Here's my problem:
I own a couple of S&W revolvers for self-defense/home-defense. I also have a 6-year old son who is pretty good at following instructions/rules as far as that can be said about any boy of his age. Right now either myself or my wife is with him at home at any time of the day so I hide my firearms unloaded on a closet shelf 8ft off the ground behind a bunch of uninteresting stuff. Bullets are stored at a separate place also hard to get to.
The problem with the current situation is that I might as well not own those guns since it would take me a good deal of time to get them ready to be used for defense if (God forbids) someone should break in when we're at home.
I'm shopping for a gun safe right now but from what I have seen they won't improve the situation by that much. I'm a heavy sleeper so waking up in the middle of the night trying to get a safe combination right in the dark will definitely be a problem. I might be long dead before getting them out. The ones with glow in the dark key combination all run on batteries so I'm not too sure how reliably they work (Murphy's law here).
When I was by myself, I always kept a loaded gun in my night stand drawer but that's a no-no at the moment with that boy around.
So any suggestions, anyone? I'm sure this is a common situation so someone must have this figured out, it's just that I'm stumped at this point.
