Some time ago, I discovered a gun in my house.

I'd moved into the house after my adoptive mother's death. She'd mentioned that she got a gun while living in Maine, though I never saw it and assumed it was something she (at best) no longer had.

Living in NH and being a law-abiding citizen, I called the local police department to ask them what I had to do. I figured I had to register it or something like that.

They told me "Nope. Nothing like that. It's yours. That's all."

We don't have gunfights in the streets here. We *do* get stories of people scaring away criminals from time to time.