Household rules for "gun management" - Do you have any?

[Hokkmike]

Family members or vistors to my home will abide by my personal "household rules" for guns.

Visitors who have a CCP should keep it that way. What I don't know won't hurt me. In other words, they may enjoy their constitutional rights in my home.

Visitors who "open carry" are welcome too, but they should not remove their weapon from its holster unless to show me their weapon (I hope they do) or for emergency use.

If a visitor wants to remove his/her weapon and secure it in a safe location in my house he/she should advise me as to where it will be kept.

Family members, especially children, will have been trained to respect and properly use firearms or they won't touch them until they are.

Visiting minors will not be permitted to handle firearms unless their parents are present and consent. Preferrably, a gun savy friend will show his own kids "the ropes".

All firearms, except those designated for emergency use, will be unloaded.

Adult visitors who are ignorant of fiream use will not handle them without direct supervision of that particular firearm's owner. If it is a child's gun then or my wife would supervise.

 

[30 cal slob]

visitors with hi-points or ravens will be boiled in baby oil.

 

[John4me05]

Fire up the oil for me then....
I dont get it.. Hipoints are a great gun for the price... Reliable.. Accurate...

Hmmph....

 

[30 cal slob]

*sniff*

you may check your hi-point at the door.

(pinky finger extended).

 

[brighamr]

Here's my rule for visitors:
Don't shoot me or what's mine.


Yep, that pretty much sums it up. The only visitors I have are family, and they were brought up the same way I was, so I don't have much to worry about.

 

[Blakenzy]

I don't have many friends that would bring a gun into my home with them... If one does, it would probably be a special occasion and we would abide by general range and firearm safety rules... nothing much to be said there.

 

[M2 Carbine]

The only visitors to my home are "gun people" or people smart enough not to pick up one of the many guns laying around.

About the only rule for visitors that bring a new gun to my place is, we have to step out back and shoot it.

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Do you have rules regarding how many squares of toilet paper they can use depending on their training and/or current gastrointestinal conditions?

Having a defined set of rules like this gives off the impression that someone is either a bit draconian or insecure/uncomfortable around either firearms or their friends.

 

[Technosavant]

Let's see... rules for gun management in my home...

1) Treat every firearm as though it's loaded.
2) Do not point the muzzle at anything you do not with to destroy.
3) Keep your finger out of the trigger guard until you are ready to fire.
4) Be sure of your target and what lays beyond and around it.

And to this, I add...
5) If an emergency situation arises where firearms are needed for defense, accuracy is highly appreciated.

 

[Hokkmike]

Having a defined set of rules like this gives off the impression that someone is either a bit draconian or insecure/uncomfortable around either firearms or their friends.

They are not "defined" as being listed anywhere. I do not announce them to my friends. They are simply rules I live by that are applied when necessary. You mean to tell me that 'anything goes' at your place? I'll bet not.

I am very liberal with my sharing of TP, BTW! (please conserve paper though and use both sides)

 

[Sato Ord]

I have a few to augment the Four Rules.

1. The only loaded weapons regularly kept in the house are our home defense weapons, and those are kept under supervision at all times.

2. Children don't touch weapons without direct adult supervision. There is no compromise on this one at all, and I don't care if the kid is 8, 18, or 28. If I deem that person too immature to safely handle a weapon he/she won't touch one in my home.

3. Visitors stay the heck out of my bedroom. There's nothing in there to see other than my guns and if I want to show them to you I will bring them out.

4. Pretty much anyone I invite into my house can carry, concealed or otherwise. If I trust you enough to allow you into my home I usually trust you enough to carry your weapon. An exception to this rule would be those I know who aren't familiar with firearms but are still friends.

5. As far as my weapons go, my friends know pretty much where I keep them and those who are familiar with them would be allowed to grab one and load it if an emergency arose. If I trust you enough to let you in the house...

6. No one brandishes a weapon on my property without real cause. Doing so will mean that you will be asked to leave and won't be invited back. (This has never been a problem for me, but I throw it in because it's common sense and there are those who don't have enough of that to realize it's implied.)

7. Anyone who is in my home with my permission has the right to feel safe, and is under my protection. If someone who is carrying acts in a manner (such as showing off with his firearm) that scares another guest he/she will be asked to leave, and not invited back.

8. This goes along with 7. If someone has strong anti-gun feelings and makes a nuisance of him/herself, bothering me or my other guests, he/she will be asked to leave and not invited back, also.

My home is a sanctuary for me. I rarely invite people over; usually opting to go out to see my friends instead.

When I do invite people over I take the old time attitude that a guest in my home must be made to feel safe and welcome at all times. Arguments are the stuff of good conversation and I don't mind honest disagreement. However, anyone who makes another guest feel uncomfortable is no longer welcome, and that goes for both sides of the second amendment argument.

 

[NavyLCDR]

About the only rule for visitors that bring a new gun to my place is, we have to step out back and shoot it.

I am soooooo jealous. My dream is to have at least 100 yards at my house when I retire.

My #1 gun management rule is that if it doesn't get shot within a year, I sell it for something I will shoot more.... NO SAFE QUEENS.

 

[Sato Ord]

Having a defined set of rules like this gives off the impression that someone is either a bit draconian or insecure/uncomfortable around either firearms or their friends.

And just who said I don't have the right to be Draconian in my own home.

I do not walk into someone else's house and proceed to do as I please. I use a bit of common sense and don't expect that my host will to have to police my actions.

I pretty much expect the same from my guests.

I don't feel the need to post these rules at the door and make everyone read them before entering. However, what I have laid out is what I expect from guests. That includes family members, especially since all but one of my direct siblings is dead and buried, and the rest of my family are co-dependent rednecks whom I have as little contact with as possible.

I believe that if I have invited you into my house it is then my responsibility to ensure that you are safe, comfortable, well fed, and entertained. I take this responsibility as seriously as I take any other responsibility, perhaps even more so.

 

[Treo]

I think the only actual "rules" we have in the house are.

1. No smoking in the house
2. No dogs on the bed
3. No eating in the living room.
4. No answering the door for strangers, especially after dark.

Guns really aren't this huge all consuming part of my life that I make up "gun rules" for my house.

DW's kids are all pretty anti as was DW when we met, so none of them even know that we own guns. But they also don't know I own 4 roll aways full of tools either, and for the same reason.

I carry a gun all the time so does DW they are always loaded. We have a BUG in the basement its always loaded & I have a hold out in the safe , it's always loaded.

Everything else is locked up in the safe in the Katrina closet.

That's just how things are W/out any specific "rules"

 

[Hokkmike]

I believe that if I have invited you into my house it is then my responsibility to ensure that you are safe, comfortable, well fed, and entertained. I take this responsibility as seriously as I take any other responsibility, perhaps even more so.

Sato Ord...put me on your visitor's list~!

 

[Mr White]

The main rule in my house is:

You shoot it, you clean it. Daddy's not the magic gun cleaning elf any more!

 

[TallPine]

I've never felt the need to have such "rules" - I only invite people into my home that I trust.

 

[fletcher]

I've never felt the need to have such "rules" - I only invite people into my home that I trust.

And... +1

All I ask is that they abide by the four rules - they're welcome to dry fire at the TV or whatever I would do, I don't really care. Never has been a problem, though.

 

[Hokkmike]

I've never felt the need to have such "rules" - I only invite people into my home that I trust.

Surely you must, from time to time, have friends of friends or others stop in that you have never met before?

 

[M2 Carbine]

NavyLT
Quote:
"About the only rule for visitors that bring a new gun to my place is, we have to step out back and shoot it."

I am soooooo jealous. My dream is to have at least 100 yards at my house when I retire.

Having a home range is great.
Recently I bought this tractor to improve the 100 yard range I've had since about 1969. The range is looking better all the time.


If we include your outside property in the "Household rules for gun management" I do have one rule.
Whenever I invite someone new to shoot I "tactfully suggest" that they first shoot up close, about 7 yards for handguns and about 25 yards with rifles. I like to know that they aren't going to put any bullets over the backstop.

Some people talk guns better than they shoot guns.

 

[Igloodude]

DW's kids are all pretty anti as was DW when we met, so none of them even know that we own guns. But they also don't know I own 4 roll aways full of tools either, and for the same reason.

They're anti-tool?

We (wife and I, no kids) have guests over rarely, so there are no explicit rules for their stay, other than "if you're bringing minors please call first". This is so we can minor-proof the house in advance. Other than that, anyone we let in the front door is assumed to be mature enough to deal with whatever they might see.

 

[M2 Carbine]

Surely you must, from time to time, have friends of friends or others stop in that you have never met before?

Never.
Even my closest friends call before coming over. Just seems like the polite thing to do.

If a stranger, cable guy, repairman, etc, is scheduled to come in the house I do what's necessary, put the guns out of sight, etc.


Funny story.
A adjuster came out the house to check a little damage on my car.
He finally asked if he could open the car door to check the numbers. I watched as he opened the door and saw my Ruger 357 in a holster by the seat.
He didn't flinch, but after all this is Texas.

 

[Treo]

QUOTE: "They're anti-tool? "

Why, did I know that was coming

 

[TallPine]

Surely you must, from time to time, have friends of friends or others stop in that you have never met before?

Um no - not really.

The one time we had a group over was for my daughters' HS graduation reception. I did lock all the misc guns (that usually lean in corners) in a closet that time.

 

[RP88]

I have two personal rules:

-gun stays unloaded unless an emergency occurs
-for the exception of two five-packs of 00 buck for said emergencies, all ammo stays in a shoebox and/or out of sight