It does as far as I am concerned.That depends. Does the airhandler closet count as a room?
After our kids were on their own we started keeping a gun all over the home. I don't want to be in the basement and hear the door get kicked in. This is a personal choice kind of thing many don't like and that is their choice. Only real hassle is when we are going out of town and I have to collect them all to lock upI was asked that by a guest last night.
I changed the subject to contraception....but after I put her in the Uber...
I pulled out all the handguns I have stashed in the living room...
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That depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is... senatorAlways have at least TWO guns in every room. That way, if someone asks if you have A gun in the room you can truthfully answer, “No”.
Well, in the immortal words of the legendary actor Patrick Swayze as "Dalton" in the classic motion picture Road House would say, "Opinions vary."No offense intended but I think leaving an unsecured firearm anywhere in your home is really dumb thing to do
My point is, if they can get into your house while you're there without you knowing it they can get your guns while you're there without you knowing it.
For somebody who professes not to be at all interested in my opinion on things you sure did spend a lot of time rebutting it.Well, in the immortal words of the legendary actor Patrick Swayze as "Dalton" in the classic motion picture Road House would say, "Opinions vary."
Well, not all of us reside in similar circumstances. My house is fairly well-hardened and it doesn't matter if we're home or not in the home. Every door and ground-floor window is hardened and alarmed. It'd be a major hassle just to even break-in through a window, and before anyone even got a leg inside, the alarm will be screeching loud enough to wake the dead, the strobe light on the front of the house will be seen by commercial airliners at 35,000 feet, the alarm company will already have notified the entire family and dispatched law enforcement. The two alarm systems with battery back-up will work (if potential burglars can jam the Wi-Fi, cut my cable internet and landline phone line, they must be targeting the wrong house and be part of the IMF or maybe DEVGRU). There's always at least one trained GSD on duty inside the house, usually two plus the bonus psycho Rottweiler mix. Motion sensors and lights outside, 360 degrees of camera coverage outside and in the living, dining, family rooms and hallways.
In any event, all firearms are returned to the safes (over 1K pounds apiece, bolted down, which will take quite a while to break into) when we leave the house for any extended length of time, if we leave for a weekend or a vacation, we've got family to house-sit. If we're at home, pretty confident we'll know immediately if someone is attempting to get inside.
Anyway, I digress. Obviously, were I ever to go back to being an apartment dweller (not likely), I would radically change my gun storage routine.
Naw, I'm just a really, really fast typist...For somebody who professes not to be at all interested in my opinion on things you sure did spend a lot of time rebutting it
I didn't make a statement. I stated my opinionNaw, I'm just a really, really fast typist...
My point was, not everyone lives in the same or similar circumstances, so making a statement that having unsecured firearms in one's residence is "a really dumb thing to do" isn't always the truth.
Congratulations on your first line defense strategy.My point was, not everyone lives in the same or similar circumstances, so making a statement that having unsecured firearms in one's residence is "a really dumb thing to do" isn't always the truth.
Not to quibble, nor trying to have the last word, but expressing one's opinion verbally or in writing can be considered a statement.I didn't make a statement. I stated my opinion
I have two English Mastiffs, both are less friendly to strangers than I am....and I am not that friendly to non-strangers.I don't leave them stashed. Too easy to find if someone breaks in while I'm gone.
GoodbyeNot to quibble, nor trying to have the last word, but expressing one's opinion verbally or in writing can be considered a statement.
Statements are not required to contain facts, though typically that's what most seem to believe.
Basically, when you say something (such as your remark about unsecured firearms in the home) is a really dumb idea, you are implying, without saying so, that you consider those who engage in the subject practice are dumb people and it can be construed as an attempt to invalidate the opinions of those with whom you disagree.
I think that most here can discern that use of biased words and qualifiers are a pretty good indicator of an opinion vs. a statement of facts, but nevertheless, I can see how some here (not me, I don't take this stuff personally) might feel that you are calling them out as being dumb if they leave unsecured firearms about their home.
And just when I was starting to enjoy the discussion. It ... was ... difficult ... but I even ignored the snark directed towards me in post #17.Goodbye
About how I feel; that'd be a pretty talented burglar or team of burglars. But I wouldn't want them taking my baseball card collection...If someone were going to come all the way out to the middle of nowhere, find my home, breach my gate, the security gate to the porch, my security door on the house, then my steel front door....and after all that get past both my dogs, well, they are welcome to anything they want that isn't in the safes and otherwise nailed down.
I'd be kind of bugged if someone were to get my '68 and '84 Tigers signed game balls. I think the larger issue would be cleaning up the entrails off my nice wood floors.And just when I was starting to enjoy the discussion.
About how I feel; that'd be a pretty talented burglar or team of burglars. But I wouldn't want them taking my baseball card collection...