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… I don’t know because I don’t know every guy in the NBA. I don’t know what every guy personally has,” Indiana Pacers guard T.J. Ford said. “As a society, I think a lot of people have protection within their home. But I don’t think it’s just an NBA thing. It’s just a lot of regular people have protection in their home.
“Obviously it’s not a problem if you have a license to carry a weapon. I think that’s the ultimate key. If you have a license, can’t nobody dispute the reason why you have a gun.”
Ford owns a gun but said he doesn’t carry it outside his home, a policy Stern prefers all players take. The commissioner called the issue of players carrying guns an “alarming subject” in October 2006, adding “that although you’ll read players saying how they feel safer with guns, in fact those guns actually make them less safe.”
That came about three weeks after Stephen Jackson, then with the Indiana Pacers, shot a gun in the air outside an Indianapolis strip club, telling police it was in self defense.