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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is 100 percent her business.  Improperly stored firearms + 13 preteen boys overnight = potential for disaster.

Why not just tell her that you do own guns and that they are stored unloaded in a locked safe, separate from ammunition, or in a biometric safe?[/quote]

OP here. DH basically feels like she is calling him an idiot by supposing he'd have loaded guns lying around. Some of them are worth a large some of money and he doesn't want it known that the 'Jones family' has several thousand dollars worth of guns in our house. He noted that [b]she didn't ask about illegal or prescription drugs, dangerous dogs, swimming pool, alcohol or any other factor also known to kill kids[/b]. It feels 'virtue signally' at his expense. It's hard to not consider that viewpoint.[/quote]

To be fair, kids generally don’t accidentally die from taking someone else’s medication. And by age 9 the kid probably knows how to swim (or to avoid pools) and isn’t yet interested in alcohol. Whereas guns are *the* leading cause of child death in the U.S.

I think her question was very aggressive though, like the default is no until you guys can “prove” yourselves. Even if that is how many people operate (I think reasonably), most people have enough tact to have a polite, non accusatory conversation.

Personally I have only allowed sleepovers at the homes of families we know well enough to not need an awkward convo. We are friends with several law enforcement families and they gladly volunteer that their firearms are all locked up in a biometric safe. You don’t need to disclose how many guns or where they are, just an affirmation that there are no unsecured guns accessible to kids should be enough. That is really what most people want to know. If she digs for more than that, then it’s super weird.
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