Proper responsibility lies on both sides of the process of gun ownership. First, the entire process needs to be consolidated. Background checking should be made sufficiently streamlined to be able to be completed within hours or maybe days, not weeks. Second, the government needs to make registration and tracking of gun ownership convenient. A system of independent registrars needs to be established. They can be hired to handle the registration process AT gun shows (and gun shows required to employ these people) with gun show registration being given priority processing, which should enable a background check in under an hour.
Those independent registrars should also be available for hire at reasonable fees by private sellers to ensure that the ownership can be properly traced. Other things can be done as well, such as allowing the ATF to keep a computerized ownership database. They currently have to track ownership of a weapon via microfilm records, starting at the manufacturer. The NRA opposes such a database for some unexplained reason. On the ownership side, owners have to be held rigidly responsible for the proper maintenance and storage of their weapons.
They should be forced to have their weapons inspected at regular intervals by a licensed gunsmith, with the weapon repaired before being turned back over to the owner, or retired and destroyed if beyond repair. No more display cabinets. Guns should be kept in a safe at all times, unless the owner is handling or using the weapon (or perhaps on the property the weapon is stored at). A pane of glass and a thin chain are NOT security. However, a $1000 gun safe, with half inch steel walls and a decent combination lock are ample protection to deter most thieves. Additionally, ammunition should be stored safely and separately. Scheduled home inspections should be required to ensure owners meet storage requirements. If they do not, they lose their weapons.
I live in an older home, not much storage space. The kitchen and bathroom have none to speak of, after the basic dishes, pots, and bathroom stuff. 2 out of the 4 bedrooms have no closet, and there are allot of small narrow corners around the house that is not usable. All doorways are in the middle of the room, so less room for furniture against walls, and windows in every room. I have been trying to find tall, narrow storage dressers, shelves, etc, but what I have found has been expensive, esp, corner (triangle type) units, which I could really utilize.
I am desperately trying to find a book on correct methods of food storage in the home context. I have searched various libraries and uncatalogued but to no avail. Is there really nothing published on this subject? I did find Hutchinson ‘Food Storage in the Home’ which was written in the 1960s and was aimed at the (gulp!) ‘ordinary housewife’. Does anyone know of a book or leaflet regarding food storage? and could you answer or e-mail me with its name and publishers details.I just bought a book called “Putting Food By” of something like that at a local book store, Barnes & Noble. You will need to be more specific on what you are trying to save.
The TiVo patent win makes a short-term difference to the company’s prospects, but this is a troubled market already in the midst of a price war. The main players all depend on licensing revenue from equipment OEMs that have cut prices aggressively to win market share. After adding 72% on the patent news, I would not buy into TiVo at this price. Personal Archives Video and audio programs, in particular, will require vast amounts of storage. Two announcements this week point to dramatically expanded capacity in fixed and portable drives.
When investors think of electronic storage, they generally focus on the corporate marketplace. But the home digital-storage market is growing rapidly as more devices around the house seek disk capacity for music, movies, e-mail and other files. Several announcements this week underscore the importance of home-storage capacity — and that this will be a fiercely competitive market in coming years. Investors will want to be cautious, because there is a lot of risk that disruptive technologies will displace existing leaders and of price wars driving margins into the ground before a profitable business can be built.
I am looking for some advice regarding 16mm film storage. I have three reels of Laurel and Hardy shorts on acetate, “safety” stock, which I am keeping in my home. Is there an appropriate place I should keep these films, such as in a refrigerator? The films are not in danger of rotting away in the near future, but I would like to do my best to protect my treasured investments. Any help would be appreciated. The main rule is “cool and dry”. A home refrigerator would probably be overkill, and too humid. If you have a cool, dark closet that would have fairly uniform temperature it’s probably ok, especially since these are black & white films, and not subject to color fading.
In fact, there is a small farm field south of my house. The farmer plants crops, usually corn, and sprays chemicals, sometimes when the wind is blowing. We also grow grapes and vegetables for human consumption in our back yard adjacent to the field. Grapevines can be harmed by the broad leaf herbicides that he uses. On the other hand, the misquotes are terrible and I wish the city would apply chemicals. While it is good to gauge hazards of APCP storage to other hazards, we should still try to reduce those hazards. I’m in favor of reasonable rules that get the BATFE out of the game. I’m not sure that I want to let the NFPA dictate what is reasonable for everyone. I think limits and storage requirements should depend on local conditions.
What “home storage requirements” for gasoline involve the ATF? There are no ATF permits required to buy it, no ATF searches, inspections, or container requirements for gasoline. Even state and local codes (if any) and unenforced and unenforceable. There’s no one going to stop you if you store gasoline in open containers or glass jars. Not that anyone should do that, of course. But it shows just how lax regulations are for such a volatile and dangerous material. Why should our far less dangerous, non-volatile APCP be subject to anything stricter?
Fine, store your damn motors unsafely, just don’t move into my state and drive up insurance rates for the rest of us. Yes, the ignition source is the danger, but unsafe storage of APCP certainly fuels the fire. It is impossible to eliminate all possible ignition sources, but comparatively easy to store APCP motors, similar to household gasoline storage. If you and others continue to resist responsible home storage of APCP, we’ll never get the Feds off our backs. But If I buy a boxcar load of flares and store then on my residential property in the city, somebody, possibly the ATF, might have something to say about it.
