antique guns,heck any gun!while this story involves a modern one I think gun safety may or should trump house rules.My Pop had a buddy at work that wanted to get rid of an old pistol.It was one of those savage 1907 semi's.The guy didn't even know what it was and brought to work for my Dad to check out and go from there.He brings it in in a brown paper bag.My Dad opens up the bag and notiçed the hammers back,hmmmmmm.He carefully takes it out and sure enough theres a round in the chamber,full clip and the hammers back ready to go.No cock and lock on them old pistols,dad asks him how long has it been this way,he says as long as I can remember.Wow,little kids in the house,milling around looking for something,when he put the thing in the bag,all kinda bad could have happened here.Makes you think for sure,assume there all loaded!sometimes they are!