Showing ammo and magazine, is it legal ?

[seadawg221]

This thread reminds me of a day a a few months ago. My wife and I had just left the Pasadena gun show and decided to drive to the Texas City Range. As I was driving down Hwy 146 marilyn was loading magazines for me. I got into a yelling match with a guy on a motorcycle while he was next to me at a stop light...he kinda stood up and I guess he could see Marilyn loading those mags...he sat down, looked straight ahead and did not have anything else to say.

[j1132s]

This thread reminds me of a day a a few months ago. My wife and I had just left the Pasadena gun show and decided to drive to the Texas City Range. As I was driving down Hwy 146 marilyn was loading magazines for me. I got into a yelling match with a guy on a motorcycle while he was next to me at a stop light...he kinda stood up and I guess he could see Marilyn loading those mags...he sat down, looked straight ahead and did not have anything else to say.

That's pretty funny! and brings back memories...

I used to ride motorcycles back when I was in CA. When you are in full leather and kevlar you feel pretty invulnerable. But I can see that once seeing ammo, anybody should realize that his/her kevlar is only a couple of layers.

I still remember coming back from a ride and couldn't go down the mountain pass because some motorcyclist crossed the double yellow earlier, hit an oncoming car, and bounced off the cliff. The whole section of the road was sealed off (on Hyw 17 between Saratoga town and Skyline Blvd), so I had to detour to Page Mill Rd in Palo Alto on Skyline. It used to be I'd hear 1 death every 3 weeks or so, but the above death somehow sticks out all these years.

I remember the times when we headed to track days... and pushed our bikes into our motel rooms. Boy, if those motel management ever finds out:) We were poor and could afford a trailer, and we didn't feel safe leaving our bikes out. It's fortunate that none of us crashed on the track... or we'd be in a pickle. Young and careless, but we survived.

[sparx]

Much clearer now on your home situation, and understand why you made the judgement call you did. Not having been blessed with children of our own, I certainly can't, won't and don't, fault you for your decision and know you had to make a decision based on your circumstances as best as you could. Gun safety, especially when children are envolved, is paramount.

And, even though it's also none of my business, it's also good to know that your guns, while being kept in the garage, are actually stored in a gun safe (I can't help but cringe sometimes when I see or hear of a nice gun succumbing to rust due to neglect or ignorance... one I just received last weekend from my M-I-L... an old Winchester 67A .22 that was kept for the past 17+ years or so in a workshop warehouse that had plumbing floods a couple times in the past and doubt the gun was ever moved, or even looked at, since it was first placed there. I've got quite a bit of work to do on that one!).

Anyway, depending on the quality of gun safe of course, this will help a lot in keeping the guns from harmful humidity. If you haven't already, you may also look into using a dehumidifier (electric or crystals) to place inside the safe to further thwart damage from rust.

With regards to windows in your garage door, I've found that although convenient during the day since they let in enough light so that I don't have to turn on the garage light to grab a coke out of the fridge we keep in there (or something along those lines), it isn't lit well enough without a light to do much else that would require good lighting (such as working on your guns or at your work bench for example). And, if you occasionally have a certain neighbor down the street that constantly walks right past your garage door on their way to another neighbor right next to you (as we did, at least until I started parking our other car 4" away from the door, forcing him to at least use the yard or sidewalk instead), not having windows that they can peep into provides a little extra security.