gun storage at a shooting range?

[Carl_Spackler]

thanks for the juvenile responses everyone. i'm glad I could come to a gun forum asking a serious question only to be mocked and ridiculed for respecting my wifes wishes. i'm guessing that a lot of you are either single, live with mom or don't understand the concept of compromise.

[mitchx3]

thanks for the juvenile responses everyone. i'm glad I could come to a gun forum asking a serious question only to be mocked and ridiculed for respecting my wifes wishes. i'm guessing that a lot of you are either single, live with mom or don't understand the concept of compromise.

Your question makes you hard to take seriously on a gun forum.

[Carl_Spackler]

thanks for the juvenile responses everyone. i'm glad I could come to a gun forum asking a serious question only to be mocked and ridiculed for respecting my wifes wishes. i'm guessing that a lot of you are either single, live with mom or don't understand the concept of compromise.

Your question makes you hard to take seriously on a gun forum.

keeping a firearm at home has nothing to do with asserting one's manliness. my wife doesn't like guns, so i'm not going to just come home with a rifle. she let me buy a gun and I have to keep it at the farm. that's a good first step for me. I was simply looking for a different solution than to have to drive 45 minutes away to get my rifle should the need arise.

[mmarino]

yes its called a gun safe, check out craigslist i just picked up an 8 gun stack on for $30.
and as far as talking about compromises... well my wife doesn't like guns but we compromised in that i would get a safe and take safety classes, she is still not crazy about them but as long as its safe (we have 2 daughters) she is ok with it.
compromising is not just doing what she says, both sides need to give a little.

[Holland&Holland]

yes its called a gun safe, check out craigslist i just picked up an 8 gun stack on for $30.
and as far as talking about compromises... well my wife doesn't like guns but we compromised in that i would get a safe and take safety classes, she is still not crazy about them but as long as its safe (we have 2 daughters) she is ok with it.
compromising is not just doing what she says, both sides need to give a little.

This is called compromise, not your situation Carl. Your situation is called one sided which long term in my opinion is not viable. If you want a non-juvinille response, seriously. It is called councilng. I am not trying to be contrite or funny. I honesty hope you the best.

[tacticalninja32]

Since how is a suggestion of talking to your wife juvenile? The other stuff is jest having some humour nothing personal.

[ex-LT]

yes its called a gun safe, check out craigslist i just picked up an 8 gun stack on for $30.
and as far as talking about compromises... well my wife doesn't like guns but we compromised in that i would get a safe and take safety classes, she is still not crazy about them but as long as its safe (we have 2 daughters) she is ok with it.
compromising is not just doing what she says, both sides need to give a little.

This is called compromise, not your situation Carl. Your situation is called one sided which long term in my opinion is not viable. If you want a non-juvinille response, seriously. It is called councilng. I am not trying to be contrite or funny. I honesty hope you the best.

I'm not so sure. Based on the tone of Carl's most recent post, it appears SHE already compromised by letting him buy the rifle. At this point, I think he might be pushing his luck by suggesting anything beyond the current situation.

[Demogorgon]

The terms are unreasonable. If I were in your situation, keeping the gun in the house would have been part of the deal from the outset. You need to be able to shoot it on a regular basis to stay familiar with its operation. You need to be able to clean it and maintain it regularly too. Where you're at now is kind of like saying, "I'm in a hole, how do I dig myself out?" Really, I think the best thing you could do at this point is try to change your wife's attitude about guns. Bring her with you to the farm and get it in her hands. Have her watch you shooting it. Have her shoot it. She'll eventually see how ridiculous she's being about this. After that she will want her own.

[TH3180]

WOW
Ok Carl let me try and fill you in a little on forums. Yes I don't have a ton of post here but I have been bouncing around forums for years. For the record I shouldn't even be doing this with how pissy you got at some people have some fun.
#1 People like to joke around. We aren't at a funeral here we're on the net.
#2 If a person is thin skinned forums may not be the place for them.
#3 People will try and help a person if they ask. Expect a few gabs along the way.
#4 One of the worst things someone can do is get all upset because some people had some fun in a post they started.
#5 When you ask a question you aren't going to like every answer.
I tried to help you with your problem, you must have missed my post along with the others that tried to help. So your wife doesn't like guns. I know the felling, me wife isn't thrilled about them either. Here is what I did when I got my first gun last March. I bought a safe to put the gun in. I also made a lock box for the ammo. For either of my children to get to my guns and/or ammo they would have to get a 6' ladder. I don't see my 7 year old son being able to get a ladder over to the shelf, even if he could he can't get into the safe or lock box. By the time he could, he will know well enough not to.
I am still trying to get my wife to go shooting with me. I think I am almost to the point of her pulling the trigger. The way your posts sound your wife is running the show, in my opinion that is no way to go thru life. Tell your wife to calm down. Just because a gun is in the house doesn't mean she has to run around the house with it. Hell my wife hasn't seen half of my guns, which makes the 48 hour rule really easy.
To help you any further I think we need to learn more. Just saying she doesn't like guns doesn't really tell us crap.

[Seismic Sam]

Hate to tell you Carl, but some of us aren't buying your troll schtick about a mythical wife who won't permit guns in the house. Check out the following thread from an annoying little punk who logs on from time to time under different names when his parents cut of his allowance for bad behavior and he runs out of vaseline and kleenex. http://www.mnguntalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=16154&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=troll+AND+anarchy

The initial post comes off just a little hinky, but beleivable if the poster is a sincere but lazy jerk, and he proceeds to string people along that he could be an anti or lazy or crazy, and it gradually degenerates into his making silly claims about guns that don't exist and are made up from the names of two or three other guns. Finally, after 21 pages of BS, he says he doesn't want to string this out too long (yeah, right!!), and gets "made" as Anarchy 99 by one of the mods.

Gee, is there any similarity to your post about a wife who won't let you keep guns in the house?? Perfect cover for a troll to suck us in and get lots of good adivce about how marriages do an don't work, and also an invitation for lots of smartazz remarks that you can respond to with righteous indignation and keep the game going. So, how about an explanation about how you got married to this imaginary woman to begin with WITHOUT knowing that she wouldn't permit guns in the house?? How under ANY circumstances could a gun nut get married to a die-hard anti without this fundamental incompatibility derailing the relationship long before marriage came along?? I can't think of a single way this could ever happen, so your story not only fails the smell test, but it reeks to high heaven.

Bye-bye Carl.... You have earned the honor of sitting next to ElmerFuddem on my ignore list. Don't bother to reply, because I'll never see it.

[Demogorgon]

Yeah, I'm with Seismic Sam on this one. There's something about this post that doesn't pass the sniff test. Whether the whole thing is fabricated or whether the OP is just holding back on some things I can't tell for sure, but the more I think about it the more it feels like we're being snowed here.

[mnglocker]

I have one final suggestion Carl:

Ask your wife where she keeps your penis secured, because that's obviously some place out of your reach.

[Seismic Sam]

BINGO!! Westberg and SAM apparently smelled something fishy with this guy when he first showed up: Care to share the details, guys??

http://www.mnguntalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=17157&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&p=188399&view=show#p188399

[Stradawhovious]

BINGO!! Westberg and SAM apparently smelled something fishy with this guy when he first showed up: Care to share the details, guys??

http://www.mnguntalk.com/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=17157&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&p=188399&view=show#p188399

You mean you don't know?

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[Seismic Sam]

No, I had no idea!! And what's really scary is the tone of some of this stuff, because I am very familiar with it, and it would also explain this weird PM with this humongous PDF attached to it from some new poster named It's Over that was in my inbox this morning, containing all sorts of police reports and correspondence between you-know-who, Joe Penaz, and Gary Shades. So I'm going WTF is this, and why did I get it??

So Carl_Spackler is Joll the Troll, and from his previous incarnation he's exhibiting some pretty deranged behavior, which is far different from the hostile but logical and verbose rants he used to indulge in on his own site. So I make him for a troll with the ridiculous imaginary wife who won't let guns in the house, and he sends me the Encyclopedia Pedantica of his running battle with Shades and Penaz?? WTF is he thinking, and why bother with baiting us with something as silly as a wife who won't let guns in the house? At least the first incarnation was trying to elicit opinions about proficiency testing and escalate the hostility to the point where he could claim he was getting death threats from The Day Care Center, which made a little bit of sense. People have been telling me that Joll was completely around the bend, but I guess I just really didn't comprehend the full scope and magnitude of what they were telling me.

Am I getting this right??