foster care and guns in the home - solution

[adric22]

I know I mentioned this a year or two ago, but I thought i'd post a thread explaining the issue and how I've managed to work around it.

My wife and I became foster parents over a year ago. We have had a few weekend placements here and there but we just got our first long-term placement not too long ago. Well, the problem is C.P.S. has a rule that any guns in the home be unloaded and the ammunition must be stored in a different locked safe from the gun. And the two safes must have different keys. So you can imagine how annoying it is every day that I must open one safe for the gun and another for the magazine. This has made it virtually impossible to carry chambered as well. I tried chambering and unchambering the gun each day. Keep in mind I can't use the same bullet each time I chamber since it could suffer from setback. But honestly it is just too much work and I finally just said forget it and don't bother with chambering a round. What is even more scary is the idea of a home invasion at night. It will now take considerably longer to get a working gun ready to defend our family.

However, I had an idea recently and when CPS came for the last visit I asked the worker about it. I have one biometric safe (fingerprint style) that I had been using originally to store my loaded gun. But since it doesn't use a "key" I figured it didn't meet their "two-key" requirements. So I have not been using it since we got a placement. I showed it to the lady and she had never seen such a thing before. So I asked her if my finger qualified as a key. She thought about it and said yes. So I asked her if I bought another biometric safe, and programmed the fingerprint from my other hand on that one, would that be considered a different key. She also agreed. So I'm going to go get another safe and put them side-by-side. That way I can walk up to them and slide my fingers (one from each hand) on them simultaneously so that I can get quicker access to the gun and magazine. It doesn't solve the problem of chambering, but otherwise should speed things up considerably in the mornings and evenings.

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[GeorgiaDawg]

Very clever. I like it!

[JD]

*revolver*

Get one. No more set back issues.

[joker1]

I don't know that I could handle being a foster parent, my sister and BIL did it for many years. God bless you for doing what you do, a lot of kids need fostering unfortunately.

Clever idea you have there, hopefully you never need to access and use that quickly.

[pgrass101]

I would go with a revovler and a couple of speed loaders

[tricolordad]

Be sure you're one of the good foster parents. I had more than a few bad ones.

[Caertaker]

I salute you for taking in a child sorely in need of what most of us were blessed with: someone to love and care for us. Glad to see you found a plausible solution for what I consider a stupid rule and shared it with the group.

[Harryball]

Adric, you are a better man than I for doing what you are doing. I could not, and would not turn my life upside down for a voluntary act. Good for you taking on a challenge like this. A revolver in this instance seems to be your solution. Thanks for sharing this with us, it really shows the good side of gun owners....Keep up the good work.

[Once]

I would use a revolver as well. Good thinking.

[mkh]

God bless you for doing this.

My sister and BIL are foster parents and have adopted 2 of the girls. They recently had a 6 month old baby girl that had been molested by her mother and they have a premie boy now that was board addicted to drugs He is no longer addicted but still has some health issues. I couldn't handle it as I would want to seek revenge on the scum parents. There is no h**l hot enough for parents that use while pregnant or abuse their newborn child.

[paramedic70002]

Is it worth your time to be politically active on the issue? Maybe get a gun friendly legislator to submit a bill altering these moronic rules?