Going back to the posts last thread about the five year old who killed his little sister -

I’ve shot one of those rifles with my son at a friends house (he’s retired Madison PD). All proper safety gear & everything. So I realized what was bugging me about this incident.

I’ve remembered is that to use this rifle you have to open the bolt, insert the cartridge, close the bolt and the cock the rifle by pulling back a cocking knob. This is under heavy spring tension - I don’t know of any five year old who could do it. My 11 year old had difficulty with it.

What this means is that they left a loaded and cocked rifle sitting in the corner of their house where a five year old could play with it like a toy.

Those parents really should be up on negligent homicide charges.