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Originally Posted by CDAT
I know that people use this saying all the time to say how great it is, but not sure what it really has to do with that. 200 years ago most kids (male at least) used firearms that are very easy to use, but also take more maintenance and my understanding is that keeping them maintained was not a big issue.
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True that...
I reckon the media is to blame.
I think the real reason we hear about children and AKs is that it was/is very good media fodder to keep the Western masses paranoid about Communism/terrorism.
We don't hear about children and ARs but that happens as well. For instance, there's photos of Karen rebels where some of their soldiers were 12-15 year olds armed with M16A1's. I've also seen photos of Saudi boys of 9 and 10yrs practicing with Jezails and of course there's untold numbers of boys and girls in the rural areas of the USA, Canada, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa etc. etc. who have been using firearms for hunting or killing pest animals but their rifles aren't attention grabbers for the media like the AK is!