IOW, parents that own (possess) a gun must anticipate that a threatening situation such as this might require their children to take defensive action, and place on file a written permission for their children to “borrow” their father’s gun to defend themselves, in the unlikely but possible event that such becomes necessary.
Would the boy’s emergency “borrowing” of his father’s gun, to defend himself and his brother, constitute illegal “possession” of a firearm?
I don’t know the answer to that. I don’t like the law, but just looked it up to see what the law is. It sounds to me like the parent or guardian has to write a permission slip of some kind...probably best to have it notarized.
I imagine the idea is to go after gangsta types who are unlikely to have said parental permission.