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"A .22 For Christmas"

How the Gun Industry Designs and Markets Firearms for Children and Youth

"Pop Picks up the Tab"

Despite the fact that children can't purchase guns from federally licensed firearm dealers, in many cases they can legally possess them. A 1998 poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News found that 15 percent of American youths owned their own guns.17 Renowned gun writer Grits Gresham summed up the situation in a 1993 column in SHOT Business—

Kids can't buy guns, you say? Well, yes and no. It's true that most students from kindergarten through high school can't purchase firearms on their own. But it's also true that in many parts of the country, youngsters (from preteens on up) are shooting and hunting. Pop picks up the tab.18

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