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Sounds like a really stupid kid to me- locked bedroom so he climbs around on the roof and goes in the window? But I guess I can see his curiosity if his dad never took him to the range and taught him any gun safety. However if his dad HAS done this, then the kid is just plain stupid.
I don't know what it is, but are boys really that stupid? I know they mature later than girls, but geeze. Now I know a boy who is 11 or 12 and he KNOWS gun safety. I about freaked him out when I took my outer flannel shirt off to reveal my XD40 in a shoulder holster here in my taxidermy business. He was with his dad and 16 yr old sister ( she had no interest in the gun btw LOL). The boy gave this look like "OMG that'sa real gun". However this boy hunts with shotguns and muzzleloaders as well as with a bowso I knew he knew all about gun safety, which is most likley why he reacted like he did. I took it from the holster and cleared it, locked the slide back,and let him look at it and hold it- THEN I invited him and his dad to go outside and fire it. They both took me up on it, andI also got out a .45 for them to try out. I had some foam ear protectors I gave them and set a target up at 7 yards.I didn't really have time to go over loading and so on, so I did it all for them and handed them the guns 1 at a time and told them that the XD has a long trigger pull, the 1911 does not, so they knew what to expect. The boy seemed to enjoy it, though he was nervous, but at no time did he violate any safety rules ( if he hadI would have been all over him!). Both of them were good shots too, though the boys nerves got to him and he started flinching with the recoil, but I pointed it out to him and he controlled it. Afterwards the dad was talking about getting an XD45 5"some day, but he is mired helplessly in taxidermy bills LOL
Anyway, the point is that this boy KNOWS what a gun can do( he has seen the deer he has killed, plus the pig he got too), and ANY parent with esp a boy, should when he is maybe 8-9 years old take him out shooting, and earlier than that at least show him what a bullet can do to a melon and teach gun safety to them. I have another customer whos son is 5 or 6 and has already started teaching him gun safety and shooting. I was surprised when he said he let the kid shoot a .38 one day.A .22 I can see for one that young.