Lock Up Those Handguns, Please…
For self-defense in your home or shop, you want quick access to your handgun.
Ideally, both handguns and long guns should be locked up in a heavy, full-size gunsafe that is bolted to the floor. However, if you need quick access to a handgun for personal defense in the home, there are smaller safes that can be opened in a couple of seconds, while still keeping handguns secure from kids or any unwanted visitors.
Shown above is a GunVault Biometric handgun safe ($299.99 at Cabelas.com). This uses your fingerprint as the “key” to open the safe. Place your index finger in the scanner then press the middle button, and the safe opens up in under 2 seconds. As a back-up, you can can quickly open the safe by pressing buttons on the 4-finger keypad in the right sequence. Gunvault also makes a less costly basic GunVault version without the fingerprint function. The basic GunVault employs the keypad and/or a security lock to open the safe. Both models (biometric and standard) can be secured via a heavy security cable so a thief can’t simply grab the safe and run. Cabela’s has a video showing the biometric Gunvault in action.
CLICK HERE to watch VIDEO of BIOMETRIC SAFE
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This sounds like a ‘California thing’. I don’t know how much delay in responing to a break-in is acceptable. Many of us and our ancestors were raised with loaded guns in the house as well as my own children. Children were taught to respect and understand guns and their parents as well. These days that is not always the case. I suggest parents spend the time and money to give their children some quality one-on-one time with them to make their children ‘gun safe’, Also, you will have a much better chance to protect them..
I agree 100% with what Steve posted before me.
I need to add though that parents also MUST be aware AND PRESENT whenever their children’s friends are in the home. Even if you trust your own kids – and you should, after taking time to teach them about firearms & the responsibility they demand of us – it’s too easy for other kids to “find” things when left unsupervised in somebody else’s home.
The guilty teen was living in a house with his grandmother. The gun-owner was the grandmother’s brother, who, apparently, also lived in the house. So this was not the case of a “visiting relative”. The kid had obviously figured out where his grand-uncle stored the weapon.
Interestingly, the kid had already been disciplined for bringing a knife to school. In my mind, that certainly dictated that his family members tightened their in-home security.
Not locking up weapons but teaching kids about gun safety is only a partial solution. What if your child knows they are deadly and how to work them and they have access to them? The people who don’t want them locked up are forgetting something terrible, what if your child wants to hurt themselves or someone else. It’s certainly something parents don’t want to consider but it happens, and if it were locked away how many teens/children might that save?
I am looking for a finger print hand gun safe that I can program for two different finger prints. Also must be big enough for 2 hand guns.