Posted on 11/28/2015 2:30:47 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
Afterward, police chiefs and agency heads should have used Steinle’s death to warn their ranks to follow proper procedures by securing firearms in cars — or better yet, to avoid leaving guns in cars. That did not happen. In August, UC Berkeley Police Chief Margo Bennett left her gun in her car while she went jogging. It was stolen. Next, thieves boosted guns from a Hayward cop’s car in Oakland and a California Highway Patrol officer’s car in San Francisco. There is a word for leaving guns where anyone can grab them: sloppy.
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My car is my car. How soon before they apply this same "logic" (for lack of a better word) to one's home?
Is this all the safe spacers have to complain about?
I have seen an AWFUL lot of Perry Mason episodes where the murder weapon is a gun left in the glove compartment of a convertible. So maybe they have a point.
They know very little about carrying a gun. Since I don’t want a federal rap for carrying in the post office, I leave my guns locked in my car.
East and west coast newspapers should recuse themselves from writing on this topic since they know just about enough to be dangerous.
>>How soon before they apply this same “logic” (for lack of a better word) to one’s home?
Liberals already do. How many times have any of us been lectured to by some lib friend who gets on the subject of home defense and asks the stupid question, “Is anything in your house really worth killing a human being for?”
My answer is always, “Every single thing in my house was bought with money earned by trading a piece of my finite life to an employer. So, theft of an object is theft of a part of my life. I’ll kill any MF who breaks in, even if they only want a can of green beans. If they need something, they can knock and ask.”
But, in answer to your question, their “logic” already assumes that what is yours is community property.
They can’t help it, you are tempting them with nice stuff!
people driving cars cause a whole lot more deaths
than
people using the few firearms that are stolen from cars
Spot on post.
I cannot stand the people who say “it’s just stuff”. No, it’ a part of my life.
Good answer.
Anyone else anticipating nosy questions from lib family or friends or just sheep over the holidays about your confounded sheepdog ways, see Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry Paperback – October 22, 2012 by Massad Ayoob
i have a small gun safe cabled to my front seat under the mat. anytime i HAVE to leave my gun it is locked and hidden. i am looking for an inexpensive .380 for a console gun by my right knee when driving. just throw a towel to cover it up. basically an anti car jacking gun until i can dig out (winter clothes and seat belts) my carry gun. accurate to 3.5 m max and if it’s stolen it isn’t as expensive as a GLOCK.
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It just has to be the fault of the honest person when one of their miscreants kills someone.
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That's the goal isn't it?
They want all guns...."locked up in your home" as a first step.
Then they will want them removed from your home and stored elsewhere locked up, where someone else has the only key and you cannot access your guns with out their permission.
The console between my front seats has hidden under compartment. I want to be able to get to it fast as needed.
“i am looking for an inexpensive .380” Tht’s the only caliber I don’t own. If I were buying I would look at the Kel-Tec .380, a real value.
Oh, how about your family, or even your own sorry ass. (not directed at the poster)
Ruger LCP in .380 or Beretta Tomcat in .32 if you want to spend a little more, great little gun for women unable to rack slides.
And the first TV show to incorporate a beard for the lead.
>>Oh, how about your family, or even your own sorry ass. (not directed at the poster)
That’s when they get REALLY stupid. They say things like “You just don’t know what they want, so you should find out before you start blazing away.”
So I usually just have fun at that point and tell them, “If my cars are in the driveway, I assume they came to hurt me. So, the first warning they get is when the flashlight on the gun comes on. The second warning is about a second later when the first of three hollowpoints hits their body. If my cars aren’t in the driveway, then they find out too late just how bad they f’ed up.”
That usually shuts them up because they think they’ve just had a run-in with a psychopath and they don’t want to talk about it anymore.
I’m a life long gun nut, who believes gun control means controlling your own gun, all the time. Of course it’s the criminals’ fault for stealing. But theft happens. Prudence and self-interest say to protect your firearms from opportunistic thieves — at least you should make a serious effort.
In all instances cited, the government LEO’s lost guns entrusted to them by the taxpayers. I really don’t want to pay to arm criminals due to laziness.
I think they have a point. If an ordinary citizen has a loaded handgun in car at all it’s a crime in CA. Even a loaded magazine locked in the trunk and the gun in the passenger section is considered a “loaded” weapon. You must keep the gun unloaded and locked in a container (the glove compartment doesn’t count). If you have a CCW permit you must keep it on your person, or again it’s a crime. Yet cops just go around leaving loaded guns visible and unlocked? Why should they not be held accountable?
Gun thefts from cars, handguns specifically, can be deterred by buying & using a lockable metal box that has a cable that is secured around the support at the bottom of your front seat.
Do a Google search for “Bulldog car safe with key lock” for an example. Other companies make similar items. I use one for that rare time I must enter a place where guns or CCW is forbidden.
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