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Hello again ... thanks for the comments. I disable only the pistols (2 out of 3 of them) that I am not carrying. Today, for example, I'm carrying a Kimber 45 CDPII pro which is ready to use inside my waistband or very handy and ready to use in my home. I shoot all three of my pistols each week and clean them afterwards so rust should not be a problem ... But thanks for the tip about it. I will consider a safe but for right now it only takes a few seconds to field strip or reassemble my pistols so I'll delay that decision for a few weeks and see how the 'disabling' works out. Thanks again for the comments.

In a thread named "guns stored in a car" AndyC really got me thinking about the state of my weapons when I'm not carrying them. Part of his statement was:

The concept of responsibility is black and white, my friend - you're either a responsible person when it comes to firearms, or you're not; there is no middle ground.

I realized that, since my wife and I live alone, I thought it was ok to leave several pistols around our home loaded. But there is some tiny tiny chance that a maintenance person or someone else who might enter our home when we are not there could find a loaded gun and well ... someone could be injured or even killed (like the maid who allegedly brought her son work with her and he found a pistol and shot her).

So ... Here's how my (and my wife's) pistols are now stored when we are not carrying them. Admittedly this takes a little time when I change what I carry but I think this is much much safer for everyone. By the way, we don't have a safe but we hide our guns well in their respective boxes.



THANKS ANDYC