That's an awefully long time when every second counts.It takes me around 10 seconds to get it ready if needed.
That's an awefully long time when every second counts.It takes me around 10 seconds to get it ready if needed.
Even your 4 year old, IF he could get into the safe, won't be racking the slide on a semi.
10,000 a year what. ?At 10,000 a year as the antis like to say, that's 200 children per state per year, or 4 kids a week. A complete fabrication.
You didn't mention whether your wife is a shooter (she sounds not likely). I would find a quiet place and a mild gun like a .22 and teach her about shooting and take the fear of guns away from her. Then as the kids get older, it can become a fun-filled and safe family activity. Besides, there may come a time when you aren't there and she needs to protect herself and the kids.
Is it a complete fabrication as the earlier post stated.About accidental kid shootings - it's roughly 110 a year according to the recent research
At 10,000 a year as the antis like to say, that's 200 children per state per year, or 4 kids a week. A complete fabrication.
manta49 said:Is it a complete fabrication as the earlier post stated.
For the study, researchers analyzed publicly reported unintentional child gun deaths involving a child aged 14 and younger from Dec. 15, 2012, to Dec. 14, 2013.
“Whenever possible we identified how the shooter got the gun; where the fatal gunshot occurred; who pulled the trigger; whether the gun was legally owned; and whether criminal charges were brought after the deaths,” the authors of the report write.
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Harrison, Tennessee, December 20, 2012 Less than a week before Christmas, two-year-old Brennan Nowell was visiting the home of his grandfather, Stan Nowell, a pastor and missionary who established an organization called Forgotten Child Ministries to help street children in Honduras. Stan Nowell owned a .40 caliber pistol, which he had left unattended on a chair. Brennan discovered the gun and accidentally shot himself; he died in the hospital later that night.
Conway, South Carolina, December 25, 2012 After burglars attempted to break into his family’s house while the family was home, Rondell Smith purchased a .38-caliber handgun to defend his family. Two weeks later, he set the gun down on the family’s living room table and turned to make a phone call. Just hours after enjoying a Christmas dinner of chicken and macaroni and cheese, Smith’s two-year-old son, Sincere, picked the loaded gun up off the table. Within seconds, Sincere had pulled the trigger, firing a single shot that tore through his chest. He died on the way to the hospital.
Breckenridge, Missouri, January 12, 2013 On a Friday evening, Kathy Curtis and her husband left home to run errands, leaving their 12-year-old son Steven at home with a friend and his 13- and 16-year-old siblings. Steven’s mother described him as an avid outdoorsman who loved to hunt, and who had a hunter’s safety certification. Nevertheless, while the other children were in a bedroom watching a movie, Steven got into a locked gun safe in the family’s living room and removed a handgun. Investigators later concluded that Steven mishandled the gun in the hallway, accidentally shooting himself.
adamBomb said:In the bedroom - FAS1 safe with my pistol in it. Magazine hidden elsewhere but not locked. It takes me around 10 seconds to get it ready if needed.
IMO the very worst thing that could ever happen would be to fire on a loved one.
Im curious if others may have the same fear.
About accidental kid shootings - it's roughly 110 a year according to the recent research.
Agreed, but if someone breaks into your house, unless theyHaving done a little Force-on-Force and used a shot timer, let me just say that 10 seconds feels like an eternity
....someone breaks into your house, unless they
A) are in your home explicitly to do you harm, not rob, not do anything profit-related
B) know the layout of your house AND and know where you are in your home
C) are not attempting to be stealthy...
you probably have 10 seconds.... to recover your firearm.
You have to add to that three more conditions: "unless they":
are closer to your firearm than you are
are between your firearm and you
your path to you firearm would take you into their lines of fire
Regarding "are in your home explicitly to do you harm, not rob, not do anything profit-related", how would you know that? Why would you believe that whatever their original motive for entering might have been, they would not become very dangerous if encountered?
And I, for one, will not place a bet of that kind on "probably".