Boy Scouts Anti-Gun?

[Ktulu]

I was talking to my sister yesterday and she told me that her son's Boy Scout Troop was going to a day of laser-tag and rock climbing somewhere. Apparently, they we not able to play laser-tag because they are not aloud to do anything involving guns. I asked her if this was something that the troop came up with and she said it was right from Boy Scouts of America.

Does anyone know if this is the case? The little rugrats were outside Cabela's Saturday selling popcorn and I'm starting to think I shouldn't have bought any.

[jmoser]

Nonsense - my boy shoots BB guns at Scout Camp all the time. Start in 1st grade with BBs - Older boys shoot .22s and skeet as well. Rules are strict though - scouts are only allowed to shoot on a scout camp range with a scout certified range officer. That means I cannot have an 'official' scout outing in my back yard with BB guns. Lost Lake Scout resrvation (North of Clare) has shotgun, .22, BB, and archery ranges and all are heavily used.

Part of the youth BB gun award is drawing a diagram of a shooting range and labeling all of the important areas.

Scouts also learn knife safety and earn the right to carry their jacknifes.

Scouts are one of the few remaining organizations that has not caved in to the liberal PC hysteria. Guns, Knives, and even God are still A-OK! Imagine that.

[AimHigh]

That troup must have an "undesirable" leader. They are trying to infiltrate the ranks of kids at every opportunity.

[45 acp]

NO the BSA Does not have any policy against lasar tag. They do have a poicy against paint ball though.
Out troop wanted to do this and the Scout Master called and checked with the higher ups at Council and they said go ahead and have fun.
But the troop commitee put a stop to it saying taking kids to a place like that and letting them shoot each other would be teaching them violnce. So myself and the Scout Master took our sons and a few other boys from the troop and went and played laser tag. It was not an official troop outing just our sons and thier friends having fun and it was a blast. If it had been real even though I can shoot better than ank kid there and had unlimited ammo with 8 kids trying to get me I did not have a chance I did get six of them though before they got me.
jmoser you can have an outing in your back yard but you have to have a cerified instructor there.

[mohavesam]

BSA is incredibly constrained not by policy but by INSURANCE COMPANIES.

There are more restrictions to travel in autos (NO caravanning, two adults in every car, No more than four Scouts in any private vehicle, etc) to my knowledge than on non-bullet guns. I have never heard/seen any paintball restrictions. Heck, we took our Cub Scouts on many BB Safaris last year with the full belssing and insurance s from our SE MI Council.

The individual Michigan Councils may have a policy or even guidelines concerning gun events, driven by their insurance underwriters, but BSA is NOT anti-gun! Now the United Way, which provides a good deal of BSA funding, is another story. But nobody here contributes to them I presume.


My GOD, it should not need saying - Support your SCOUTS in any way possible.

[ANIMAL]

Not in the Blue Water Council. we are having a nssf match in two weeks and last this past weekend at Silver Trails they were using shotguns. they regularly have 22 and bb shoots. plus next year our troop is going to camp perry for some m16 shooting. yep I know, couldn't believe it myself. this is one I am not missing.

[Barbara]

I'm on my local scout committee and there is no anti-gun policy that I have ever heard of.

I'd have to be a little concerned about paint ball, but only from a liability point of view.