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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone remember the 2006 fatal shooting of two police officers outside the Sully District station in Fairfax Co.? The shooter was a mentally ill teen who stole some guns from his parent's home and then drove to the police station where he ambushed and fatally shot the two police officers. The US Attorney tried to get the father on "aiding and abetting" charges and he did eventually serve some time for illegal possession of guns, but not for the aiding and abetting. So it looks like it could be possible for the parents of the Reston shooter to be charged if their son got the gun(s) from their home. To the PP who said she always locks up her guns, read on to see how the shooter got to his parents' "locked" guns.
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In that case, the parent was charged for obtaining and possessing guns improperly not for any kind of "negligence". Indeed, these parents were not negligent at all; their guns were locked up and their son had to exert himself mightily to get at them.

If the parents in the Reston shooting obtained their guns legally, this Chantilly case is not relevant.

"Michael Kennedy used an ax, a crowbar and a hammer to smash open a wooden footlocker containing rifles and ammunition. The teenager also tried, without success, to break into a metal gun locker elsewhere in the family's Centreville townhouse."

My guns are locked in a metal fireproof safe that is bolted to the concrete floor. My kids are not going to get into it.[/quote]

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