Dementia: Disabling Firearms

How many weapons are we talking about here? If it is just a few list what they are and maybe get some suggestions.

Dementia or not, tampering with someone's firearms is a recipe for disaster.

Take them away. Period.

Just throw some locks on them or take them. If you are at this point then who cares if the ill person gets upset about it. It’s a fricking gun, not a pack of cigarettes

Take out the firing pins and such.


Pray house doesn't get broken into and dad doesn't try to defend himself with inoperable firearm.

Uh yea. You’d be surprised how precise you have to be to get all these parts to work.

Remove the ammo first.

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How difficult would it be to disable firearms without an elderly person knowing?

Are there parts on most guns that removal would cause the gun to 100% not fire? Do pistols have removable firing pins like a rifle?

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I feel like there's more to the story here that we're missing.

Went through this with my old man. I told him I was taking them to my place to clean them for him and I would bring them back next time I visited. He didn't argue so the event of me asking if I could take them didn't stick out in his memory banks. He never asked about them again after that. If you create a tense situation by telling him you are taking them and he doesn't have a choice, it will be a constant issue. You have to make it seem like their idea, much like taking the keys away.

Take away guns from mentally ill people. Period. Lock your guns up if you have mentally ill people living in your house. Period.