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Hi Justice. Someone else can answer about the legalities of purchasing as a Green Card holder, but in Texas, there are no wait periods for gun purchases.

As for your wife feeling uncomfortable with guns, that is a very normal reaction. A lot of guys that post on here have wives that feel exactly the same way. What a lot of us found helps is if you assure them of safe handling practices. I would suggest this at the very least means a gun safe, and that you adopt a very strict rule: a handgun will only be found one of two places: 1) On my hip, or 2) In the safe. Resist the temptation to just "hide" it somewhere. Hidden guns always get found. May I suggest a GunVault type safe? They're strong and secure, but open very quickly. Plus, you can mount them just about anywhere. It's what I use and I've really liked it. I also keep the safe out of reach of my 2-year-old, but something you will discover is that when kids start learning about chairs and stools, nothing is really out of their reach. That's why it has to be locked up. And the reason I use a GunVault is that I didn't want just a lockbox since the key to it could be lost or snatched up by one of my kids.

It also helps to put the number of accidents caused by guns in perspective with the number of accidents caused by drowning, choking, etc. Although it's very tragic when a child is killed accidentally by a gun, these incidents are dwarfed by the number of kids that die in bathtubs, plus gun accidents are just as preventable as other kinds of accidents. Someone else might know the exact numbers.

My 2 cents.