Accessible Panel

[Mark P]

Would you consider this panel accessible for inspection?

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[Marc]

Yes. Looks like the water heater is at least 3' away.

Marc

[Nolan Kienitz]

Good comment Marc.

Now ... would I re-locate the firepower to open the panels for viewing?

Nope! No pun intended, but I'm getting more and more 'gun-shy' in today's sue-happy society.

I would take an image, put in the report and advise that 'safe access' to be able to remove the panel covers for observation was not possible at the time of my inspection.

[Tom Breslawski]

I'd move a broom or a mop, but not a gun. In this situation, I'd probably see if I could get the realtor or the owner to move it.

I usually just say something like, "I can't inspect the [blank] because something is in the way, but if I check back in a few minutes and it's not there anymore, I can do it."

That's worked at least a half dozen times.

[Jim Baird]

...like Tom, I say to whomever is there, "As a matter of policy, I don't move stuff."

[kurt]

I'd shoot my way in, set up a defensive perimeter, blow the panel cover with C-4, check for double taps, then disappear into the jungle covering my tracks with booby traps.

[Jerry Simon]

I'd shoot my way in, set up a defensive perimeter, blow the panel cover with C-4, check for double taps, then disappear into the jungle covering my tracks with booby traps.

You go, girl.

[Nolan Kienitz]

I'd shoot my way in, set up a defensive perimeter, blow the panel cover with C-4, check for double taps, then disappear into the jungle covering my tracks with booby traps.

Kurt,

You set me up and I could not resist!!! []

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[Mark P]

I'd shoot my way in, set up a defensive perimeter, blow the panel cover with C-4, check for double taps, then disappear into the jungle covering my tracks with booby traps.

Kurt,

You set me up and I could not resist!!! []

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Now that is what I'd call a bobby trap.

[Jim Katen]

I've got to admit, I wouldn't even pause before moving the rifles out of the way.

What am I missing? Are we afraid that the guns will somehow go off if we touch them?

[kurt]

They're not rifles.

[Marc]

Rifles or shotguns, who cares?

What Jim said. Grip them by the end of the barrel and don't let them ever point to your head or fall.

Every house in Cajun country has at least one gun. A friend I helped to move last week had 18.

Marc

[Tom Raymond]

Slowly back out of the room. Guns kill people.

Just move them. It's a couple guns, not a gun safe.

[Jim Port]

Easy enough to check if they are loaded. Looks like the action is open on at least one. Was there no one from the house available to move them?

[Mark P]

I thought that would get a variety of responses depending on one's background and location. There was no realtor or seller at the home. Just me and the braless lady from Brazil who was buying the home, which may seem irrelevant, but take my word for it, nothing about her was irrelevant. Anyway, my first reaction was to not move the guns and have the seller move them so I could inspect the panel when I came back to pick up the radon equipment. However, after pondering it for a few minutes I decided to just move them.

[Jim Baird]

I recently had a way-top-heavy loaded flimsy wire caddy of some sort full of home canned jellies, pickles, etc that stood about six ft tall, 'tween me and the panel. Luckily there were occupants around, and I signaled them and kept moving. Later, they had somehow moved it w/o busting a single jar.

[kurt]

I don't care, I was just maintaining the asshole puckered insistence on technically accurate and precise terminology use on the forum. Someone was going to point out they weren't rifles, so I figured I would.

Just move the stupid guns. Any moron that would leave his weaponry in that casual a manner won't notice if they've been moved a couple inches.

Theeennnnn shoot your way in, set up a perimeter, blow the panel cover, etc.....

[kurt]

What Jim said. Grip them by the end of the barrel and don't let them ever point to your head.........

So, it's OK to point them anywhere but your head. Got it.

[Leighton Jantz]

First we had Kurt talking booby traps, then Mark mentioning the bra-less lady from Brazil, and Jim going on about way-top-heavy...I was wondering where this thread was going!? Ha!

[Jim Katen]

They're not rifles.

Thanks for the correction. I'd be a lousy gun inspector.

[John Kogel]

They're not rifles.

Thanks for the correction. I'd be a lousy gun inspector.

But you'd stay alive. [:-magnify

Kurt, you nailed it, careless gun owner won't notice squat. I see shotguns, but the tech term up here would be 'long guns' which covers the whole range of hunting rifles and shotguns. I think.

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[Tim Maxwell]

I'd move them, inspect, put them back and never say a word. The house I was in yesterday had a shotgun on each level. I didn't have to move any though.

[mjr6550]

Just me and the braless lady from Brazil who was buying the home, which may seem irrelevant, but take my word for it, nothing about her was irrelevant.

This is one of the best sentences I have read in a long time.

I'm glad to see some sense come into this thread. I would ask permission to move them if someone was around, but otherwise I would carefully move them (I grew up around shotguns and rifles). I though about posting that sooner, but was not looking forward to being called an idiot.

[kurt]

Occasionally being an idiot is part of the job description.

[Brandon Whitmore]

I'd treat them like any of the other tools in the garage, but wouldn't recommend that someone inexperienced or uncomfortable around firearms do so.

I'm sure some inspectors would treat them like a warning