BSA1
member
How important do firearms play in your relationship with your FIL? Are there other hobbies you can enjoy with him?
The gun safety course is a good idea but I would not expect any changes. A lifetime of bad habits are hard to break.
I would limited my visits to my in-laws for starters and invite them over to your place more often.
I would gracefully think of excuses not to go shooting with him and I would not discuss shooting and guns in detail with him.
Cut out the gun related Christmas gifts.
Find different shooting buddies.
My wife enjoys a close relationship with her father and have never tried to change it in over 30 years of marriage. My FIL has done things that I didn't approve of but we worked around it.
The gun safety course is a good idea but I would not expect any changes. A lifetime of bad habits are hard to break.
I would limited my visits to my in-laws for starters and invite them over to your place more often.
I would gracefully think of excuses not to go shooting with him and I would not discuss shooting and guns in detail with him.
Cut out the gun related Christmas gifts.
Find different shooting buddies.
My wife enjoys a close relationship with her father and have never tried to change it in over 30 years of marriage. My FIL has done things that I didn't approve of but we worked around it.