A movie you would not see made today ... "Smiley gets a gun".

Smiley is the bush towns little deliquent ratbag. The local copper makes a deal with Smiley. He has to be a good boy and if he gets noticed for eight good deeds, marked by nicks with an axe on a tree, he will be given a .22 rifle. Every bad deed, and a nick is removed. Things do not go to plan of course and you need to watch the movie for its ending. Of course Smiley ends up being given his own .22 rifle by the local Police Seargeant. No PTA's, no waiting period, no registration, and to a little ratbag kid. Amazing.

The world in 1958 before things "improved" and diversified ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Gets_a_Gun