I’m in my 40s and used to go to school with my shotgun in the truck. Hunting hours were only for a few hours after school so you were better off carrying your shotgun instead of going home for it.

Everything changed with guns in the late 90s/early 2000s. Before then as long as you weren’t a delinquent no one really cared if a kid had a gun. At least not where i grew up.