While I have no doubt that you are, the courts have to be convinced that the parents are and that the kids don't have bypass information, like where daddy wrote down the combination to the safe.
Years ago, my kids were able to brute force figure out the 5 digit pass code to unlock HBO. I have no doubt kids can with some free time would be able to brute force hack an electronic safe. Kids are like prisoners in prison. When the parents/guards aren't around, they have nothing but time.
The problem is that it was a credible threat and also that even if they WERE secured, it doesn't mean the little bastard doesn't know where the key is.
Hopefully, that family doesn't need a gun while the bureaucracy plays out. The kid will likely go to a psych, the parents coached and the guns returned. Too bad we'll never know the full story.
Doesn't matter, and the same can be said for felons who are married or have roommates who own guns. Everyone else in the home 2nd and 4th Ammendment rights' do not just disappear because a felon, suicidal, or other alleged threat lives in the home.
Question: Using the same logic and train of thought that a child can bypass a gun safe, what if the kid said he was going to use his next door neighbor's gun? Surely if children can get into a safe, they can get past the lock on the neighbor's door or simply break a window. You both think the neighbor's firearms should be taken too?
Plus, it's not the child's property, the firearms weren't used in a crime, and the parents committed no crime. There is no reason why their property should be confiscated.
First and foremost, if after a hearing, the child is still deamed to be an imminent threat, he shouldn't be released back to the parents in the first place. There's more than one way to kill people and even get a gun if one is determined enough. What should happen is on condition of release, a judge or magistrate can add stipulations that the child is not to be the home with firearms, firearms must be locked up, or something similar. If those conditions aren't met, then the child should be put back in jail or removed from the home and/or the parents charged with violating a court order. Going in into their home, confiscating their firearms, and then posting pictures of what they took is highly inappropriate and unconstitutional IMHO.
You're way of thinking is along the same train of thought that anti-gun and progun control side has. They think that public safety concerns trumps the Constitution. "It's the moral and common sense thing to do to save lives!" That they can outright violate super majority's 2A rights, for example, because of the threat the minority allegedly pose. That's not the way it is supposed to work.
