If you are a gun owner,where do you live, hhi, how many, what kind, storage, when bought, why, kids

[Anonymous]

Read an article that gun ownership has sky rocketed and many are first time owners worried about the riots https://tricornernews.com/lakeville-journal-regional/social-unease-triggers-rise-gun-ownership

Mclean, VA
600k hhi
3 guns, 1 AR style 9mm carbine, 1 Glock 45, 1 38 special
Stored in bio metric safe with combination trigger locks
Purchased the handguns in March because of covid and then bought the at style after the blm riots
2 kids 10, and 7

[Anonymous]

You should not be posting this online.

[Anonymous]

Have you considered therapy for your anxiety? Cheaper and less dangerous.

[Anonymous]

What sort of training are you doing to justify that arsenal?

And is this sort of mental health problems (paranoia, irrationality) a new thing or have you struggled with these problems before?

[Anonymous]

We have guns, and because of my husbands job most people know we have them.m. I am huge hypocrite because my husband is one of the few people I feel safe with having a gun. Most of our friends are anti-gun and agree that my husband is one of the few people they feel safe with owning a gun. He has had extensive training, is an expert marksman and nothing is more important to him than gun safety. You won’t see him wearing any ridiculous 3 percenters shirts or pretending be some kind of sheepdog either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have guns, and because of my husbands job most people know we have them.m. I am huge hypocrite because my husband is one of the few people I feel safe with having a gun. Most of our friends are anti-gun and agree that my husband is one of the few people they feel safe with owning a gun. He has had extensive training, is an expert marksman and nothing is more important to him than gun safety. You won’t see him wearing any ridiculous 3 percenters shirts or pretending be some kind of sheepdog either.

I guess I should add none of our guns were recent purchases, and our kids have never shot a gun. If my kids wanted to when they was older and went through the gun safety classes, my husband would take them to the range, but as it stand they are still young and impulsive. They would never be able to touch a gun in our home since ours are stored properly in a safe, and in a room that the kids don’t even access to. However they have been taught what to do if they ever see a gun at someone’s house or a friends tries to show them one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have guns, and because of my husbands job most people know we have them.m. I am huge hypocrite because my husband is one of the few people I feel safe with having a gun. Most of our friends are anti-gun and agree that my husband is one of the few people they feel safe with owning a gun. He has had extensive training, is an expert marksman and nothing is more important to him than gun safety. You won’t see him wearing any ridiculous 3 percenters shirts or pretending be some kind of sheepdog either.

I guess I should add none of our guns were recent purchases, and our kids have never shot a gun. If my kids wanted to when they was older and went through the gun safety classes, my husband would take them to the range, but as it stand they are still young and impulsive. They would never be able to touch a gun in our home since ours are stored properly in a safe, and in a room that the kids don’t even access to. However they have been taught what to do if they ever see a gun at someone’s house or a friends tries to show them one.

What are you teaching them to do?

[Anonymous]

I bought a handgun ( .38) when I was a single female living in a ground floor condo in VA. I went and shot at a range a few times with a LEo friend. No offical classes but I know how to shoot it.

Now 46, HHI is $150, married, one kid age 8.
Gun is loaded but locked in a safe in our bedroom, safe needs a code to open it.

In general I am a liberal. I am not anti gun but I am anti someone owning a gun designed for military use and having huge collections of assault style guns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read an article that gun ownership has sky rocketed and many are first time owners worried about the riots https://tricornernews.com/lakeville-journal-regional/social-unease-triggers-rise-gun-ownership

Mclean, VA
600k hhi
3 guns, 1 AR style 9mm carbine, 1 Glock 45, 1 38 special
Stored in bio metric safe with combination trigger locks
Purchased the handguns in March because of covid and then bought the at style after the blm riots
2 kids 10, and 7

Hello fellow gun owner. I too am willing to identify the number and location of my firearms to strangers on the internet. As everyone should! I keep a loaded antique derringer under my pillow during sleep. Each of my four “boys” keeps a tommy gun in their closet, and we have a bazooka hanging above our mantel. HHI: 3.4 MM

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read an article that gun ownership has sky rocketed and many are first time owners worried about the riots https://tricornernews.com/lakeville-journal-regional/social-unease-triggers-rise-gun-ownership

Mclean, VA
600k hhi
3 guns, 1 AR style 9mm carbine, 1 Glock 45, 1 38 special
Stored in bio metric safe with combination trigger locks
Purchased the handguns in March because of covid and then bought the at style after the blm riots
2 kids 10, and 7

Hope you sighted in the carbine, and know where the pistols shoot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read an article that gun ownership has sky rocketed and many are first time owners worried about the riots https://tricornernews.com/lakeville-journal-regional/social-unease-triggers-rise-gun-ownership

Mclean, VA
600k hhi
3 guns, 1 AR style 9mm carbine, 1 Glock 45, 1 38 special
Stored in bio metric safe with combination trigger locks
Purchased the handguns in March because of covid and then bought the at style after the blm riots
2 kids 10, and 7

The underlined is best practice. The bolded makes you sound like a total nut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have guns, and because of my husbands job most people know we have them.m. I am huge hypocrite because my husband is one of the few people I feel safe with having a gun. Most of our friends are anti-gun and agree that my husband is one of the few people they feel safe with owning a gun. He has had extensive training, is an expert marksman and nothing is more important to him than gun safety. You won’t see him wearing any ridiculous 3 percenters shirts or pretending be some kind of sheepdog either.

How does that make you a hypocrite? I'm anti gun in the sense that I find it too easy to purchase and keep guns/ammo in most states. Very few people should be trusted with weapons and ammunition.

[Anonymous]

The questions in your post are pretty invasive... why would anyone answer all of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What sort of training are you doing to justify that arsenal?

And is this sort of mental health problems (paranoia, irrationality) a new thing or have you struggled with these problems before?

Arsenal? Uh huh. Sure.

[Anonymous]

I work disaster response worldwide. We carry weapons, but I never felt any need to own one, until I worked the LA Riots. The theme there was that if the home owner or store owner owned a weapon, their store or home was safe. If they did not, their store or home was destroyed. That theme then recurred throughout other US disasters. If you owned a gun, your house was spared, everywhere.

So I bought my first personally owned weapon.

To answer your question, I live in DC (Yes they are registered). Stored in a safe in the house. No the kids do not have the combination. Never really occurred to me if my neighbors know or not. I would assume they do.

I would also say that in my very limited experience, I would believe that far more of my neighbors have weapons than the 'tenor' of DC would lead you to assume.