URGENT!! Should I let my brother borow my handgun tonight?

Question

Hello to all the helpful xtra people, THIS IS THE MOST SERIOUS QUSTION I MAY EVER ASK OF YOU ALL. I'm 28 years old and my brother is 25. So my brother and I were going to go have a beer this evening instead around 6oclock my phone rings it's my brother he tells me that he's racing home because his neighbor caught a burgalar trying to breakin. Understand it was the neighbors house being burgarlized... The cops leave and the dust settles we find out the burgalar got away and the whole neighborhood was up in arms. My brother calls me up and says I'm comming over to pick up the Beretta (a 9mm semi auto handgun that holds 16 rounds), to make a long story short I said no, and gave him about five good reasons why. You should know he lives in crappy neighborhood and burgalaries are quite common there. This was the first reason why I didn't feel comfortable lending him the gun. I want to know how you feel about this I'm confident I made the right decsion, but I' like to hear yours too...

Thank you all for your great responses. Oh BTW my brothers gonna love seeing this.

Some people asked why I even have the guns. I inherrited them, all of them have trigger lock, there is no ammunition in my home.I haven't fired any of them in over four years. I won't sell or get rid of them because they hold sentimental, and collectors, plus I don't need the money.
-I explained to him even in NV," A super gun tolerant state", possesing a firearm thats not registered to you is a crime; maybe a felony?
-And yes of course I left some of the details out, but the main point is there, and most of you get it.
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Answer 1

u should've given it to him... he has no way of protecting himslef in that crappy ghetto and HIS friend got robbed!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Of course you made the right decision. Tell him you need your gun for yourself in case of an emergency. Also, he can go out and purchase a gun himself if he wants one so bad. Getting into neighbors affairs with a gun is real risky business. That's how people get shot and go to prison. It happens all the time. Remind him of that fact too. I currently don't own a gun but I see nothing wrong with owning one providing you have all safety measures in place to protect the innocent.

Answer 3

Is he gainfully employed? or not? If so, why hasn't he bought his own gun.

If it's a "crappy" neighborhood, what is there of any value to steal?

If all my above questions could be plausibly answered, then I think I would probably have done what you did.

But then, you know your brother better than we do, and it is your gun.

By the way, what are you doing with a gun? Are your reasons the same as his for wanting to borrow it?

You left out a lot of pertinent facts I'm afraid.

Anyhow, these are my thoughts on the matter.

Good luck,

Wotan

Answer 4

Never let anyone borrow your firearm. Your just asking for trouble. Tell him to get his own. Tell him to get a louisville. You might have given him 5 reasons but you only need one. Nice gun Id rather have a 96D though. But Im not allowed felony and all.

Answer 5

If someone steals the gun from his house and uses it in a crime, it'll get traced back to you. Sounds like you made a very good decision. If he wants to buy a gun to protect himself, he needs to go to through the application process himself and purchase his own.

Answer 6

I think you made the right decision in not giving him the gun.

Im assuming you feel more confident of being in control of such a dangerous weapon where as you are not 100% confident if the gun was in your brothers possession even though he asked for it for his protection. You never know what could happen

Answer 7

You were absolutely right in not lending the gun to your brother.An incidence of attempted burglary will certainly heat up the neighborhood and it is not unlikely that your brother may not restrain himself and fire the gun. He can injure or even kill some one. The burglar has already gone away . Now what for is the gun necessary?

Answer 8

i guess it depends on why he wanted it... if he planned to go all vigilante then you made the right choice... but if he wanted it for protection in case the guy comes back and tries to break in or hide out in your brothers house, then he might be safer with a gun... but in the end that gun is registered to you, if anything bad happens, its on you... so no matter what you choose don't feel bad :)

Answer 9

Absoutely NO
Thinks of the risk invovle around this gun. Handling over to a unregistered individual. Remember that this gun is register to you (if register to you) If the gun isn't registered its more serious. If your gun is register to you and something terrible happens, all risk falls back on you. Tell your brother you love him but this gun isn't leaving you. In the meantime I would remove the gun from its location and move it to another location.

Answer 10

hell no, the fire arm is under your name, what if some one breaks into his house and steals your berretta then goes and shoots someone, now your in big $h*7, his 25 if he has a clean record have him go my a shotgun way better at least you dont really gota aim, you just blast at those burgerlers, and shotguns are preaty cheap, you can get one at big 5 for like $300 12 gage and like $400 for a 10, heck you can even get one at walmart.com lol seriously http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5057233

Answer 11

This sounds like a contrived story to me. I don't know you or your bro, but it sounds like he's got somebody who needs killing and had to con you out of a gun. Good job saying "no". You'd be in a dungload of legal trouble if he shot somebody with your gun. Tell him to get his own piece. You should never loan guns, period.