Responsible Gun Owner

[Big Browns]

Just a friendly reminder to be a responsible gun owner. Please ensure your weapons are locked up. Please don't forget to have a talk with your kids about gun safety. My wife & I have talked with our kids about gun safety in the past, but we have now decided to have the discussion on a more regular basis. A check & balance system of talking to eachother about gun safety might save a life someday. I think we all need a little reminder now and then.

 

Adam

 

Talking to Kids About Gun Safety

Teach kids to follow these rules if they come into contact with a gun:

• stop what they're doing
• do not touch the gun
• leave the area where the gun is
• tell an adult right away

It's particularly important for kids to leave the area to avoid being harmed by someone who doesn't know not to touch the gun. A child as young as 3 has the finger strength to pull a trigger. It's also important for kids to tell an adult about a gun that's been found.

If You Have a Gun in Your Home

Many kids are raised with guns in the home, particularly if hunting is a part of family recreation. If you keep a gun in the home, it's important to teach your kids to act in a safe and responsible way around it.

To ensure the safest environment for your family:

• Take the ammunition out of the gun.
• Lock the gun and keep it out of reach of kids. Hiding the gun is not enough.
• Lock the ammunition and store it apart from the gun.
• Store the keys for the gun and the ammunition in a different area from where you store household keys. Keep the keys out of reach of children.
• Lock up gun-cleaning supplies, which are often poisonous.
• When handling or cleaning a gun, adults should never leave the gun unattended.

[chico]

Second that. When children come of age to attend hunter ed strongly recommend to enroll them. have done so with mine--great program for all individuals not just children.

[DUG]

I think there should be firearms safety and training in schools. More kids would not ignorantly shoot their friends and siblings if they knew safety rules and how to actually handle a firearm.

[Guest oneshot]

All excellent points BigBrowns... Thanks for the reminders...

 

We were brought up alittle differently as to gun-safety. ALL guns were to be treated as loaded, because they normaly were. If us kids pointed/swept the barrel on someone, safety off/finger on trigger before making a shot, resulted in a swift kick in the azz and we got to carry a stick for a few weeks so the point sunk in good.. Going hunting with Dad with a stick sucked.... Hunting safety was taken seriously in our family, what we were taught was mostly common sense with a dose of consequence for screwing-up...

 

(I have no kids around my home and all my guns are either loaded or ready to be loaded at all times...)

[bojangles]

all true.

 

my sister in laws brother died at the ripe old age of 12 after a gun accident in the home.

 

he's not coming back.

 

On the other hand, my neighbor almost died because he couldn't get his safe open to get to his ammo while my other neighbor was swinging an ax at him.

 

So you have to find a way to be ready AND keep children positively safe at the same time.

[Xnt]

Great reminders, guys.

 

Whenever my family visits another household or another family visits my house, I make it a customary practice to ask/vocalize about weapons and dangerous objects being locked in a safe. Ie if they're at my house I let them know that weapons that aren't holstered on a person are locked in a safe, and ask for the same when visiting someone else. Anyone offended by that isn't good enough to be our friends. There's no way to call back a bullet!