Hope this never happens to me....

[G-Mac]

The other day, I saw a Sheriff's Dept. SUV parked in front of my neighbor's house across the street. They are older folks. Bill is a retired pharmacist and Susan is a retired RN. Bill is a Viet Nam era Navy veteran and has Parkinson's. Their son is a Naval Academy graduate and served as an Officer in the Navy. Now a lawyer. Very nice people and good friends to my wife and I. But, let's just say that Susan "runs the show" over there and is what I would call "progressive" for lack of a better word. Well, she decided that she no longer wanted guns in the house. I'm sure that Bill had little or no say in the matter. She called the Sheriff's to come and get the guns and they did. Not my business, but I can't help but wonder if they handed in Bill's Colt Python. He showed it to me about ten years ago. I don't even want to know. It's things like this that make me want to "thin the herd" before somebody else does it for me.

 

[crazyphil]

He picked her. If you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas.

 

[dmn57]

Wonder if she even had a clue there were potentially thousands of dollars in play.

 

[hivel37]

I’ll bet Bill has one stuck back….

 

[delcrossv]

I hope this never happens to me...

Did you marry a progressive wackadoodle? No? You should be fine.

 

[Autonomous]

It sounds like she puts her desire to eliminate all guns ahead of his rights and wishes for where his guns go or, for that matter, stay.
Did she consider the real possibility only a few of the guns would actually be turned in? Rather than realize the cash from the guns that 'went home to new owners' she got to feel smug for a while.

 

[G-Mac]

Wonder if she even had a clue there were potentially thousands of dollars in play.

I'm sure she wouldn't even care about the value. Just wanted them gone.

 

[pharmer]

My wife is not a "gun person." However, if'n that scenario comes to pass, she would call my son to come out, break the safe loose and tip it into the back of my pickup and drive off to Colorado. I wouldn't need the truck either at that point. What did "Art Doc/ Saxon Pig" say: "No life story has a happy ending." Indeed. Joe

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

"If you lie down like a door mat don't complain when people walk on you."

 

[LVSteve]

Bill is a Viet Nam era Navy veteran and has Parkinson's.

Perhaps there's something more than Parkinson's going on, and it's not like people shout it from the rooftops.

 

[G-Mac]

Perhaps there's something more than Parkinson's going on, and it's not like people shout it from the rooftops.

That is a possibility. But, my wife and her are pretty close and I have known her "politics" for years and I can say she's definitely not a gun person. I won't get into that any further. Don't want to break any forum rules.

 

[Joni_Lynn]

When people say 'I wish you would get rid of those guns', they seem to think that they are then removed from circulation and will never again be seen or used. Actually the opposite is true. Once the guns leave the security of your ownership there's no telling where they go or what is done with them.
For most of us, the guns are much better off in our care.

 

[arjay]

There’s more to this story. Bill has Parkinson’s which in the end can cause some pretty strange behavior. I’d be inclined to believe he’s said or done things that can be interpreted as a threat to himself or others.

 

[Beemerguy53]

Ridiculous, just ridiculous...

She undoubtedly knows the value of those guns, and knows that the Sheriff will just destroy them, but because in her mind, having them "off the street" will somehow make society safer, she's willing to give them up rather than sell them.

People with this mindset really have a warped, or unrealistic, way of looking at the world...I will never understand it...

 

[G-Mac]

There’s more to this story. Bill has Parkinson’s which in the end can cause some pretty strange behavior. I’d be inclined to believe he’s said or done things that can be interpreted as a threat to himself or others.

Very possible. When I said "hope this never happens to me" that meant getting Parkinson's and having the wife turn in all my guns rather than just giving them to my son.

 

[sheepdawg]

Ridiculous, just ridiculous...

She undoubtedly knows the value of those guns, and knows that the Sheriff will just destroy them, but because in her mind, having them "off the street" will somehow make society safer, she's willing to give them up rather than sell them.

People with this mindset really have a warped, or unrealistic, way of looking at the world...I will never understand it...

Or maybe the sheriff has a new Python.

 

[waffles]

There’s more to this story. Bill has Parkinson’s which in the end can cause some pretty strange behavior. I’d be inclined to believe he’s said or done things that can be interpreted as a threat to himself or others.

That's where my mind went too. It's not a 100% thing but parkinson's is pretty commonly associated with cognitive impairment.

I'd be more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to a retired RN caring for her parkinson's suffering husband, who has presumably lived with all these guns in her house for decades, and at least entertain the possibility that she had a legit reason to get the guns out of the house. I recognize we're on a gun forum and getting rid of guns isn't high on our list of positive outcomes, but a major change like that breaking decades of "don't like them but tolerate them in the house" inertia kinda screams that there was an inciting incident.

 

[SMSgt]

Personally, I would have had the sheriff come pick her up.

 

[Dave.357]

I’ll bet Bill has one stuck back….

If I did I would probably use it.

 

[Truckman]

She undoubtedly knows the value of those guns, and knows that the Sheriff will just destroy them

Not around here...A few collections would suddenly be augmented......Ben