Old-School Gun Control: Portrait of Firearm Safety

[Artie]

Was searching for the history of firearm safety instruction and came across this:
http://life.time.com/history/gun-co...-indiana-schoolchildren/?iid=lb-gal-viewagn#1
Some cool pics showing how the times have changed.

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Regarding the 1st written safety guidelines, it looks like Mark Hanbury Beaufoy, is credited as the originator:

Mark Hanbury Beaufoy was an English businessman and politician who was an avid game hunter. In 1902 he wrote a book of verses on gun safety titled "A Father's Advice" in which the first rule of gun safety stated, "If a sportsman true you'd be/Listen carefully to me:/Never, never, let your gun/Pointed be at anyone." "A Father's Advice" eventually traveled the world and usually without an author credit for Beaufoy when some firearms manufacturers began providing a copy of the verses with every gun.

Read more: http://www.ehow.com/about_6105494_history-gun-safety.html#ixzz2wbsAxe8u
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[TZCHRIS]

dude! I just realized that kid is the same kid in your avatar!

Reminds me of my kid at BP the other night, was pretty funny but he was knocking em dead!

 

[Artie]

Great pic of your kid

dude! I just realized that kid is the same kid in your avatar!

Hopefully he is safer with that shotgun than the butter knife.