I agree with Seattle, Sea and Dan' s advice. I do advise against the newspaper swatting as this may make the dog shy or at least shy to noise. My 17 month old female Lab tries this sort of thing with my wife. With my wife' s " no' s" and mine combined, the pup seems to get the point. I also have a 5 year old Lab that we used the rolled up newspaper on and she happens to be gunshy. I have no evidence that the paper caused it, however I have not used this technique with my pup and she is great around guns. Good luck.