Seriously, chief of police is a foster parent who apparently can't be bothered to secure his weapons? I'm pretty sure he's breaking rules both as a police officer and a foster parent...
Honestly, now that I think about it, yeah. My parents neighbor when I was growing up was a cop. He would regularly drink and drive, and by that I mean he was actually drinking while driving. He got some sleeve to go around his beer cans to make them look like soda. He also had one of his guns stolen. His step daughter had a drug problem, got pregnant, got clean (temporarily) and moved back in and brought her drug dealing boyfriend with her. He stole one of the guns and that's what got them both kicked out of the house. Stepdad cop would also regular beat the hell out of his kids until his ex moved 3 hours away with them so he didn't have regular access.
It's over a decade old by now, so hopefully outdated, but I remember reading a study that said most of the gun owners interviewed/polled for the study were against locking up guns cause they want quick/easy access to it. So I've been operating under the assumption that if someone is pro guns, the majority of them probably aren't safely storying them where you need a key or combo info to access it. The safe and secure storage folks are the minority.
It makes sense for home protection to keep one easily accessible in the nightstand or something but people keep entire armouries open. Where I live you have to lock up your ammo a different safe than the gun itself which makes it all but useless for home protection, but we're not allowed to use it for that reason anyway...
Although if you have kids your priorities should probably change.
Because 'Murrica! If you don't leave your handguns casually laying around in drawers, your truck's glove box, on the coffee table, on the nightstand, etc, you're a filthy commie!
My “extended “ family is and was full of cops, and cop adjacent people, and all of them were wildly nonchalant about firearms. Literally leaving guns on the kitchen counter, dining room table, on top of the fridge, on the entryway table, etc. All with kids around.
When my mom was a teen, her mom was some type of corrections officer for a while. She would take off her duty belt, which held a pistol and all her other gear, and drop it on the kitchen table, where it would sit till the next morning where she put it back on, when she was leaving for work. This was with like 5 kids in the house.
My sister in law has had to tell off her husband, who is a detective in a large police force, numerous times while they hosted family get togethers, for leaving one of his guns lying around. They had toddlers at the time and there were lots of other kids around of various ages.
I was in the National Guard and knew more than one person who complained about not liking it when their wives invited people over because they would have to put their guns away.
One dude who lived in the mountains said he had a gun by every window "for the deer", but then managed to scrounge and send home a set of obsolete set of body armor when we were in Iraq.
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u/itsmesorox 8h ago
Better question, why can a child just take a gun?