Wife Likes Guns, but not in the house (storage question)

You can get them regestered to be stored at your brothers house in your name.
My friend did it
phoned the cfo and said he wanted to store his firearms at his dads house cause he just had a child and would like them to be stored there as he said it would be safer
they said you can't do that he said send me a letter stating that you would rather have me store my firearms in a less safer location than were i would like them stored. here starts the back peddling short and sweet he had to write a letter stating why he wanted them stored elsewhere.

Big thing just tell them to send a letter to you stating that they want you to store your firearms in a less safe location then the one you are reqesting
 
Honey I bought you a new mink coat but you can't keep it in the house.. It's stored in the garage next to the winter tires.. oh yeah and I got tired of all the shoes and clothes in the closet.. They are now in your mothers garage.. You didn't need them did you?

I pay the bills in the house too.. If you can't support my hobbies why should I support yours.. My wife understands... there is a sewing machine in the bedroom and a safe in the bathroom...
and 3 boxes of ammo in the nightside table...
 
Being a woman who was also never raised around guns, I had the same knee jerk reaction when my husband bought his first pistol. But I was open minded enough to let him teach me how to use it. I discovered that guns are an enjoyable hobby for us, and we both now shoot in competition. I enjoy shooting my pistols alot.
Maybe you could find some way to compromise with your wife and show her that guns aren't the evil things we are taught to fear. They are a tool, and only as dangerous as the person behind them. They cannot jump out of a safe and load themselves. Having uneducated people around them is a danger. That's where accidents do happen. The more we educate people on guns, the better chance we have to keep our guns in Canada. So if you like the sport and are getting into it, what better way to keep it alive than getting your family into shooting as well.
We're not all nutz. :)
 
Get a safe and no question will be asked by your wife, police, CFO, etc. Best investment you can get. As a bonus: this will protect your property from criminals too (to some extend).
 
A bad experience is one thing, a fear of inanimate objects because of such is illogical.
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Yes but such often happens when one is intensely frightened as a child. The fear and repulsion diminished over the years but was still quite strong when my parents were married.

Btw, hoplophobia is a fear, paranoia is a particular type of psychosis. They are not related and have nothing to do with each other. In this case paranoia doesn't apply.

As for hoplophobia, lots of people are afraid of things illogically - heights, spiders, dogs, cats, water, enclosed spaces, snakes, knives ... pick one. In her case I don't think it's so much a fear of guns as it is a dislike due to them resurfacing memories of her previous experience (almost being shot accidently by a hunter at the age of 10). In any case she got over it for the most part but such things do take time.
 
Gunney said:
Yes but such often happens when one is intensely frightened as a child. The fear and repulsion diminished over the years but was still quite strong when my parents were married.

Btw, hoplophobia is a fear, paranoia is a particular type of psychosis. They are not related and have nothing to do with each other. In this case paranoia doesn't apply.

As for hoplophobia, lots of people are afraid of things illogically - heights, spiders, dogs, cats, water, enclosed spaces, snakes, knives ... pick one. In her case I don't think it's so much a fear of guns as it is a dislike due to them resurfacing memories of her previous experience (almost being shot accidently by a hunter at the age of 10). In any case she got over it for the most part but such things do take time.
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Fear of dogs, cats, spiders, snakes, heights, water, etc is perfectly logical. All have the ability to inflict physical damage and/or death. Knives, guns, swords, bats, tasers, etc are incapable of such actions without the addition of a HUMAN OPERATOR. This equates into an unfounded fear of an inanimate object.

Paranoia does indeed apply here.
Paranoia is a thought process characterized by excessive anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself.

Her fear of firearms is directly related to her traumatic childhood experience which would indicate an excessive anxiety perceived by threats to herself from the past and manifested into threats in the present.

TDC
 
RE: the safe in your house.

If you store her jewelry/personal belongings in it along with restricted firearm(s) she will have no legal business having access to said safe unless she has her PAL (restricted)

From my experience:

My wife initially disliked guns in the house and still has some uneasiness toward them. She feels negatively towards them because she watches to much CSI and hasn't personally thought the real danger through to it's logical conclusion yet.

Instead of convincing her to like guns. I figure she's gained acceptance by exposure.
It began with bb guns, airsoft, and now a whole range of real firearms, restricted included.

Now, she's actually glad I go to the range to relax. She is even is accepting enough for me to field strip and clean my pistols on the coffee table whilst she watches CSI and the late News about yahoos running amuck in down town Toronto. She may not LIKE them yet but she understands the difference.

Incidentally in the beginning there was a momentary twinkle of a discussion that sounded like a BAN coming from her direction. It was shut down as passionately as anyone here would have done if the government did/is trying to do to us every day. Like X said. you're not doing anything illegal.

There are plenty of more dangerous things than firearms in my house.
Kitchen knives, electrical outlets, the stove, power tools, stairs, tv, newspapers, the bathtub.

I have a buddy who's wife made him return to me a junky Crosman bb gun I had given him. She so happens to be my wife's best friend. :eek:

Guess I did something right ;)

Good luck
 
All this reminds me of the time a very wise CGN'r said something very appropriate:

"You only get one life. Do you want to live that life having someone else tell you how to live?"
 
PARAgirl said:
Being a woman who was also never raised around guns, I had the same knee jerk reaction when my husband bought his first pistol. But I was open minded enough to let him teach me how to use it. I discovered that guns are an enjoyable hobby for us, and we both now shoot in competition. I enjoy shooting my pistols alot.
Maybe you could find some way to compromise with your wife and show her that guns aren't the evil things we are taught to fear. They are a tool, and only as dangerous as the person behind them. They cannot jump out of a safe and load themselves. Having uneducated people around them is a danger. That's where accidents do happen. The more we educate people on guns, the better chance we have to keep our guns in Canada. So if you like the sport and are getting into it, what better way to keep it alive than getting your family into shooting as well.
We're not all nutz. :)
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1st welcome to the site PARAgirl :)

Would you have lacked enough respect & trust of your husband to Ban him from having guns in your (& his home) as the author of this threads wife did?? Doesn't seem that way to me.
 
Lemme guess, you are like , newlyweds are'nt ya?
Time to get the "training" started. Do it anyways. Get a safe and wait till she is out of the house and install it while she is gone. If she puts up a fuss, tell her that you are not a child and are in fact a responsible adult and you will be owning some guns because its your god given right as a male of the species. If she can't be reasonable, kick her ass out. You don't tell her she can't have or wear make up or expensive jewellery , right?? Sounds like a control freak to me.
 
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Restricted must be stored at the residence to which they are registered.
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Oh really?

If you petition your CFO, you can get an ATT to store restricted firearms in a safety deposit box. I did. The argument being that these firearms will no be readily used and the storage method will be way more secure than what I can ever provide at home. Furthermore the banks are keen to actively avoid any interest in the contents of the box.

-Oleg.
 
olegs69 said:
Oh really?

If you petition your CFO, you can get an ATT to store restricted firearms in a safety deposit box. I did. The argument being that these firearms will no be readily used and the storage method will be way more secure than what I can ever provide at home. Furthermore the banks are keen to actively avoid any interest in the contents of the box.

-Oleg.
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Jesus,
Just the thing I want to do when I get an urge to go pistol shooting.
 
Wow... Give her a chance to get her PAL and "play" with a few guns, chances are she'll get more familiar with them and less scared of them. Better yet, try and convince her that a gun is the ultimate "equilizer" when a woman is being attacked (in person, not online) by a man... As for my husband, he wouldn't trade me or my guns. :bigHug: :adult:
 
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