No Kids - I Don't Need To Secure My Gun

It's very sad for all involved and even the least expensive option would make a difference in these kind of accidents. I hope it influences some of the people that are OK leaving their gun unattended. Just not worth the risk, no matter how unlikely for it to happen to you.
 
Punisher_1 Four adults home in that small residence and the kid gets the pistol and shoots the father? I don't buy it.
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I don't know why not. There was a similar case just a couple of months ago, in which two adults were in the room with the gun when the toddler picked it up. One of them died.
A 4-year-old boy grabbed a loaded gun at a family cookout and accidentally shot and killed the wife of a sheriff's deputy, authorities said on Monday.
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Fanning was showing his weapons to a relative in a bedroom when the toddler came in and picked up a loaded gun on the bed, officials said. The weapon discharged as soon as the child picked it up, hitting 48-year-old Josephine Fanning, said Wilson County Sheriff Robert Bryan.​
As Spats said, kids are fast.
 
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I'd proffer the best thing is, have the ability to secure them or lock the room the firearms are in.

its one reason we have quick access gun safes. I'm not worried about our kids. I'm worried about the two to two hundred of their friends I seem to have over (and who are raiding my fridge!!!) at any given time. :eek:
 
zincwarrior said:
I'm not worried about our kids. I'm worried about the two to two hundred of their friends I seem to have over (and who are raiding my fridge!!!) at any given time.
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Bingo. I've taken the time to teach my daughter gun safety. Her friends' parents? Maybe, maybe not.
 
I did have a strange conversation once with a new parent that moved into the neighborhood and who's rugrat wanted to come over. Mind you this is Texas, and not the "keep Austin weird" part.

New Parent to block (turns out from a certain western state): "Do you have firearms?"
Me: "This is Texas."
NP: "yes but do you have firearms?"
Me: "literally every house on this street has at least one rifle and shotgun. Except for that house. They have lots of guns. I'm so jealous. Would you like to go shooting with us? "
NP: "We don't have any guns."
Me:"My daughter could you lend you some."
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Really, if you leave a gun in your house where a kid can find it in seconds or minutes, while also leaving that gun chambered, cocked and locked, with the safety off, there should be no surprise that someone could get injured.

It's just stupid to leave a firearm like that. Also the thing with young children is they are curious and their brains have a natural reflex to grab things in their hands. They wrap their hand around the grip and end up squeezing the trigger in the process.
 
Really, if you leave a gun in your house where a kid can find it in seconds or minutes, while also leaving that gun chambered, cocked and locked, with the safety off, there should be no surprise that someone could get injured.

It's just stupid to leave a firearm like that. Also the thing with young children is they are curious and their brains have a natural reflex to grab things in their hands. They wrap their hand around the grip and end up squeezing the trigger in the process.
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I'd disagree with that in part.

A single bachelor who has no expectations of children - ever - being in his abode, could have weaponry cocked and locked (or just a standard revolver). if we return to the time when dinosaurs roamed and I was in my 20s, I would have been in that situation.

Now once the parenthood thing reared its wallet sucking head everything went into locked safes. Even now when one's soon off to college and the other is a teenager and smarter than I, we keep them locked up for the same reason. I'm sure once I'm spoiling grandkids (and it better be awhile :mad:!!!) it will be the same and everything locked up (even kitchen utensils when they are real young).
 
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zincwarrior said:
...A single bachelor who has no expectations of children - ever - being in his abode, could have weaponry cocked and locked (or just a standard revolver). if we return to the time when dinosaurs roamed and I was in my 20s, I would have been in that situation...
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And you never had visitors? You didn't have any friends who came over? No one ever came to fix something or install something?

It's not only a matter of children. I'm concerned about any authorized access to my guns.
 
At that age I never had any children come over. I didn't know anyone who had kids. Er that would kind of cramp the whole bachelor lifestyle no?

As for other people - if they were snoops they wouldn't have been welcomed in the first place.
 
sorry guys, but I'm not locking and unlocking my HD handgun every time I leave and return to my residence. Remember this is NJ, you can't take your firearms with you when you go somewhere. If I lived in free America I would have my CCW piece on my person at all times and not left unattended.

I'm single, and there's never any kids over. If there was I would either holster the handgun and unload and lock the rifle or lock my bedroom where I keep them.
 
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...As for other people - if they were snoops they wouldn't have been welcomed in the first place.
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You might not know, unless/until you catch them snooping. And of course, keeping one's guns (and other valuables) secured means not having to worry about it.

Yes, one might want his gun readily available in an emergency. So he could keep it on his person. Or we also have several guns secured in various lock boxes we have around the house. The lock boxes have touch pad combinations that can be operated without looking; all are set to the same combination; all are hidden, bolted down, but readily accessible; and all contain a loaded gun, extra ammunition and a Surefire flashlight. So our loaded guns are both readily available to my wife and me as well as being secure at all time from unauthorized access.
 
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