How the children obtained guns remains a part of the ongoing investigation, according to the Sheriff’s office.

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    1 year ago

    That’s true but in these cases has the gun actually ever been properly stored in a locked safe and the kid nicked the key or something?

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      1 year ago

      As a gun owner, that’s still improper storage.

      Other than my personal carry which stays on my person (or a quick open safe in my nightstand when I’m sleeping), the rest of mine are locked in a safe unloaded, with their magazines stored in a different smaller safe.

      If my kids were able to get to the guns, they pose no damage. They would need to be able to get into both safes and intentionally load them to pose any threat to anything.

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      1 year ago

      If that’s the case probably not charge. I’m sure that’s happened at some point. But kids are playing with guns that are just left out in a lot of these cases and for those, yeah, maybe someone should face charges.

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      The statistical probability of this happening is probably not zero, however, it is still probably remote in the extreme. Even if it were to happen, however, as someone else pointed out: that would still be considered improper storage, because the point is that nobody but a responsible adult should be able to get to it, especially not children.