Rossi and some rules necessary for a firearm safe home

From the Rossi website:

One of the biggest problems we have today is that there is not enough firearms safety training for children. Rossi is as concerned about your children and their safety as you are. Here are some basic rules and suggestion for making your home a safe environment for both children and your firearms. Please remember, though, this is only a guide; there is no substitute for training and education. With our Right to Keep and Bear Arms comes a responsibility to keep and bear them safely. Firearms safety is your responsibility and your duty, to our children and to our selves.

Rossi Rules and Recommendations to parents concerning Firearm Safety in the Home:

1) Don’t try to hide a gun in the house, thinking that the child will never find it. They will. Children have the ability to find anything adults can hide. And, the better something is hidden, the harder the child will look for it, and the more importance it will have to the child once found.

2) Avoid attaching any mystique to the firearm through flat prohibition. Nothing gets a child’s attention faster or stronger than being told “NO”, without explanation or reasoning. Children are smart, and will see through flat prohibition.

3) If you carry a firearm on a daily basis, be sure to secure it when you get home. Make sure that your child knows you do this, and why.

In seventy years of firearms involvement, NEVER, have I seen the above rules and concise thoughts for their reasons. We all know personal rules of firearm safety. Those are good as far as they go.

Once I came home from work at 4 AM. The house behind ours had been the scene of a bloody, noisy murder of three people. There was blood on my front porch and on the front door. My family was gone. They had gone to a neighbor’s house.My 14 year old son had taken his mother and put her in a bathroom at the end of the hall. He had set himself with my loaded revolver in the hall approaching the door to the bathroom to intercept any one attempting to harm his mother. When the neighbors came he was protecting her although, thank God, it was unnecessary. I am sure that some freaky “do gooder” will criticize my feelings on this. Move to England where self protection is not a legal right.

My granddad had given me the revolver when I was 16 and had my first car. His advise, take it, you may need it sometime. I can‘t see to shoot very well. I kept it where all knew where it was located and loaded in case of need. I trained those in the house who would learn. I personally twice used this firearm to protect myself without having to fire a shot. All three times, thank God in Heaven, we had it.





Key words: Rossi, firearm safety, home safety

Eddie Ellison