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[ray1970]

During daylight hours everything is locked in the safe. At night, one of the handguns come out and up to the room with me. The wife and I keep the bedroom door closed at night so the little ones don't come into the room.

Of course the little ones are now 20 and 24 years old. No worries about them popping into our bedroom in the middle of the night. They wouldn't want to be traumatized by catching me and their mother bumping uglies.

[Big Wall]

I have a 9 and 13 year old. I keep my handgun locked up during the day and in a night stand at night. They know what to do if they ever find a gun somewhere. They know that if they ever want to see or handle either my guns or their .22 rifles all they have to do is ask. I will make the time, no matter what else is going on. I don't want them to have any reason to try to sneak around and touch a gun without supervision. My brother and I both will randomly quiz them about gun safety rules, not just when we are headed to, or at the range.

[JohnnyEgo]

I have a two year old who is into everything. I have a VLine mechanical lockbox in the foyer and another in the bedroom. They won't do anything to stop a theft (the one in the foyer is just sitting on the coat shelf), but they do an excellent job keeping out little fingers and the idle curious. Also, I tend to take my carry gun off in the house, so it is a convenient way to keep gun and keys by the door.

The boxes are very fast and don't require batteries. However, a few bumps in the night have shown me the merit of leaving the bedside box open when I go to sleep.

[kwando]

I have a 19 month old and he will be around guns as well, but right now he is too young. Great info in this thread!

[DD977GM2]

I am saddened by the folks who carry on a daily basis get complacent once they get home.
Leaving your firearm in your firearm in your bedroom or by the front door etc
isnt going to do a whole lot of good when someone comes into the house and your in
the basement etc. [sad emoticon]

[HoneyBadger]

I know this is a well known saying in these parts... but 100% of home invasions happen in somebody's home. What if it is your home? What if you are there when it happens?

"Hold on, I need to go grab my gun from the nightstand..."



ETA: Running to a safe room may be the best option for you... Whatever the case is, it's best to have a plan!

[spqrzilla]

Remember that kids figure out how to open things about three or four years earlier than you think.

[mtnrider]

I have 3 kids. 1, 2, and 4. Right now I feel comfortable enough in my neighborhood/home that I don't need to leave any guns out. There may come a time when that changes but for now they are all locked up or on my person.

With that said for those that have kids and do have guns out, Never under estimate the curiosity and resourcefulness of your kids. What you might think is a good hiding place or up high enough to be out of reach can very easily be accessed by your kids.
I remember as a kid myself my Dad hiding his guns in the closet or up on a shelf. I knew exactly where they were and on occasion remember climbing up and bringing them down. He never kept them loaded and he tought me gun safety at a young age but I was still a curious kid and that's what kids do.

I guess what I am saying is no matter how responsable you think your kids are they are still kids and curiosity will get the best of them at some point so be safe.


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[kwando]

Tell me about it! My family never owned a gun ever...

Remember I knew nothing about guns, but had common sense...

I remember my first encounter with a gun, it was at a friends house. If i remember correctly it was a .22 semi ruger. We found it, somehow released the mag, and thought it was empty.

Our other friend even put it to his head, when we freaked out and someone took it away from him. My friend (whos house it was) took the gun and aimed it at the ground and pulled the trigger. BANG! Talk about being scared shitless....

When we didn't find a bullet hole in the carpet we started shooting more rounds into the ground when suddenly we hear water rushing and filling the craw space... I ran home because i knew he was in deep shit... later on his dad came over and asked for my side of the story, i was honest... to this day i never knew what the consequences of his actions were

[JohnnyEgo]

I am saddened by the folks who carry on a daily basis get complacent once they get home.
Leaving your firearm in your firearm in your bedroom or by the front door etc
isnt going to do a whole lot of good when someone comes into the house and your in
the basement etc. [sad emoticon]

My gun room is in the basement. I am probably safer there than anywhere else in my house.

We take calculated risks all the time. We get behind the wheel knowing that there is a non-zero likelihood of being involved in a fatal accident. And yet we drive anyway.

It isn't exactly comfortable, nor arguably safe, to be rolling around the floors with my 2-year old playing dump trucks with a loaded handgun on my side. I also consider the risk of my curious little domestic terrorist getting his hands on a loaded firearm, and find it concerns me more than the risk that I will be involved in a violent home invasion without sufficient time to get to one of the handguns on each floor of my house.

I applaud you for your OpSec around your own house, but find it to be not conducive to my own lifestyle. However, I appreciate your concern for my well-being.