Cutting gun locks

[dogtown tom]

....The main use, really, is being able to check the legal box for the sellers..

Yup.
It's for the children.

 

[dogtown tom]

The first thing I do when buying a new gun is when I get home with it is throw it's cheesy little lock in the trash can.

Give it back to your dealer. Let him recycle that lock and save the planet.
While federal law requires that one be available when you buy the gun, no law requires you to keep it.

I have dozens that customers have left me.

 

[CapnMac]

is throw it's cheesy little lock in the trash can.

Now, from this thread, we also learn that you might be the source of spare keys for those in a bind.

I give mine away to hose needing a simple way to corral things.

 

[wayneinFL]

....grinding produces sparks which could pit the finish of a gun. I would go with bolt cutters. Even the small ones will cut the cable on a gun lock. The cost is less than refinishing a gun. I cut hardened padlocks off all the time with bolt cutters. Cable locks are easy.

Either that or wrap a towel around the gun. I've used grinders, drills, torches, and welders on cars. That's what fender covers are for.

 

[toivo]

The first thing I do when buying a new gun is when I get home with it is throw it's cheesy little lock in the trash can.

I save them up, and when I have a half-dozen or so I take them to the gun club and put them on a table in a box labeled "Free Locks." Somebody must want those things -- they usually disappear in a few weeks.

 

[troy fairweather]

I always have one in a gun case or the car, I've been to gun shows that won't let you out unless you have a lock. Keep a key for them on my key chain since the one key opens a few different locks.

 

[Ignition Override]

Meeks: if a guy (guess who) can reassemble both Sig P225 and S&W 6904 frame components only by watching Youtube, then You can pick a lock.

We have faith in you.

 

[Mosin77]

Just cut one off a shotgun last week with a pair of regular old heavy duty cutting pliers. (Not the massive bolt cutters.) Took about 10 seconds.

 

[buck460XVR]

Either that or wrap a towel around the gun. I've used grinders, drills, torches, and welders on cars. That's what fender covers are for.

While folks that use those types of tools everyday are quite familiar with the drawbacks, not so much to those that rarely or never use them. Similar to the 4 basic rules of gun safety. Those of us that use guns everyday know them by heart. Those that do not, not so much.

 

[doubleh]

As to linesman's pliers there are linesman's pliers and then there are Kleins 9 1/4" linesman's pliers which puts all others in the shade when it comes to cutting or at least when I was using them they did. Number 4 ASCR was easy and number 2 was doable an big and strong has never been me.

 

[Double_J]

As to linesman's pliers there are linesman's pliers and then there are Kleins 9 1/4" linesman's pliers which puts all others in the shade when it comes to cutting or at least when I was using them they did. Number 4 ASCR was easy and number 2 was doable an big and strong has never been me.

I concur. Almost all of my personal pliers and cutters are Klein tools. They are head and shoulders above the others and not really that much more expensive up-front.

 

[jmorris]

If there is any chance I might use something, I don’t throw it away and I can say I have used them in the past, to keep honest people out.

 

[CopperFouling]

Bolt cutters. Those locks are not very strong.

If you make a mistake with an angle grinder, your next thread is going to be titled “Repairing gouges in my handguns.”

 

[rust collector]

Just picked up a master key today. It's reversible so can throw molten metal either way to avoid issues. https://www.dewalt.com/product/dcs438b/20v-max-xr-brushless-cordless-3-cut-tool-tool-only

 

[tritonguy]

As to linesman's pliers there are linesman's pliers and then there are Kleins 9 1/4" linesman's pliers which puts all others in the shade when it comes to cutting or at least when I was using them they did. Number 4 ASCR was easy and number 2 was doable an big and strong has never been me.

ACSR?

 

[rust collector]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium-conductor_steel-reinforced_cable

 

[doubleh]

Aluminum covered, steel reinforced wire. What you see on high line poles that carries the electricity to your home.

 

[AK Hunter]

The angle grinder will cut through just about any lock or cable.

 

[tritonguy]

Spent 30+ years designing and manufacturing electrical wire and cable products for overhead and underground transmission and distribution electrical utility systems. I was questioning doubleh's use of ASCR instead of what I felt should have been ACSR. Guess I should have been clearer.