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Post by foxtrapper on Apr 6, 2024 9:22:33 GMT -5
Behind the seat or secured elsewhere out of sight. End of day do you bring it in your house?
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Post by bula on Apr 6, 2024 9:51:43 GMT -5
While I agree a "truck gun", rifle/carbine/shotgun is a good idea, I've not yet done it. My carry handgun comes with a set of rules , a vehicle gun a different set. The laws vary so much, state to state. Be careful to understand your requirements as to in reach or not, empty or not, etc.. PCC , pistol caliber carbines might be the place to look. Something I need to take another look at myself. A few options here. Leave in vs take in and out daily... Nephew in Richmond Va lost his piece that way, got lazy and started to leave in. Took 14 months to be recovered during a crime, and make it's way home.
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Post by tdbarton on Apr 6, 2024 9:54:08 GMT -5
Guns aren’t much use unless you have positive control of em. I’m against leaving guns anywhere unattended. For “truck”-type duties I’ll either have a belt gun, a carbine that stays slung/with me, or both. All get secured at the end of the day.
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Post by kevshell on Apr 6, 2024 10:21:55 GMT -5
Mine stay in the truck.
Previously I kept a 9mm Glock and a shockwave 12ga in the truck. Now in Montana I'll keep the 9mm but probably the Marlin Trapper 4570 instead of the shockwave. Who knows.....maybe both.
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Post by randominator on Apr 6, 2024 10:29:14 GMT -5
I keep two semi-auto 9mm's in my truck and a AR in a case underneath the rear seat with 5 extra mags.
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Post by Gunny268 on Apr 6, 2024 12:31:14 GMT -5
In my last year at the PD (before retirement) I took special note that 22 reports of "stolen firearms from vehicles" were reported in our city and county. Four of those firearms were recovered upon arrest (2 in mine and 2 in other jurisdictions) of suspects for homicide/murder. Two more were recovered "on scene" from perps in "aggravated assault" incidents (one in my jurisdiction). You really don't have to pay any attention to what I say because I'm just an old, retired cop. But I've seen some things I'd like to forget. I'll never get some images out of my mind so I'm very adamite about this...If you're willing to "maybe" enable some thug or other type of lowlife to one day murder or mayhem another human being... go ahead...store your firearm in your vehicle...but please make sure that it is locked down/secured in such a manner that no one can ever get at it... except you.
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Post by singleaction on Apr 6, 2024 15:21:22 GMT -5
Times have certainly changed. I turn 50 in a couple of weeks, and when I was growing up in Callahan county Texas, back window gun racks were very common, even in pickups parked in front of the high school. Never a thought was given to someone breaking in. I would advise against that today, for sure, both in Callahan county Texas, and where I live now in Colorado, or anywhere. The culture, and social dynamics have changed. I like truck guns, but the risked are too great these days.
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Post by bula on Apr 6, 2024 15:27:40 GMT -5
Yeah, gotta be a pretty safe bet if your vehicle is broke into and a gun , amongst other things disappears..you're not gonna see it in someones hand at the range next to you. It will go into a life of crime, like it's new owner. If the whole vehicle is stolen, then it's bonus bonus time, for the thief. Plenty of time to cut thru a cable lock. Etc.. I've no good solution, that doesn't involve the truck gun having to go into the living space with you after every trip. I sure miss the gun rack in windows, of the first 2 trucks I owned...sigh. A slightly more innocent time.
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Post by fm027 on Apr 6, 2024 16:39:26 GMT -5
Things have changed for sure. When I was in grade 5, the teacher allowed me & my buddy to bring pistols to school for the Christmas concert ... we were doing the grinch who (tried) to steal Christmas. ha Him & I were able to intervene (in act) and run the grinch out with our pellet guns as props. One was a revolver & one a 1911, and while we were packing them into our lockers the afternoon beforehand, another grades' teacher saw us and asked why we had handguns at school.. we just said Mrs. Mxxxxx said we could use them in the concert. The only response back was ok, as long as she said it was alright, no problem. We all went along our way to class.
We drown, poisoned & shot gophers digging holes on the schools soccer fields, used slingshots during recess and pellet guns after class. And by high school we still had shotguns in the pickups after duck hunts before school, rifles under the seats during deer season.
100% guaranteed there ain't a schoolyard or teaching staff in North America that would allow that stuff today. No way no how. Was a very different time that we grew up in, that's for sure. The best, really, but society has done a total 180 since. Those times will never be seen again.
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Post by rjm52 on Apr 7, 2024 5:27:18 GMT -5
Had secured long gun lockers in two vans and a 1996 F250 so leaving a long gun in the vehicle for 30 years was safe unless they stole the vehicle. Now with the 2006 F250 I don't have secure long gun storage so no longer do.
Was Memphis I think that recently put out a report of how many handguns were stolen out of unattended vehicle...HUNDREDS. And they are turning up at crime scenes all over the state.
I've seen where some people keep "Beaters" in their truck so if it gets stolen "no great loss"...maybe if the scumbag who stole the gun killed your kid a few days later they would think differently...
Bob
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Post by bigbore5 on Apr 7, 2024 6:11:15 GMT -5
I bought a safe that's built for the lower compartment under the middle front seat in my truck. Most junkies probably don't know a Ram even has that compartment, but if they did look, they'd either have to have my key, combination, or fingerprints.
With the fingerprint lock, it only takes a second to unlock and access the gun, but it is very solidly mounted and built tough. It'd take a bit to get into even with tools. There's the long gun version under the back seat that's home to an AR and 12ga.
When I was younger, it was common for every truck to have a gunrack in the back window in plain sight with a 22 and either a lever action 30-30 or a 12ga in plain view, often with the windows rolled down. My dad also kept a holstered 45 Blackhawk on the middle of the seat in his truck as far back as I can remember. Nobody thought anything of it. But all that's before drugs came out to the country.
Now days with all the crack and meth junkies even being out in nowhere, a man can't be too careful. Hopefully one day America will get it together and hang the traffickers and dealers like they need to. I'm not adverse to a good public "rehab" bull-whipping for the junkies either. Bet they would embrace sobriety after about 10 good cracks across the back knowing that repeated offense meens the rope.
Some may think that I am harsh about drugs, but I got this way from experience with those types of people.
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Post by LeverGunner on Apr 7, 2024 19:49:56 GMT -5
I do not have a truck gun, I use my revolver that's on my belt for all truck gun duty. I like to think I would not have a problem with keeping a gun in my vehicle, provided, it was out of sight and the vehicle locked, but even at the house, and we live in the country without close neighbors, I never do it.
If I lived in a place where there might be more of need for a truck gun, I might reconsider.
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Post by markwell on Apr 9, 2024 8:48:44 GMT -5
Our "truck gun" is a .223 Mossberg bolt gun. Rear seat is removed from the truck and has been replaced with a "dog bench" the height of the console. Have a shelf under under the bench for the rifle. Out of sight, it stays there all the time.
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Post by cdf41 on Apr 9, 2024 9:46:06 GMT -5
Harrington and Richardson single shot 18 inch 12 ga with a bandolier of buckshot, slugs ,birdshot stays in the lock box of my truck. Handguns will go back in the house. Thinking of adding a PCC to keep locked in the trunck of wife's car.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Apr 9, 2024 10:49:35 GMT -5
Gunny said... "You really don't have to pay any attention to what I say because I'm just an old, retired cop. But I've seen some things I'd like to forget. I'll never get some images out of my mind so I'm very adamite about this...If you're willing to "maybe" enable some thug or other type of lowlife to one day murder or mayhem another human being... go ahead...store your firearm in your vehicle...but please make sure that it is locked down/secured in such a manner that no one can ever get at it... except you." guns can be brought into a situation, in many ways... it's been several years ago now, but a local family was shot, with their own shot gun, when "someone broke into their house to steal the keys to a car, their car had gotten stuck or broke down" the criminal didn't have a gun, but likely became aggravated, when someone unprepared to shoot the bad guy, pointed a gun at him... so it can happen many ways... I have a truck single shot folding shotgun, that fits into a pool cue sized bag, being a folder... it's a customized older Ithaca, & it's been coated in blued & silver color, to prevent rust, a poly choke added to the end of the barrel, to allow maximum performance...the multi cue bag holds a variety of belt slides I made, that hold from slugs to bird shot, including buck shot... I don't keep it in my truck all the time, as I have a wide range of temperatures & weather, but it's designed as part of my "get home bag" of course my carry gun, & an ammo wallet of reloads are already in the truck, if I'm in the truck...
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