As for my gun by the front door on the 5 foot shelf. I've decided to get my carpenter neighbor to make an inconspicuous little safe. Maybe make it look like a clock.
I struggle with the original poster's question all of the time. I have a 4 year old daughter and over 30 guns. All of my guns, but 3 are stored unloaded in a secret room behind our closet that my child cannot access. You have to take off part of the wall-frame to access it.
Two of the loaded guns are stored in my nightstand and my wife's nightstand. Both guns are very hard to rack the slide and neither gun has a round in the chamber. I know many people discourage not keeping a round in the chamber with a HD gun, but I feel it is a good countermeasure against my daughter. My wife even has trouble racking my handgun's slide, but she has mastered hers. There is no way that my daughter could rack the slide if she happened to find the gun in our hidden nightstand drawers. My bedside gun also has both grip and trigger safeties.
The other gun is hidden in my library about 6ft. high behind books. This is a .357 revolver, so I really worry about this one. This room is off limits to her and has a child gate in front of it.
At this age, I am not so worried about it. In a few years, I will have to have the talk with her. At this point she knows they are dangerous and that no one touches them but daddy.
I struggle with the original poster's question all of the time. I have a 4 year old daughter and over 30 guns. All of my guns, but 3 are stored unloaded in a secret room behind our closet that my child cannot access. You have to take off part of the wall-frame to access it.
Two of the loaded guns are stored in my nightstand and my wife's nightstand. Both guns are very hard to rack the slide and neither gun has a round in the chamber. I know many people discourage not keeping a round in the chamber with a HD gun, but I feel it is a good countermeasure against my daughter. My wife even has trouble racking my handgun's slide, but she has mastered hers. There is no way that my daughter could rack the slide if she happened to find the gun in our hidden nightstand drawers. My bedside gun also has both grip and trigger safeties.
The other gun is hidden in my library about 6ft. high behind books. This is a .357 revolver, so I really worry about this one. This room is off limits to her and has a child gate in front of it.
At this age, I am not so worried about it. In a few years, I will have to have the talk with her. At this point she knows they are dangerous and that no one touches them but daddy.
My daughter is not allowed to wander the house alone.
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some parents make the choice and the effort to keep track of their kids
Most of these safe's I've seen mentioned in this thread (except for the huge one with 15 shotguns ) seem made just for a single weapon and some magazines, etc.
Do most of you have multiple safes then or is everyone just mainly talking about these smaller safes for near the bed?
I'd like 1 bigger floor mount safe and then a small safe box which is quick to access (that is OK to hold 1 gun).