tekshogun wrote:
I don't understand what is being missed here and it could be me.
Home schools are explicitly exempted from weapon prohibitions. If children are in your home, you already should be meeting state regulations on keeping them safe or under your direct control at all times (in a holster for example or locked up in a safe).
There is no need for a firearms curriculum (JUST) so you can justify having the gun there. Of course, you should be teaching your kids about guns anyway.
The exemption is here (g)#3:
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_14/GS_14-269.2.html
Home schools are defined here, under Part 3.
http://www.ncga.state.nc.us/enactedlegislation/statutes/html/bychapter/chapter_115c.html
I think the main difference between private schools and home schools is that private schools are looked at more as corporate/chartered educational properties, such as colleges and universities. Mainly due to the fact that they may have quite a few children to instruct. Home schools are meant to be very small and involve just the children of a couple of families or households as defined in the general statutes.
All of the homeschool comments were generally sarcastic in nature. I know there is no law against guns in my home just becasue we homeschool. I store them in a manner that my wife and I deem safe. We do not actually have a "firearms curriculum" again me and my sarcasm. I just mentioned it because I stopped to check on an ammo shipment and my daughter wanted to look at a shotgun so she can start practicing for hunting with me next fall.
My only real question is why can the state have that restriction on PRIVATE schools, my point being that they should not have that kind of authority over a property/entity that they do not own or operate. If anyone has any idea regarding where they derive said authority, I would like to hear it, because I have been unable to locate any information in that regard. I realize the state has certain requirements to be a private school, and as such it does become "educational property" but I don't see how they derive that kind of authority from a certification of this type.
Also, FYI there is no law regarding storage of firearms that I can find in NC. Only a penalty clause of sorts if an minor gains possesion of said firearm AND commits a crime with it. I even had to sign a statement that I knew about that law to pick up my own gun from a gunsmith once. Best I can tell, you can leave it laying on the kitchen table 24/7 BUT you are responsible if a minor picks it up and commits a crime with it.