What are your opinions of this situation?

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I'm currently in college and have a very VERY antigun, self proclaimed communist roommate. He has basically told me, if I ever bring any of my guns to the apartment, he is moving out. Now, I know that at this point in our lease (only 4 months left) there is no way he would do this, but I know he would give me an earful if he found out that I store my shotgun here without his knowledge. It basically has come down to this for me. I have a constitutional right to own a firearm. I don't want to need my gun one day, and end up not having it just because he has this idealistic antigun position. So, am I wrong in doing this? Is there any type of legal action he could take against me if he somehow found out that I have my shotgun in my closet?
 
If you are not breaking any laws what can he do? Is this apt on or off campus? Find a new roommate ASAP!
 
Have you ever invited him out to shoot trap or skeet with you? I realize that you want your shotgun for self protection, but they do have more uses and with a quick barrel change, it can be a very nice sporting shotgun. You could ask him if he would like to just go along to watch....nothing harmful in that right??

I think the best thing for the anti's is to actually witness people using their guns for something other than what is perceived on TV and in the movies!!!
 
Well, first off, not a lawyer, all of the following is assumptions to be taken very lightly, and only used if proven by other sources more knowledgeable then myself.

Assuming the apartment lease allows firearms (I'm unsure if they can even ban them), and you could legally store the firearm at that property and obey any other laws....

Then going on to assume you never entered into any contract with the room-mate agreeing you wouldn't bring a firearm into the apartment...

Then I don't see how it would be illegal to have it just because HE doesn't like it.
 
I've tried to educate him. I lived with him in the dorms last year, and in an apartment this year. I would have loved to live with someone else, but I didn't have anybody else who hadn't already committed to somewhere else that could room with me. We really got into some heated gun debates last year. I tried to show him studies, namely the one by the Harvard professors that talks about gun control and its effectiveness in the US and other countries, but he refuses to even acknowledge the validity. He has told me that he believes all handguns should be illegal, and that guns should have to be stored at a gun range and be checked out to shoot at the range or go hunting. He says that the idea of property is relative, and that no one really owns anything--that it is a societal taught invention, therefore no one has the right to own anything and things such as guns should be able to be taken away since we don't have a right to own anything. He's bloody crazy to say the least.

I've tried to invite him to go shooting, but he says he's done it before and has no interest. Heck, I got a new 30-06 for my birthday and when I was telling him about it, he told me he didn't want to talk about it and was going to leave the room if I continued to tell him about my present.
 
If you legally own the gun, live off campus and your name is on the lease you can tell him to pound sand. Might that be a good idea>? Probably not...
 
I would definetely secure the gun if I were you lock it up so he can't get to it and keep your mouth shut.
 
Quietly find a place for yourself, bust the lease and get out of the situation with the roommate.

Or...

Stay put and when weapon is discovered, your roommate can make good on his own words and leave.

Or...

Tell the roommate to go ahead and find another place because the two of you have reached the end of the road. It is YOUR right (And sorry to say his too..) right to own a weapon under the 2A.

If he wont accept or deal with it then he and you need to part ways.

I see nothing but trouble in the future. Life is like that sometimes.

Until then, get that weapon secured.
 
Just continue to do what you are doing re: the gun. Ensure it's secure and only accessible by you. Then, shut up about it IRT your roomate. It's obvious that you can't turn him, or convince him since he's irrational. It's best to keep the conversational subject to something else. Now, if he keeps bleating like the sheep he is, show him the door. Odds are he ain't going anywhere where he's liable for half the rent. Things you should be doing now:
Looking for a new roomate, or your own place where you don't have to worry about it.
 
his opinion isn't above your legal rights...

MY opinion would be hide it, don't tell him, and part ways asap.
 
What I told my Communist roommate was, "Ya know, Communists killed most of my family back in the old country. It was easy for them to do, because the Communists had already taken the guns away from everybody but the Communists.
Funny, how the Communists didn't give up their own guns!"

He didn't like to talk to me very much.
 
If you live off campus, I would mention to him that he's been living in the same house with a gun for the past 8 months and it hasn't bothered to escape and kill anyone and that he has been perfectly safe from it's evils all this time.
If he doesn't have enough respect for you as to make statements and act the way he does, then I agree with some others...tell him to pound sand. Diplomacy only goes so far.

Or you could take him outside and tell him that you're going to beat the crap outta him until the cops come...and then tell him that if he had a gun that he could stop you, but since he doesn't, too bad. Just kidding, don't do that...
 
I'm living with my progun best friend next year, so storage won't be an issue. Plus, he'll have his there too!

For the time being, I'm thinking its best to just keep it on the "DL" and not say anything. What he doesn't know, won't hurt 'em I suppose.
 
+1 on taking him shooting. Keep asking. Eventually he'll go.

At best he'll learn to love shooting. At worst he will learn guns don't sneak out at night, load themselves and go hunting innocent kids and nuns.
 
yea but be sure to tell him after he pays the last month's rent
i know my little apartment is..er...crowded with guns. Thank god i have no roommates

-kirk
 
I feel mischevious. (Spelling?)

Let's see...

Ah.

Wait until moving day. Break out the gun, storage and ammo etc in full presence of your ex roommate. Casually load those items into the truck in his full view.

When the roommate starts to ... babble soothe him by saying the weapons have been there all that time he has lived with you and no one got hurt.

It's a shame he never took you up on your range trip offers eh?

And leave it at that.:evil:
 
I'm a jerk and will say that upfront so with that he is probably lucky he did not say this to me:

"He says that the idea of property is relative, and that no one really owns anything--that it is a societal taught invention, therefore no one has the right to own anything and things such as guns should be able to be taken away since we don't have a right to own anything."


With that statement I would have punched him and told him to quit whining, his thought that it's his body is a societaly thought idea and I was just punching the jaw of what I own. I'm now going to go sleep with the girlfriend we now all own. I'll also take "our" ATM card since we have no right to anything. Wish you had a gun now don't you.:D

I hate dam commie pinkos.
 
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