Do you have all your guns in a safe

Yep... always. Unless they are on my person. I have 2 safe's in the basement, one for guns and one for ammo, a small drawer safe in the bedroom bereau, and I even have one mounted to the console floor in my truck...
 
All of mine are in the safe except for two. When I get home safe is opened and left that way till bed time. I have a LCP in nightstand and a Mossberg pistol grip mounted inside front room closet above door. Remington 870 police in safe. Both shotguns in cruiser ready form.
 
The pretty ones are in my safe.
The mean ones are secretly hidden where only my wife & I know.
I call them [ secretly hidden ] my trick or treat weapons for the bad guys. :D
 
get a safe

Folks, by all means, I encourage you to get a safe and use it. For the price of one good rifle and optic, you can buy a pretty fair safe. You will leave home w/ a much more secure feeling. The biggest immediate threat to your collection is theft. Most of those are bash and runs. Thugs are good at locating "secret" hiding places. Few bring any tools which will defeat a real safe. Theft, and drugs (related, often) are two issues that keep the local SO's busy. That rifle your grand dad left you, , your Dad's rabbit gun, those models that are discontinued, etc, etc, will all be there when you return.

The issue is not just "kids", but theft. Firearms left vulnerable and stolen, either in your home, or in your vehicle, are weapons that will quite possibly end up in crime scenes. That might be hard to live with.

I'll get grief for this, but securing your guns is part of responsible ownership. Loaded firearms should not be left unattended. Unloaded firearms should not be left unsecured.

In the very least, if you just "must" leave a firearm unsecured, disable it, by field stripping or breaking it down in some fashion.
 
Invest in a good safe. My family has two. one for rifles and the other for handguns, and except during hunting season, almost all of our guns are in the safes. Don't waste money on gun cabinets; they're thief magnets.
 
I'll get grief for this, but securing your guns is part of responsible ownership.
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I doubt it, it's very hard to argue with the truth! All but 3 or 4 of my firearms are in 2 safes...and those few are within arm's reach for HD.

I have no kids, but it's not kids I'm worried about. If you have guns, please get a safe...thieves know all the "well hidden" places to look for your weapons...they make a living at this stuff! Never underestimate them.:cool:
 
As a single guy with no kids, I don't have a safe at the moment. Guns that stay at home get locked up in their cases, with the exception of the bedside gun (XD), which often gets hastily tossed under a pillow in the morning as I leave for work. When they are organized and locked up, I not only use the internal lock on the Walther and a padlock on the XDGear case, but I cable tie both cases to my computer desk using the XDGear cable lock. Its not the best security option, but its something. With an AR joining the lead-slinging family on Wednesday, I'm beginning to have second thoughts about not having a safe. The padlock on the XD's case, and the internal lock on my Walther P22 and Taurus PT140 give me some confidence, but the AR (and my Marlin .22 rifle, once I find that damn spring) will definitely need a locked-away place to stay when I'm not at home. As an apartment dweller, my options are somewhat limited, but anything is better than nothing.
 
I am moving this week so all but four of the guns are out of the safe packed in boxes and cases. All the ammo is packed in the footlockers, crates and ammo cans and ready to be loaded on the trailer. I really need to cut back or retire.

Normally I keep out: a couple of wall hangers (nothing expensive, just conversation pieces), HD shotgun, carry guns for the me and the wife and maybe whatever has been going to the range lately. The other guns I keep locked in the safe.
 
Yup! All my guns are locked up in the safe except my three guns...my EDC + BUG and my wife's. My safe is bolted down to the concrete floor...so don't get any ideas! :p
 
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Of course!

I always keep all of mine locked up in a very heavy safe. If my "suburban sprawl" home was ever broken into, I really wouldn't want to see them end up on the streets of west Baltimore.

In my personal opinion, it's part of the social responsibility of exercising my right to own firearms. May need a bigger safe soon. :D :rolleyes:

~Sail
 
Yes, ammo locked locked up too. The only one I have unlocked is whatever I'm carrying at the time. It's not foolproof at all, 3 people could carry off my safe (can't bolt it down w/out paying damages-renting) and at least 3 would be needed to carry off the ammo if they didn't want to make noise breaking into it...but it would slow them down. The reasons I lock them down is to (hopefully) not have someone break in and use one of my guns on me and if I did get robbed make it time consuming to get at them so that they'd more on to other stuff, maybe keeping them from falling into the hands of other criminals.
The only guns I feel are least likely to ever be stolen are the ones kept in my safety deposit box.
 
All my guns are kept in safes. One holds long guns and some handguns, another smaller safe keeps the rest of the handguns. Ammo is kept locked in a steel gun cabinet that I modified so that it has 6 shelves that I can stack the ammo on. No kids at home, but the grand kids visit often.
 
The wifey has one by her side of the bed, and I have my EDC that is mostly on me and if not its in the nightstand, other than that all of the rest are in the safe.:cool:
 
Yep, all of my guns are in safes. I live alone, but just find piece of mind knowing they are safe and secure. 2 large safes squirreled away in the basement hold the bulk of my hoard, with my carry choices being kept in a quick-access safe in the bedroom.

I wouldn't have it any other way. I am probably going to be moving in the not-too-distant future, so I am dreading having to move or find new storage for all that!
 
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