butlersrangers wrote on Jul 27^th, 2012 at 4:58pm:

Now the only safe thing to put on your walls is photographs and graphics.  You have to be mighty careful with whom you share your interests and hobbies.  Anything of value or potentially lethal has to be out of sight and locked up.

As you know my Father, you probably have seen the Trapdoors hanging on the mantle.  I grew up with those trapdoors hanging on the mantle, and never once questioned their existance.  My brother and I always knew that dad had guns in the basement, and even knew where the key was... but never touched without permission!  How sad that the world has become a place where we DO now have to hide these things, and never speak of them.  Outside of collectors (which I hope to be one day), most people ostracize those who do not lock away firearms for fear that it will be used by a child.  If we educate rather than hide... maybe the world - outside of collectors will know about our military history!

Paul