Does the vehicle play into a “truck gun”

[redneck]

I drive a one ton flatbed that is loaded down with tools and it isn't really feasible to take them all inside every night. Most of them live in a weatherguard box on the back, but occasionally I have to have some in the cab. When it comes to a smash and grab I'm pretty much screwed whether there is a gun in the truck or not, so while I do worry about it, its not much of a deciding factor anymore. I do my best to not leave anything visible if I'm not going to be near the truck for any period of time but that is the best I can do.
I think your daily routine would have more to do with what gun you keep at hand, but I suppose the type of vehicle you drive also is decided by your daily routine as well. Being that I'm running around horse farms and hay farms, I'm much more likely to need to dispatch a raccoon in a haymow or evict a bunch of possums from a saddle rack, so I have settled on keeping an SR22 pistol in the truck, to go along with whatever I'm carrying that day. I will occasionally add a rifle to the loadout if I think there is a chance I will need it but for the most part its just an extra pistol in the truck.

 

[Labguy47]

Things have certainly changed since I was a farm kid growing up in Kansas where an old beater (usually mil-surp or .22 lr) rested in the back window of the truck. I will never forget that day my sophomore year when I was drug out of third period French class by the schools Security officer. I was taken to the front parking lot and shown my truck and he asked me what was wrong with this situation. I said I dunno if someone hit it they probably did more damage to their fiberglass car than my old '79 F-250. He laughed and said oh your one of the country kids, and told me to take my shotgun home and come back and he would write me a pass to go back to class. I tried to explain it was the first day of dear season but he (still laughing) said it made someone nervous to see it. He said he knew it was an inconvenience and not illegal but would I please do him a favor. I relented, and never had another incident with him. But to this day I keep wondering if that is how our liberties keep getting stripped away so people feel safer?
Indeed the vehicle type matters, old truck = old beater gun, new modern powerful SUV usually means tacticooled out (I do like some of those pull out trays), BMW or German import usually has a 9mm race gun of some sort under the dash or in the trunk, Ford or Chevy police car auctioned off usually means shotgun somewhere. People have certain tastes, doesn't make them any different from the rest of us, YMMV.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Maybe a Mossberg Shockwave is what I should get. It's cheap could be fired from a vehicle cab and honestly I don't care about shotguns. If it was stolen it'd be easy to replace.

Hmmmmm.........

 

[BlueHeelerFl]

That is an interesting thought about Liberties being stripped away to make people feel safer. Nowadays 1 person complains about something and heaven and earth needs to move to accommodate them.

I'm positive people at my last long term job would have freaked if they knew I had a gun secured in my car

 

[BlueHeelerFl]

Maybe a Mossberg Shockwave is what I should get. It's cheap could be fired from a vehicle cab and honestly I don't care about shotguns. If it was stolen it'd be easy to replace.

Hmmmmm.........

The Mossberg and Remington versions with the detachable magazines might be a good choice for people that live in states where you can't drive with a loaded shotgun in a vehicle

 

[CapnMac]

Well, there's all sorts of things going on.

For one, there's a logic in having a long arm if gun fighting breaks out. Of course, that has to be measured against how likely that condition is likely to occur. Also in that calculus is trying to get through car seats/booster seats to get to the trunk from inside versus getting outside the ride to the trunk.

There is also the case where one has to disarm for compliance reasons--which generates a different answer.

However, once the decision is made that something locked into the trunk is needful, is the issue f out-of-sight = out-of-mind. having to pull the trunk gun out every five-six days or so to make sure it's rust protected becomes a whole can of worms. Also, the issues of ammo stowed in hot or cold trunks rears its ugly head.

I'm probably not going to be much help here, as an SUV owner for right at the last 28 years--trunk, wuzzat? Driving to Drill in Houston during Tropical Storm season, I always had a cased long arm in the ride, usually in a soft-side case behind the front seat or on the back seat. For everyday around town in my rather rural county, I kept a a single-shot .22lr/.410 combo in a sock under the back seat (which was mostly in case of hitting something while driving, which might include wandering livestock).

 

[entropy]

having to pull the trunk gun out every five-six days or so to make sure it's rust protected becomes a whole can of worms

My son found that one out the hard way. He left his 870 Express in his trunk all winter, when he pulled it out in the spring it was a nice shade of orange with surface rust.