What age should I start locking my gun in the safe so the little one can't get to it?

My next range session, I will try to ask my baby to help clean some parts.
Teach her basic safety, but I don't think she is ready to even hold a kid/junior firearm yet. Hope she grows fast enough to go.

Within my family and my wife's family, it is just my wife and I who shoots.

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Originally Posted by cstone

When the time comes, look into the Eddie Eagle program from the NRA and think about going to an Appleseed. Great for the whole family. Shooting can be a great family activity even if you never carry a gun. Spending time together, building confidence, and developing a mental discipline. Just some of the benefits of the sport.

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Originally Posted by DD977GM2

IMHO your making a mistake creating such a curiosuity for her.

You need to figure out a way to incorporate your daughters interest into cleaning.
I have done that with all the kids and they have a great respect for firearms to this day.
You keeping it from her is a mistake. Even if youhave to go all the way to get your spare
parts and tell her to "clean" them with a clean brush and no LCP etc. Then your making her
a part of the routine and the curiosity will be taken away from her.

As far as he toy guns or squirt gun, ALL 3 of my boys have them out the ass and the only rule I have for them,
while they are not playing a shooting game with them outside or where ever, they are to adhere to the 4 rules and
treat the toy gun as a real gun, such as when they are pickingup their toys or whatever that isnt part of their game time.

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Originally Posted by Byte Stryke

you are already behind the curve.
teaching safety at 2 and 3 is simple
it's even easier when THEY are Mimicking YOU!

They want to be a part of what you are doing. Teach them now while they idolize you or try to beat it into them later when you are "the old man that don't know nothin'..."