Vehicle Gun Safe

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Kwik8608

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Hey guys, was just wondering if any of you have put a small gun safe in your car? I'm going to be sworn in at a police department next week, and if I ever head over to my girlfriends house straight from work, she's not going to want to have my gun in the house.

I was looking at this one and wanted some input
Portable Handgun Safe
 
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I haven't installed one (just usually carry it with me;)

Not sure where you could mount it. No way it would fit under my front seat (4th gen.).
You could also look into biometric safes (similar to what you were looking at but with fingerprint recognition). Calela's has them, I'm sure others too. Do you have lockers at work you could use to store it on those occations? Good luck & stay safe!
 
Do you have the double deck system? If so, put them up then pull your back seats down. There's a temp gun safe. :driving:
 
Well I was thinking that there might be enough room under the passenger seat. I know the passenger seat doesn't go up and down, so I don't have to worry about that. As far as mounting it, this specific one comes with a bike lock almost that I could wrap around something (This would also be great for if I went to a hotel or something, and could just take the safe out.)

As far as lockers, I'm not 100% on that, but this is a reserve Officer position, which in Ohio means that it holds my commission (So I don't have to take the Police Academy over again). Because it's a Reserve Officer position, I have to supply my own stuff, so I don't really think I would want to leave my gun there anyway.
 
I don't have the double deck system either. I wish I could get a safe that was designed specifically for my model 4runner to fit in one of those back compartments.
 
It's kind of a pain, butn you could disassemble it (presuming its not a revolver!) and leave several parts secreted in the truck and take the rest (the barrel or slide maybe?) with you. I've done that in a pinch.
 
Haha, dismantling it wouldn't be a BAD idea, just kind of a PITA everytime I go over there (It's a Glock 22 so it's not exactly HARD to dismantle)
 
And actually, about the glove box comment, there's a lock on it isn't there? Or was that my Jetta that I'm thinking about.
 
Not in the secret compartment. It's just has a cheap tab. But no one can tell there's a secret compartment 'til you tell them or if they own a 4th gen.
 
No offense brother, but you need to keep your duty with you. Unarmed you become a target. Add in the fact that Clevland now has the 8th highest crime in the country. Leaving your side arm in the car is stupid, we have far to many cars broken into here (Toledo) and peoples guns taken.
Its just not worth it. Besides she needs to know if you two go any further, guns are as a big a part of her life as yours, she needs to take the NRA basic fire arms course( no dummy you can not teach your loved one this even though you know it all...lol) and she needs to be proficient with your arms for any time she may have contact with them. Should she be unwilling to this you need call it quits, or leave badge at the door and find a new line of work.
Hard realities.
 
Haha, I completely understand. I don't actually live IN Cleveland, but I do understand the realities of leaving the weapon in the car. We don't live together yet, but I'm slowly warming her up to the whole gun thing. She's a 3rd grade teacher in her own little world haha. But anyway, it's not so much her that has the problem w/ the gun in the house, it's that she still lives with her parents until we both have stable jobs.
 
my two cents from experience of something a little like this...and you must first leave the "NRA IS MY LIFE and GUNS ARE THE DEVIL" arguments to one side :)

There are some pretty spiffy lockers out there for shotguns (check out hte ones they make for range/land rovers...) so if you want to pimp your ride then by all means.

But for pistols...here's something that worked for my LEO husband and me:

I was initially a bit 'meh' about having the gun in the house (which is weird as I used to do competition shooting...I guess it was the brit in me...point is, I wasn't keen). Anyway, the compromise that worked was getting a trigger lock. Husband comes home, puts the trigger lock on et voila no worries.

And now, a couple years later, I could really care less what goes on with the gun.

I think it is a good idea to acknowledge your GF's concerns (and they are valid - no matter what some might say, it's perfectly reasonable to not like weapons in the house), but I think there is a way of doing it that means you don't have to leave your issued gun in the car where it is a bit vulnerable.

(so in short: you don't have to say buh bye to the GF or the gun, you just have to get 'em aquainted)
 
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Well my sidearm isn't issued. I had to buy it for the academy (I wasn't sponsored), and the department I'm going to makes us buy our own stuff (Reserve Officer). But still... I would still like a pistol safe or w/e, like that Titan one, and just put it under the seat for peace of mind almost.
 
Big_John said:
No offense brother, but you need to keep your duty with you. Unarmed you become a target. Add in the fact that Clevland now has the 8th highest crime in the country. Leaving your side arm in the car is stupid, we have far to many cars broken into here (Toledo) and peoples guns taken.
Its just not worth it. Besides she needs to know if you two go any further, guns are as a big a part of her life as yours, she needs to take the NRA basic fire arms course( no dummy you can not teach your loved one this even though you know it all...lol) and she needs to be proficient with your arms for any time she may have contact with them. Should she be unwilling to this you need call it quits, or leave badge at the door and find a new line of work.
Hard realities.
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Totally agree with this. A good compromise would be to sit everyone down and tell them that you're an LEO and that you should (or must, "department policy") keep it with you. Check out the Gunvault website- there's one model that is basically book sized, and has the biometrics so you can open it in a hurry should the need arise. Tell them that you'll never bring it into the house without unloading it and locking it up. If that's not good enough for them, then you've got a decision to make.

Stay safe.


ETA: The glove box idea doesn't work well. I know because I'm kind of in the same situation, only my girl is the Federal government, and she doesn't tolerate weapon related shenanigans. Here's the problem- at night, as soon as you take the keys out of the ignition, the light comes on and everyone in the neighborhood is watching you messing around in the glovebox and locking it. And it would not take much to get into that glovebox.
 
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Yea, I suppose I could just throw my Glock case w/ the lock that came w/ it and just unload it in the garage and lock it up.
 
The longer you are a police officer, you will find that you will not feel comfortable leaving your gun in the car, especially if it is locked up, disassembled, or whatever and not readily available and useable. In other words, it will become part of you and you will feel naked without it. Your girlfriend, your family, her family, ....., everybody you have any relationships with need to understand that having a gun with you or on you at all times is part of being a police officer. You need to ensure that they trust you and your ability to safely and securely handle it and that you having it with you is ok. It will just take a little time for them to get used to it, ....., speaking from experience.
 
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