Keep your guns locked up and way from ammo!

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Do what you gotta do but all I can say is I know how sneaky I was when no one was around to monitor me. Left to my own devices I handled every firearm in the place as a youngster from the P38 in Dad's dresser drawer to the shotguns on my older brother's walls and I'm talking under 10 years old.

We have one child, she's sixteen. She's been taught to handle most of the firearms but if there are visitors in the house, and that includes family, the weapons are locked up.
 
Have two kids, both now adults. When they were small,...son about a year and 1/2,...daughter about 10,....came home one evening, went to the bedroom to change clothes after work. Found my revolver that I kept loaded in the night stand on the floor beside the bed, cylinder open, and rounds all over the floor. Locked my guns up after that whenever kids are around. My suggestion,...find a way to do both, if you have kids about. Keep the HD weapons secure,...but at the ready and accesable. Keep everthing else locked up.
 
Long story short:

About four or five years after parents divorce,
mom starts getting some creepy phone calls
Dad buys mom a cheap .25 Auto,
phone calls end,
mom gives .25 to dad,
I visit dad on weekends,
dad takes me hunting every fall,
I shoot only shotguns but read about those "exotic" rifles and handguns in gun porn mags.
I only know long gun operation.
I fondle every gun I ever get a chance to.
I find cheap .25 auto
I fondle.
I figure out how to release the magazine.
I am pointing the gun in all directions.
I wonder if it is loaded (about ten minutes later)
I point gun down into mattress and pull trigger
One quarter inch hole in mattress and one scared kid.

I was about twelve at the time. I don't have kids, but I do know why curiousity kills the cat.

I cannot add too much to what has currently been said; the OP will have to make his own mind up and satisfy the requirements of his own conscience. But, if I had kids in the house, I would know darn sure that whenever they got a chance, they would be handling guns behind my back.
 
this recomendation quasi rule for seperating guns from ammo is for a few reasons.
-safety, it cant be stolen if locked up
-timmy/sussie cant take it to show and tell and play "whack the teacher"

However, and the somewhat not so high road facts of life. The organizations most devoted to having us store our guns in a safe in one end of the house, and the ammunition in a safe in the basement are organizations devoted to taking guns away from all citizens.
The idea is:
guns locked up away from ammo, home is invaded friday night, and because guns locked up, the home owners are unable to defend themselves and thus the following tuesday morning the defenseless homeowners are found tortured to death. Thus proving to the anti gun org that firearm in house does not equal protection THUS their belief in not having a gun is reinforced on the basis of "they couldnt get to their gun so whats the point of owning one?"
 
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Everyone = obvious antis like the news, my son's pediatrician, some family members not inside my immediately family, etc...
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Brock,

The antis opinion is the opinion of people who know nothing about guns. People who know nothing have an opinion that is worth nothing.

You need a new pediatrician. Why? Because they should give pediatric medical advice, that is their specialty. They are not specialists in guns. Their inability to understand this probably means they aren't very good at their supposedly chosen profession. If you think this sounds absurd, then I want to ask: Would you take medical advice from the kid behind the counter at a gun store?

Lastly, are those some members of your family gunnies, fudds, or anti?
 
My son is about to turn 5. When he was 1, he could take the batteries out of the remote and replace them properly. When he was 2, because he so badly wanted to see what Daddy was doing, I let him watch as I installed a hard wired night light in his bedroom. Two nights later, I went to check on him just in time to see that he had removed the face plate with a piece of a Happy Meal toy he had broken to use as a screwdriver. We had to turn the power to his room off at the breaker for three weeks at night. Just after turning 4, he successfully updated the Flash player on my desktop PC while playing on Noggin.com. He no longer has admin rights. He knows how to get from my house to his mom's, to the grocery store, the vet and the park. He won't admit that he can read, but he can start the car - and tells me when I'm speeding. He can carry a gallon of milk up 3 flights of stairs and uses his bat to move the couch when the cat won't come out. I have no idea where the little devil gets his sense for mischief!! :D But, if you think for one second that I trust in his inability to get to or figure out and operate a firearm, you are out of your mind.

If it's not on me, it's locked up.

Never, never underestimate the enemy.

IC
 
On me at all times, except for bedtime. Then, it's locked up. Handguns go in one safe, rifles in another. Handguns are stored empty with mags beside them. Rifles and shotguns are stored "cruiser ready", with extra mags laying on top of the handgun safe... in case I start to see zombies or need to unleash Hell on a bunch of gangbangers.

Between you and me, If a BG ever makes his way into our house at night, since my 3 year old sleeps in our bed (BTW... bad habit to start) and not in his room, once I've made sure it's a bad guy, I'm just gonna lock the bedroom door and let a bunch of FMJ steel core commie 7.62x39 rip through through the house. I can always transition to a pistol after I run dry of loaded mags (keep at least 4 loaded at all times)
 
I lock my XD 45 up and my mossberg 500 up in the morning when I leave the house and I just get them out of the safe before I enter the house (odd I know but the safe is in the garage and its part of the house but still far enough that no intruder would notice me entering)
 
Just do like my parents did. Lock the children in the safe and then you can leave your toys lying about...

Just kidding, of course. We don't have kids, but I keep everything locked up except my little bedside buddy at night. The RSC I started out with is now the ammo depot and the boomsticks are all in a real safe. Although we have no kids, there still plenty of ornery ones strolling the streets with nothing constructive to do while we're away at work.
 
if its out of arms reach its not secure :mad:
your kids maybe safe around guns can you be sure all there friends will be :confused:
true most safes can be broken fact.
but most burglars are not that professional
 
The effort of locking them is small, the downside of not doing it is huge. I keep my self-defense pistol in a quick access safe by the bed. All the rest are in a good solid safe. When I'm home and no kids or other adults are around I open the big safe so the AR and shotgun are accessible.
 
No loaded guns when there's kids around. It's that simple. Get a quick access safe and have a loaded clip in there with the gun. Mossberg also makes a nice rack with a lock on it for storing your shotgun.
 
Mine are all safely buried in the backyard when I am not using them. ;)
Plus, my youngest "kid" is 25 and lives 2400 miles from home.
 
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