Virginia Gun Owners Forum - VGOF

gunderwood wrote:The one you pry from my cold dead hands...

Sorry couldn't resist.

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A little trite, maybe, but I still like it.
+1

I have never owned a gun in the past. My fience has two kids from another marrige, and is agienst keeping guns in the house. And trying to keep the peace between us, i agreed with her without complant.
One day, talking to my brother i was joking around saying id love to get a shotgun for the incoming zombie invasion......... May 1st i married my fience. After all the ceramony with all the family still in the room with us, we starting unwrapping the wedding gifts. When i got to my brothers gift, it was a small box (like ring sized, not handgun). Opend it and found a recipt for a 870 express 12 gauge. HA!

After a little bedside convinceing, my wife agreed to let me keep it.... at my mothers house. It stayed there about a year and is now in my closet (more bedside convinceing).

Ill never give up my 870 after working so hard just to keep it.

thatguy wrote:I have never owned a gun in the past. My fience has two kids from another marrige, and is agienst keeping guns in the house. And trying to keep the peace between us, i agreed with her without complant.
One day, talking to my brother i was joking around saying id love to get a shotgun for the incoming zombie invasion......... May 1st i married my fience. After all the ceramony with all the family still in the room with us, we starting unwrapping the wedding gifts. When i got to my brothers gift, it was a small box (like ring sized, not handgun). Opend it and found a recipt for a 870 express 12 gauge. HA!

After a little bedside convinceing, my wife agreed to let me keep it.... at my mothers house. It stayed there about a year and is now in my closet (more bedside convinceing).

Ill never give up my 870 after working so hard just to keep it.

If you've been able to get that far, it shouldn't be long before you've got her and the kids out shooting with you.

SHMIV wrote:

thatguy wrote:I have never owned a gun in the past. My fience has two kids from another marrige, and is agienst keeping guns in the house. And trying to keep the peace between us, i agreed with her without complant.
One day, talking to my brother i was joking around saying id love to get a shotgun for the incoming zombie invasion......... May 1st i married my fience. After all the ceramony with all the family still in the room with us, we starting unwrapping the wedding gifts. When i got to my brothers gift, it was a small box (like ring sized, not handgun). Opend it and found a recipt for a 870 express 12 gauge. HA!

After a little bedside convinceing, my wife agreed to let me keep it.... at my mothers house. It stayed there about a year and is now in my closet (more bedside convinceing).

Ill never give up my 870 after working so hard just to keep it.

If you've been able to get that far, it shouldn't be long before you've got her and the kids out shooting with you.

As we dated, one of our date activites was the range. She is into the Glock...very sexy...

She is just not into the idea of a gun in the house. Its that .001 % chance she worrys about. Ive said it all "ammo and gun in differnt safes, blah blah blah". But her kids are curious creatures. I plan on educating them so there is no worrys, but she is a mother. She will always worry a little.

thatguy wrote:
But her kids are curious creatures.

Heh heh... That's every child.

Come to think of it, practically every mother worries, too. I suppose that it all comes with the territory.

Keep up the good work.

gunderwood wrote:The one you pry from my cold dead hands...

Sorry couldn't resist.

Amen brother!!! Part with them....why on earth would I do that! My wife knows, even she would go first. She won't read this will she!!!

SHMIV wrote:

thatguy wrote:
But her kids are curious creatures.

Heh heh... That's every child.

Come to think of it, practically every mother worries, too. I suppose that it all comes with the territory.

Keep up the good work.

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Perhaps the best path is to educate her on what the risks are so she can direct her worry towards more valid issues. She is far more likely to need the firearm at home because of a break-in, with intentions of doing who knows what, than the kids are to have an accident. Furthermore, you can reduce your risk of a child/firearm significantly through simple education and demystifying. The standard child/firearm accident story almost always starts out with..."I had a firearm in the house, but didn't want the kids/wife to know so I hide it and they found/played with it..." Please note that I'm not saying that children raised and educated with firearms don't ever have accidents, but rather that they statistically have them much less. Basic common sense (locking them up) can help too, but curious children can get into nearly anything. Your first and best risk mitigation strategy is to educate them, even if you don't have any at home. Never know when they might find one at a friends house...you want your kids to be smart enough to leave right then when their ignorant peers start messing around with one.

Just my two cents.

This is a little more off topic, but to promote shooting:

She is just not into the idea of a gun in the house. Its that .001 % chance she worrys about. Ive said it all "ammo and gun in differnt safes, blah blah blah". But her kids are curious creatures. I plan on educating them so there is no worrys, but she is a mother. She will always worry a little.

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Try selling your wife with this:
I started all of my kids with air guns - BB/pellet long guns. Each kid eventually had their own bb/pellet rifle. They had eye protection too. We had the swinging target in the back yard. Until they were all gone, we would all get out our air guns & plink in the back yard. Even as adults, it's fun!

Our air guns were treated exactly like fire arms. This is how my kids learned all the safety rules. We had trigger locks & a safe & the air guns went in the safe with the fire arms. We had a bb rifle that the little ones started with, I think it was 360fps out the barrel. Even if they made a mistake, the worst they could do was put an eye out, thus eye protection. But not much else to damage permanently. As the grew, they each got their own. Oh, you & your wife get your own too!

We shoot (bb's & fire arms) as a family. My eldest is in the Army, the middle one is a Marine.
Good Luck!

I too used the air gun method fro initial introductions. As mentioned above, treat just as you wold any firearm/gun. This instilled the safety rules in both my kids, and provided the family shooting time. Also as mentioned above this leads to you being able to own some very nice adult air rifles, and or pistols. Kinda hard to beat an Airforce Talon shooting a 22 caliber 18.1 gr pellet at 850 + FPS and being able to keep 5 shots well under a dime at 25 yards in your own back yard.
Don't get me wrong, I still love all my powder burners, my 1911 is probably my favorite, and will not leave the collection, but my AR is a close second, as I am a handgun guy first. Working on acquiring a TC Contender again, just gota have that, once I do, it will be one of those will not part with pieces.

Casey

Sorry if I got a bit off-topic there in the beginning, but I think I recovered.