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We have 4 children (ages 4 through 10) and they all know very well that both MrsFarmer and myself carry 24/7, no matter what we're doing. I perceive that this knowledge it is a source of security for them.

No matter what I'm doing, I'm carrying. I even slaughtered a cow a couple months ago with my Kimber openly carried on my side.

I satisfy the children's curiosity about the guns by letting them shoot whenever they want to (which is fairly often). The four year old loves shooting my Walther P22 (he started shooting it when he was three). The older ones enjoy shooting our SKS and the AR-15. We have swinging reactive targets and they just love those. They also setup 12" logs on the dirt driveway and shoot them down one by one with the .22 rifle.

The guns are not mysterious or unusual around here. I openly carry all day long and only conceal when we're heading into town for some errand, which is quite rare. (Side note: the workers that come to the farm have all gotten used to seeing my handgun and they think nothing of it.)

Except for my bedside shotgun, we keep all the guns in my office, which is actually a closet of our master bedroom. The children aren't allowed in our bedroom, and it is clear that nobody is to touch any gun in the house unless I tell them to, and that only happens when we're shooting.

We never have children over, so the only children here are my own. If we ever had other people's children here, I would lock the bedroom door for the duration of their visit.