Originally published at: BACK TO BASICS (SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE!) - Sixguns Firearm Fraternity
…JOHN TAFFIN 1956. Ike was in the White House. I was looking forward to graduation and freedom from studies and also to having a job that would afford enough money to buy my first gun. A paper route through high school kept me in clothes and spending money and also allowed me to give my mother one week’s pay per month. I had just turned 17 and would soon have a real job and be able to buy my own rifle. The money would be no problem and in those wonderful days one only had to be 16 to buy a gun but 21 to vote. Wise men realized the vote was more dangerous than the gun. My father had died in an accident before I reached my first birthday. Mom was a widow at age 19 in the days when government help and its attendant interference rarely existed. In late 1942 Mom remarried and my stepdad promptly went off to war. I was not very old but I still remember that dreadful morning when we received that terse telegram that said Missing In Action. It would be over a year before we knew if he was dead or alive as he spent the remainder of the war in a POW camp. When my stepdad came home he had the usual liberated war trophies including a Luger and a P-38 that were promptly sold. Guns were not to be in our house. My stepdad had seen enough of guns. My first gun was purchased and…
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This part was probably the most poignant in the article to me and significant to todays world … I think JT is pleased to see that so many states have increased gun ownership rights and that many CCP and open legal carry now… very soon we may well see no where in ths USA that a person will have to worry about carrying a revolver or pistol for self protection. I was very proud of my State WV allowing campus carry !! To many young ladies have lost their life or dignity to malicious deadly rapes or murder.
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