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Yamoon I have a tube fed Stevens 410 bolt action shotgun in my safe. 
Belongs to my brother and Dad had bought it for him when he was still in 
elementary school.
And now my brother is going to hand it down to great grandson and who will now be going into the 3rd. grade.

My brother and I begged our dad for a BB gun, but he was totally against it. He said kids think a BB gun isn't dangerous because it's not a "real gun", and end up hurting someone, or shooting out windows.
So he bought us a .22LR instead. That was great except we lived in the city, so could only shoot it when we went out to friends, or family outside town, or on a camping trip. But he was probably right in his thinking.

I still have my first BB gun and it still works.  Not sure what model it is but it's a Daisy. I would guess that it was given to me at around 5 or 6 years old. I had quite a few more better BB guns as I got older,but none of those survived. I remember spending most days after school outside with my BB gun, although we lived in town we had a small acreage with woods across the street from us. It was a different time then, nowadays the neighbors would probably frown on seeing a kid runaround the neighborhood with a BB gun.

I remember the late 40s and 50s well, my best friend who lived a block away from 2nd grade on was Darwin Hensley, he went on to carve some beautiful gun stocks.
Mike