Difdi
Regular Member
I've been wondering about something. Given the way 594 defines transfers and requires background checks, this worries me.
If you live alone and never have guests over, it wouldn't be an issue. But what if you are married? What if you have kids? What if you have guests over from time to time?
When transfers occur with change of possession, how do you keep guns (or other non-gun firearms as defined by state law) in the house legally? I can just see it now -- any time a gun is not held in hand or securely holstered it has to be locked in a gun vault. But one gun vault for the family would result in transfers every time someone opened the door. You'd have to have at least one for every person in the household who owned any gun-like object.
If your guest(s) want to lock up a gun while at your house, you'd need to have individual gun lockboxes, that only the guest has a key to or else transfers occur.
The more I think about it, the more I wonder whether we've gotten a de facto gun ban slipped to us in the guise of a badly written universal background check law.
If you live alone and never have guests over, it wouldn't be an issue. But what if you are married? What if you have kids? What if you have guests over from time to time?
When transfers occur with change of possession, how do you keep guns (or other non-gun firearms as defined by state law) in the house legally? I can just see it now -- any time a gun is not held in hand or securely holstered it has to be locked in a gun vault. But one gun vault for the family would result in transfers every time someone opened the door. You'd have to have at least one for every person in the household who owned any gun-like object.
If your guest(s) want to lock up a gun while at your house, you'd need to have individual gun lockboxes, that only the guest has a key to or else transfers occur.
The more I think about it, the more I wonder whether we've gotten a de facto gun ban slipped to us in the guise of a badly written universal background check law.