After many, many years of being single, after the end of my first marriage, I got married again. My second wife knew that I was a retired LEO and I had handguns. When we got married, she told me she did not want guns in the house. Too late, they were coming with me. Now I never flash them and she rarely sees them even though I always have one close by.
I have talked to her about going to the range and getting my pistol proficiency qualification to carry under LEOSA 2004. But I still keep them close by but out of her sight. One day she surprised me, she said that she wants to go to the range with me. So, I taught her the rules of safe handling. I showed her a .22, which she said was ugly. They I showed her my duty weapon. She liked it.
You never know. Sometimes the horse will drink when you least expect it to.
