I may have already posted this sometime in the 13+ years this thread has been around but here goes. I have a Hi Standard .22 pistol I bought in 1969, I left it with my Father when I moved off to a communist state after college expecting to only work there a few years to pad my resume and ended up staying because I liked the job. 30+ years later I finally got around to getting a carry permit which was required to own a hand gun in that state and brought the Hi Standard home. I left it with 2 loaded magazines and my Dad never shot it and I got it back that way. Shot fine.
I, like several on here, leave my magazines loaded in the safe, including .22.
