Well then she was a fool to not change the combination.
A gun safe that your psycho son who you are trying to have committed has seen the numbers you use to open, or one that has an “easy to remember” combo that is something he could easily figure out - is as bad as not having a gun safe at all.
When you have guns you have a responsibility to keep them out of the hands of psychos.
Lame excuses do not absolve one of responsibility.
That is true but at this point, we don't know if she had a safe, or what kind of safe it might have been. Even having a safe when an unstable person is living in the house present should not be considered secure storage.
A 3-digit combination lock where each digit can be 0-50 has 51*51*51 = 132,651 possible combinations. Using a brute force cracking approach, assume 5 seconds to dial a given 3-digit combination. Worst case will require 184.24 hours to figure out the combination.
At 4 hours per day, he'll have the combination in less than 2 months.
Basically, if you have an unstable person in your home who by virtue of his obsession with video games can focus for extended periods on a task, you cannot trust a safe with a random 3-digit code where each digit can be between 0-50.
Beating a dead horse accomplishes nothing, but feel free to enforce you code on all the other freepers that think guns should be available for protection, else they are useless.
If on the other hand you feel like burglars, rapists and other miscreants should be required to give notice that they intend to invade your home.
Stuff it, this is not a time to push your modified gun grabber position.
You don't know that!
Lame excuses do not absolve one of responsibility.
Lame talk does not absolve one of spreading gossip.