Storing Handgun in a Vehicle

[feralmerril]

No one is going to like my answer but it works for me. Most often here we are talking about a s&w model 40 in a pocket holster. Usualy I am driving a pickup. I have this expensive high tech tactical snott rag, wrap it around said gun and simply put it in the door pocket or box. Euuueee! I dont want to touch that guys hankerchief! Helps to have dried buggers or glue that looks like said buggers on it.

 

[shouldazagged]

No one is going to like my answer but it works for me. Most often here we are talking about a s&w model 40 in a pocket holster. Usualy I am driving a pickup. I have this expensive high tech tactical snott rag, wrap it around said gun and simply put it in the door pocket or box. Euuueee! I dont want to touch that guys hankerchief! Helps to have dried buggers or glue that looks like said buggers on it.

Hell, why not try an old pair of skivvies and brown shoe polish?

 

[feralmerril]

I like that! Once I was deer hunting and found some messed up underwear!

 

[Bert Man]

Hell, why not try an old pair of skivvies and brown shoe polish?

Sad to say, I wouldn't need the shoe polish.....

 

[GKC]

I frequently have to take my wife to physical therapy and/or doctor's appointments, all of which are in hospitals, where you can't legally carry. We live a long way out in the country, and I don't like to go into "town" without a gun, since we are usually in the car for several hours. So, I got a good vehicle gun safe, one that came with a tether cable...then modified it so I could replace the tether cable with a heavy chain. I keep this chained to the seat frame under the seat, so it is out of sight, and it would take a major effort to remove the seat, saw through the chain, or pry open the safe. When we go in somewhere that I can't carry, I lock the gun in the safe. (I don't like to leave my gun in the console, since even though it locks it would be very easy to pry open.)

About the tether cable...after I modified the safe to accept the chain, I decided to see how easy it would be to cut the tether cable. It isn't at all. I tried some side-cutters, pliers, hack-saw, etc...even some heavy duty, long handled tree limb shears, and I couldn't cut it. Now, someone using real bolt cutters, or who had more strength than a 10 year old girl o) perhaps could, but I think that those tethers would do a satisfactory job of discouraging a smash and grab thief.

 

[KKECK5]

In Massachusetts it's illegal to leave the gun in the glove compartment. You can leave it in the trunk, but if it's an SVU it must be left in a locked container......Amazingly by definition, that can include a canvas/vinyl bag with a lock on it...Go figure....I go with the 'metal' locked container. CYA.

 

[Proline]

In Massachusetts it's illegal to leave the gun in the glove compartment. You can leave it in the trunk, but if it's an SVU it must be left in a locked container......Amazingly by definition, that can include a canvas/vinyl bag with a lock on it...Go figure....I go with the 'metal' locked container. CYA.

Yup gotta love this state. You can lock your gun in the car glove box and some BG can break into your locked car and break open your locked glove box and somehow you're in trouble.

 

[Ryobi]

No gun should be left in an unattended vehicle unless it's secured in the trunk (if there is no driver release button) or it is secured in a lockbox or with a cable lock. Under the seat or in the factory console or glovebox doesn't cut it. A lockbox or cable lock need not be expensive. And even if it were, no one wants to hand their gun to a criminal. Bass pro and a number of internet sites sell reasonably priced lock boxes. For a little more, there are steel console inserts available for many vehicles. Good luck whatever you choose.

How/where do you guys/gals store your handgun when it has to be left in a vehicle as you enter a place that prohibits weapons?

I stop a couple blocks away from my destination, discreetly hide it in the trunk of my car, so no one can sit in the parking lot of my destination and watch me do it.

Does anyone have any experience with those automobile gun safes that are advertised?

 

[wheelyfun66]

Underneath driver's seat is a cable-secured handgun safe.

Just large enough for one smallish handgun.....

 

[Proline]

No gun should be left in an unattended vehicle unless it's secured in the trunk (if there is no driver release button) or it is secured in a lockbox or with a cable lock. Under the seat or in the factory console or glovebox doesn't cut it. A lockbox or cable lock need not be expensive. And even if it were, no one wants to hand their gun to a criminal. Bass pro and a number of internet sites sell reasonably priced lock boxes. For a little more, there are steel console inserts available for many vehicles. Good luck whatever you choose.

I agree on lock box and I certainly have one cabled off but the difference is not that great. Most boxes can be take with relative ease

 

[islamoradamark]

from what i read if u have a ccw and leave it in the car and it gets taken u are responable and its you that gets in trouble am i reading this right

 

[Arik]

If its something like the post office....Glove box.

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[Lost Lake]

you guys are gonna beat on me, but I'll come out and tell you anyway...

I leave a BG380 sit in the front console. Right below the radio in a small cubby it fits in real nice. The butt sticks out just a bit so it's easy to get to. I kind of worried at first that people would see it since it is right in the open, but the black grip just doesn't draw attention.

Then if I have to run into the post office I lift the center console / jump seat thing in my truck and just lay my carry gun on the seat and flop the seat-back thing down over it.

In the car I've put it in the glove box but never locked it.

I've never had a car broken into, in fact we never used to take keys out of cars or lock the house doors until about 10 years ago. The criminals are figuring out they can move up to the sticks and steal stuff now.

My wife is carrying a gun in the door pocket of her car in a gun rug. S'pose that's not gonna go over to well either huh?

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[ChattanoogaPhil]

G19 resides in my truck

In Tennessee, it is legal for permit holders to leave a gun(s) in a vehicle as long as "kept from ordinary observation and locked within the trunk, glove box, or interior of the person's vehicle or a container securely affixed to the vehicle if the person is not in the vehicle."

The NRA, the number one gun safety organization on planet Earth, supports this, as they should.

 

[AGoyette]

St. Louis County.

Ahh, bummer. I live just S of Kansas City. It would have been fun to have a shooting buddy.

 

[roo_ster]

from what i read if u have a ccw and leave it in the car and it gets taken u are responsible and its you that gets in trouble am i reading this right

Depends on state law.

Most states, no, the actual evil doer / thief is the one who takes the heat. Some states have burdened gun owners with extra-special responsibilities and punish them if they become victims of property crime.

My state directs is prosecutorial ire at the thief, not the victim of theft.

I would suggest you figure out what sort of state you live in, as well as state and local laws regarding the use of lethal force in self-defense. Last, take a gander how your local prosecutors and LEOs deal with those who so defend themselves. Take all that into consideration when deciding if/how to carry and give it consideration when working out self-defense scenarios(1).

For instance, the state/local laws where I reside are better than average WRT lethal self-defense. And the prosecutors are very wary of going too hard on citizens who so defend themselves. Also, we have laws specifically legalizing carry of loaded self-defense firearms in the passenger area of an automobile, such as a glove box.






(1) Don't want to have to think about it all for the first time when you are put into such a situation. You will perform how you practice and no better. If you have never even thought about a particular problem, do not be surprised if you perform poorly.

 

[venomballistics]

The wife and I go to bed listening to a police scanner app on my tablet before going to sleep.
Its good for the occasional chuckle as the radio chatter covers some of the stupid criminal tricks.
That aside ... I lost count of the stolen vehicle reports in the past few weeks.
They seem to find an abandoned "signal 5" every night as they fail due to being driven like they were stolen.

If you think i'd leave a firearm in a car, lock boxed or otherwise ... your dreaming.
those places that do not allow my 2A rights are, in no way, better than a place of business that do. It is not worth the risk of putting your gun in the hands of a criminal after they jack your ride.