hello hello hello everyone, taxi to reality street please?
I think you'll find that all these houses where children shoot their friends dead by mistake are in the states, where you not only have a right to bear arms (including automatic sub-machine guns), but you are considered perfectly reasonable to keep said arsenal of lethal weaponry in your bedside drawer. this, however, is the UK and gun laws are rather strict. in order for your husband to get a shotgun licence, the police will come and look at your gun cupboard. a gun cupboard is a secure cupboard either bolted into a retaining wall or built into the fabric of the house which is made of or lined in steel. basically a very secure safe. gun and cartridges must be kept locked in the cupboard at all times (unless in transit to a shoot), the cupboard must have at least two locks with different keys, and only the licence holder may know where the keys to the gun cupboard are kept. I keep my jewellery in our gun cupboard and so have to ask my husband nicely to unlock it every time I want to change my earrings as I don't know how to. chances of any child getting in it are less than zero.
If a copper comes to my house and says "may I inspect your husbands gun cupboard madam" and I say "certainly", unlock it and show it to him, that is the end of my husbands shotgun licence. And, more to the point, his £35,000 shotguns.
thank you!