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The number one reason that gun owners make their purchase of a firearm is to protect their family and home. The 2000s started a new conversation about how to protect our family and home from our firearms.
The number one reason that gun owners make their purchase of a firearm is to protect their family and home. The 2000s started a new conversation about how to protect our family and home from our firearms. For a conversation like this to become mainstream media, unfortunately, several incidents occurred before we started to see that there was an emerging issue, especially when it came to kids and their curiosity about firearms. And why wouldn't they be curious? Television and video games reached a pinnacle without limits of violence and exposure to death, frequently by some sort of firearm. This fiction and fantasy of entertainment does not show real-life self or home defense, giving young viewers a skewed sense of reality. Being a lawful gun owner is not the same as being a responsible gun owner. You have to take responsibility, and that cannot be governed by purchasing a permit. When it comes to having kids of any age, and firearms in the house, you must parent. When I was younger, one good butt-whopping was enough to instill in me to not go within 5 feet of a gun. Safety was considered a rifle or shotgun propped up by the living room door or on a wooden rack mounted to the wall. Things aren't like that too much anymore. Society has changed and it always will continue to change. As firearms technology continues to evolve and give us some really great firearms and accessories, society has transitioned away from trusting a whopping to work and has now generally accepted firearm locks and safes as the standard of responsible gun ownership. Hornady Rapid Gun Safe
The obvious argument against placing your firearm in a gun safe is how quickly and easily you are going to be able to access it when things go from peaceful to fearful in a split second. When you hear glass breaking in the middle of the night, and you awake from a deep sleep, your startle response and immediate rush of adrenaline may make it difficult to fidget around with keys to unlock a firearms' safe. If you are self-aware and know that your motor skills are not the best in stressful situations, you may choose not to have a gun safe at all. As firearms technology continues to advance so does gun-safe technology. We still have our traditional options of key and code open safes, but we also have very modern biometric and electronic gun safes. So let's look at the PRO's and CON's of gun safes overall. Ultimately, the responsibility is the gun owners. Keeping kids away from firearms is paramount. Not only do gun owners face a catastrophic event if they do not keep their guns locked up, but they also risk criminal liability. You can and likely will be charged in an incident where a child gets ahold of a firearm and causes death or injury to themselves or another child or adult. No one wants either of those possibilities to happen, so let's talk about it. Let's start with the CON's of placing your firearm in a gun safe. I feel ya on this one. It was not an easy sell for me either.
Visually, the list of CONS, when it comes to owning a handgun safe, is longer than the list of PROS. However, without a doubt, the value of owning a handgun safe cannot be measured as it relates to the safety of our homes and the precious children and family members within them. Bulldog Electronic Pistol Safe The solution is to go ahead and get a handgun safe, the peace of mind is worth every penny that you will spend. The mitigation to increased access time in an emergency is to practice. Yes! Practice opening your safe and retrieving your firearm as much as you practice with the firearm itself. After all, you cannot make "the shot" if you cannot get to your gun.
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