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Gun Safety, Self Defense and the liabilities of unlocked firearms Gunvault Gunsafes reduces the liabilites

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We recently had new customers ask us what we thought about keeping firearms in the bedroom loaded, and in the night stand.   I’ve heard of several firearms instructors warn people of sleep walkers, and stress, and bedside firearms not being a good mix.   I’m not a fan of biometric safes because dead bodies can be dragged over to a safe and opened.   Didn’t think of that?  Yeah, that’s how criminals work, your fingerprints still work when you’re lungs aren’t breathing.  If criminals don’t acquire firearms via straw-purchases, they get them from breaking into homes and stealing the guns.   Gun safes don’t “stop” criminals from stealing firearms, but they dramatically slow them down, sometimes by hours.   The most common break ins are daytime smash and grabs to the master bedroom.  If you have a bedside gun or a shotgun in the closest and not in a Gunvault Gun Safe, you can bet that, the bad guys will view that as a prize.

There is a new gun safe from Gunvault that is meant for storing Carbines or short barrel shotguns in.  It’s not too heavy that you have to worry about it ruining a second story floor.   I highly suggest push button combination Gunvault Gunsafes and not keylock or combination locks, unless it’s for a car safe.   I recently took Act 235 certification and we were warned that in Phildelphia, if you leave your firearm in a car and it gets stolen, that you can lose your CCW or Act 235,  get a car safe, keep it in a place where you can see it, and make sure you lock your firearm up when nobody sees you doing it.  The Drawervault and the Speedvault are also things to consider.

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Gunvault Gun Safes how many do you need and what size should you buy?

Gunvault Gun SafesThere are other options out there for people to choose from, but I won’t get into that right now.   One thing I have learned in this industry is to be real careful about being the first to buy something, sometimes when you are making an important decision, stick with the products that have a long history of work.   Gunvault has been through several changes at the Corporate level, and on the design level, and they have been around a long time and I would have to say that I do recommend them even though I have used, and have seen some of the older designs failings.    With all of the people out there that are CCWing,  it’s important to teach people firearm safety because they don’t always get that when they purchase a firearm and walk out of a gun shop.

Firearms should always be locked up, sure, that’s your personal decision if you want a gun next to your bed in the drawer, but I’ve seen too many times about that one time a house was burglarized or the son’s screwball friend came over and did something stupid.   Gunvault gun safes can be bolted to walls, hidden behind picture frames, bolted to drawers and screwed into the floor.  They don’t have to just sit there out in the open.  As a matter of fact, it’s really a good idea to always have your gun safe out of visible sight.  Always over estimate with the size you buy.   There are plenty of people that walk in our store and think they only need a “one gun” safe and then they quickly realize they wish they had more room for a holstered firearm or magazines.   If you are carrying a firearm all day it’s probable a good idea to stow it with the holster, and that means a bigger safe.   The Nanovault safes are really only good for a firearm and really meant for cars or traveling and won’t fit the gun and the gun holster.

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Handguns and Rifles and technology to improve safety, gunvault gun safes might be worth a look

Gunvault SafesThere are plenty of stories in the news right now of Law Enforcement gun accidents and a Child discovering a handgun and shooting themselves.   Handguns are inherently more dangerous than rifles because it’s much easier to be cumbersome with them.   Just look at the number of accidents with holstering and un-holstering of firearms.    The Blackhawk Serpa has  reputation of not being suitable for many people because it is possible to release the firearm with index finger, and depending on how you draw the gun up, your finger, while depressing the release button can curl into the trigger guard and hit the trigger while drawing the gun.   If the proper training is taking, it’s less likely to happen but if people just did more training all of this would dramatically be reduced, but they don’t and you have to expect that many people just won’t.

In firearm instructor training we learned that I am responsible for ever bullet I send, and there is a lawyer attached to everyone of them.   If you read the stats on firearm accidents it’s mostly handguns, then alcohol related hunting accidents or hunters not identify people from animals.   That’s one reason I don’t go out for Deer rifle season unless it’s private land,  Turkey season has a much higher accident rate because people violate hunter rules and instead of calling in Turkey’s they pursue them and find out the other person calling Turkey’s is another hunter, and you better  hope he’s got good eyesight and knows you aren’t a Turkey.  There are rules, but you cant make people follow them.   If you care about your life and other’s around you’ll do some research and improve any safety measures you can where every you can.  To me guns should be locked up or in a holster or a gun safe.   You can lock your CCW gun up in hidden gunvault safes in the kitchen  or living  room instead and keep your bedroom gun locked up in drawer safe or a wall safe.   If you can do anything that can prevent the wrong person from accessing it, put up all the firewalls  you can to slow them down, don’t make it easier for them.   We have this on internet security, password protection, and we put dead bolts on front and back doors.

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What size Gunvault Gun Safe should you buy and what are you really going to be putting in it?

Gunvault Gun SafesOne of the items people really want to see in their hands instead of ordering it online are the Gunvault Gun safes.    You can give people all the measurements and specs but it still doesn’t mean anything to them because all they know about their handguns are the barrel lengths and hardly anyone knows the over all length and how certain guns are going to fit in them.   “Will a Springfield XD and Glock 19 with a flashlight fit in this gun safe” are questions we often get asked.    It’s usually better to go with a large safe than a smaller one and placement of a safe in your closet or wherever and knowing  you can bolt it down is also very important.   The real reason to lock you stuff up is preventing Children from having access to them and making it difficult for someone to pull a smash and grab and walk out your door with your firearms because you left them in a dresser.     There is a drawervault that you can consider if your dresser drawer is where you want to put your gun but I’m not the biggest fan of putting a gun there because it’s one of the first places criminal look for valuables.

I’ve heard about all of  the gun safe breaches that can occur and if you give a criminal too much time, they’ll be able to get into any safe, but hiding the gunsafe in a closet and making sure it’s covered with clothing or a towel is also a good way to make a fast moving criminal glance over it and not see anything but a pile of clothing.     You can use most of these saves in a car if you need to but the Microvault is probable the most popular since most people are only putting 1 handgun in the safe because they have to go  in and out of buildings with metal detectors or places where carrying in prohibited.   The Gunvault Gun Safes that I usually suggest people getting are the standard or deluxe Multivaults because even though you want to lock up your firearms, there are plenty of other things you might want to consider putting in the safe like jewelry, gun magazines or various important documents and these safes can run out of room real fast.

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1st Time Handgun owner fears

gun safesAfter Sept 11th and the Hurrican Katrina News cyles, many people have opened their eyes to the fact that their is evil in our generation and that any one of us could face it in our home or our way to work.   There have been a lot of people opening their eyese to gun owner ship.   I can’t tell you the times I’ve heard women say that they “will never allow a gun in their house” and how that mindset has been disapating ever since the Hurrican Katrina havoc.   I had a liberal female friend who was willing to atleast come to a range with me say that “just the existance of a firearm in a home is a deterant, you don’t even have to fire it to prevent bad people from coming onto your property.   Although bad people come in different flavors, most of them will skip your house if you spray paint a warning on your front door informing looters that you will shoot them if they come near you.

I understand peoples fears of having guns around with children, I do believe that if you have children in the house, all guns should be locked up.   I can remember all of my friends that got access to firearms when their dads weren’t around and although they never mishandled them, it’s not a good idea for kids to have access to them until they are proven to be competant and emotionally stable enough to have access.  When dealing with people that are concerened about this, I skip discussions about handguns, and just talk about various types of gun safes that are available and explain to people that push button keypads and finger print scanning technology is here and there is zero chance your kid is going to have access to the gun.  I also strongly suggest hiding and bolting the safe down in an area that is not highly visible.  For $80-$300 you can buy a handgun safe that can be accessed in seconds and there is zero chance your kids will ever have access to.

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