Kerri Raissian didn’t know what to do about her father’s guns when he died of COVID-19 in December 2021 at age 86 and left her executor of his estate.
Her father, Max McGaughey, hadn’t left a complete list of his firearms and where they were stored, and he hadn’t prepared a realistic plan for responsibly transferring them to family members.
What’s more, McGaughey had lived alone for at least a year at his home in Weimar, Texas, after being diagnosed with dementia in October 2020—a situation Raissian realized was potentially unsafe but didn’t know how to address….