“He was coloring it in getting ready to put all the shapes on it. All the patterns on here. And there’s a little clip on the bottom,” Chariez Scott said, showing KYW-TV in Philly the wooden gun.
Friday, October 29, 2021
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The kid did a pretty good job. I would have bored the barrel a little deeper, but I'd give it an "A-".
ReplyDeleteThank you Teacher for teaching this kid gun-basics. It is now safe for the kid to because a 'famous' 'actor'.
ReplyDeleteFuck sake, it is a magazine, not a clip.
ReplyDeleteDaryl
To the media, everything that holds bullets is a "clip". If it holds (what they think is) too many, then it is a "high-capacity clip".
DeleteI didn't have to go past "Chariez" in the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteHoly CRAP!! When I was in grade 8, my wood working project was to create a life-size replica (in wood) of a WW2 Thompson submachine gun (I'd already made a shelf which I still use today). The teacher who was a Korea vet asked me if I was going to use it to knock off stores...I said no...and he gave me pointers on how to make it look more realistic. My little brother who is thirteen years younger than I am, broke it playing Army when he jumped off the monkey bars pretending to do a parachute jump and landed on it and broke it into three or four pieces about a decade later.
ReplyDeleteIn my shop class, the big thing was to make handles for the bench vices. Then, after the teacher graded them, some of the students conveniently bored a couple of holes in them, making a usable pot pipe out of them.
ReplyDeleteThe teacher never caught on, since he was sort of clueless. We got along, since in high school, I was an athlete, and was the straight and narrow kid, who never did anything wrong. Plus, I had a nickname (Pigpen) and he had one too (Stubby) since he was very short.
Nobody called him that to his face, but he knew of it, and didn't like it. I took shop 1 my junior year and shot 2 my senior year, so we would sort of hang out some, while all of the under class people were working in the wood shop or the metal shop. He was actually a neat guy, who was fun to talk to, if you just took the time to want to listen to what he had to say. Pretty much the same as any other adult. But you have to actually attempt to let the person get the defenses down, and then they will start to talk about themselves, if they think you are safe to open up.
40 years ago, in rural Michigan, guns were pretty much a normal part of life here, and opening day of deer season was actually a holiday from school. We didn't take them to school, but I have no doubt that if we had the in our cars trunk, it would not have been an issue. They were just a tool, and were treated as such. Respected but not feared.
Kid was in the wrong class. Shoulda been metal shop. Teach the little thug how to use a lathe & a mill then let him get after it. Dad would have had a stroke when Jr. showed up at home with a fully functioning Uzi.
ReplyDeleteMuch easier to make a STEN. Plans were dropped over occupied Europe. Exhaust pipe, bed springs, a drill press, a hammer and files, done.
DeleteJohn in Indy
"Much easier to make a STEN."
DeleteLess effective, but yeah, easier.
I'm going to go out on a limb, and guess that the father of the child, Chariez Scott, sits down to pee....
ReplyDeleteTim in AK
I'm so old that in crafts class Mr. Svenson taught us how to build rubber band guns. Also how to mold the "new" plexiglass into ashtrays and so on. Oops almost forgot gun rack and cutting board.
ReplyDeleteCorrection. Rubber band gun may have been a Boy Scouts project. Chew on that.
ReplyDeleteEither way, you're right. In my cornfield high school, we did gun racks in shop and rubber band guns in industrial arts back in '78. Those were the days...Ohio Guy
DeleteBoy Scouts developed a different use for "rubber(s)" over the last couple of decades, unfortunately.
DeleteMy Dad (born in 1917) said he and the other boys made rubber band guns and mounted them on their bicycle handlebars and pretended to be WWI fighter pilots.
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