I read all your posts. Your alternative suggestions were unrealistic, and you still don't even seem to have grasped the basic facts of the original report. You wrote that the ex step-father left six handguns "laying around." Then you wrote that hiding them was irresponsible because any doped up burglar would know right where to look for them ... ignoring the fact that his former step-son was unable to find them after being alone in the house for an hour. Heck -- ex step-dad might not even have hidden them on-site, he might have put them in a safe deposit box at the bank.
You are just doing the gun grabbers' work for them, making it seem that it's the gun owner's fault when a firearm is stolen and used in a crime. Whatever measures the owner took, the antis will always claim it wasn't enough, and you seem ready to join the chorus.
You do what you think is "reasonable" to secure your guns, and I'll do what I consider is "reasonable" to secure mine. But the issue is that that pesky Constiution says the right to KEEP and bear arms shall not be infringed. That means, regardless of what you, I, the Pope, or Mother Theresa thinks is a reasonable way to store guns, the Constitution says I can do it any damned way I want.
