposes,” says Max Flueckiger, the association’s spokesperson.

“Social conditions are fundamental in deterring crime,” says Peter Squires, professor of criminology and public policy at the University of Brighton in Great Britain, who has studied gun violence in different countries and concluded that a “culture of support” rather than focus on individualism, can deter mass killings.

“If people have a responsible, disciplined and organized introduction into an activity like shooting, there will be less risk of gun violence,” he tells TIME.

https://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-culture-that-works/#:~:text=Kids as young as 12,leave them at the club.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multim...eaching-swiss-children-to-fire-a-gun/42277788
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That's all great and all but do you really think a lot of the types of people who would buy such a thing for a little kid are going to spend a lot of time on safety, not to mention the fact that they are kids who easily make mistakes.
 
ZiprHead said:
Thomas II said:
"In Switzerland, kids as young as 12 belong to gun groups in their local communities, where they learn sharpshooting. The Swiss Shooting Sports Association runs about 3,000 clubs and has 150,000 members, including a youth section. Many members keep their guns and ammunition at home, while others choose to leave them at the club. And yet, despite such easy access to pistols and rifles, “no members have ever used their guns for criminal purposes,” says Max Flueckiger, the association’s spokesperson.

“Social conditions are fundamental in deterring crime,” says Peter Squires, professor of criminology and public policy at the University of Brighton in Great Britain, who has studied gun violence in different countries and concluded that a “culture of support” rather than focus on individualism, can deter mass killings.

“If people have a responsible, disciplined and organized introduction into an activity like shooting, there will be less risk of gun violence,” he tells TIME.

https://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-culture-that-works/#:~:text=Kids as young as 12,leave them at the club.

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/multim...eaching-swiss-children-to-fire-a-gun/42277788
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That's all great and all but do you really think a lot of the types of people who would buy such a thing for a little kid are going to spend a lot of time on safety, not to mention the fact that they are kids who easily make mistakes.
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Years ago, I spent two years living in Switzerland, and they are serious about safety, and did not see guns as toys. They also had military service every year to keep up with gun practice. They are well regulated and it's a cultural thing. I also think that civility is a duty.
The gun culture in the US needs to be re-educated, among other things...
 
Shadowy Man said:
Finally a solution to the major problem of AR-15s being too heavy for children to handle properly. I’ll sleep better at night now.

And kudos on the safety glasses. We wouldn’t anyone to get hurt.
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Politesse said:
That's a major tourist thing in Nevada. Taking kids to gun ranges. The whole point is to have "fun" with toys that are banned in your home country. Fun for the whole family.
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Huh? I've never seen anything from them promoting towards children. The ads typically are about being able to shoot NFA guns. I am aware of the tourist aspect but I've never seen anything that appears directed at a foreign tourist.
 
Loren Pechtel said:
Politesse said:
That's a major tourist thing in Nevada. Taking kids to gun ranges. The whole point is to have "fun" with toys that are banned in your home country. Fun for the whole family.
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Huh? I've never seen anything from them promoting towards children. The ads typically are about being able to shoot NFA guns. I am aware of the tourist aspect but I've never seen anything that appears directed at a foreign tourist.
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Have you ever been to one? They absolutely market to families.
 
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