Originally Posted by
Art
One thing on kids and security that made a huge impression on me. Many, many years ago my mother, told me that when she was a young woman she was visiting a friend who's husband was a cop. He came home while she was there, put his service revolver wherever he put it down after coming back to the house and his pre school son picked it up. The boy walked into the living room, pointed the revolver at my mom's mid section and announced "I'm gonna shoot you." The cop dad charged across the room grabbed the kid, snatched the gun away from him and hauled him into a bed room where he solidly and enthusiastically applied his "board of education" to the child's "seat of learning." My mom having heard the screaming on both ends told me "that boy probably didn't sit down for a while." I've never forgotten that story, or the fact that had it come to a different ending I may well not have been here.
Several times a year I'll hear a local, or at least area news story of a child whose found a gun not properly stored and shot someone with it. I resolved that weapon would not be mine. I also resolved that while I keep firearms accessible for self defense, I would do everything possible to make sure no one ever used one of my firearms to hold up a liquor store or "jack" a car.
Our daughter has a teen age son. Her home defense revolver, and her husband's P30 are in one of those quick open safes made for the purpose and bolted under a shelf in the bedroom. The shotguns and a rifle are in a safe in a locked closet.