YankeeFlyr
Member
A question for all non-living-alone people; whether married with or without kids, or with roommates, or live-ins, or domestic partners, or space aliens in the crawl space or whatever. You get it.
What precautions/briefings have you had with other household members about "that loaded gun in the drawer/closet/pantry" and "don't touch it...unless you NEED to"?
I live in a working-class neighborhood in SW Baltimore. On my side of the greenway (abandoned trolley tracks turned into a garden) the neighborhood has a watch system, with members on patrol in vehicles nightly. On the OTHER SIDE of said greenway, there is sometimes gunfire, and once in a while a shooting, the latest in May.
I keep a loaded 1911A1 next to the bed, with the hammer down on one in the chamber. I've explained this arrangement to my wife, who fired a .22 once in her youth. I made sure she watched me rack one into the tube, eject the mag and replace the chambered round so the mag was topped off again, and lower the hammer.
I told her that if she EVER needed to put the gun into action she needed to pull the hammer back and then she'd have 8 rounds.
She's never touched the gun, and never will, unless I wasn't home and she was absolutely sure that someone was coming for her.
(She was broken into 3 years back, while living alone, and the guy actually came up to her as she slept and made some 'suggestions' to her...she yelled at him and he ran away.)
Yeah, I know...take her to the range and get her familiarized with the .45; ain't gonna happen.
My question is...what do you tell your household people???
Nothing? Everything?
What do you folks out there say?
What precautions/briefings have you had with other household members about "that loaded gun in the drawer/closet/pantry" and "don't touch it...unless you NEED to"?
I live in a working-class neighborhood in SW Baltimore. On my side of the greenway (abandoned trolley tracks turned into a garden) the neighborhood has a watch system, with members on patrol in vehicles nightly. On the OTHER SIDE of said greenway, there is sometimes gunfire, and once in a while a shooting, the latest in May.
I keep a loaded 1911A1 next to the bed, with the hammer down on one in the chamber. I've explained this arrangement to my wife, who fired a .22 once in her youth. I made sure she watched me rack one into the tube, eject the mag and replace the chambered round so the mag was topped off again, and lower the hammer.
I told her that if she EVER needed to put the gun into action she needed to pull the hammer back and then she'd have 8 rounds.
She's never touched the gun, and never will, unless I wasn't home and she was absolutely sure that someone was coming for her.
(She was broken into 3 years back, while living alone, and the guy actually came up to her as she slept and made some 'suggestions' to her...she yelled at him and he ran away.)
Yeah, I know...take her to the range and get her familiarized with the .45; ain't gonna happen.
My question is...what do you tell your household people???
Nothing? Everything?
What do you folks out there say?