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Hoyt

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4. Exactly. I'm an old guy. Seems to me when it's getting near time to take your auto keys
Fri Nov 17, 2017, 11:10 AM
Nov 2017

away, it might be time to have you give up your guns too. Same if you are taking medications that alter judgement. I have never seen this issue addressed.


I had to take my father-in-laws guns away when he was dying and suffering from dementia. I saw him thinking my wife was some kind of grim reaper when she went in his bedroom to check on him. He was trying to get to one of his guns. He didn't like it when I started collecting them. He was like a 25 year military retiree who then put in 20+ years with the local police force. He was a decent guy though, that was not a big gun nut.

I remember one time when he was getting sick we went in some restaurant on the way to a specialist in a big town. Some screwed up guy (probably a policeman) with dual shoulder holsters walked in with his coat off. My x-military/police father-in-law called him a "silly fool" to his face when he walked by. Cracked me up.

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