But if I go out of the house with an EDC, it is always on my side.
When you get old like I am, and you live 30 miles from town, you occasionally have to go to town to visit the Cardiologist, whose office is in the hospital with a great big “No Weapons” sign on the door. And sometimes you have to go to town to visit the Social Security Office, where there’s a great big armed guard to greet you and ask you if you have any weapons on you. Other times you have to go to town to visit the County Courthouse to pay your taxes, license your vehicle, or renew your driver’s license. And there’s “No Weapons” sign on the County Courthouse door too, as well as a guard and a metal detector just inside.
My point is, I don’t care to drive 30 miles to town (60 miles round trip) just to visit the places listed in the above paragraph. So I try to run a few other errands (groceries, hardware, lumber, haircut, gasoline, etc.) while I’m in town. Sometimes I even visit a gun store or two. But I can legally carry while running all of
those errands, while I have to leave my gun in the vehicle while visiting the places listed in the
first paragraph.
Answering the OP’s question though – I just put my gun in the center console and lock the doors. Generally, we have a spoiled rotten Cocker Spaniel (Ruger) with us, and I worry more about finding a place to park in the shade for him, than I worry about someone breaking into my truck to steal my gun.
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again – the last time my vehicle was broken into, I was in stationed in Southern California and the thief, or thieves stole my 8-track. If you’re old enough to have had an “8-track,” you'll know it’s been a while since I’ve had a vehicle broken into.