Art achieved, and Mom loves the P90...

[epawtows]

dpawtows and I spent some time at the NWC storage unit yesterday; this year's round of repairing art forms is done. Made a total of ten panels over the summer, all of the newer lightweight variety. Not sure how many lightweight panels we have at this point, but it may be close to half. Loading and unloading the forms gets easier every year

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[mikec1157]

....the pistol was loaded when you played cops and robbers? Yes, I think best not to tell her. Dad had a pistol too, but I didn't find out about it until my late teens, and then I forgot about it. I don't think I ever even touched it. I never shot a real gun, though it's on my list of things to do, to learn how to use a gun....but I don't plan on owning one....I just think I should learn how to safely learn how to shoot.

[epawtows]

Loaded, yes, but it's possible Dad kept it with the first chamber empty (old police-style revolver). Years later (when we were old enough to understand such things) I heard him remark about that trick to a friend of his. He also had an automatic .22, but that wasn't as much fun, didn't look like a cop gun. It was the 70's. Cop shows were everywhere :-)

I think we only took them out few times...I think the last time was when one of us dropped it down the stairs and it made such a noise hitting the metal railing near the bottom that we hid under our beds, thinking it had gone off.

Of course, you realize that if my Mom read your reply, she'd use that as part of her claim that I don't know any liberals (part of her "Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are moderate centrists, you say that's what you are, so you should like them" line of argument).

Terrifying

[drlori]

That is exactly why there should not be loaded unlocked guns in a house w/ children! Not adults either in my opinion. Even if the first chamber is empty how hard is it to squeeze the trigger a 2nd time? Especially with child logic of, "Hhm it didn't go off the first time so...."
It brings to mind something on the radio recently. A woman recently back from Iraq had the habbit of sleeping w/ a loaded handgun on her dresser. The neighbors set off fireworks one night. She doesn't remember waking up or anything else until she was standing in their yard pointing her gun at them and they were sobbing.
If your parents ever have any nieces, nephews, neighbors w/ small children stay with them EVER, even for a 30 minute chat because small kids are great at wandering off and have no sense of privacy it would be worth mentioning it to her.
There is no reason that it can't be kept in some sort of locked box.

Re: Terrifying

[epawtows]

Lori, calm down- trust me, I am well aware of how reckless my Dad's handling of guns around the house was. I just took it to be so obvious that I didn't have to say so explicitly in this thread. And I most certainly don't think that the 'first chamber' trick is anything more than a pathetic substitute for a real trigger lock.

Dad actually DID have us take a gun safety course before he took us out hunting, and it most certainly pointed out that 'the kids never go into my bedroom and look through my stuff' is NEVER a good plan. Don't know if he learned his lesson. Doesn't really matter. The youngest person who spends any amount of time at his place the last decade of so has been Yvonne.

He may actually have a locked pistol case now, or put trigger locks on the things. I've never gone poking around the FL house looking for one.