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Gun cabnets safe storage?
Topic Started: Oct 8 2013, 03:49 AM (676 Views)
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How many people use the steel cabnets compared to the wood style with the glass door we had a truck load of the wood style come in back in the spring and my thoughts were unsafe. Last night I unloaded 8 trucks with returns from TSC stores across ontario and they all had at least 2 skids of the wood style that they were unable to sell.We rarely get the steel 1,s back unless they have damage or lost keys are the wood style classed as secure storage as long as the firearm has a trigger lock on just wondering.
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i believe the guns need a trigger lock and a chain running through connecting the guns.
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the only true way to save your butt is to have them trigger locked..... when my house got broken into the officer oppion was that my safe was easily open or broken into.. he was taking me to jail... another officer came in and said were your guns triggerlocked with a wink and i said of course they were.. they immediatly stopped the handcuffing ..... i was lucky ... i dont care what type of safe you have trigger lock your guns.... yes i probably could and would have beat it in court.. but i dont have that kind of money and needed to be there for family when and if the pricks came back to my house..... its over kill but for a extra 10 bucks a gun.. well worth the piece of mind
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Well I found out last week that the Wood Cabnets are classified as unsecure so they are being returned to the vendor. I was told that a RCMP officer informed a store some ware in Ontario about these Cabnets. I checked 1 out that was put together and they are real easy to open the key from the fork truck even worked or you could just smash out the glass door. Might buy 1 just for my fishing rods at the next employee sale.
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my dad has always had one with the glass front, we had an OPP officer next door to us, as long as you have each gun trigger locked and a chain running through either the action or trigger gaurd you are good to go.

How can anyone who has a collection of guns display them? I think that information is bogus, that would mean a gun store couldn't keep the guns on the shelf overnight they would have to put each one in a rather large safe, as they are visible.

Heck my uncle still has them on the wall behind his couch, trigger locks and a chain, nothing else.

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The problem is that the laws are subjective. Safe storage laws require that the guns be in a room or cabinet that is not easily broken into. So what is the definition of easy to break into? with the right tools anything can be broken in to. The law is worded in such a way to allow the officers who are supposed to be protecting you to place charges if they want. Chessy's case is a perfect example. The victim of a burglary, the police were prepared to arrest HIM for not having his guns locked up in a manner that would have prevented their theft. So what's the solution? Should every firearm owner have a mini-fort knox to keep their grandpa's .22 & their bird guns in? No, but exercise due caution, utilize trigger locks & cables where practical, and if you DO use a steel case, make sure that it is bolted to the wall.
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Oct 14 2013, 07:33 PM
the only true way to save your butt is to have them trigger locked..... when my house got broken into the officer oppion was that my safe was easily open or broken into.. he was taking me to jail... another officer came in and said were your guns triggerlocked with a wink and i said of course they were.. they immediatly stopped the handcuffing ..... i was lucky ... i dont care what type of safe you have trigger lock your guns.... yes i probably could and would have beat it in court.. but i dont have that kind of money and needed to be there for family when and if the pricks came back to my house..... its over kill but for a extra 10 bucks a gun.. well worth the piece of mind

Sounds like either BS or and idiot officer...if they were locked in a steel cabinet that is safe storage...only resitricted firearms have to be trigger locked...go read the regs! :fudd:
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