How absurd is that? Can an eight year old buy liquor? Cigarettes? Drive a car? That's all illegal. However, feel free to let him shoot an Uzi.
If a 8 year old is mature enough to repect the gun take a gun safety course then yes he/she should be able to hunt/target practice whatever. In some of the Col's hunting magazines you see the kids that hunt. When my youngest took his safety course there were kids younger than him in the class there were more girls than boys in the class and there were more kids than adults.
