Installed "handgun" safe in my truck today. **PICS**

i may be wrong but you seem a bit butt hurt by the advice and warnings the folks are giving you. especially since you started the thread and ask what they thought. if im wrong im sorry but your coming across that way.

to address a couple questions that you proposed i wish to add the following.

the only people who carry those kind of tools are those who break into cars and houses. they understand they will find lock boxes and thin gage "safes". the simple fact is any decent screwdriver will open that. the lock only closes about 1/4 to 1/2 inch so thats all the prying that needs done.

im with you, dont get me wrong. i use the same kinda thing in my truck. its only there to keep the smash and grab asses from doing just that. the professional theives will easily get what ever they want.
 
i may be wrong but you seem a bit butt hurt by the advice and warnings the folks are giving you.
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Nope, not hurt. Just get a little tired of people using illogical and anecdotal evidence to try to support paranoid thinking.

On gun boards you can say "Look, I plated my entire house in 6" thick titanium plate with only one door with one key." and someone would chime in immediately and say "You better be careful. Some guy is going to see your titanium plating and come back with some diamond blade saws and cutting torches and break into your house...I know a guy that it happened to."

They completely ignore reality in favor of delusion, negative scenarios. It does not matter that 99.999999% of all situations will be covered, they want to focus on that 1/10,000,000 chance that someone is going to craft an elaborate master plan to steal your car stereo.
 
The truck install looks very well done, and shows forethought. I had a jeep with a similiar setup. Luckily, when the Jeep was stolen, the safe was empty.

Or perhaps, unluckily....if I had been able to tell the officer that it had a huge chrome colt python in it....maybe they would have looked for it.

One thought, you might enquire with your insurance company to see if the safe has any impact on your insurance, or if items in the safe are considered covered under your policy. (If that applies or interestes you, just a thought.)

~V
 
Playboy,
Next time you nearly have an accident, something to get the ole adrenaline up, reach back and see how smoothly you open the safe. In my limited experience, the safe is a good place to store a handgun, but hard to open while being carjacked.
 
Playboy,
Next time you nearly have an accident, something to get the ole adrenaline up, reach back and see how smoothly you open the safe. In my limited experience, the safe is a good place to store a handgun, but hard to open while being carjacked.
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The safe in the truck is not a place to keep a "quick access" firearm. It is a place to keep my truck gun, which is just there in case I ever find myself somewhere needing a larger capacity and caliber gun than the one i carry on me daily. It is there to protect that gun when it is left in my vehicle 24/7...ot to place my carry gun into. :)

BTW...I used to live on Knox Creek Trail in Madison, AL and I was just there yesterday.
 
I know where Knox Creek Trail is. My wife's a realtor. I bet the Northwest is a lot wetter than Madison, especially with our drought. I've got a safe/drawer installed under the driver's seat, just for handgun storage when I enter a courthouse, school, federal building, or any of the other places that don't allow ccw. I couldn't find a secure place in my truck to leave a handgun, where I could get to it in a hurry while driving. I drive a F150, too. When I'm in the truck, I just stick the gun under the lid of the console. I'm lefthanded, which makes using a handgun in the driver's seat a little more interesting.
 
Well, I finally got my safe installed in my truck. No pics yet, but I'll try to get some soon. (have to vaccuum the carpet in the back first :o).

I ended up with a Honeywell version from WM for I think 40 bucks or so. It is both keypad activated and has a backup key. I actually bought it a couple months ago, but just now got it installed. (RR = procrastinator).

I have a 2001 Dodge quad cab (the kind with the reverse opening rear doors and fold down bench seat). I mounted the safe right in the middle floorboard of the rear seat area. I can just barely access it from where I sit in the driver's seat. As I spend some time each day in non-permissive environments this will be both a place to carry my dedicated truck gun, and a place to store my carry gun while it is not on me.
 
I hate to resurrect such an old thread but I just had to say that I traded in my truck today on a new Mustang (mid life crisis time ya'know) and I have never had such a hard time parting with a vehicle. The safe was the main reason. I will miss my gun safe in my truck. Now I need to find a safe way to store my H&K USP in my new ride. :(
 
They sell the stack-ons at cabelas.com for the same price PBP paid. Fortunately here in Washington a gun is legal in the car if it's locked and separated from ammunition, or if the driver has a CWP.
 
Be careful, I heard that thieves were driving around looking for mustangs to break into because they heard people were using gun safes in them to hold handguns. lol
 
an option for those w/o the space to mount a safe, but still wanting to sort of secure a gun while out of the vehicle :
I use a coiled 18" cable lock with the in line combination lock and it is wrapped under the seat frame . It fits through the trigger guard and the gun nestles away out of sight and reasonably locked to my car.
 
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