Loaning a weapon

[IndVet]

My next door neighbors have been the recipient of a credible verbal threat. They have already secured VPO's, but do not put all their faith in them (as they shouldn't).

I offered to loan them one of my handguns.

Any thoughts on this? Good idea, bad idea?

Thanks

 

[caojyn]

Real question is "do you trust them?"

 

[WessonOil]

They can legally buy a firearm in less than an hour, and I would suggest they do that instead.

If nothing else, they may make a bad judgement call and kill someone needlessly, and you'd have that hanging over your head.

 

[IndVet]

Real question is "do you trust them?"

Yes, lived next to them for 15 years.

They are going to buy their own. They are doing their research now, this would be a short term thing.

 

[caojyn]

Yes, lived next to them for 15 years.

They are going to buy their own. They are doing their research now, this would be a short term thing.

If you trust them, then I say go for it.

 

[dennishoddy]

If it is used in their defense, it may be a long time before you got to see it again. Evidence rooms don't clean and oil guns being held there.

 

[Glocktogo]

Don't loan them something you'd hate to lose in a post shooting investigation, but if they're trustworthy and it might save a life, I'd say go for it. I'd loan my neighbors a gun under the same circumstances, but they already have their own.

 

[doorgunner]

Bad idea in general. I know your trying to be a good guy and do the right thing, but still a bad idea.

 

[Vamoose]

I'd sell it to them before I'd loan it to them. But even then there are probably lawyers standing in line to make a case that you are liable if you knew it might be used to kill/mame.

 

[jakeman]

I'd loan my wife before I'd loan one of my guns, and that ain't a tall tale. It's a fact.