Yoda
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My wife is about 400 miles away, taking care of her 94-year-old father. I've written here about him before, how he flew A-36s and P-47s in WWII, how he once chased a burglar out of his home with a .410, and how he recently asked us to remove the revolver he kept by his bed because his medicine gave him vivid dreams and made him sleepwalk and he didn't want to wake up with a smoking .45 in his hand. Good guy.
Anyway, "Marty," a relative who is a prohibited person, was coming over to visit, so my wife hid her two handguns so he couldn't find them. Then she forgot about them and came down to visit me. A few days after she got back up north, she realized she didn't see the guns where she had hid them. She couldn't find them. I tore the house apart down where I'm at, hoping she brought them down here and we somehow just forgot about them. No joy. Meanwhile, she looks everywhere for them up there. No luck.
We are NOT looking forward to having to submit a police report, since the logical conclusion would be that "Marty" somehow found them and took them. I drive up there, and we give it one more shot, looking everywhere we can think of, going through every drawer and bag and looking under everything. During this search, I realize that a rifle is also missing. Oops.
My wife's father notices all the poking around we're doing and sees our serious faces. "Lose your car keys again?" We didn't want to tell him what was up, because he doesn't need any new worries, but at this point, we felt he had to know what was up. We told him that three guns were missing, and we thought "Marty" might have taken them.
"You mean those two pistols and that little single-shot rifle? I saw that they weren't in their normal places, and I didn't want Marty to find them, so I put them in that old cedar chest in my closet."
Oh.
And that's exactly where they were.
As I said, good guy.
But the question is, if you know a prohibited person is coming over, how inaccessible do you have to make the guns? If you don't have a safe, do you have to move them out of the house?
Your thoughts?
- - - Yoda
Anyway, "Marty," a relative who is a prohibited person, was coming over to visit, so my wife hid her two handguns so he couldn't find them. Then she forgot about them and came down to visit me. A few days after she got back up north, she realized she didn't see the guns where she had hid them. She couldn't find them. I tore the house apart down where I'm at, hoping she brought them down here and we somehow just forgot about them. No joy. Meanwhile, she looks everywhere for them up there. No luck.
We are NOT looking forward to having to submit a police report, since the logical conclusion would be that "Marty" somehow found them and took them. I drive up there, and we give it one more shot, looking everywhere we can think of, going through every drawer and bag and looking under everything. During this search, I realize that a rifle is also missing. Oops.
My wife's father notices all the poking around we're doing and sees our serious faces. "Lose your car keys again?" We didn't want to tell him what was up, because he doesn't need any new worries, but at this point, we felt he had to know what was up. We told him that three guns were missing, and we thought "Marty" might have taken them.
"You mean those two pistols and that little single-shot rifle? I saw that they weren't in their normal places, and I didn't want Marty to find them, so I put them in that old cedar chest in my closet."
Oh.
And that's exactly where they were.
As I said, good guy.
But the question is, if you know a prohibited person is coming over, how inaccessible do you have to make the guns? If you don't have a safe, do you have to move them out of the house?
Your thoughts?
- - - Yoda
