Except for the dual-trigger .58 cal black powder musket over the fireplace. My brother-in-law from Arizona sold all my handguns and rifles for me. They were bought by gun shops and collectors. Arizona is an open gun ownership state. He sent me a check for the proceeds which I deposited today. My senior assorted living community does not allow firearms, so I sold everything including my 4 scoped air rifles. Hal
In August 2018, when we came out here to Colorado to visit a certain area, we stopped by a 55+ apartment complex. Right on the front door there was a piece of paper stating No Firearms Allowed By Residents. Well, this was definitely one place we would never live! However, a number of months ago, we decided to sell our Winchester 30/30 Lever-Action Rifle and our Remington Express Shotgun. It's just too expensive here to target shoot outside and that's the only place we could shoot either. We still do have our Smith & Wesson 9mm handgun, Sig Sauer .22 handgun and our Ruger 10/22 rifle. All locked in a gun case with trigger locks on each.
I sold several guns at auction a couple of years ago. I need to sell several more but I'll always keep a gun or two which I hope I'll never need for defense.
I need something to get after the varmints that menace my animals. Unfortunately, I can't drive from house to farm with a loaded gun. I only maintain constitutional carry here. If I see any foxes or coons when I drive in, I have to put up a hand and ask them to wait while I load. Sometimes they do look at me a moment.
Virginia is sort of the same. We have Constitutional Carry to open carry and Shall Issue to conceal carry. And we have the same laws that you cannot drive around with a loaded long gun in the vehicle. I don't have livestock to defend, so the only critter that ever got my ire up here was groundhog...destructive suckers.
@John Brunner No LOADED long gun in a vehicle? Are loaded handguns OK? I suppose jurisdictions with restrictive firearms laws are also likely to restrict ownership and use of other weapons? Knives, shovels, bludgeons, and the like? The victim's most terrifying instant occurs when he is confronted by an armed criminal pointing a gun, and his own produces only a "click"..........
I reckon it depends on how one defines "loaded". To me, if there is nothing in the chamber, the gun is unloaded. If the magazine in in place, it takes very little to "load" the weapon. Many Alaskans carry loaded weapons in their vehicles. If stopped by law enforcement, the first words out of your mouth have to be " I have a loaded weapon in the (location)" or you will be prosecuted. Loaded in this case includes guns with rounds in a magazine but none in the chamber.
@Frank Sanoica @Don Alaska Loaded handguns are OK. The reason for the loaded long gun restrictions are people who would shoot at game from inside their vehicles, especially (but not limited to) while using spotlights on critters at night. And I overstated the application. The restrictions on loaded long guns are enacted locally, not at the state level. Regarding notification to police that you are armed: Virginia has no such regulation. Some people do so out of courtesy (which makes no sense) while others do not.