First time buyer (AR-15)

[ca_sig_z]

Hello,

I first want to start off by apologizing and not updating the thread in a while, 3 years I believe? And also THANK YOU for all the suggestions, taking the time out of your daily life to guide me. I am 20 now and am rebuilding an AR in hopes to sell my ruger, sadly long story short.

I built an AR-15 with the help of an uncle, and was able to put a couple hundred rounds through it, and as most guessed the addiction started. I bought my second rifle, a Ruger American .223 standard rifle. Sadly my stepfather isn't as accepting as my mother, even with all my precautions.(Locked gun, locked trigger, in a locked case with a separate locked container with my ammo, in a high area not easily accessible by my baby sister whom is 3yrs old.)I am only allowed to have 1 firearm, so I sold my rifle and now only own a ruger.

So I come again to ask a curious question, how did (if you had any trouble) convince your parents that guns aren't some self aware, skynet ghost guns.

Wow talk about thread necromancy. I started reading page one and confused why is a 2015 post on the front page and then I saw it.
So yeah IMHO you might want to rethink spending any more money on firearms/ammo till you move out. Save up and move out. If that wont work then your options are live by there rules or hide them. I would say you could leave it with your uncle but the new rules on lending guns are cray cray.

As for me personal, I got my first gun recently after having moved out long ago. But would not matter much, just last night I was visiting my mom and was cleaning my Sig on her coffee table. She only got mad when I made a mess on her coffee table.

[Anthony_C]

Do I have a safe?

Just lie and hide it. No one other than you should have access to your safe anyway. You do have a safe, don't you?

No I do not, I do however have a locked pelican style box, the rifle has no bolt and has a lock through the bolt, has a trigger lock and is locked in a pelican style case. I have no ammo at the moment either.

[Anthony_C]

I may have to go with the latter.

My stepfather does not seem to be the type of being easily convinced, I will do a mixture of both as someone else said. My firearms are my business and no one else's (besides CA/Federal government). I will keep them in separate gun cases and keep them disarmed, empty and locked.

Until the time is right, or I have enough funds to move, because if I move it ain't going to be somewhere else in California I will tell you that (Dallas/Georgia here I come).

My uncle is already suggesting I buy a 80% lower and mill it out myself and make it featureless, stay with basic bare bones and put some furniture here and there.

//PS. CA Law now requires me to be 21 to buy 100% lowers I believe. Correct me if I am wrong.