I am using my husbands account to ask a serious question among a group of his peers so maybe he will actually see that he is wrong.
He keeps a 1911 and his pocket pistol in his nightstand at night, both are loaded(my definition of loaded is having a full clip in, my husband says its not loaded unless one is in the chamber). I have asked him a few times recently to stop keeping them in there because our daughter is now 18 months old and into everything. He said he would move them but has yet to do it. So this morning I was making my daughter a snack and she was playing in the living room where I could see her then she follows our dog into our bedroom and is playing with him. Once I get her snack done I go into our bedroom and my husband has left his nightstand drawer wide open and she has pulled out 2 or 3 shotgun shells (which he lets her play with even though I have asked him not to) and put them on the floor and is now touching the 1911 while it is still in the drawer. Basically at this point I have had it.. I told him no more guns in the house if they are not locked. I told him he could put his carry pistol in his tool box which he has to pass by any time he leaves the house but that I dont want guns in the house anymore that are not locked. We do not have a safe but he would argue that having to get a gun out of a safe would take too much time etc... any opinions on this would help, even if y'all think I am being crazy and overprotectively paranoid.
Thanks!
He keeps a 1911 and his pocket pistol in his nightstand at night, both are loaded(my definition of loaded is having a full clip in, my husband says its not loaded unless one is in the chamber). I have asked him a few times recently to stop keeping them in there because our daughter is now 18 months old and into everything. He said he would move them but has yet to do it. So this morning I was making my daughter a snack and she was playing in the living room where I could see her then she follows our dog into our bedroom and is playing with him. Once I get her snack done I go into our bedroom and my husband has left his nightstand drawer wide open and she has pulled out 2 or 3 shotgun shells (which he lets her play with even though I have asked him not to) and put them on the floor and is now touching the 1911 while it is still in the drawer. Basically at this point I have had it.. I told him no more guns in the house if they are not locked. I told him he could put his carry pistol in his tool box which he has to pass by any time he leaves the house but that I dont want guns in the house anymore that are not locked. We do not have a safe but he would argue that having to get a gun out of a safe would take too much time etc... any opinions on this would help, even if y'all think I am being crazy and overprotectively paranoid.
Thanks!
