IMO, anything that requires a key is neither quick-access nor secure.
Finding a key hole at 0dark30 is gonna be not-fun and having a key available while you sleep is a Bad Idea, when kids can get up and pad around.
I'd love to see Mossberg produce their Loc-Box with a simplex lock, same with Gunvault's Breechvault. Especially at a
Mossberg price.
The
http://www.shotlock.com/ Shot Lock shotgun system looks like the only reasonable way to keep a shotgun both secure and quick to access(1), as it uses a combo that can be entered using sense of touch. Until others follow their lead, $170 is the ante in this game.
And by "secure" I mean out of kids' hands. I've no doubt it might be ripped out of the stud it was secured to, carted off to some location, and freed with an angle grinder by a burglar.
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leadcounsel:
Jorg was gentle and on-target. It is pretty obvious you have little or no experience with small children. Come back when you do and your comments will be much more clueful. Proverbs 17:28 might come in handy.
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This is wisdom and/or experience speaking:
swinokur said:
All security should be multilayered. Keep weapons locked away from children unless you are physically with them. If there is a failure of the first layer, then the education and training area can be the second layer to improve safety and possibly avert tragedy.
To that end, I teach my kiddos not to touch firearms without an adult present and have put the Eddie Eagle video on loop for hours at a time They both can quote EE verbatim and know what each bit means. But, they are 4 & 6 YO and allowances must be made for youth.
The only weapons out in the wild and not locked up are those on my person. Some are locked up loaded in quick-access configuration, some locked up unloaded.
As another wise man whose area of expertise is information security said, "Security is a process, not a product."
(1) That I know of ATM that are not in-wall punch-code safes. I hope I am proved wrong quickly and with numerous examples to the contrary.