re: How old were ya when ya got a BB gun?

I was 7 or 8 when I got a plastic pump Daisy. 9 or 10 when my NOLA cousin gave me his Benjamin. My aunt said there was nowhere for him to shoot it.
I rebuilt the pump this past summer, shoots good as new. My soon to be 8 year old loves shootong it but I get to do all the pumping.
Times have changed, and where you live has alot to do with it to. I grew up outside the city limits of Bastrop. We carried our pellet guns everywhere on our bikes. My kids are growing up in suburbia. People drive too fast up and down our street to let them roam too far. And the houses are on top of each other. A kid with a pellet gun walking down the street would probably get a call to the police around here.