Quote Originally Posted by losttrail View Post
How times change.

1977 - Beginning of my sophomore year of HS, I took my Rem 700 .243 to school, to wood shop class. Disassembled, locked the barrel/action/scope in the teachers office, refinished the stock. End of the week, reassembled the rifle, took it out to my truck (1956 F100) and put it in the gun rack, did not even lock the truck. Took it home after football practice.

In a HS with 120± kids total, probably would have needed more toes and fingers than God blessed me with to count all the gun is gun racks in the parking lot. No one ever got shot or even threatened with a gun. Fist fights, sure. Right next to unlocked cars with guns.

Ah, the Montana of old.
We had hunting guns in vehicles in Alabama in the late 70s, and the JROTC had a rifle range in the basement of our high school. Guns were never any issue. However, the JROTC cadet officers did lose their sabers when one yay-hoo went after a teacher with one.