It was a coincidence! It really was!

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Good afternoon all.

Yesterday afternoon, I came home from the range and set up to clean pistols in the kitchen. I had four handguns laid out on the counter and I was working on the fifth when my daughter came up from her basement apartment with her new boyfriend, whom I had not yet met.

It turned out OK, but it was just such a cliche moment.
 
That's the story you told your daughter....what about the shovel, plastic sheets and the bag of lye? What was that for?
 
Funny. My wife's dad came into town yesterday with his lady friend, both from New England. I got home from hunting around noon and won't deny that I purposely strolled around the house for about half an hour in my camo shirt and a pistol OWB in plain view on my hip..... just because I can.
 
My brother, the university professor from up north in town, brought his girl frriend to see us. I had been to the range with a Ruger Old Army which I had loaded before I discovered I had left the caps at home. I had laid it on a table in the living room and got busy with other stuff. After they came we visited a while and he gestured at the gun and said, " is that thing loaded." Well it was. He picked it up and asked if she would like to hold it. She said, "I don't even want you to hold it." Seems like he had this little game of showing naive high class women that there was another world out there. I was always a stop on his itinerary.
 
Our family refers to it as "The 357 Test". My brother in law had to pass it before he was allowed to date my sister
 
I recall meeting the father of one of my exes who was a champion skeet shooter. As I walked up the driveway towards the house, he shot squirrel out of a tree in the backyard from inside his living room. He and I got along great, his daughter and I not so much.
 
My wife and I are expecting our first child and we won't know gender for 5 more weeks. I hope it's a boy, but if it's a girl one of the things I'm looking forward to is doing this.
 
Now what would you have done if that little guy had blown your mind with knowledge on firearms and firearms safety?
Just curious
 
Reminds me of a time something similar happened to me. Well, not so much to me as to the young man my oldest daughter was bringing over to the house to "hang out" as she put it.

My daughters and I had been out shooting the day before, so I had quite a pile of guns to clean that day. Also, since my wife doesn't care for the smell of Hoppe's, when the weather is decent I put an old sheet on my picnic table in the front yard and clean my guns there.

I had a Winchester 97, a Remington 597, a couple of Colt .357's, a Makarov and a few other guns laying on the table, and I was reassembling an SKS when they came in the front gate.

My kid saw the guns said "DAD!!!" in rather loud voice, and her friend looked up and saw the table full of guns and turned white as a sheet. It took her nearly 10 minutes to talk him into coming in........:evil:

Of course, just as in longhair75's case, it was strictly a coincidence......;)
 
This was not a coincidence, but it was fun when my oldest daughter got married a couple of years ago.
 

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Ah...sweet sweet memories of shotgun polishing on the front porch while waiting up for my daughter to get home from dates.
 
I actually did that a couple of times with my girls were dating. But one of them trumped me. We lived in a log home, so everybody who came over wanted a tour. She was showing the guy around and he saw a couple of shooting trophies sitting on the piano. "Your dad shoots?" he asked. "Yeah," she said, "but those are my mom's trophies."
 
My dad did it very intentionally when my two oldest sisters were moving in with their boyfriends. He gave them the "If you hurt my daughter" line. One of the them thought he was kidding around and said so until dad started ejecting rounds. Yeah they got the picture, one even stuck around 36 years and counting.
 
A year or so ago I had several guns out for cleaning in various stages of cosmoline removal along with a 1903 sporter that I was glass-bedding when my daughter showed up with a large group of friends. She didn't even think about it because how common it is in our house. Three of the guys that were in the group are now scared to ask her out on a date. I think it was the smell of the cosmoline. :) The mother of one of the girls in that group called my wife concerned that I was so comfortable around guns. She recommended a good therapist and marriage counselor for us because she had met my wife before and thought she was too smart to be going along with it willingly. :banghead: I had to be abusive because that's the only way I would have that many guns without her taking the kids and leaving me.

Matt
 
I was on the other side of this scenario as a teenager.

Shortly after I started dating a young lady in Tokyo (1956?), her father went hunting. When he returned, he "forgot" to put away his shotgun. From week to week, it moved from one place to another – always where I would be likely to see it, but it was never put out of sight as long as I was in Japan.
 
My guns and my kid's friends have never been a problem; in fact over the years I think I have taken most of them shooting at one time or another (with their parents permission, of course). I always get a kick out of when my daughter typically out shoots her boyfriend, though I have to say he did fairly well with my Hi-Power last time I took them to the range.
 
I have 2 boys, so I don't have a daughter's boyfriend cliche, but I do have a funny gun cleaning story. This summer the Jehovah's Witnesses had been coming through my neighborhood for several weeks, but I was never home. I happened to take a Friday off to go to the range and I was home cleaning my guns when they knocked on the door. I invited them in and had a nice conversation for an hour or so. I was sitting there cleaning several handguns the entire time. One of the ladies didn't seem to mind, but the other just sat there and stared at me the whole time.
 
The OP's story is classic, but would have been better if he'd had a target or two on display...preferably a silhouette with shots in the body and head.

Last week at school, we were discussing a recent shooting of a dog by a neighbor. One of the students made the comment that she hoped the gun was "registered" or the neighbor "would really be in trouble." Turns out the student was from California and a hopeless hoplophobe. Anyway, I'm putting up my target from this weekend in my office. 5 overlapping shots in the 10-ring with a 45.
 
klausman's photo a few posts back reminds me of one I took 15 years ago for a friend when his only daughter got married - he had a pump shotgun in hand (borrowed from the preacher), standing behind the couple as the preacher was reading the ceremony. (Staged though as the picture was taken after they were actually married.)

It went into the wedding album and, still married, they laugh about it today.
 
My 13 year old daughter has a Black Belt in TKD and is now taking Krav Maga. :)
I might be the least of the trouble awaiting any future boy friend but they will know that I am on "Standby" ... ;)
 
Other way around when I started dating my wife. I had recently gotten my concealed permit and her family isn't very big on guns. They have had them around and such but they aren't shooters. Soooo...since I had known them all for a decade or so I was pretty comfortable around them and they knew I periodically carried. One night my father in law was complaining about raccoons destroying his garden and I had a 6" 357 in a shoulder rig under a coat. From the back porch I hit 2 coons at 40 - 50 yards when he flipped on the lights. My brother in law looked at me and said "well I was gonna give you the if you hurt my sister speech but I can't compete with that...please don't break her heart"
 
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