| Online: | |
| Visits: | |
| Stories: |
| Story Views | |
| Now: | |
| Last Hour: | |
| Last 24 Hours: | |
| Total: | |
Keeping Your Guns at the Ready – Do’s and Don’ts
Gun safety is an integral part of gun ownership never to be overlooked. Unfortunately, most gun safety courses are focused on drawing and holstering your weapon, marksmanship, and trigger control.
While these are important aspects of owning and shooting a gun, they don’t teach you what its like to have to use your firearm for self-defense. What is the best way to keep your survival gun so it’s always at the ready? How do you do so without jeopardizing the safety of your family and self?
After all, when SHTF and the looters come knocking, they aren’t going to wait patiently while you run to your safe and load up. No one ever wants to use his/her gun against a human target. But if your life is on the line the best gun for survival will always be the one you have on you that’s ready to fire.
Below we will take a look at some do’s and don’ts for keeping your guns at the ready.
1. DO invest in a high quality safe. Especially if you have children in your home, this should be a given.
But its not just children that you have to worry about gaining access to your guns. Housekeepers, nosy neighbors, house guests, and visiting relatives could stumble upon a firearm if its laying in wait, and that’s an accident waiting to happen.
Fortunately, many of today’s safes allow much quicker access than the lock-and-key versions of years past. GunVault is an example of a company that employs the use of biometric technology that gives you access to your safe with the scan of a fingerprint.
They also make several keypad entry safes, which are also quicker to access than traditional key varieties. In an emergency, these types of safes will get you to your guns quickly while still keeping them safely away from children and any unwanted attention.
2. Don’t simply hide your guns and expect no one to find them. Also, don’t give anyone access to your safe codes unless they have your trust and the training to shoot.
Don’t think that stowing your rifle on top of your china cabinet is putting it out of reach in a safe place.
The same goes for a handgun shoved under a mattress or stuffed in a sock drawer. Though easily accessible, these should not be considered suitable locations to keep your weapons.
3. Do consider keeping your firearms and ammunition separately, stored in different locations. This is especially pertinent if you chose to forgo the use of a gun safe.
In the hands of an untrained user, an unloaded gun and a box of ammo might as well be a stick of dynamite and a match. That doesn’t mean you have to keep the gun on the top floor and the ammo in the basement. Simply keep them separated enough as to not incite an accident.
If SHTF, you’ll have more reason to keep both gun and ammo in more easily accessible locations, if not on your person.
4. Don’t keep your firearms loaded in the house. In some cases doing so is illegal, but in any case it’s outright dangerous.
Click here to read the full article on All Self Sustaianed
Share this article • Facebook • Twitter • Pinterest • Reddit • LinkedIn • Google • Add to favorites • RSS Share on Facebook
Source: http://www.allselfsustained.com/keeping-your-guns-at-the-ready-dos-and-donts/
You know when they declare illegal martial law all of those rules will be thrown out the door. So you got rules and tips how to keep guns when that happens?
Yeah, drawn
Better to take photographs.
This article is a little overboard. “Don’t keep your guns loaded in the home”? Seriously? Please tell me what good is an unloaded gun? And yes I do actually keep a pistol in my sock drawer. And yes it is loaded too. But , having said that, I should explain. I have no children in the house, mine have all grown and moved on. When they were in the house my guns, ALL OF THEM were always locked up in a keypad safe. ALWAYS. But now I don’t have such a need for that security. All my guns are locked up at all times, except the one I keep available. And that one always goes with me when I go out, so it is never left behind to steal….