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92f-fan wrote:About 35 years ago I was "interviewed" by the local police for having a gun.

I was in my parents back yard which led to 1000 acres of woods. My buddies and I were playing war as we called it. We were about 10 years old. The guns we were using were sticks we picked up off the ground. A neighbor called the police to report kids running around with guns.

The point of the story is that these kinds of issues have been going on for years ...

Thankfully everyone then and now had the required restraint to avoid a bad result

Me too, similar situation, I was about 15 years old, and I actually had to explain aboout this when applying for a CHL, My situation was "picked up and taken to the police station and released to parents" when carrying a Daisy BB Pistol that looked like a 1911, with a freind carrying a BB rifle, in an open field by the railroad tracks, while we were shooting frogs for his mom to cook froglegs..... didn't even require a frog hunting license ... and the crawdads from the didtch required no fishing license, and the BB guns were legal. Still, the DPS wanted County/District Clerk record checks that there were no carrying weapons charges from 40 years ago on me.