Not trying to sound callous, but how do you forget where you have your guns?
Irresponsible gun owner, obviously.
Not trying to sound callous, but how do you forget where you have your guns?
Do you know where all your screwdrivers are?
Agreed. Everyone makes mistakes, but this is a biggie.
I second contacting the NRA, and talking to the good folks at the High Road.org.
In my experience it's not so much that you can forget where they are, but that it becomes such a natural part of your stuff that you're not thinking every second "I have a gun". Of course you still know that, and in an alarm situation your hand instinctively knows where to go to draw. But the part about "I'm going in a place that doesn't allow guns..." doesn't connect in time.
I carry every day now, and I've carried on and off for over twenty years. I've never inadvertantly carried a gun into a restricted area-- but I've come close. A few times I've been just about to go through the door of a tavern to get a beer... and just caught myself and turned around to go put it in the truck. I can see how it can happen. In no case had I forgotten about the weapon. It was the ~restriction~ I wasn't thinking about.
I ~have~ accidently carried a knife on an airplane after they were banned. I've also lost a knife at security that I hadn't found in my pre-flight bag check. I checked the bag, thoroughly I thought, but not thoroughly enough. I've got lots of knives and I usually have two or three on my person, and again, it's not the knife that gets "forgotten" but the "restriction" that doesn't get connected.
IMHO
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Senior moment?