Don't worry ALTRAV, GY don't do me any favours when it comes to posting comments. nor should he. I'm sorry for using the word kids, its slang for children, sorrrrrry.

Is there any logical reason why 10 year olds shouldn't be taught firearms safety and allowed to shoot under supervision?

That' all that has been proposed.

Thank god we lived in more enlightened times before WW11. We had country kids who had known how to handle a rifle most of their lives, to form a militia & go stop the Japs on Kokoda.

We had better not have to defend ourselves ever again. Can you imagine handing a clown like Paul a rifle, & telling them to go defend the country in the jungle of New Guinea?

If they didn't wet themselves they would run a million miles, or both.

Then for those people who are worried about the ease of obtaining lethal weapons, especially by criminals, the US and India (and others) are developing some far out stuff.

https://www.wired.com/2007/04/plasma_pulse_la/

Who knows what the amateur inventors are doing?

and for those that think that the Adler lever action shotgun is a horror weapon, check out the Pardus.
The Pardus has a box magazine, so spare magazines can be carried and changed in about 1 and a 1/2seconds whereas the Adler has a tube magazine and is slow to reload.
http://www.safarifirearms.com.au/pardus-lax12-lever-action-shotgun-1.html

Hassy, you must be some kind of Rip Van Winkle, we live in a different world today to the one when you charged up San Juan Hill with Teddy Roosevelt in 1898. You need to get out of the nineteenth century, and at least move into the twentieth. It would be too much to ask you to get into the twenty first century and skip a hundred years, Would it not!

Issy. that is just another one of the fights we are having with the gun happy brigade, the stopping of new and even more powerful devices. These new murderous weapons must be prevented from falling into the hands of crazed gunnies!

<<Is there any logical reason why 10 year olds shouldn't be taught firearms safety and allowed to shoot under supervision?>> Sounds a great idea Issy, just take a look at this case.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGCKFzGAfQ0

Sorrrrrry my mistake Issy, the girl was only 9. should have waited another year until she was more mature. Don't you think?