Reply #22: Were it not for the gun-ban lobby's oft-stated intent

[benEzra]

to take things further than our personal system, I'd probably be OK with such legislation. The problem is, our system isn't good enough for the Bradyites, since some of our icky guns are actually loaded while we're home, are sometimes kept on our person or within reach, and of course they're guns they want to ban and confiscate anyway ("weapons of mass destruction" and all that).

For an example of where the Bradyites wish to take U.S. gun-storage and possession laws, look no further than Washington, D.C.--where it is a crime to have an assembled gun at any time, in your own home, even when you're home. No thanks.

FWIW, had this incident occurred in Florida, I believe the senator would be chargeable with a felony, as I read the statute. I don't know what the law is in Pennsylvania.