As much as I fought it, being a Vietnam War Era kid, somehow with a bunch of boys we ended up having guns in the house. Pretend guns. I don’t know how it happened, maybe when they started turning bananas and Duplos into guns I gave up.
Then we connected with the cool cousin who is a Deer Hunter who taught them how to use real guns, and Spikekid bought a Daisy BB gun in the US. I blogged about how it was confiscated at the airport, never to be seen again.
So now the boys want to spend their hard earned allowance on clear plastic BB guns with colorful plastic BBs. They get all dressed up like paintball warriors and shoot each other for fun (oh, I must have failed as a mother to allow this).
Do you think Jordanian customs will let them through if I bring them back in my luggage?
hope not!!!!
You didn’t fail as a parent; boys can make weapons out of anything!
The mental image of a blonde mom getting “busted” with clear plastic bb guns at customs is making me smile!
Better hope they don’t rediscover the lost art of slingshot making! I don’t even want to guess how many windows got “accidentally” broken by me that way when I was a kid
The boys or the paint ball guns?! Teehee…
My boys make swords out of green beans at the dinner table. A peanut butter sandwich easily becomes a gun when part of it is eaten away. I bought them foam swords this summer that they are crazy about. They’re only 3 and 6, so we’ll see about BBs when they get older, but weaponry is just something I have to live with as a mother of boys. Not sure about customs though. Have you ever seen those big slingshots designed for shooting off water balloons? That could be fun and would pass through just fine, I think. ~ Um Tulip
hahahahaha
Kids will always be kids! Let them enjoy the shooting
I think you could find real AK-47s more easily there, and maybe as cheap.
If not you can buy them of the internet, or I can mail you my metal bullets air soft gun, like BB gun just a bit cooler
I don’t use it anymore, used to scare my little brothers friends with it a while ago, but now they know I will never shoot them so the joke is over.
Just came across this from a google search on “bb guns”, so I obviously don’t know you or your kids, but…
As much as I’ve always hated the phrase “boys will be boys” it seems to apply here. They do seem to make guns/weapons out of anything. One of my male cousins used to come over a lot when I was a kid and he had those track sets for his hot wheels/matchbox cars. Somehow we’d end up having fake sword fights with those things (I’m female, btw). He never seemed too interested in guns, though.
As for airsoft guns (they shoot those yellow, white, green, etc., plastic BBs), they’re safer than regular BB guns (the ones that shoot steel BBs), but eye protection is a good idea, at the very least. Teaching proper gun safety is not a bad idea, though. Always treat a gun as loaded until you verified yourself that it’s unloaded, never point a gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot, always know your target and backstop and what’s beyond it. Generations of boys learned gun safety using BB guns (steel BBs) or .22 caliber rifles.
BTW, gun manufacturers (BB and real guns) have realized that both girls and women also like to shoot and are making guns with pink grips or pink frames or pink stocks. It makes some men cringe.
Chris, thanks for taking the time to comment on a stranger’s BB Gun post! LOL pink gun grips!!! that would nauseate my oldest son! Sort of like pink camo print.
I think we are going to let them get them, the main issue for us is will these also be confiscated at the airport? I am sure they end up in the hands of the son of the customs officer. Sigh. Thanks again!