My memory is a little fuzzy but when I was about 20 I paid $5 for my FOID card and had to wait a couple of days to complete the purchase of a handgun. How are these kids able to get guns the same day?

My memory is a little fuzzy but when I was about 20 I paid $5 for my FOID card and had to wait a couple of days to complete the purchase of a handgun. How are these kids able to get guns the same day?

This kid knew the school protocol and the weakness in it. He was able to blend in with other kids and enter the school at the end of the day.

Not over yet.

They're not.

seems so obvious doesn't it? Couple of full time police officers in every high school. ID badges to get through secured doors like any office building has. X-Ray machines. security cameras around the exterior. Too bad most people aren't really serious about stopping school shootings.

Amen.

When I student taught at Morgan Park there were metal detectors at the front doors. Every morning kids would be running into the school to avoid being late and the machines would stay going off as the security guards tried to quickly usher everyone into the building.

In Illinois, there is a 3-day waiting period for hand guns. So technically, if I buy a 22 caliber pistol, I have to wait 3 days. But rifles can be purchased the same day. When I bought my dad his AR-15, I was able to get it as soon as the background check cleared.

When I student taught at Morgan Park there were metal detectors at the front doors. Every morning kids would be running into the school to avoid being late and the machines would stay going off as the security guards tried to quickly usher everyone into the building.

Not over yet.

When I student taught at Morgan Park there were metal detectors at the front doors. Every morning kids would be running into the school to avoid being late and the machines would stay going off as the security guards tried to quickly usher everyone into the building.

Metal detectors might be a good start in schools, doubt parents in say a Naperville would allow this.

Doesn’t that depend on state?For long guns that is. I seem to remember that after I got my residency changed to Montana I was able to walk in and buy a shotgun in dame day. Illinois’ laws are fairly strict.
Handguns still had a 3 day. Illinois has 24 hour wait on long guns. Then they run background.


During the height of assault weapon ban it was easy enough to get AR type guns in any gun shop in Montana. Just had to pay for the grandfathered in weapons. Same as larger magazines than 10 round for glock handguns.

Any kid who goes to high school knows how to get in and get out around security at their school.

Amen.

Oct. 7, 2007: Tyler Peterson, 20, used an AR-15 to kill six and injure one at an apartment in Crandon, Wis., before killing himself.
June 20, 2012: James Eagan Holmes, 24, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber Smith and Wesson rifle with a 100-round magazine, a 12-gauge Remington shotgun and two .40-caliber Glock semi-automatic pistols to kill 12 and injure 58 at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Dec. 14, 2012: Adam Lanza, 20, used an AR-15-style rifle, a .223-caliber Bushmaster, to kill 27 people — his mother, 20 students and six teachers — in Newtown, Conn., before killing himself.
June 7, 2013: John Zawahri, 23, used an AR-15-style .223-caliber rifle and a .44-caliber Remington revolver to kill five and injure three at a home in Santa Monica, Calif., before he was killed.
Oct. 31, 2015: Noah Jacob Harpham, 33, used an AR-15, a .357-caliber revolver and a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to kill three on a street in Colorado Springs, Colo., before he was killed.
Dec. 2, 2015: Syed Rizwyan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, 28 and 27, used two AR-15-style, .223-caliber Remington rifles and two 9 mm handguns to kill 14 and injure 21 at his workplace in San Bernardino, Calif., before they were killed.
June 12, 2016: Omar Mateen, 29, used an AR-15 style rifle (a Sig Sauer MCX), and a 9mm Glock semi-automatic pistol to kill 49 people and injure 50 at an Orlando nightclub before he was killed.
Oct. 1, 2017: Stephen Paddock, 64, used a stockpile of guns including an AR-15 to kill 58 people and injure hundreds at a music festival in Las Vegas before he killed himself.
Nov. 5, 2017: Devin Kelley, 26, used an AR-15 style Ruger rifle to kill 26 people at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, before he was killed.
Feb. 14, 2018: Police say Nikolas Cruz, 19, used an AR-15-style rifle to kill at least 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.

Jesus Christ...

This is a good idea. I talk with my hands all the time. Lots of kids are visual learners, so having teachers with arms will only aid in the learning process.

yeah, really hasn't been used that much. no worries.

Amen.