All great advice.
My kids know that all guns could be loaded and that guns are not for play. They also know that anytime that they want to handle any of the guns in the house all they have to do is ask and I'll spend as much time with them doing it as they can stand. I'm a broken record about fingers on triggers and muzzle control... even with an empty gun. ("why are you pointing that gun at that wall when you know your mom is in the next room cooking dinner...?" Don't even THINK about touching guns if you have friends in the house if you ever want to have anything but 24/7 work every momenht not in school or practicing a sport...Anyone want to take the chance and see if I'm kidding???
I have a CCW and they see me putting on my pistol as we leave the house..it goes with me ust like I'm taking the car keys. No drama. They asked me one time about it and I told them that it was to protect us if a bad person with their own gun tried to hurt us. That made sense to them and that was the end of that.
I take them shooting as often as we can get to the range or out to our property.
I talk about gun saftey every time I can slip it in. I do it often enough that now I get the
out of both my boys. That tells me that I'm on the right track and probably only have to keep it up for another 5 years or so.
works for us because we have mature kids that are mindful of authority. If not, I might have to come up with a plan B.