The Free Beacon story is a little better. The gun owner locked her bedroom while away. Her roommates broke into her room and rummaged through her things and found the guns. The chief of police told the gun owner to buy a safe to store her guns, in which she did. Her roommates said either the guns go or we will move out. The landlord said if the gun owner stays by herself with her guns then she has to pay the whole rent.
She should start a GoFundMe account and scatter it around the pro-gun forums, to raise the required rent money. It'd be worth it to get the roommates booted out.