A question for the more legally astute. For sake of argument and being a Monday-morning quarterback critic, if this situation occurred again and the home-owner called the police to report the burglary (again, no firearms involved), I would surmise that if asked about firearms in the house, you have no legal requirement to answer that question
I wouldn't necessarily want to lie, but if answered, could my wife's uncle just said it was irrelevant and that discussion should be at a later date with a warrant? I guess making the initial call to file a report would give them probable cause to search, but I would suspect there has to be some protection against incriminating yourself. I don't know, I just could see city ordnances like this spreading and putting the majority of ignorant gun-owners at risk...
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