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Originally Posted by johny
the first post you said "I dont think you even need a trigger lock on a non restricted" which is untrue if it's left out.
yes you could leave a trigger locked gun on the dinning room table, or under the bed, but then ammo must either be in a different room, or looked in it's own container.
if you have the gun in a cabinet / safe. then ammo can be in the same cabinet or left open in the same room.
the laws are confusing and most lawyers and judges would have to read them a few times to understand. and 99% of cops don't have a clue.
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Yes its true. Most people are not very familiar with the laws of firearms.
I do apologize for the mix up. Normal practice for myself is to have the guns locked up all the time, personally id rather not leave them out if in the event someone does break in when im not home.
When i took my firearms course, the biggest thing that surprised me was the whole thing about having a Non restricted in your vehicle. Surely i thought there would be more restrictions on that!
On a side note, it is true though, posed with the situation, if you were to pull a gun on someone breaking into your house, and he pulls out a gun to, i dont think you two are going to come to a mutual agreement, drop your guns and part ways, it would be more like, whoever can pull the trigger first will be the last one standing. I would never put myself in that situation, and would at all costs avoid it!
These people that break into houses are low-life pieces of scum, you know the ones you try to avoid in your daily commute. God knows what diseases these people carry, i bet there one of the few people who could actually give a prositute a disease shes never heard of. If one of those guys broke into my house, unless i really had to, id use a baseball bat to keep my distance away from them, and make sure that they arent going anywhere till the police come!
Oh about the thing with the cops showing up. I really hope my grandparents case was one of the few that slipped through the cracks, but one time they came home a couple years ago, they pulled up in the car, noticed someone in the house through the patio window, and noticed the front door cracked open, they called the cops and 4 hours later they showed up after the thieves had helped themselves to a dvd player, some money and a TV.