Okay, so I was having my son send some 300gr Shockwaves to Clem the other day through the US postal service. I get a call with him in a bit of a tizzy..He called me saying the lady at the counter at the post office was trying to deny sending them. "Sir you can't send ammunition through the mail".. I about fell outta my chair laughing. He said he calmly explained to her that they weren't loaded ammunition and she was saying, "they're bullets aren't they". I swear the boy has my temperment sometimes when it comes to dealing with 100% stupid people! He told her to get her supervisor. Now comes the REALLY funny part...She WAS the supervisor!!! He said he had to sit there for 10 minutes explaining the difference between loaded ammunition and bullets!! He told her the only way they could hurt anyone in this form was if the box fell off a shelf and landed on yer foot! Sadly, it's uneducated people like this that are making our gun laws!

I was told I was one of a dying breed.
Sadly I think shooters and hunters are in general a dying breed. What was considered to be common practice and knowledge when I was growing up is not happening now.
Some kids have an interest in the shooting sports and I know there exists pockets in the country that still enjoy shooting but it is not just something learned growing up like it was.
Many kids are being influenced to see shooting as outdated and not cool.
Unknowable people are common now and have a entirely different view of the shooting sports much less hunting.
They have no idea of the challenge of shooting a good score or the skill it takes.
Worst of all they have their mind made up that shooting should just fade away.
Such a shame because as we know shooting is a sport that folks can excel at who might be disabled and unable to participate in many other sports.

The best way to deal with these postal idiots is to wait until they ask if it is anything hazardous, perishable or corrosive (or however else they ask) and just say no! They don't have to know what is in the package.

not sure why he had to tell her in the first place what it was. One time I sent pete a rifle and the lady was asking what it was. Jeep axle I don't have patience explaining things when I am tired and the person behind the counter looks a little slow in the head.

Right. What's in the package is none of their business. You have no obligation to tell them what it is.

She saw them because he got the box at the counter to mail them in. He didn't have one around the apartment that wasn't 10 times too big.

The best way to deal with these postal idiots is to wait until they ask if it is anything hazardous, perishable or corrosive (or however else they ask) and just say no! They don't have to know what is in the package.

That's what I do

Not in the Southeast, at least. If anything, from what I remember in high school, there can be a peer pressure of sorts to learn how to hunt even if your parents never really did it. If you don't hunt or fish down there, you probably golf.

Considering that in a typical state like Tennessee, a state of 6.5 million people, over 560,000 citizens carry concealed handguns as of June 1st of this year (up from 510,000 a year prior), I'd say at that kind of rate, shooting skills aren't going anywhere.

But I think similar trends hold in other parts of the country, and while I agree that hunters might be a dying breed in general, the surge in tactical weapons' interest accommodates even an increasingly urban constituency, since most shooting such people care about can be done at a 25-yard indoor range. I notice that anymore one has a harder time finding a gun store with hunting-oriented weapons than one that seems devoted to tactical shotguns, AR's, and handguns.