Suspect the garage will be damp, but that's a relatively easy fix. A low watt light bulb in a steel cabinet will do it. And fix the rest. Meanwhile, it sounds like you need to show mom you're responsible. Airsoft toys don't count towards that either. Having a part time job and helping around the house does though.
Convincing a parent...
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Your Mom's house. Her rules! If you're old enough to have a PAL then you're old enough to move out
I feel the same. I think she had offered a compromise by allowing you to store them in the garage. Spend some money and fix the lock. Just remember when you pay the bills you can make the rules
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You don't even know why she doesn't want fire arms in the house!
No don't ask her she wont tell you cuz you'll be badgering her.
When you hit a red light make a right, then a left.
Wife said no Dog
I started sending her cute videos of Boston Terrier, for 8 months and pointing out how lonely our young son was with out a play pal.
His name is Texas and she is his champion.
If you don't know how to talk to your own Mother and win her over, you should not move out, ... the world will fkn eat you alive.
No don't ask her she wont tell you cuz you'll be badgering her.
When you hit a red light make a right, then a left.
Wife said no Dog
I started sending her cute videos of Boston Terrier, for 8 months and pointing out how lonely our young son was with out a play pal.
His name is Texas and she is his champion.
If you don't know how to talk to your own Mother and win her over, you should not move out, ... the world will fkn eat you alive.
Others have said it, but I'll say it again...
Fix the door on the garage, install an alarm & a camera. Store your guns there.
STAY IN SCHOOL and you'll be on your feet before you know it!
Cheers
Jay
Fix the door on the garage, install an alarm & a camera. Store your guns there.
STAY IN SCHOOL and you'll be on your feet before you know it!
Cheers
Jay
My first thought is that kids usually don't convince their parents of much, because parents (even those who admit they don't know everything) are generally wiser than their kids and are typically in the right to think they know better.
That said, nothing is impossible. What I would do if I were you is talk about the option of getting a really heavy thick locked case, and if she would be okay if they were in the house with that caveat. Even though the guns would still be in the house, there is a big difference mentally between a gun sitting on the kitchen table and something that is out-of-sight in a solid locked case.
That said, nothing is impossible. What I would do if I were you is talk about the option of getting a really heavy thick locked case, and if she would be okay if they were in the house with that caveat. Even though the guns would still be in the house, there is a big difference mentally between a gun sitting on the kitchen table and something that is out-of-sight in a solid locked case.
Pretty sure you have no clue how to treat a woman and melt her heart, I did stuff like that for my Mother now and then and she still remembers. Majority of woman love to be made to feel special and worth the little things.
And respecting her and treating her right will go along way, plus she will cherish her son even more because she knows he is a good man and she raised him.
Well when I was younger I was dieing to have a dirt bike mom said she didn't want me to get hurt, okay so Dad and I went out bought a used $300 dirt bike and a helmet and some pads, she was mad but my father took most of the abuse that night for me. To my surprise she came to me the next day with some ground rules. I think my Dad must have done something unmentionable for me.
Maybe you and your Dad can sell your Airsoft and get you a good cabinet.
Lol my wife wasn't too hot on letting me have a PAL and guns. Started to be extra nice, doing stuff in the house etc. and now she even suggest that i go to the range to change my mind. And btw 6 months later got her to agree for the RPAL as well . Life is good when the R gets here i'm getting my first handgun. Being nice isn't all that hard and the rewards are great. It works with the ladies every time
Maybe you're right. And once I get in thirty years married to the same gal (only at 29 now) I may get a clue. She might even consent to a gun or two in the house. Not quite sure I'm comfortable giving mom the same treatment!!
Well times have changed it is okay to give your mom a hug and a kiss now and then and some flowers just so she knows you are thinking that little bit extra bout her. Nobody says you have to date your mom. Just make her feel special.
Then she won't want to loose that.
You go by the rules of the house you live in. If it's not your house, it's not up to you.
Put them in the garage. Build something really secure, alarm it, and wait until you have your own place.
It is a good incentive to move out of mom's house...or buy it from her.
Put them in the garage. Build something really secure, alarm it, and wait until you have your own place.
It is a good incentive to move out of mom's house...or buy it from her.
I lucked out and had to store my first rifle and shotgun at my parents house as I couldn't store them where I was living at the time. Mother was dead set against it, but eventually said yes as my father couldn't store his rifle or shotgun in the same location I was storing mine so it was allowed out of necessity. With the safe now long being empty (yet still bolted to ground and the studs in the wall), my mother has a nice place to store whatever she deems valuable enough to hide away.
If you've got the garage as an available option, take it and run with it!
If you've got the garage as an available option, take it and run with it!
Some some old piece of crap refridgerator and a gun vault inside the fridge and then bolt it to the wall. Leave the fridge visibly unplugged and maybe even put a chain around it and leave a sign on it that says WARNING FRIDGE LOCKS, KEEP CHILDREN AWAY.
Or failing that find some old POS cabinet or anything that doesn't look like a gun vault.
Spend a couple dollars and fix the garage lock.
Put a motion sensor on the inside of the garage (or if you're crafty inside the gun vault) and hook it up to an audio alarm.
Hook up a motion activated camera so when someone opens the garage, or opens the secret gun vault, the camera turns on and the video is saved to your laptop or whatever.
