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Less lethal weapons in the home

All I have to do is give  you a ballistics demonstration in a modern home to show you how dangerous it would be to fire off a 9mm round and at what point it would actually stop.   That modern construction may be efficient in keeping the cold out, but an exacto-knife and a hammer can get into your home faster than the big bad wolf could huff and puff and blow your house down.   Many police departments moved from the MP5 to the M4 Carbine because of penetration issues and I would highly recommend people consider using a Carbine or shotgun instead of  handgun caliber weapons.  One shotgun blast of size 4 shot can do an awful lot of damage in short ranges and the liabilities of bullets going astray and hitting neighbor are very limited.

I have seen ballistics testing where an M4 Carbine with frangible ammo penetrated less than a 38 special and if you live in a home with other people. Missed targets mean unstopped bullets.   I would not hesitate to tell people to consider less lethal weapons in their home.  You can use a gunvault gun safe to hide them in for the same reason you might want to lock up your guns.   Being on a second floor and spraying mace or pepper spray down the stairs is enough to prevent an attacker from coming up and a taser can easily fit into a gun safe.  Why not think about less lethal weapons, hide them in various points in your house for the what ifs and hide them in something like a gunvault microvault or minivault.

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Guns by the nightstand, is that level of security dangerous?

I have a few family members that grew up knowing where Dad kept his gun and some of them have even informed me that they use to play with them and friends knew where they kept them.   I believe that I would be accurate in saying that children back then were more aware of what real guns did and that even if they knew where they were, they were not as dumb as some children are today and ended up shooting themselves.  Back  in my Grandparents day, guns were left in Dad’s closet or by the nightstand and everyone knew that it might be loaded.  That era of gun handling seems to have disappeared from Urban thought these days.   I always keep track of the number of gun accidents I hear about on the radio and use them in my teaching sessions.

I would never tell you that you shouldn’t have a gun in any place that you feel confident that it should be, but I will tell you that considering the number of people that may be in your home, especially if you have children it’s a good idea to keep all of your guns locked up.   Gunvault gun safes are hands down the best and fastest gun safes to open, you can easily bolt them  in hard to reach (from a child’s hands) and harder to steal if properly mounted.   If you want to put a gun safe next to your night stand or on it, you should sleep better knowing that it is as easy for you to get to as a push of 4 or 5 buttons or spend the money for the Biometric safe and know that only your hands or other authorized hands can open it.

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