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ATOT shotgun/rifle owners: how do you secure them at home?

Jeeebus

Jeeebus

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Looking at picking up a Mossberg 930 or Benelli M2 for home defense purposes, but somewhat stymied by how to keep them safe in the house. yes yes I know a locked gun is not much help if I wake up and Jason Voorhees is standing over me with an axe... but I've got a 2 year old and a 5 month old whose hands I also need to keep off the gun.

Anyone in a similar situation with some advice?
 
Never keep a round in the chamber.

When my kids were little, I kept my firearms in a gun safe. One pistol was kept out of the safe and was stored between the mattress and box springs of the bed.

Today my children are almost grown, I keep my AR-15 between my computer desk and bed - 20 rounds in a 30 round magazine, and a 9mm pistol in a holster between the mattress and boxsprings.

The shotgun is in the closet with a few rounds of 00 buckshot in the magazine. Sometimes I swap the AR and the Mossberg 590 out, just for a change.

I know people who keep a round in the chamber, but to me, that is asking for trouble.

From the time my kids were 3, 4 and 5 years old they were taught to never touch a firearm. When my kids got up to around 6, 7 or 8 years old I taught them how to shoot a BB rifle, and then a 22 rifle.
 
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I own a bunch of guns and keep all but one handgun in the gun safe. Sometimes all the guns are in the safe.

Not really too concerned about break ins quite frankly. I'm more concerned about my 9 year old finding a loaded gun in the house.
 
JulesMaximus said:
I'm more concerned about my 9 year old finding a loaded gun in the house.
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That's my concern. I could give a shit if someone breaks in and steals a gun. My concern is one of the two inquisitive youngens or one of their friends getting their hands on it.
 
Gun safe with fingerprint reader, springloaded to eject the gun directly into your hands, right next to your bed?
 
When i had my shotgun I kept it in pieces, in a gun safe in the back of my wardrobe behind a load of coats and bags etc, no ammunition, it was in two bags in the safe.

The key was on my keyring no one else had one.

Nice and legal.
 
HAL9000 said:
When i had my shotgun I kept it in pieces, in a gun safe in the back of my wardrobe behind a load of coats and bags etc, no ammunition, it was in two bags in the safe.

The key was on my keyring no one else had one.

Nice and legal.
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so do you ask perp, "hold on while I assemble my shotgun that i'm gonna shoot you with"
 
HAL9000 said:
When i had my shotgun I kept it in pieces, in a gun safe in the back of my wardrobe behind a load of coats and bags etc, no ammunition, it was in two bags in the safe.

The key was on my keyring no one else had one.

Nice and legal.
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I'm asking a serious question here, and I'd rather not have yet another thread derailed by your presence, deserved or not. Please increase your post count elsewhere.
 
Jeeebus said:
I'm asking a serious question here, and I'd rather not have yet another thread derailed by your presence, deserved or not. Please increase your post count elsewhere.
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1) I've no interest in increasing my post count
2) I answered your question with a serious response from my own experience
3) You called for people who owned shotguns, that was me, so I came into the thread.

Regardless of all these facts, I will leave the thread so that morons don't derail it based on my presence.

HAL out.
 
Jeeebus said:
That's my concern. I could give a shit if someone breaks in and steals a gun. My concern is one of the two inquisitive youngens or one of their friends getting their hands on it.
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From one concerned parent to another, teach your children gun safety. There are a lot of parents who keep firearms in the house, but never take the time to teach the kids gun safety, or how to shoot.

I did not even buy my kids toy guns. The only thing they got that looked like a toy gun was a super soaker water gun.

Instead of having to explain to my kids why its ok to point toy guns at people and not real guns, I just excluded toy guns from the equation.

When my sons got about 6 years old, I bought them a daisy red ryder BB gun. The BB gun was treated just like a real rifle. It was kept in my room, and the children were not allowed to use it without adult supervision.

By the time we moved onto a 410 shotgun or 22 rifle, the foundation for gun safety had been laid down.
 
brainhulk said:
i have them all in a gun safe. magazines loaded but none chambered. i'm thinking of getting one of those biometric safes for the handgun by the bed.

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduc...Gun Cases & Safes-_-PriceCompListing-_-246722
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I have a couple of these. One in the bedroom in my nightstand and one under the coffee table down in my mancave. They work great.

OP, you want to avoid anything with true biometrics. The stuff they call biometrics but is really only button pushing is what you really want. Fingerprint reading is great if you never get a cut or don't sweat.
 
I kept it in the corner so the kids see it as an every day item. I kept the ammunition locked up.

The point of course is to let the kids think the gun really is an every day item so they dismiss it as "normal". If you lock it up and give the impression its something secret or special of course they want to get their hands on it to see it.

Now that they are older I just keep the guns and ammo out. They are smart enough to know not to play with them and we go shooting often so its just an ordinary item to them like a kitchen knife or strong chemical cleaner. They realize its not a toy but its not some secret item they are highly interested in playing with.
 
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