Here is my take.... if I leave a gun anywhere, home ,car, and I use the lock mechanism, I still have left a real looking firearm (because it is) that may be disabled, but no one else may know.
I feel a responsibility for that. Kid steals it, doesn't know better, holds up a gas station, they don't know its locked, and so on.
At home I use my safe when needed I feel confident will do it's job for the time needed. If I need to take my firearm off me when in the car, I have an older 5" shackle American lock that never fails to work. Happens to be yellow. It looks locked. If someone gets it, its not going to be usable unless they broke in with bolt cutters, and good ones at that. It may be overkill, but its as fast to unlock as any factory mechanism I've seen, and its what i feel is good enough.
I feel a responsibility for that. Kid steals it, doesn't know better, holds up a gas station, they don't know its locked, and so on.
At home I use my safe when needed I feel confident will do it's job for the time needed. If I need to take my firearm off me when in the car, I have an older 5" shackle American lock that never fails to work. Happens to be yellow. It looks locked. If someone gets it, its not going to be usable unless they broke in with bolt cutters, and good ones at that. It may be overkill, but its as fast to unlock as any factory mechanism I've seen, and its what i feel is good enough.