Off roster 'lending'

[Frozenguy]

Honestly if your scenario were to happen, I think the least of your worries will be a BS misdemeanor charge of lending a unsafe handgun.

That's not the point.

We are already under fire for legal ways to defend out home, why take it a step further and break the law on a technicality giving the following lawsuit more fuel?

[Frozenguy]

I wonder how many cops wives should be worrying
Cops leave guns at home and even unsecure ALL the time, some probably even do the same with assault weapons

Not only do officers know every single law and interpret them accurately, they follow it to the T!

[Librarian]

Since no one has rebutted with a citation to the contrary or explained why the reading of the code is in error (with supporting citation) then it is prudent to operate under the assumption that loan of an off roster gun is not allowed.

Of course, reasonable folk agree that a spouse can utilize the weapons at hand for HD but the PC is not reasonable or so clearly indicative of supporting such actions. Prosecutor is gonna prosecute ... why give them an opening?

You can certainly act in your own best interests, as you perceive them.

And, even though a misdemeanor is 'only' subject to up to a year in county jail, everyone I know thinks that would be a serious problem.

Now, find one case in California where this situation has been to court. That I don't know about one is not the gauge - I don't see everything. And if a case has never been brought, that does not indicate that a case could not be brought.

But even murder is cleared by arrest about 65% annually, and police and other LEO devote lots of resources to solving those.

I'd worry more about being struck by lightning - 1 in CA in 2013, 1 in CA in 2012.

Seems that this thread has gone as far as is needed; OP has made a decision satisfactory to himself.