Snowblind
Member
Hello there!
Wanted some input on an issue that's recently cropped up.
For the last few years, I've kept my shotgun under my bed unloaded with a trigger lock, with ammo nearby. I felt no need to have it any more accessible since I had an alert and menacing 120-pound German Shepherd right outside my bedroom door, and was more comfortable leaving it locked up/unloaded so that I knew nobody would be messing with it.
Sadly, my shepherd recently had an unexpected heart attack and died... so there went my intruder early-warning system and second layer of defense (the first being my front door.) Now I'm considering leaving the shotgun with a fully loaded magazine, but I still don't want any possibility of it being used without me.
Obviously, with a loaded tube, the trigger lock is out. I want something that will prevent the action from being brought into battery, such as the LifeVault/BreechVault or GunJacket products, but it alarms me that those are primarily plastic. My first idea was to take a steel cable lock and put it through the loading port and out the ejection port.
Any thoughts on this?
Wanted some input on an issue that's recently cropped up.
For the last few years, I've kept my shotgun under my bed unloaded with a trigger lock, with ammo nearby. I felt no need to have it any more accessible since I had an alert and menacing 120-pound German Shepherd right outside my bedroom door, and was more comfortable leaving it locked up/unloaded so that I knew nobody would be messing with it.
Sadly, my shepherd recently had an unexpected heart attack and died... so there went my intruder early-warning system and second layer of defense (the first being my front door.) Now I'm considering leaving the shotgun with a fully loaded magazine, but I still don't want any possibility of it being used without me.
Obviously, with a loaded tube, the trigger lock is out. I want something that will prevent the action from being brought into battery, such as the LifeVault/BreechVault or GunJacket products, but it alarms me that those are primarily plastic. My first idea was to take a steel cable lock and put it through the loading port and out the ejection port.
Any thoughts on this?