GigaBuist
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I got what would seem like a weird question today. I say 'seem' because it struck me as really odd but I'd pondered something similar before and actually asked the same thing, but different circumstances.
A co-worker, male in his early 40's or late 30's asked me at lunch today if he bought a gun if I'd let him keep it at my place. His wife is entirely anti and he doesn't really trust himself with safe handling since he hasn't even shot a gun but for a few times when he was 18-20ish.
I'm not opposed to the idea if he helps somebody purchase their own gun that they can take full ownership of later. He's not asking me at all to buy one for him, or sell him one, and he has no intended purpose of it -- just kinda thinks it'd be prudent to own a gun. I can't really disagree with that, but I would presume at his age he'd realize that he's perfectly capable of storing his own firearm safely... besides, I'm not exactly home all the time so I have no idea how he'd "check out" his gun and return it later. Seems like it'd be inconvient for us both. He's mostly concerned, it seems, that his daughter would shoot herself with it accidentally. I'm sure we all know it's perfectlly possible to keep a firearm safe from a 3 year old child.
LIke I said though, I posed this same question to somebody once before I got into shooting. In this case though I was 19 or 20, lived in apartment, and the only place I knew I could shoot at was at this guy's house -- and I'd known him since I was 8. He agreed, and didn't mind the idea at all, but I never took him up on the offer.
Just seems a little odd is all, but I understand where he's coming from.
A co-worker, male in his early 40's or late 30's asked me at lunch today if he bought a gun if I'd let him keep it at my place. His wife is entirely anti and he doesn't really trust himself with safe handling since he hasn't even shot a gun but for a few times when he was 18-20ish.
I'm not opposed to the idea if he helps somebody purchase their own gun that they can take full ownership of later. He's not asking me at all to buy one for him, or sell him one, and he has no intended purpose of it -- just kinda thinks it'd be prudent to own a gun. I can't really disagree with that, but I would presume at his age he'd realize that he's perfectly capable of storing his own firearm safely... besides, I'm not exactly home all the time so I have no idea how he'd "check out" his gun and return it later. Seems like it'd be inconvient for us both. He's mostly concerned, it seems, that his daughter would shoot herself with it accidentally. I'm sure we all know it's perfectlly possible to keep a firearm safe from a 3 year old child.
LIke I said though, I posed this same question to somebody once before I got into shooting. In this case though I was 19 or 20, lived in apartment, and the only place I knew I could shoot at was at this guy's house -- and I'd known him since I was 8. He agreed, and didn't mind the idea at all, but I never took him up on the offer.
Just seems a little odd is all, but I understand where he's coming from.