CoRoMo
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The manner in which I mounted this pistol safe to the nightstand is something to be admired. Now the wife wants one for hers.
Not sure if he racked it or not as the camera doesnt show it... Heres what a 2-3yr old can do.
Link to vid
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=053_1229002851&c=1
So you're saying he's a brat BRAT. Which incidentally sounds like a burst from a machine gun.Don't underestimate a child's ability to find stuff. putting guns up high is not sufficient unless you have a toddler, or a mature trained teenager. Any age in between you should have a safe. When I was a kid I was always looking around trying to see if my dad had a gun (he always said he didn't but for some reason I didn't believe him, he always seemed like he was hiding something) and when I was in my teens I was snoopin for pills and drugs. My parents never suspected anything, so even if your kids are trained don't trust them too much!
I didn't learn gun safety until I was about 15 and my over protective parents finally let me go shooting with my friends father, who taught me gun safety and how to shoot/handle firearms safely.
I now live near my family members, and my 10 year old cousin comes over to visit sometimes. He is quite immature for his age, and not trained in guns or gun safety at all, and he doesn't have respect for other peoples property.
He once told me how his friends dad had made his friend and him angry (don't remember why) so they went looking for his gun to "bend the barrel" he said. They found the gun but
luckily they could not find the ammo. and obviously they couldn't bend the barrel.. I scolded him for doing that but he did seem to get the message or understand the severity of the situation. To him it was a big joke.
I now have to keep a deadbolt on my bedroom door and my pistols in a lock box. I keep my door locked whenever I am not in it. I open the box at night for quick access to my guns.
I really wish my aunt and uncle would take some time to teach their kid gun safety and respect. They are both in the Army too, I shouldn't have to tell them to teach their kid gun safety and basic respect of others property.
I would agree with this one. From my own experience as a youngster, top shelf of closet, between the matresses, hidden in your underwere, there is no where in a normal house you can "hide" a gun that a determined child won't eventually find it. Safetly training and stern warnings are good, too, but children are children and are not always cognizent of the ramifications of their actions or their own mortality. Locking up all your guns is the only way to be sure they don't get their little hands on one.On the nightstand in a biometrich safe.