jim in Anchorage
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^^^ Where in AK?
If you are going to get free with your fancy... A Rhodesian gentleman (Ian Smith may have surrendered but he never did) told me of a device called a spider that consisted of 16 12 guage shotgun barrels arranged in a circle mounted to the top of the cab of a vehicle. To fire the weapon a crank was inserted into the central hub and turned firing each barrel in turn. Since the Spider would be part of the truck it would be in essence a "truck gun."
I would question it's usefulness against coyotes though.
A criminal is a criminal. Lawful gun owners are not responsible for what a criminal may do. I own a nice TV, should I be afraid a criminal may steal it and sell it for meth?
That said, I find a trusty, double stack, blocky, semi automatic pistol of the Tupperware variety, that is kinda beat up but regularly PM'd, make's a fine "truck gun". I would rather chauffeur an AR around though.
But I also don't leave a firearm in my vehicle unattended. Have a gun in your truck while you're out? Okay. When you get home, take it inside. If you stop somewhere and have to leave the vehicle, lock the weapon to something solid.
HogwashThat's not an apt analogy. Secured in your home is the highest practical level of security almost any owner can accomplish.
Secured in your home IS the highest practical level of security almost all gun owners are going to be able to accomplish, in any practical way, for their collections. Doesn't mean those guns aren't still occasionally stolen, as they surely can be. And anyone who'd somehow conclude from that that storing a gun in a car is "secure" has got their thinkin' cap screwed on exactly backward. Maybe upside down!
officer's wife - " ... If you want to get into definitions- our "truck gun" is an ancient 30-30 lever action made by a company called Glenfield that either Dad or my uncle bought sometime before I was born. ... "
Because if my truck is parked the alarm is on and I'm within earshot or it's in a lot patrolled by security.Ok, If you're honestly contending that items left in a car outside on a street or in a driveway are no more of a target than items left inside a locked house (generally inside a locked container or safe as well) then that must be what you believe, for whatever reason you choose to believe it.
I never said there was anything wrong with it, just that it was ancient. If you prefer then "Glenfield" is the house name. Either way, when my brother goes to check fences the machine is riding- if you will pardon the pun- shotgun.O.W., just as a point of clarification, your Glenfield rifle is actually a Marlin 336, but with a Maple stock, rather than the walnut stock of the Marlin 336 rifles. Exact same mechanism. Glenfields were sold by -- I believe -- Sears Roebuck (??), Western Auto, etc.
Nothing wrong with a Glenfield .30-30 WCF.
L.W.
I have seen an electric motor driven version of a similar arrangement of shotgun barrels somewhere. What it lacks in usefulness for dealing with coyotes, it likely makes up for in any zombie apocalypse scenario.
Sure do not that it'll do any good, from what I've seen most here can't admit their ideas just aren't true.Do you have any statistics to share on the number of guns stolen from vehicles?
Oh, the irony.Sure do not that it'll do any good, from what I've seen most here can't admit their ideas just aren't true.
Ok! Let's look at that. Again, going off my numbers from before, that there are an even 300,000,000 guns in private hands, and maybe 100,000 are "truck guns" or "car guns" or "trunk guns" left out in a vehicle routinely...here are some #s from the Bureau of Justice Stats on firearm thefts.
"This number represents an estimated average of 232,400 firearms stolen each year— about 172,000 stolen during burglaries and 60,300 stolen during other property crimes. "
It would be great if those numbers said something directly to the question we're debating here, but they do not."From 2005 through 2010, firearms were stolen in about four percent of the 2.4 million household burglaries and in less than one percent of the 13.6 million other property crimes involving a completed theft that occurred during the period."