loaded weapon with 7 year old in house

[rifle pimp]

Hello, I have a very well trained 7 year old boy with gun safety and shooting that stays with me for visitation.all firearms are in safes and ammo stored and loaded separatly. He feels "safer" if I kept a loaded shotgun and. 4 5 under the bed when we sleep at night. What is my exposure to breaking a law if I were to do this. He understands a gun is useless if you can't get to it quickly and also is very well trained with gun safety and knows what to do with different scenarios if at friends houses and sees a gun. Also his mom and her lawyer are psychos and would do anything to decrease my visitation. Thanks

[pdugan6]

hmmm really?

[Ed_Hazard]

Instant win for mom if she ever finds out.

" But your honor, he keeps a loaded handgun IN THE BED where our child sleeps."

[Ed_Hazard]

Hello, I have a very well trained 7 year old boy with gun safety and shooting that stays with me for visitation.all firearms are in safes and ammo stored and loaded separatly. He feels "safer" if I kept a loaded shotgun and. 4 5 under the bed when we sleep at night. What is my exposure to breaking a law if I were to do this. He understands a gun is useless if you can't get to it quickly and also is very well trained with gun safety and knows what to do with different scenarios if at friends houses and sees a gun. Also his mom and her lawyer are psychos and would do anything to decrease my visitation. Thanks

Buy an airsoft or non functioning replica if you have to, but dont put a loaded gun where a child can get to it unsupervised.

[diverwcw]

You know how anti gun the PRC is. State law calls for some serious penalties for a person who allows a minor access to a firearm. Your relationship with your son is much too important than to allow his mom and her lawyer to attack you in court to limit the time you spend with him. A buddy of mine went through a divorce not long ago and he ended up selling his firearms to avoid getting that issue brought up in court.

[ty_w_massey]

No matter how well a kid is trained, it's still a child. Sometimes even the best children throw caution to the wayside, especially when thier little chronies get involved. I never keep my weapons loaded, if someone accidentally gets shot, you could be responsible.

[rifle pimp]

Thank you for the sobering commentss. Guns will remain locked and unloaded. We will just have to live with this reality.

[rifle pimp]

Is it o.k. to keep ammo locked up with the unloaded firearm?

[Tincon]

Or you could just get something like this: http://www.amazon.com/Gunvault-Speed.../dp/B006OGNLKA

Loaded, accessible to you, but not to the kid. No matter how well trained he is, he does not yet have the maturity to have access to a firearm. Also, if the wife makes an issue of it, you can at least say it is always locked in a safe.

Is it o.k. to keep ammo locked up with the unloaded firearm?

If it's locked in a safe only you can access, why would it matter?

[rifle pimp]

Don't know what the law is regarding keeping weapons in the house. If I can keep it loaded and locked in the safe where only I have access and that is not breaking a law I would like to do that.

[border.bandito]

Your relationship with your son is much too important

this^^^.
no matter how well trained you may think the boy is, as mentioned earlier, he is still a child.
children do unexpected things all the time, and although i am not saying your boy specifically will do something unexpected/dumb (he sounds like a well raised kid), i personally wouldn't chance it AT ALL.
my 12 year old boy is VERY VERY VERY well trained when it comes to firearms...and i still go to every extent possible to make sure he cannot get to anything, loaded or unloaded. period.
there are many ways to safely and successfully accomplish this...so dont think you have to unload everything and put a chain around it (which makes your guns useless in case of a home invasion/break in).

all you have to do is think about this;
God forbid you are not home/paying attention....and he does get into one of the firearms...and accidentally it goes off....nobody gets hurt, the child is ok, etc....but police show up, take him away from you and you go to jail for providing access to a loaded firearm to a child.
it will be VERY hard for you to ever get your father privileges back...even more so with the situation you detail about the mother.

[keenkeen]

Don't know what the law is regarding keeping weapons in the house. If I can keep it loaded and locked in the safe where only I have access and that is not breaking a law I would like to do that.

Yes, this is legal...

[troysland]

I have a 7 yr old & 15yr old, and this is what I have under my bed. They know it's there, and have nothing to worry about. Great peace of mind for about $100.

[rifle pimp]

Where did you purchase that?

[rifle pimp]

Thanks for all your sage advice. He is never home alone and when I am not home the weapons are locked up. If I understand correctly if I am not home and I get robbed in which the guns are stolen then used in a crime I am liable. Is this correct?