I served in the IDF, Golani, spent most of 1983 in Lebanon. Several times I came home (my sister’s, in Rishon) on weekends in full battle garb, which meant rifle and pack with 8 more clips and two grenades. Her boys were then around 5 & 3. The first time my sister found my pack on the floor not long after I got in she shut the door to “my room” and when I was there next (probably out of the shower, memory on this is faint as to the exact, but it was later that same) she made me put it up on the shelf in the closet, which was the right thing to do, it taught me and it convinced the teacher in her that i was thereafter aware, and there were no incidents/tragedies like unto that in Yemen in her house.

The boys are now 30ish and married and fathers, one was a tankist, the other in Handassah like his father. I encouraged Golani, but they just laughed and said they remembered how I used to look when I came in on weekends and wanted nothing to do with that kind of life!

So you never know why a person might have weapons in their home. Legitimate reasons abound. That said, there are precautions that must be taken when children might have access.

Good Shabbos.

Ruven