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.
After 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.
There are a great many reasons for gun owners to find a decent range that they know will accommodate their shooting interests. We tend to find the more restrictive ranges closer to urban environments, but you won’t know for sure depending on which State you a living in. Every State in the Country is different and trying to find out where to look is very difficult.
The Second Amendment is just one of the many things that combine to make America a great place to live. Our right to bear arms is one of the few privileges that separate us from the rest of the civilized world. But with every right comes a responsibility. We owe it to our children to keep guns out of reach until they have been trained to respect their power and handle them safely.