Question: How do you store your HD handgun?

[FranklyTodd]

2 GunVaults - 1 under the bed, 1 out in the family room in a cabinet in case I'm not carrying around the house.

The one under the bed houses my everyday carry, so I get into it every day.

 

[searcher451]

I'm fortunate now that my two children are both grown and out of the house. If children are in the house, a safe is about the only option (a second might be constant carry on your person). Don't be fooled into thinking that the kids can be trained to avoid a certain area or leave a certain drawer unopened; that is a recipe for danger.

 

[CountGlockula]

MiniVault touch combination takes less than 2-3 secs to open.

 

[schadenfreude]

I have no kids so its my 1911 is kept condition 1 on a shelf on the headboard behind my pillow as I sleep. Home office I keep in the same way in a holster attached to the inside of my desk on my strong side.

My brother has young kids and he has his glock in a special bracket in his closet . You would have to stand in the closet to see it. Now that his girl is 7 he is getting a mini vault.

 

[grizz5675]

at night its sits on my night stand beside my bed and in reach with full mag and one in the the chamber,daytime in my closet in holster with full mag and one in chamber.

 

[k9barco]

stored close at hand

Tempoary storage when the big safe won't work

 

[GBExpat]

GunVault

 

[hanno]

Tempoary storage when the big safe won't work

K9barco,
What brand is that and where did you buy it? Thanks.

 

[k9barco]

The safe was made by R&D enterprises; they made several safes for the car and this wall safe. I think they have went out of business, but I also heard they were going to start up under a different name. Here is their last known info;
R&D enterprises
9970 mango St
po box 293988
Phelan, CA 92329-3988
800-467-4000
It's too bad their not in business any more, they had great USA made products and I wanted to buy another wall safe from them. I just called their 800# and got a recording about their " Cargo container lock box" and was told to leave a message. I'm going to call tomorrow and see whats up; they must have had legal problems with their old name, which was Handgun lock box.
Great products with simplex locks.

 

[Markbo]

I don't have any kids at home. When we have visitors, the guns are secured. Otherwise I have several placed in different places around the house so as to be very quickly accessed if need be.

 

[jaydubya]

We're a pair of empty nesters, so I have handguns in various places around the house. When the grandkids come, I pick them up and lock them up.
Works for me.
Cordially, Jack

 

[Wopasaurus]

Luckily I don't have kids, so I just keep my daily carry on the desk next to my girlfriend and my bed. She has hers above a cabinet by the dining room in our apt.

No safes, we both know what we're doing. We also have a shotgun hanging in the closet, with an M4 about to keep it company soon.

We live in the ghetto, we might actually need it. Haha.

 

[thebaldguy]

I use a hollowed out book on the bookshelf. It goes in the safe when we leave the house for an extended time.

 

[crebralfix]

I store my home defense handgun in my holster on my belt.

 

[Jeff F]

Don't have any little ones at home any more so I don't have those worries. I have a few 870's in different parts of the house, tube loaded, cocked and locked safety on empty chamber. I feel a little safer that way because it takes more then just racking the slide to make it ready to fire. Theres a side arm hid in the front, middle and back part of the house. All rifles and the rest are locked up in the safe. If we have certain company over or if friends with kids are visiting the side arms except for my carry piece get locked in the safe. Shotguns are on high hooks out of sight and every thing gets locked up if we leave for any length of time.

 

[Geronimo45]

On my person, some of 'em in a locked box (if I'm too lazy to open it) or alongside the mattress. Most of the people in my family are sane, fairly mature, and trustworthy folk, kids included.