storage laws and children

[FAS1]

I voted that yes they are dangerous, but that is still to broad of a brush to paint everyone with. Some kids will be fine and others won't. Sometimes we are surprised by which ones are influenced into bad choices from family, friends, or just their everyday surroundings. I believe that there are just too many good options for quick access that will help keep everyone safer in you home than leaving guns laying around.

That being said, I come from a home where my dad always had loaded and chambered guns throughout the home and I was just fine. Most of the time when hanging around with friends I was at thier homes in the subdivision where most of my close friends lived. We lived just on the outskirts and my friends never really hung out at my house because it was harder for us all to get together there.

 

[Doyle]

Chack, you may never have an actual problem with keeping it hidden. However, if something ever does happen that FL law is going to come right back around to you. Best be legal and keep it locked up. If you decide that you need a quick-access gun then get a safe with either a biometric or push-button lock.

 

[geetarman]

My Dad taught me about guns. I knew where he kept the rifle and the shotgun.


He ALWAYS told me to leave them alone when he was not around. I did not always do that and but for the Grace of God, I never ended up in a situation that I would live to regret...BUT...there WERE a couple of times when it could have turned out the other way. Fate or whatever you want to call it, smiled at me.

Case in point, there was an armory being built for the National Guard near our house and we kids played around the place even though we were told not to do that. As they moved in equipment, they brought in a load of land mines. I have NO clue if they were real or not but the detonators WERE.

They were the square box and the pencil type detonators and they both used a round initiator to set off the charge.

So what did we do? We rigged detonators round our house with fishing line for trip wire...

We had NO idea just how powerful those detonators were. If one had gone off in our face, we would have been maimed or blinded if not flat out killed.

We were told to stay away from the place but we did not.

My uncle saw what we were doing and flat out told us we had no clue about the danger. He has just gotten back from South Korea and he knew what he was talking about.

He told us to get that stuff back to the armory and if he heard about any more monkey shines from us, he would tell our parents what we had done.

We learned a lesson and never messed with that kind of thing again.

Point being, we had access, motivation goaded by curiosity and the belief that as kids, we were ten feet tall and bullet proof.

We lucked out. Others are not so fortunate and cemeteries are full of young kids who have done the same thing as we did except for the ending.

Our children are grown now and on their own. I do not know everything thing they did when I was away from the house. I did not leave guns around and in the open, but they knew where they were and how to get to them.

You can't be too safe and you cannot assume your kids are always 100 percent truthful.

Geetarman

 

[kilimanjaro]

I had my first .22 at ten years of age. Dad made sure there was no ammo in the house, we made a trip to the store on plinking day and shot it all up to the last round.

I knew where my Dad's pistol was kept by the age of five. He moved it around for years, he knew I knew, and I knew he knew I knew the secret. I found it every time within a day or two. I knew better than to play with it, but the point is, I knew where it was, went to it often enough, and luckily knew better than to play with it.

Dad sold the pistol around my 13th birthday. Years later he said, "I knew the difference between a young boy and a teenager. Teenagers cannot be trusted, no matter how good they were a couple of years earlier. No creature on earth is dumber than a teenager."

Better safe than sorry.