Noticing that OP is from NJ like myself, in this crazy state the question and answers have a lot more implications than they do for people who live in Actual America.
The exemptions to the NJ ban on firearm possession, which include having a gun in your house, and in your vehicle if and only if you're going directly to the range (hopefully your gas tank is full and you don't get hungry on the way) are only applicable to holders of a firearms ID card. The card that makes it legal for me to have a gun, if I fall under an exemption to the blanket illegality. CCW is of course out of the question, and long guns are not exempted. I could go on for days.
Anyway, the reason I think this is relevant to the OPs question is that my answer in a public forum for this has to be that my fiancee never ever has access or knowledge of the location of the key to my safe. For this reason alone I'm trying to get her to apply for the FID but with an upcoming name change, and hopefully moving soon after that, it is with half-hearted interest from both of us.
You thought NJ was only bad for CCW and for modern sporting rifle enthusiasts? Think again. The sad part is even my friends, and even my family I recently found out, are all already pre-programmed to have a fear of guns. My father didn't even want to go with me to the range to shoot my .22 revolver, because "handguns are way too easy to accidentally point in the wrong direction and shoot somebody...and they are so inaccurate anyway!" Luckily, within 16 hours of that comment I had him at the bench on a sandbag punching a 1" 10 shot group at 12 feet, in the 10th handgun group he ever shot. (Shamefully, it was also my first time shooting a handgun except for NRA Basic pistol 5-6 years ago, and I couldn't match his group size).