I don't get the connection with DUI and guns.
I don't get the connection with DUI and guns.
Define access.
This is interesting, something I never thought of. We have a friend of ours living with us and she just started dating this guy a few weeks ago. She just told me the other day in conversation that he can't own a gun because he is a felon, something about stolen gift cards. Does this mean that I now need to have all my guns someplace where they cannot be accessed or does it not apply because he is just visiting?
So we are talking about state law, not federal?In short - it depends. Depends on the felony convictions, depends on the circumstances of probation. I'm sure that it also may depend on which state the person lives in.
I think the bigger question is, do you normally leave guns just lying around to the point where people you hardly know can gain access to them?
I'm not one that thinks all guns must be locked up at all times, but I don't keep them stashed around the house to the point where a stranger could just pick one up.
Keep it on you, or in the safe and you should be fine if/when this boyfriend fellow comes over. But if he's already known to steal credit cards, you probably don't want him around any of your valuables.
It is not just a felony that mandates no firearms. When I filed for divorce about ten years ago my ex-wife's attorney (woman that was an ex-prosecutor who just went thru a divorce herself) filed a PO on me for no reason other than to try to make me look bad. I was ordered to turn all my guns over to the local police. I refused to do that and told my attorney to tell the judge that I would take them down to my Dad's house in Southern Indiana. The Judge agreed to my offer, but I had to give a list of the serial numbers to the court. This little five foot Attorney is the meanest man hater on the face of the earth.
The funny part of the story was that I went on Match.com and the system matched me up with this attorney. I printed it off and gave it to my Attorney, he and the judge had a big laugh on that one.
. . . The Moral of the story is: Love turn to hate in the snap of your fingers. Get the best Pit Bull Attorney money can buy. You can always pull him back to a Poodle, but you can't push a Poodle to become a Pit Bull.
Sorry for the rant and derail, but that was soothing.