Firearms in cabins -- re the two escapees

You mean the cabin was owned by prison officers?

Man, I'll bet they're getting some questions put to them right now. One guard was a witting accomplice that backed out, I'll bet there are some that would think perhaps the cabin was part of the plan.

Hate to be on the receiving end of that coincidence.
 
Ok so I'll need, a cabin constructed of reinforced concrete (no less than 24" thick, no windows, a steel door (no less than 12" thick), real time surveillance system, alarm system, solar powered motion sensing lights (all electronics should have remote alert capabilities and batt backups) and a floor safe with similar features as the cabin, to safely store a shotgun in the cabin?

While I would not leave any firearm in a dwelling unattended for any length of time, I believe that it is counter productive to blame the cabin owner for the criminal act of an escaped convict.

Options do vary!
 
For those of you who are thinking in terms of "justified" and such....
Please leave your bags of Christmas purchases in your car in full view in the mall parking lot and enjoy your broken windows when you return.
 
If you want to have fun sometime, put your garbage in a box and wrap it up. Let your old car at the Mall with the back doors open. I know a couple of kids that used to let an old purse with cow crap in it lay in a shopping cart around Halloween. Most of you are right, Methheads will steal anything. Around here if a house is unoccupied for a while all the copper pipes will be gone. There have been cases where they tore the wiring out of the walls at some of the summer houses around here.
 
Thanks for the link.....Yup, and the very same prison from which they escaped. Those guys are on the hot seat now, for sure.
 
We have a hunting cabin in the woods with a couple of old .22s and a shotgun.

I can think of at least 2 other vacation homes around here with firearms and no permanent occupants.

Id say its more the norm than an anomaly.
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Same around here. But then most cabins are more like a primary residence than a tarpaper shack used two days a year by deer hunters. At my son's cabin we leave a cheap .22 and an old 12 ga pump behind between the weekly/biweekly stays, just because it is easier than packing them back and forth every weekend. I see nuttin' irresponsible or asking for trouble about it. Funny, unless we are going to be shooting at the range we have set up there, we leave the majority of our other firearms behind at home, when we go there. We must really be asking for trouble, eh? Seems the escapees also ate food and slept in the beds at those cabins. How irresponsible of those cabin owners to leave food and blankets behind........
 
Given enough time and determination, no hiding space, or locked space is inaccessible to someone who wants to get to it. Especially if they are two guys that just managed an unprecedented breakout of a high security prison.....


We don't know enough about the circumstances. The gun could had been left out on the coffee table, or it could had been secured in a safe. It's ridiculous to try to assign blame onto the cabin owner in these circumstances until the rest of the story is known.


At the end of the day, they got their hands on an old shotgun and a hunting rifle IIRC, which isn't that threatening when going up against every tin badge in a 200 mile circumference who is loaded out to the gills. While that is still a viable threat to any officer or resident within range of those firearms, the ability of the escapees to use them effectively was diminishing by the minute.
 
I have access to a cabin up near Flagstaff . The cabin is not in a remote area and has never been broken into. The owner of the cabin, a brother in law, keeps a .20 gauge shotgun and ammo concealed at the cabin, it is well concealed behind a false wall, even I had a bit of a time to locate it and I knew more or less it's location. I always take my own hand guns when ever we go up, but is nice to have the shotgun handy and available. I see nothing wrong in keeping personal items in a second location. If someone does break in it will be a smash and grab, too many full time residence for any one to settle in and stay for a bit. It is rather common for people to leave old shotguns and rifles in their cabins in that area.
 
I leave a couple in my cabin all of the time...and have for the last 15yrs.

IF... someone steals them...I guess they are just gone...I accept the possibility that it could happen...but I will leave them anyway.
 
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