Anonymous wrote:

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

Why do you need three?

First, freedom is not measured by “need.”

Second, “two is one, and one is none,” so that a second unit is a spare.

Third, carbines and handguns do different jobs.

Fourth, because there may be more than one person to arm.

Anonymous wrote:Lol that's not an arsenal. I once met a couple with something like 500 guns in Texas of course. We have 3 guns, our children and neighbors aren't aware. Our one child that is old enough has taken several courses on gun safety and has shot a Beebe gun.

Do you lie when another parent asks you if you have guns in the house?

My kids aren’t allowed to visit a house with guns. Period. I might make an exception for a law enforcement officer with firearms required for work only in two separate safes for gun and ammo.


In general if you care so little about others that you keep guns in your house for some personal insecure fantasy of combat, your kids aren’t worthy of playing with my kids. We like strong parents who care about how guns have harmed America.

5-10 rifles, pistols, shotguns. Not sure how many. Had weapons for a couple decades.
My husband and I are retired military. And he grew up hunting in PA lol
We both have extensive training. He has much more training than I - LEO prior to military. Then SpecOps. I trust him to defend us. He has a concealed carry permit, but only carries on long distance rides when we might encounter unknowns on the road.
Both children know gun safety as PP mentioned (#1 - leave the area and tell an adult). Both have shot BB guns (cub scouts) and older has shot rifle and shotgun (Boy Scouts). My husband and I volunteer with scouts, and he ensures the children are taught safety first.
I don’t trust most people with guns. The OP strikes me as a nut. No training. They would accidentally shoot bystanders if they ever tried to “defend” their home.
Even though I am retired military with extensive training, I don’t trust I have the skills to use a gun in a crowd. Too many moving people and chance to do more harm than good. A home invader? Yes.
Biometric safe....

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You suburbanites terrified of BLM protests are a ridiculous parody of yourselves. There is so much fake information out there.

Just now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/08/29/protesters-start-fires-in-adams-morgan/

Small fires in Adams Morgan does not mean a home invasion in McLean. But you knew that already, right?

Anonymous wrote:You suburbanites terrified of BLM protests are a ridiculous parody of yourselves. There is so much fake information out there.

Just now
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2020/08/29/protesters-start-fires-in-adams-morgan/

You suburbanites terrified of BLM protests are a ridiculous parody of yourselves. There is so much fake information out there.

You'd never know it to look at me, but I can't wait for my children to be old enough to go to the firing range so we can all get certified.

Highly-educated bohemian, like astrology bohemian.

Lol that's not an arsenal. I once met a couple with something like 500 guns in Texas of course. We have 3 guns, our children and neighbors aren't aware. Our one child that is old enough has taken several courses on gun safety and has shot a Beebe gun.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I'm also married to someone who carries a gun for work. He comes home, it goes into a biometric safe, the ammo goes into a different safe. Both safes are in a space that we'd notice if the kids went in, and are out of reach. I don't love that there's a gun in the house, but I trust my DH.

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I should add that we have 3 kids. Our HHI income was about $200K, but we decided that we needed a parent home and now it's more like $110K

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.

I'm also married to someone who carries a gun for work. He comes home, it goes into a biometric safe, the ammo goes into a different safe. Both safes are in a space that we'd notice if the kids went in, and are out of reach. I don't love that there's a gun in the house, but I trust my DH.

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

Therapy for insecurity and weakness, yep

HHI $400-500K, NoVa suburbs. DH and I each have a hunting rifle, both inherited from my grandparents, and we recently purchased a shotgun for skeet. We hunt deer every fall. Having venison steaks for dinner tonight, in fact. All guns are stored in a locked safe, with ammo in a different locked safe in another part of the house.

Never really wanted one for home security. I always felt that the proper storage would make it impractical in an emergency situation, and I'm not interested in carrying as regular practice. I've taken extensive self defense classes, that's good enough for me. But I don't fault anyone who does want a gun for personal or home security, as long as they have the proper training and storage. I do think more training should be required prior to purchasing a gun, the current rules are ridiculous (at least in VA).

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

Why do you need three?

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.

Same. Plus Dh regularly travels to the Middle East and has to carry. We are highly educated. Hhi300k

I can just imagine the western Fairfax crowd standing outside their mansions like that couple in St. Louis looking just as ridiculous.

Clowns.