We've had the locked up gun and ammo (separately) law here in Canada for about fifteen years and home invasions are becoming all too common because of it. Many of these are violent and most are perpetrated on the elderly or single women. Through this legislation, self defense with deadly force in one's own home has been taken away and criminals have been invited into our homes. The crimes encouraged, even created, by these laws far outweigh the accidents of previous years. Granted, education, training and screening may have been lacking, but legislation and common law was not. What seems to have been lost in all of this is common sense. And it is to the benefit of the criminals and no one else. Talk all you want from your high and mighty horse but, when someone comes into YOUR home and beats the crap out of you and or yours because they CAN, you just might think of the right to deadly force as a reasonable deterrant from this type of crime. Anyway, my guns and ammo are locked up solid at the gun club. However, my super-soaker is filled with bleach.