Opinion
“There will always be mal-intentioned ‘leaders’ willing to step-up and give people what they think they want, but haven’t earned. All that is necessary is enough envious and covetous people, more concerned with things someone else has than with developing skills and knowledge someone else has that allowed them to legitimately acquire those things.” ~ Moore.
“Safe Storage?”
“Safe” for whom?
This from a friend and student in Madison, WI:
“As you may know, the City of Madison now requires trigger locks on all guns stored at home. Today, I watched as a friend as he attempted to remove the trigger lock from his pistol. This took place at a local indoor pistol range.
The lock failed to open, twice!
Eventually, the gunsmith in residence had to drill it out to get it off the gun.
Not only is this product defective, it is blatantly unsafe for users who may face the worst possible scenario, like an active home invasion!”
My Comment:
Trigger locks (even when they “work”) have caused far more accidents than they have ever prevented!
Anything that goes inside the trigger-guard of a firearm is an obvious invitation to catastrophe.
Highly not recommended!
“Safety” and “readiness” will always be mutually antagonistic. A gun that is acutely “ready” is accessible to anyone who can see it. Conversely, a gun that is “perfectly safe” is perfectly useless!
Either extreme is obviously unsatisfactory. What we should be looking for is a reasonable compromise. There will never be any “perfect solutions!”
In order to adequately secure a gun in the home (protecting it from curious children, house-guests, household cleaning staff, etc), the entire gun needs to be locked within a gun-safe, that is kept out of sight.
“Quick-access” pistol safes are available. While less secure than a substantial gun safe, they represent a reasonable compromise in some circumstances.
For those of us who go armed, the best solution will always be to remain armed at all times we are awake, even while we are “at home.” That way, the pistol is ever under our direct control, yet instantly ready.
Sleazy leftist politicians conspicuously want all guns possessed by homeowners to be perpetually useless and unavailable for defensive purposes. Because they don’t want any violent criminals (whom they ever promote, defend, and apologize for) getting hurt as they go about their criminal trade.
On the other hand, murdered homeowners and other innocent citizens (who don’t vote for leftists) are obviously of no concern.
These are the same leftist politicians who want to permanently mutilate innocent minor children, absent any involvement, nor even awareness, of their parents.
They are despicable beyond words! They obviously couldn’t care less about anyone’s safety.
Make your personal security decisions accordingly!
/John
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I dunno I might need one in case the DEI ponytail police decide to disarm me. I don’t wanna get shot with my own gun
A more appropriate scenario would be a triggered lock on liberal gun grabbers . Any time a liberal is triggered by the sight of a gun , lock em up for their own safety because they apparently have mental issues .
I think any device that is purposefully placed near or in the trigger guard of a firearm is inherently more unsafe. Your trigger finger is the safety and your arms keep it pointed away from innocent people. If the gun is in a position where it would be otherwise unsafe if it were loaded or “off safe”, it shouldn’t be in that position in the first place.
1. A safely stored firearm is one that is not in current use and has been stored in a safe. That means you have a firearm in a holster, on your person where it is secured by you and ready at a moments notice.
2. If you’re going to put a trigger lock on a firearm, it needs to be unloaded, that prevents negligent discharges.
That’s as far as I got in this blatantly stupid article.
I will consider trigger locks for MY guns staring about a week after my local police and sheriffs begin using them whilst on duty.
Locked pistol = $500 hammer. Good luck with that!
your brain should be your first safety (knowing the four rules of safe firearm handling). that and it being on your person.
second would be practicing those rules, constantly.
third would be a manual safety that the firearm manufacturer puts on the firearm.
after that they are useless.
I’d add the Hillary Hole’s to this… (S&W revolvers, most Taurus revolvers/pistols, even ’90s, early ’00s Remington 7400 series auto loading rifles)…
There should never be a lock on a firearm.
When I want my guns locked up, there’s something I have called a safe.