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Original poster

to tell DH that he can't keep his shotgun in the babys bedroom?

102 replies

entropy · 29/07/2007 23:33

The gun would be in a locked cabinet in a built in cupboard and dd isn't even a year old so there is no way she could get to it, but, keeping a shotgun in a child's bedroom seems fundamentally wrong to me and I have laid down the law. AIBU?

OP posts:
ladylush · 30/07/2007 14:24

but op lives in rotherham

HappyDaddy · 30/07/2007 14:29

madamez, different laws perhaps. Different ideas about common sense? Nah...

GibbonInARibbon · 30/07/2007 14:36

YANBU

I wouldn't have a gun in my house full stop.

Nightynight · 31/07/2007 15:58

lol at people thinking this is a windup.
you have clearly never been related to people like my ex.

peanutbear · 31/07/2007 16:05

why do you think its a joke we have shotguns as did my father and Oh's father

ForcesSweetheart · 31/07/2007 16:24

Entropy, you didn't happen to go to Lancaster Uni did you?? (sorry for the hijack)

Original poster
entropy · 31/07/2007 21:38

forcesweetheart - errm yes....

and am afraid it really isn't a wind up! he really did want to store it there.... and although when we have asked other peoples opinions they have initially reacted with horror at the suggestion but then have backtracked when they have considered it (and have seen the layout of the room) and have said although it feels wrong there is no quantifiable risk. hence my posting on here to see if my veto gets the MN vote. and since no-one has defended him I feel vindicated! I don't personally like guns and would be happier without it in the house but he has very few hobbies and shooting clays makes him happy (it takes all sorts) so, as long as he is mega careful to keep it locked up securely, I have to live with it. (he has a shotgun licence) we did store it at a gun club when we moved but it was too expensive to be a permanent thing unfortunatly.

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Kbear · 31/07/2007 21:39

A cabinet bolted to the rafters in the loft maybe? Deffo not in a child's bedroom, even if it is locked. Just noooo.

ForcesSweetheart · 31/07/2007 22:20

thought your profile (and lubbs name) sounded familiar entropy lol. I was Lady Macbeth on lubbs. we had andy d in common, but wouldn't be surprised if ya don't remember me, I was away in Atlanta for a year of our time there.

ChasingSquirrels · 31/07/2007 22:26

i really don't see the problem with this - as long as you trust him to always leave it locked. my issue with it is that it is your dd's room, and while (to me) it is fine while she is a baby - when she is older it should be her room, not a store for your stuff.

StarryStarryNight · 31/07/2007 22:30

Shouldnt guns and amo be stored in different places, each locked away with different keys?

If it is, then I would not worry too much.

My biggest concern would be that an intruder could turn this weapon against you....It would be a real hostage situation as you would not necessarily KNOW if it was loaded or not... ?

Stroo · 31/07/2007 23:40

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not very helpful comment but i'm drunk, it's late, and anyone who uses guns is seriously weird IMO

Even to kill plates!

What did they ever do to him?
And what happens when he moves onto other forms of crockery?????!

Califrau · 31/07/2007 23:44

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

MintyDixCharrington · 31/07/2007 23:49

we had a gun cupboard in our bedroom and I didn't like having it there
it is now elsewhere in the house, much more out of the way. no way would I allow it in the babys room

it isn't dangerous when it is locked up (obviously) but it is potentially dangerous when open and guns are being put in and taken out. who wants that going on in a baby's bedroom?

hunkermunker · 31/07/2007 23:50

What's that film with the boy in it who turns out to be a ghost - you discover it when he turns round and half his head's hanging off because a friend's shot him after finding his dad's gun? Is it Sixth Sense?

Am always reminded of this whenever I hear about guns in houses with children.

mamazon · 31/07/2007 23:58

why does he have a gun at all? do you live on a farm?

i personally wouldn't have itr in the house at al let alone my childs bedroom

MintyDixCharrington · 01/08/2007 07:48

shotguns and air rifle
live in country
to get the pesky critters who eat my chickens
and also because my dh shoots pheasant etc in the season

pigeonpi · 22/08/2012 11:50

No gun should be in any childs bedroom because if you shoot early then you wake up the sprog getting the gun out.

Guns are about education and their safe use. I have read many of the posts here saying that guns are wrong - do we ban kitchen knives from the house because a) a small child might get one due to it not being in a locked cupbaord b) a bugular might break in and use the knife on the household.

We teach our own children gun safety and how to use guns, they have been about guns all their lives and when the gun come out (as both of us have guns) the children don't even bat an eyelid.

The food we can get for the table (fresh duck being my favourite) is as natural and organic as it could be - who here likes to feed their children reconstituted pressed chicken nuggets with a delicious helping of addatives??? I apologies for the harsh sentiment in this message however I see a blanket ban of guns as shear ignorrance to the hunting world - most opinions are formed through the media. If you do anything on this subject talk to (and join if you could) a respectable hunter and find out for yourself.

PP

MainlyMaynie · 22/08/2012 11:56

My Ds is 14 months and can open doors and is working on turning keys. I actually can't believe anyone would be so fucking stupid as to even consider a gun in the same room as a 1 year-old.

MainlyMaynie · 22/08/2012 11:59

Oh, zombie thread.

sashh · 22/08/2012 12:02

but I can't justify what threat an unloaded gun in a locked cupboard in a locked cupboard is to a baby who can't even climb out of her cot yet....

The day you find out she can climb out of the cot is the day she does it. Do you also (this is to DH) want it to be the same day she manages to open the cupboard?

Even without ammunition if a small child gets hold of a gun they can be hurt, they are heavy things with small parts that can trap fingers.

Xnedra · 22/08/2012 12:03

Five years old, wow.

JustFabulous · 22/08/2012 12:03

Totally fine for the gun to be in the baby's room. Wouldn't be baby's room anymore though and we wouldn't be living in the same house. I love my DH very much but he would have to choose gun hobby or us.

JustFabulous · 22/08/2012 12:04

pigeonpi - how did you come across this thread?

freddiefrog · 22/08/2012 12:04

YANBU, I don't have a problem with guns in the house but I'd draw the line at it being in one of the kids bedrooms

DH has a shotgun for clay pigeon shooting. It's kept unloaded in a locked cabinet which has been concreted into the floor of our locked under stairs cupboard. He has a licence which is reviewed regularly and the police can (and have) come and spot check at anytime that the gun is stored properly. A visiting child would be able to get in the cupboard, much less get in the cabinet and load it with the cartridges, which are in a separate locked cabinet, and hurt themselves with it