Yes...alas times have changed. When I was a kid I had several pair of those boots too... my Scout knife just fit in the pocket.
When I started in law enforcement in far Northern Wisconsin in 1980 the school bus would stop and pick up kids along the road that had been hunting during deer season early in the morning. They all had a soft case and they carried their rifles onto the bus, to school and then to their locker until they went home... it was repeated daily for years during the 14-day deer gun season. They stopped allowing that in the mid 1980's.
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!" - Benjamin Franklin