Wife-Shotgun-Storage argument

[NotSoFast]

Go with what your wife wants. She is the one that has to use it and has to also watch out for the kids while you're gone. Take her to the shop or shop online together and discuss it between the two of you. She'll appreciate your concern for her much more that way.

 

[SWDoc]

Here's a link to a gunvault that handles long guns. Same 4 finger combo, very quick, or biometric (which I am still not that confident in). Our small gunvaults are easy for my wife to access. She keeps some jewelry in there w/ her pistol. This is a smart woman who just has serious trouble w/ a dial lock.

This would keep the kids out, provide quick access in the dark.

http://www.gunvault.com/55005900.nxg

Steve

 

[22-rimfire]

Navyguy, I feel your pain. The last thing my wife would think of is going for a shotgun or any gun for that matter if an intruder threatened our house and I was not home.

4. She does not have the best memory in the world, the gun safe could sit there for months on end never being opened, then she has to remember combinations in split seconds.

I sometimes forget my cell phone number under minimal stress. Think about a safe and high stress.

I like your idea of the bracket under the closet shelf. I stand mine loaded in the corner. Kids.... no no, don't EVER touch, EVER. So far it has worked.

 

[Lou McGopher]

My Mossberg 12ga 500A is on a wall-rack, 7' up. It's loaded, but the chamber is empty. The safety is on, and I've already cycled the slide once. Thus to fire the weapon, it must be removed from the rack high up on the wall, slide release button must be depressed, slide must be cycled properly, the safety turned off, and the trigger pulled. I can do this all in 2 seconds. An adult unfamiliar with the firearm will have some difficulty figuring this all out in a short period of time. A young child will probably not be able to do all of this, at least not unless left unsupervised for a stupidly long period of time. My 7-y.o. would never even attempt this, because she Knows The Rules.

 

[ArmedBear]

Who needs fingerprints?

Lots of electronic safes open easily in a second with a pushbutton combo. Shouldn't take longer than opening the closet door and reaching up inside -- but the safe will be a LOT more likely keep your 4 year old from becoming a dead pile of bloody goo than putting a shotgun "where there's no way the kids can get to it."

You have two kids, but have you ever actually met any kids? You know, those little creatures that we call upon when we can't get the lid off a childproof medicine bottle?

Your wife doesn't really want your kids to become piles of bloody dead goo, and figures she can push a few buttons as easily as opening the closet and reaching up inside. Doesn't sound too whack to me.