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jweg84 wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote: For me, it's not about the cost of the gun. I could replace most of the pistols I have fairly easily. They're nothing that special. But I hate like heck the idea of arming a thief.

THAT's why I won't leave a gun in a car parked where the gun (or the vehicle with the gun in it) could be stolen.

I never really looked at it from the perspective of arming a thief. However, if you think about it, is anywhere really safe from a thief? I mean, there are home burglaries all the time, unless you have all of your weapons stored in a locked safe; are they safe in your home? It's just as easy to break the glass on your home as it is to break the glass on your vehicle. I guess that's just a risk that i'm willing to take to be sure that no matter where I go I have a weapon with me even while I may not be carrying on my person.

I realize that this doesn't work for everybody...... but when I was working, I was self employed and worked from home - seldom leaving except for the occasional client meeting, and even then, my wife was home. Now I'm retired, so nothing has changed. Also, I have an 850 lb safe, bolted to the floor. Sure, a safe can be defeated, but they'd have to work at it for a while......longer than they'd want to spend inside my house. I have a monitored burglar alarm system. I have a dog. Etc.

Leaving a gun in the car is MUCH riskier than keeping a gun in my house.

You've been a member since Nov of last year, so maybe you haven't seen any of these threads......but once or twice a year, a member here posts about having his gun stolen out of his vehicle, or having a friend who had a gun stolen out of his vehicle. It has happened to a friend of mine.......at church, no less......because he just never got around to actually finishing the CHL process and couldn't bring his pistol inside the building. Meanwhile, I was wearing mine on stage, at the same church......so there was no reason to not carry the gun inside other than laziness in getting his license.

I totally get the idea of having a gun in the car, but this is the world we live in, and I won't arm a thief. Not even with a long gun as a truck gun. I have several long guns that would be ideal truck guns, but I don't want them stolen. So my long truck gun is a folding 9mm carbine in a briefcase I can bring inside with me wherever I go - even if posted 30.06. But most of the time, I only have the gun I'm carrying, and it stays on my person.

jweg84 wrote:Posted this as a response in your other thread but saw this one later.

I personally conceal carry most of the time (except at work) but I also keep a gun in my truck that stays there. My suggestion for a "truck gun" is one that you wont be overly sad about loosing. What I mean by that is, if someone breaks into your vehicle and stumbles upon that gun, you probably don't want them stealing a high dollar gun or one that would cost a ton to replace. My truck gun is a S&W SD9VE, I've found that it's a very reliable gun and it was extremely cheap so in the event someone breaks into my truck and it gets stolen, I wont be too upset that it's gone and could easily go out and purchase another.

For me, it's not about the cost of the gun. I could replace most of the pistols I have fairly easily. They're nothing that special. But I hate like heck the idea of arming a thief.

THAT's why I won't leave a gun in a car parked where the gun (or the vehicle with the gun in it) could be stolen.

Some do. And in a variation on that, some keep a long gun in the vehicle too. That said, I would NEVER leave that 2nd gun in the car overnight, where it could be stolen. So if you are carrying the gun back and forth between your front door and your car every day, you might as well carry the gun under authority of a license, and take it everywhere you go, car or not.