In Pennsylvania there are a lot of exemptions from taking the hunter safety/firearm course. I asked a Game Warden why and he said that the State’s legislature assumed that people who were from the older generations were trained in firearm safety by their Father and the State could not do a better job.

As a side note we were up shooting at the State’s public trap range and I saw a Father roughly grab his son under his arm, and man did he ever grab him, and told him if he sweeps the line one more time with his barrel he’s going back to the car and he is going to take him back to his mother.
There are still some Fathers out there, fewer and fewer but still some out there.