Actually I do. My daughter got her first gun at 6, she also has helped me clean mine and handled them regularly since about 4. She has been shooting "with assistance" since about 4 also. I raised her around guns her whole life and she knows how to use them and respect them. Now 13 she has access to my safe and she has her on rifle and pistol and has had them since 10. Has had safe access since 12. She can strip and clean her own and is one hell of a shot as many here know. It's parenting, not the age, or gun. Parenting. Her pistol stays in her room too and I have no doubt at all that should the need arise she will be deadly proficient with it.