Sebastian Mongeau fulfilled a lifelong ambition on Sunday.
"I always wanted to shoot a gun since I was a kid," said Sebastion, who at 14 years old arguably still is one.
But now the brawny Lacey High School freshman is a kid who's fired not only a 9mm Glock pistol, but also a fearsome Stag Arms AR-10 semi-automatic rifle, thanks to an event titled, "Common Sense Gun Safety Training for Students,[1]" on Sunday, organized in response to an incident in March that angered Second Amendment activists and parents in the generally gun-friendly Ocean County community.
So how was his first pull of a real, live trigger?
"It was really cool," said Sebastian, who now more than ever wants his own Desert Eagle semi-automatic handgun.
"I thought it would have more kick," added Sebastian, who got a ride to the event at a Middlesex County gun range from his half-brother, John Barrow, 24, also of Lacey.
The event was held at the Union Hill Gun Club in Monroe, organized by the president of the New Jersey Second Amendment Society, Alexander Roubian, in response to the disciplining of two Lacey High School students [2]after one of them had posted a photo on Facebook taken at a gun range they were visiting with adults during non-school hours.
No threat of violence accompanied the photo and no criminal activity was ever alleged by authorities. And Roubian was one of 200 or so people who packed a school board meeting where district officials were repeatedly accused of meddling in a perfectly legal family activity, off campus and after school hours. One father was cheered after telling school officials, "It's none of your damn business[3] what our children do outside of
