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Almost every parent out there would say they’re prepared to lay down their lives for their children.

That’s the nature of parenthood, doing what you can, when you can, to protect, serve, and love your children.

Some people have such big hearts they will open up their homes to children who aren’t their kids.

Many of these foster parents are some of the noblest people you will ever find. And many of them are willing to do all they can to protect their children.

For many of those parents that includes owning a gun…legally.

Well when a Nevada couple was discovered to legally own weapons something outrageous happened.

Even though no crime was committed the state seized their foster license.

News 3 gives us the details:

Foster parents in the Las Vegas Valley say they believe their gun ownership cost them their three children.

Kristi and Rod Beber say they have been parents to “over a hundred” children over the years. They are also proud gun owners, and on one fateful night those worlds collided and changed their lives forever.

On April 3, the Bebers were awakened by screaming. Angry neighbors were on their property.

“Let me tell you something, my hands were shaking,” Kristi said. “I’m calling 911.”

So Kristi called the police, and Rod retrieved his gun.

“You want to protect your family and your house,” Rod said. “As a (Conceal and Carry a Weapon card) holder, one of the first things you want to do is take control of the situation.”

The incident ended when police arrived. A report was taken, no one arrested and no one was charged – but that wasn’t the end. Three months later, the Department of Family Services pulled the Bebers’ foster license.

The agency told the Bebers in documents that “the incident did not describe an adult exercising sound judgment.” And it cited a law that forbids any foster parent from having a loaded firearm in their home, regardless of the situation.

“I said, ‘Don’t make me drop them off at Child Haven. If you’re going to revoke me, revoke me, but don’t make me drop those kids off at Child Haven,” Kristi said.

But as Rod Beber was quick to point out to News 3 and DFS, something happened between that April incident and their revocation in July.

On June 1, the law changed. Foster parents are allowed to have a gun loaded and out of their safe for lawful purposes, namely to protect their family.

The Bebers plan on fighting DFS. Kristi says her husband made the decision not long after they got the revocation notice.

“He said, ‘You know what, Kris, we’re not going to close (this case). This isn’t right, we’re not going to let this happen.”

That story should make your blood boil.

Here these people are, spending their time, their money, their lives raising children that aren’t even theirs…and because they own guns they’re no longer able to follow their passion.

That’s like telling a doctor he can’t operate on patients because he’s got a shotgun.

Only in a gun-shy culture like the one we live in today is this even a possibility.

What’s your reaction to this?

Do you think the state overstepped their boundaries by taking their foster license?