Are secure boxes for guns often kept in center consoles?

[Ignition Override]

This is the only option to keep a small "gun safe" out of view. It fits diagonally.
Otherwise the smallest will protrude about 5" from the area Under my seat. Despite the black/dark gray colors, they would attract some car burglars if visible.

The thin (black) cable is long enough to connect it to the seat frame.

 

[Larry Ashcraft]

Don't know about "often", but that's how my wife secured her gun when she worked at Fort Carson (yes, she had a permit from the commander). We secured it with one of the bolts holding the console down. This was a 1990s Taurus.

 

[FL-NC]

I have a jeep wrangler. There are more options for them than you can shake a stick at for secure storage. I have a locking drawer under the driver's seat. I only use it if I am going into a gov't building. Otherwise my gun is accessible. Kind of the point.

 

[Sistema1927]

This is the only option to keep a small "gun safe" out of view.

Not the only option. I have steel box style gun safes mounted under the front seats of both my vehicles.

 

[old lady new shooter]

Not the only option. I have steel box style gun safes mounted under the front seats of both my vehicles.

link please?

 

[Mikhail Weiss]

I have one of these under the seat in the Jeep. It connects via cable and opens with a key.
http://www.cabelas.com/catalog/prod....z_btnclk=YMAL-1314481&WT.z_pg_ref=prd2583714

 

[Sistema1927]

link please?

Post #6 has a link to one similar. There are a number of different ones that are similar.

 

[WestKentucky]

False floor in a back seat floorboard. Vault underneath, floor mats over the top. I have seen it done numerous times. I have also seen the spare tire area in a trunk become a lockable container. Last one I personally did was to build a hidden compartment inside of a really crappy speaker box...kinda the point of the speaker box.

 

[typhun]

Hornady branded is the one i use under the seat with the included cable.
It's a law in CA now about unattended guns in a vehicle. A glove box or center console by themselves even if they lock is not legal in CA

Handguns in Unattended Vehicles: California enacted a law in 2016 that generally requires all individuals, including law enforcement officers and CCW permit holders, to safely store handguns when leaving them in unattended motor vehicles. This law requires that the handgun be secured either in a locked trunk or in a locked container placed out of plain view or permanently affixed to the vehicle.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GVFD4DI/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

[JeffG]

There are other options.

http://www.consolevault.com/

 

[Ifishsum]

Car prowlers will check the center console for sure...and the cable is pretty easy to cut. Better than nothing though. One time I got broke into I had a small pistol in the map pocket of the door; apparently they didn't see it. They cut the cable and took the empty gun box under the seat, and left my center console and glove box wide open.

 

[typhun]

They cut the cable and took the empty gun box under the seat

I have no illusion that the cable will stop a thief that is prepared to rip off my car. Thing is my ccw instructor who is on the county sheriff's ccw committee told me that the sheriff had revoked a few permits from people that reported they had guns stolen out of their car and during the report taking revealed, either knowingly of the law or not that they didn't have them secured legally. I rather not have to lie and say i had mine locked up when i didn't.

 

[Ghost In The Fog]

There are other options.

http://www.consolevault.com/

I have had one for about 2 years in my truck.
Though it was really cool when I bought it. My wife asked me about 6 months after I had it how many times I have used it. I had to think long and hard, and my answer was once. My gun is always on me and the one time I did use it was to enter a property that guns are not allowed on with plenty of signs and entry security guards and vehicle inspections. I was unexpectedly called to a pre-construction meeting and I otherwise would have had no where to leave my gun.
Glad I had it even though it rarely gets used.

 

[GBExpat]

I have one of those little lockboxes w/cable in my truck (got it for a song a couple of years ago) for occasions when I might want slightly more smash&grab resistance for times when I have to briefly enter some prohibited place like a courthouse. I have never found a time when I felt I needed to use it, though.

My SOP for dropping off things at the Post Office (the only prohibited place that I regularly if rarely visit) is to lock my carry pistol in the glovebox.

 

[Sistema1927]

My SOP for dropping off things at the Post Office (the only prohibited place that I regularly if rarely visit) is to lock my carry pistol in the glovebox.

I hope that you are not parking on Post Office property. If so, then you are still in violation of the law for "storing" your weapon. Stupid law, but it is the law.

Of course, most of us commit felonies daily without even knowing it due to the proliferation of these types of laws.

 

[GBExpat]

I hope that you are not parking on Post Office property. If so, then you are still in violation of the law for "storing" your weapon. Stupid law, but it is the law.

Ayup, I am aware of that, but I thank you for mentioning it, Sistema1927.

Both locations that I frequent are mixed/multiple-use parking (one of the reasons that I use them) so I figure that I am safe on that score.