Last week I was unfortunate enough to have the pleasure of witnessing a DCF home safety inspection. An employee of mine was trying to get last minute custody of his grandson. He asked me to be there because they wanted character witnesses for him and his wife and he had misinformation that he would have to get rid of all his guns and wanted me there to take them if need be. Apparently during a phone interview an hour earlier his wife said yes there are firearms in the house.
So the DCF guy shows up and hands a giant packet over that needs to be read, filled out and returned. The next words out of his mouth are "I need to see your firearms license". Glances at it says ok and that he assumes they are all locked up and that he is a gun owner as well.
Next up smoke and carbon monoxide detector test, info about pets and wants to see where the child will be sleeping. Last question before the fun begins, do you have any alcohol or chemicals and are they out of reach of children. My employee answers there is beer in the fridge, the guy says "ok i doubt the kid can open the fridge".
Now he says he needs to see where all the guns are locked up and adds that he owns some guns as well. Lets just say my employee enjoys hunting and shooting so we have to go all over the house to go through his 3 safes. He is then asked to show that they are all unloaded and take any ammo out of the safes and lock them up somewhere else. Lastly and stupidly he shows the one he is carrying.
DCF guy said ok looks good to me and goes out to call his supervisor. Comes back, "I'm really sorry sir but you need to put trigger locks on all the guns and have them locked in the safe". My employee will do anything to get his grandson so he agrees and we spend the next 45 minutes looking for locks and removing bolts. DCF again says thank you, apologizes and says the rule is ridiculous. He makes the call that everything passes and to bring the kid over.
When he comes back in he informs my employee that he will not be able to carry while he has custody of his grandson. In fact he tells him he can not even open a safe or touch a gun while the child is on the property!!!!! WTF He asks if he is ok with that and says "if it were him he would not agree to this".
Out of a 2 hour home inspection 1:45 was spent on firearms. He didn't check that the chemicals are stored safely. How about those knives on the kitchen counter, nope. The guy asked if there were train tracks nearby in case the kid wanders off, hey jackhole I guess you don't care about the 2 ponds less than 100 yards from the house? They have a pool, did you even look to see if the gate had locks or anything, no. How about the 1200 sq ft garage out back with all bay doors open, it full of sharp things, heavy things, chemicals you name it, nope he didn't seem to care about that. Hmmm there is a lot of heavy equipment parked around the property, I'm sure a little boy would love to go climb all over that stuff!
Just make sure your guns are double locked and useless and by the way you can basically never touch them again.
In the end my employee agrees to everything, he would rather give up his rights than have his only grandson end up at a strangers house.
F you DCF
So the DCF guy shows up and hands a giant packet over that needs to be read, filled out and returned. The next words out of his mouth are "I need to see your firearms license". Glances at it says ok and that he assumes they are all locked up and that he is a gun owner as well.
Next up smoke and carbon monoxide detector test, info about pets and wants to see where the child will be sleeping. Last question before the fun begins, do you have any alcohol or chemicals and are they out of reach of children. My employee answers there is beer in the fridge, the guy says "ok i doubt the kid can open the fridge".
Now he says he needs to see where all the guns are locked up and adds that he owns some guns as well. Lets just say my employee enjoys hunting and shooting so we have to go all over the house to go through his 3 safes. He is then asked to show that they are all unloaded and take any ammo out of the safes and lock them up somewhere else. Lastly and stupidly he shows the one he is carrying.
DCF guy said ok looks good to me and goes out to call his supervisor. Comes back, "I'm really sorry sir but you need to put trigger locks on all the guns and have them locked in the safe". My employee will do anything to get his grandson so he agrees and we spend the next 45 minutes looking for locks and removing bolts. DCF again says thank you, apologizes and says the rule is ridiculous. He makes the call that everything passes and to bring the kid over.
When he comes back in he informs my employee that he will not be able to carry while he has custody of his grandson. In fact he tells him he can not even open a safe or touch a gun while the child is on the property!!!!! WTF He asks if he is ok with that and says "if it were him he would not agree to this".
Out of a 2 hour home inspection 1:45 was spent on firearms. He didn't check that the chemicals are stored safely. How about those knives on the kitchen counter, nope. The guy asked if there were train tracks nearby in case the kid wanders off, hey jackhole I guess you don't care about the 2 ponds less than 100 yards from the house? They have a pool, did you even look to see if the gate had locks or anything, no. How about the 1200 sq ft garage out back with all bay doors open, it full of sharp things, heavy things, chemicals you name it, nope he didn't seem to care about that. Hmmm there is a lot of heavy equipment parked around the property, I'm sure a little boy would love to go climb all over that stuff!
Just make sure your guns are double locked and useless and by the way you can basically never touch them again.
In the end my employee agrees to everything, he would rather give up his rights than have his only grandson end up at a strangers house.
F you DCF