Storing a carry gun in the vehicle

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In the trunk, lock the box to the spare tire if you have one. If no trunk, In the spare tire area. There should be a way to lock your box in there. Most butt picking bad guys are not going to take the time to look through those areas. Adding a good loud screaming car alarm is always a good idea. It's a shame it has to be the way it is and it's not going to change since our beloved gov. And court system are more concerned about coddling the vermin than the rights of the honest hard working people .
 
Alex Clayton said:
Yes assuming no tint so people can look in it's a good idea to not have anything that "looks" like a temptation. A crap load of broken windows are due to people leaving something on the seat that looks like a laptop bag. Often the bag has nothing of value but, it gets the attention of the thief to break the window. When I had a gun box on the floor of one vehicle it had a folded blanket on top of it. To a causal look they could not see anything that looked like anything worth stealing.
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I keep a couple army blankets in my truck behind the seats; one sits on to of the supplies, the other goes over any guns except the one on me and the 'truck gun' which is a .38 snub in a lock box. I can and have carried my AR pistol loaded and ready under the blanket during the recent unpleasantness just down the road in Mpls. (I have a WI permit, and only do so in WI, not MN.)
 
The way I see it, if you your carry or truck gun locked in placed or have it in a strong box. Then what's really the point of having it? I understand if you can't carry it into a building. But if not, then it's not doing any good being locked up. It would take a lot of time to get it unlocked and ready if the worst case scenario hits.
 
entropy said:
Many unlock the box when they get in, and lock it when they get out. Some carry, then lock the gun in the box when entering a place they can't carry, and get it out and reholster when they come out.
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You really shouldn't need to explain that but some people's kids
 
entropy said:
Many unlock the box when they get in, and lock it when they get out. Some carry, then lock the gun in the box when entering a place they can't carry, and get it out and reholster when they come out.
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Ya, I didn't think of that. Thanks for clearing it up.
 
I bought a number of these. https://www.amazon.com/SnapSafe-X-L...1&keywords=car+gun+safe&qid=1595301334&sr=8-5

It is cabled through the front passenger seat mounts. It sits open in the floorboard of the right rear passenger footwell when I am driving. It is black and sits on black carpet. If I have to un-arm, I put it in the case, lock it, and shove it up under the right front passenger seat. You cannot see it without a flashlight, and even then it's a challenge.

I decided to see how difficult they were to open, so I sacrificed one. I got a hammer and a BIG flathead screwdriver and it took me about 2 minutes to get into it. I think that's more time that any but a really determined thief would take. And as I said, it is basically invisible when it is under the seat.
 
When I worked for organizations with similar rules, I ignored them. Pretty easy to carry without anyone knowing. And since I was 110% sure I was not going to show up to work one day and decide to start putting rounds in coworkers for kicks, I fail to see the harm. Had I somehow been found out I would have accepted the consequences, but I'd have to have been incompetent for that to happen.
 
Mod the passenger seat (or driver seat) to make a hidden compartment to put a lock box in. All it takes is some ingenuity and the ability to sew.

Also a lot of the plastic pieces cover up spaces that could fit a firearm. Like the plastic collar on the steering column or under the dashboard. Many of those aren’t too hard to take out, you could see where the empty spaces are and then mod a secret compartment.
 
Tuffy Security Products dot com.

I am a repeat customer. I have no “affiliation” with Tuffy.
 
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azrocks said:
When I worked for organizations with similar rules, I ignored them. Pretty easy to carry without anyone knowing. And since I was 110% sure I was not going to show up to work one day and decide to start putting rounds in coworkers for kicks, I fail to see the harm. Had I somehow been found out I would have accepted the consequences, but I'd have to have been incompetent for that to happen.
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Same here... I carry everyday 6 days a week some weeks 12 hour shifts at work armed for close to a decade now. It's not as much of a big deal as some of the more paranoid make it seem.
 
For 15 years I worked for a company that was quite serious about not allowing CC in their building. In Texas, however, no employer can disallow firearm storage in a personal vehicle. I do not drive flashy cars (mine is currently a 13-yr old beater that looks reasonable but pretty vanilla) and never advertise what I have inside the vehicle.

i had a lengthy commute anyway, so the console was where the gun went as soon as I started my commute. It stayed there until I arrived back at the compound. I didn’t worry about it and never had a problem with my employer over it.
 
Jbird45 said:
My company has a no weapons policy, which I am sure the majority do. I do take my carry gun with me to work and back home, but when I get to work for the day, I unload it, lock the slide back, and put a cable lock through it, and put it in the center counsel out of sight until the work day is over.

I read a recent news report locally where someone's vehicle was broken into and there carry weapon was stolen.

This got me thinking if someone broke into my vehicle during the workday, am I doing enough to make sure my weapon can't be used by criminals? My company has security cameras and my truck is visible from my office, but crap always happens.

What do others do if you have to lock your gun away during the work day? Or do you leave it at home in the safe unless you always have it on you? Is having a small safe in the back seat and somehow attaching the safe to the vehicle so it can't be taken away a better idea?
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http://www.autosafes.net/
 
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