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It's pissing into the wind to assume an hoa won't do the wrong thing.
There's existing mechanisms to enforce fines.
I'm not talking about this article just HOAs in general
Yes. I'm not saying that they wouldn't try to come up with bogus/farfetched regulations, but they legitimately cannot do anything about what goes on behind closed doors in someone's house. To do otherwise would be a breach in that person's right to privacy. It'd be like an HOA telling you, you have to vacuum/sweep/mop every other day, otherwise you can be fined. (or saying you can't have sex on Sundays)
HOAs do have some extralegal clout, but the right to privacy stops them from interfering in anything you do that isn't openly visible. (i.e. Doing a meatspin in front of a window facing the street can be penalized, but taking a dump in your kitchen sink can't, unless the sink is in front of a window facing the street and the blinds/curtains/shutters are open.)
This is the point, there are options for illegitimate fuckery
And if they do, they open themselves up to a lawsuit.
But, in relation to the story. It's a gun owning, likely conservative (and MAGA'd), prejudicial old white man with nothing better to do but watch his balls sink lower and lower. Harassing him or his money with BS regulations for him having a gun in his house will just have him spend the huge amount of free time he has fighting them and likely filing a claim/s against the HOA
Similarly to some retiree, the HOA can drag out court by virtue of being funded by all the home owners.