At lunch today my wife asked for the combination to the gun safe!

Give her #s close to the real combo. she won't be able to open it and when you show her how to do it she won't realize you're using a different set of #s. Eventually she'll get frustrated and give up.
For the record my wife has the correct combo to my safe and still can't open it. She doesn't seem to care how many guns I have.
 
neiljrosen said:
Give her #s close to the real combo. she won't be able to open it and when you show her how to do it she won't realize you're using a different set of #s. Eventually she'll get frustrated and give up.
For the record my wife has the correct combo to my safe and still can't open it. She doesn't seem to care how many guns I have.
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What happens if (God forbid), you drop dead?

Does she know how to use an acetylene torch?:D
 
No secrets at my house. If I get hit by the proverbial beer truck I don't want to make it hard on her to deal with my stuff. I even told her which of my trusted friends to call on to help her liquidate it without getting hosed. As long as I meet my priorities and nothing in the safe is there at the expense of something more important, then she is GTG.

One defensive tactic is to have a fewer number of really high quality guns instead of what looks like the back rack at an inner city pawn shop. A registered magnum and a 70% Model 10 both count as "one revolver".
 
Better Wake Up.....

Evil One said:
Well... when your possessions are worth more than your relationship or family...


Jim
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If things go wrong, as they are sometimes want to, that decision will have already been made for you.

Letting yourself become a victim of theft and willfully taking a beating at their hands doesn't prove you love someone.

Hormones Change, People Change. To that I can painfully attest.

Drew
 
My wife is in the safe whenever she likes. Not an issue for me. No one else, but she's got full access.

Bob
 
Nothing will keep out a dedicated, determined thief, but why make it easy for the casual break-in, "friends" of your teenagers, or little kids?
 
Some interesting comments....makes me wonder why some people got married. My wife and I share one gun safe, she is in it probably more than me. One benefit is that she loves to shoot AND clean guns...and she does a pretty good job of keeping things neat and tidy. Bought her 2 dozen red roses and a box of candy for Valentine's Day.......
 
Been married for 20 years. My wife has an 'illness' that necessitates the firearms being locked up away from her.

She likes to shoot, but after the session and cleanup, they go back under lock and key.

The envelope with my will has my safe combinations, and several user-id/passwords and account numbers.
 
Say, "No problem, Honey. Now, be careful because I've found a Black Widow and a couple of Brown Recluse spiders in there over the past couple of months. So, you should be sure to take a flashlight with you." Then give her the combo and add, "Do you want to put something in there for you? Maybe I can do it when I get home? Anyway, just be careful . . . those damn spider bites can be nasty." ;)
 
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I get a kick out of the diversity of responses here.

I wonder if the guys who keep the amount of guns they buy secret and think 'their toys' are nobody's business, are the same guys who are on their second or third wife and don't share the combination because because 'anything can happen'.:rolleyes:
 
Titan said:
I get a kick out of the diversity of responses here.

I wonder if the guys who keep the amount of guns they buy secret and think 'their toys' are nobody's business, are the same guys who are on their second or third wife and don't share the combination because because 'anything can happen'.:rolleyes:
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Truer words cannot be spoken. Of the 1st time 55% divorce rate 80% of those divorces are initiated by the female half. After 5 yrs. of wedded bliss the stay at home wife becomes bored and goes back to work. After a year or two she realises 1. The guy she's married to was not going off to "toy and candy land" like she thought every day as he jumped out of bed and say's, smiling ear to ear: "hooray I'm off to work, while you stay at home bored with kids and wasting all that talent" 2. "My husband is no longer the man he was and all the guys at work think I'm beautiful and I could (and may) have any one of them".
3. I guess I won't be CEO of my company in 2 years so what's my game plan now??
After a thousand years of marriage the "empty nest syndrome" may get you, where all of the sudden the kids are gone and the man is now showered with heretofore known love and attention.
At any rate do not take any marriage as chiseled in stone. I've seen a few marriages with 30+ years into em dissolved. I'm for man and wife having prenups and both having personal space and possessions. I must admit it gets into a dark gray area when one the spouses has a hobby that may tie up a lot of mutual funds in a safe hidden from the other spouse. (unless it's part of the prenup)
 
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Overall, your answer depends a lot on how old or mature you are. I suppose most are far more selfish at a younger age than when you are ready to check out. I got married the first time at the age of 41. Up untill then, it was just me so I suppose at that age I had two opposeing emotions tugging at each other. Selfishness and matureity at the same time. I doubt few if any of you marry that late, or not at all. In my case matuerity won out and I got stung big time. I got wiped out! Yet, I didnt change my decision and my new wife knowns everything I have and how to get to it.
At almost 69 I seldom buy anything for myself and let my wife buy anything she thinks she or I need. I also used to be a huge gambler when I only had to answer for myself, but now I have throttled back to going maybe twice a year, and play low key.
If you go by statistics, she could be a widow for 30 years as we are 17 years apart. Big chance she will be changing my diapers!
Now statistics also say at least 50% of you will go through divorice! I went against the stats and lost. Lost a fortune in guns. Yet I have told my new wife the combo. If you cant trust each other its time to split the sheets. Either all in or all out.
 
Titan said:
I get a kick out of the diversity of responses here.

I wonder if the guys who keep the amount of guns they buy secret and think 'their toys' are nobody's business, are the same guys who are on their second or third wife and don't share the combination because because 'anything can happen'.:rolleyes:
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Well, I'm still on my first wife after 33 years of marriage. The key to our success is that we both have always had separate interests and friends, and neither of us is overly possessive or smothering.

You know, we guys may think that we've got our wives fooled, but they know . . . maybe not the details, but they know. ;)

When I got my first gun safe in 1991, I set the combo and gave it to my wife, she's not a gun person at all, but I felt she should have it just in case. About 10 years later my wife called me at work when she was off for the summer (she's a teacher) to ask where her father's legal papers were. She said, "I went in the gun safe and could not find them." After 10 years I thought she had forgotten the combo, but there she was LOOKING in my gun safe. :eek: She then asked, "Do I know about all those guns in there?" :eek::eek::eek::eek: I know my wife pretty well, so I responded, "Oh yeah, Honey, did you see the big one in middle of the front row? Don't you remember, I had some Christmas money back in 1997 and put it with money I got from my brother for the ammo I sold him and . . . blah, blah, blah." She got so bored so fast she cut me off with, "Alright whatever, I've not got time for you to drone on and on."

See, there's some real benefits to knowing you mate really well. ;)
 
I had to go work on a safe a while back where the guys wife could not get the combo to work. So she used a hammer to try opening it. It was a nice Liberty safe. An older model with plate steel door so all she done was knock the dial off and chip the paint.
 
84CJ said:
I had to go work on a safe a while back where the guys wife could not get the combo to work. So she used a hammer to try opening it. It was a nice Liberty safe. An older model with plate steel door so all she done was knock the dial off and chip the paint.
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Was he dead .. yet?
 
No but he almost had a heart attack when I gave him the bill.:eek:

Actually he was an elderly gentleman and his wife is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. So I cut him one heck of a deal on the repair.And he was a very nice fellow.

Liberty's Response to prying.
YouTube - Head to Head safe pry test
 
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