Just unload them and lock them up. [More]No one is saying locks and safes don't have a place in overall options. But to recommend locking up your safety under all conditions is foolish and dangerous. It can enable terrible unintended consequences like pitchfork murders and dead grandmothers.
I don't see this Zumb...uh...Zimo guy acknowledging that, which makes him an unqualified "authority" to heed.
[Via Avg Joe]
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I cannot believe that this moron lives in the same state that I do!
I grew up with loaded firearms in the house. I was taught that they were tools, for a specific purpose, and not toys. I was taught the destruction that bullets can do, milk jugs filled with water make a spectacular example.
My children were taught the same lessons that I was.
You treat every gun as if it is loaded!!
The only thing that gun locks, safes and unloaded firearms accomplishes, is they make you and I a disarmed victim.
Also, my grandchildren are learning the same lessons.
ARRRRGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!
Bob
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Another idiot! You cannot childproof a gun nearly as well as you can gunproof a child.
But of course, doing it the right way entails work and paying attention. Can't be having that.
Boys this guy works for a newspaper that has me wondering if the employees that work there don't have a oil painting of Karl Marx over their fireplaces. Tell this idiot what you think of him in the replies or just drop this jackass an email.
He has a close tie to Zumbo and that is he's so full of himself that he has zero clue about other people.
Fellow seems to have swallowed the "sporting purposes" Koolaid.
If a gun has no utility for you other than hunting, then sure: Lock it up.
In my house, if you see a gun (and you will) it's loaded. What use is an unloaded gun? The unloaded ones are in a safe: That's how you can tell them apart.
There is some good advice, if you cherry-pick the list.
I know, I know--some people have strange ideas about safety. I deal with it as gun ranges all the time. Some folks are too afraid think about the mechanics of the unfamiliar, should they be judged to be at fault if their advice results in injury.
I will lock them all up when I repeatedly hear that gang bangers are dragging gun safes along and stopping to open them up and load up at the scene.
VINNIE - LMAO... but I agree, although I would also insist that the gang-bangers be ready to show me proof of ownership and CC permits after they took their weapons out of the gun safes. Then we could engage like true gentlemen.
Pitchfork murders? One of the first things I posted- Mary Carpenter in her own words:
http://johnjacobh.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/merced-pitchfork-murders-part-1/
http://johnjacobh.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/merced-pitchfork-murders-part-2/
In Liberty,
JJH
fourtwobeone wrote on March, 22 8:25 AM:
"You can use the same logic to protect your kids from car accidents. Just drain the gas out of the tank and lock your car in a storage unit."
Genius and to the point.
I was taught about guns and proper handling at a fairly early age and now as an adult I realized gun locks are:
1. never used properly
2. easily defeated (especially built in ones)
3. are dangerous.
jars of tomato juice and sauce works well at showing the power of a firearm
Dude, what is so bloody hard to understand about this?
You keep your rifle locked up, full magazine, no round in the chamber.
You keep a pistol on your hip holster at all times when at home (a backup magazine, too). This ensures that at least one firearm will be available for use in an emergency AND that it will be under the control of a competent adult at all times.
In a self-defense scenario, you use your pistol to fight your way back to your rifle/shotgun.
Jeez....
Sorry, but I don't believe in one size fits all.
I attended a special defense seminar in tactical safe unlocking, and I learned how to do it without fine motor skills, during a life and death struggle. We learned that in order to avoid being shot in the back while dialing in the combination to a safe, you have to present your open palm to your attacker and say, "Now, you just hold it a cotton pickin' minute there young feller, while I git my rifle."
I also went to a tactical carpentry seminar, where I learned how to saw a hole in my bedroom floor under extreme stress, so I can get to my safe without advancing toward the point of egress for the safe room, and therefore violate my state's retreat requirement.
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