I have been living with my girlfriend at the same address for seventeen years. She has a 21 year old son presently incarcerated at High Desert State Prison. He has been approved for parole with a release date of 9/30/2013. The problem is the parole officer is denying his release until I have removed all firearms from the premises. I have a current CCW and my firearms are stored in a steel combination lock Liberty safe in our bedroom. Our bedroom has locks on the door and the safe is permanently bolted to the floor. Do I have any recourse to keep my guns? Am I not even allowed to keep my CCW gun which I keep on me all the time?
But the law does say that if a convicted felon is living in the home, there are to be no firearms present.
Which law is that? Must be a state law, because there is no Federal prohibition like that. The Federal prohibition is that the felon (or those under indictment for a felony) can not be in possession of a firearm or ammunition. Another person living in the same house can certainly keep their firearms, according to Federal law, so long as they are locked up such that the felon has no access to them. Possession is defined as knowing where the objects are AND having access to the objects. No access = no possession.
We've been together over 20 years but lived in our present home for 17. The reason I search for alternatives for allowing him to come home is because he had already been charged on 5/2012 and was living with us on house arrest with an ankle bracelet until he finished anger management classes and the judge reviewed his case. He tried to remove the ankle bracelet and set the alarm off. They came and arrested him and when he went before the judge she sentenced him to High Desert Prison. The whole time this was going on Parole and Probation was aware of my firearms. They had inspected the house and saw my safe and nothing was said. They came by 2-3 times a month to check on him. What makes this so different now? I was allowed to keep my guns then.
The point you are missing is that the mother may love her son more than she loves your guns. What ever you do don't make her choose. You will most certainly lose that battle. The choice is yours and may be as simple as giving up your guns, giving up the girlfriend, or finding the son another place to live. There is no right or wrong answer in this type of situation. It is all a matter of priorities.
Yup. He's 21 years old and being paroled? He's a man, an adult. Let him figure-out his own life. Don't let him live there. My girlfriend would go before I would rid myself of my rights over some punk who cant get straightened out. And if they won't release him because of your guns tell him to get a lawyer. It's his problem.Sounds like it is the incarcerated son's problem and not yours - IMHO. Why should you be expected to sacrifice ANYTHING because of his crime? The recourse you have to keep your guns is to.....keep your guns. Just say no.
The point you are missing is that the mother may love her son more than she loves your guns. What ever you do don't make her choose. You will most certainly lose that battle. The choice is yours and may be as simple as giving up your guns, giving up the girlfriend, or finding the son another place to live. There is no right or wrong answer in this type of situation. It is all a matter of priorities.
We talked last night and thanks to all the good advice I received from the forum members that I was able to use her attitude appears to be changing in my direction. We shall see.
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