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Hi all,

I tried searching for a similar topic, but couldn't find anything.

I just got my PAL, but I've run into a roadblock. My mom doesn't want guns in the house. I've tried convincing her with the usual arguments, but nothing's worked. My mom isn't really an anti, she just doesn't like/isn't comfortable around guns. It took me 3 years just to get her to let me store airsoft guns in the house.

She's said I can store them the garage, but I'm not comfortable with that option as our garage is detached, 50 years old, and the door's lock hasn't worked since we moved in.

I can also store them at a friends house, but it just wouldn't be the same.

Moving out also isn't feasible(broke student).

Any ideas for what I could do to convince her? Anyone else been in a similar situation with a parent or spouse?

Thanks
 
Sounds like she didn't know you were even getting your lisc.
If you aren't tinkering with them, and they're NR, no reason to not just store them with a friend for now until you think of something else/move out. You don't need to be taking them out to play with around the house.
 
When I was your age my momma told me not to get a tattoo of Roy Orbison....

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What momma don't know won't hurt her.
 
Have you tried offering to double lock them, trigger locks in a locked hard case, and that you wouldn't fondle them anywhere but the range and the ammo will be locked up seperately in a fire proof box?

Replace the locks on the garage, it's easy, and get a trail cam and set it up as a discreet video system so if anything where to happen you'd get stills of it atleast, and chain whatever case or box your using to something big and heavy.

Or get a used coke machine and hollow it out, it would be an awesome safe.
 
I would move your guns to the garage, slowly start moving your bed and television out there, then get a small fridge and a hotplate, Why not move into the garage with your guns, seems win win. But don't ask for permission to hang out there just start spending longer and longer spans of time out there.

Then when it is time put up a address number on the outside wall next to the door, a nice little awning would be cool with a welcoming mat, maybe an old golden lab to sleep out front.

Find a nice girl, get married have her move in, have a couple of kids.

Before you know it your mother will regret not letting you have guns in the house.

BTW what does Dad say?
 
Buy her Flowers...cut the grass....ask her "have YOU lost weight"..do the dishes....bring her a TIMS coffee unexpectedly...LOL
 
My nephews are in the same way. I suspect the big talkers here with their move-out-be-a-man advice aren't parents of grown children. Stay in school. You'll get your guns soon enough.

My nephews store their firearms at our place but, like boiling a frog, the mindset or their parents is changing as they see what we're once children moving into responsible adults. The trick has been to just drop the subject of storage completely. They'll likely allow them to keep guns just as they graduate post-secondary in two years. Oh well, it will be the thought that counts.

Whatever. If you can store them elsewhere, don't give up on what you want because of something you will eventually see as a very temporary inconvenience.

Good luck and patience.
 
its always easier to ask for forgiveness then permission! just a little life advice for yeah lol.... works well with a wife too. Just be sure to tell her in a area were there is nothing that can be chucked at you lol
 
Personally I went through this a couple years ago. I stored my one handgun at the time in a mini safe hidden in my room with no ammo in the house at all. It then came to me getting ammo and storing it seperatly. Which then became a big gun stash with guns everywhere lol. And thousands of rounds of ammo. Start with just one gun and no ammo and see if that works. :)
 
She offered you her compromise (the garage), work with that if you plan to live under "her" roof. You must have some money (you bought guns). Put some of that into securing the garage better and be done with it or wait until you get your career going and you're your own man and then have at er'. Patience is a very necessary tool in these troubling times.....
 
When I was a teenager living at home my mom said the same thing "there will be no guns in this house as long as I'm here". She was raised in the city. But my dad was raised on a farm:D. By the time I left home I had around 7 guns and my parrents bought me my first gun cabinet.
Kinda the same as when she said I couldn't have a hunting dog...while I was digging post holes for the kennel. The bluetick arived two days later.
Sometimes you have to go the beg for permission route. I guess you have to figure out if it would start a war or she would get over it as mine did.
 
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