Glock vs Ruger?

[SloppyJo]

What about in 5 years when he will be able to get to it?

what 5 year old do you know that can reach prob around 5-6 ft off the ground and pic up a shotgun off of a rack?

[Shibby]

What about in 5 years when he will be able to get to it?

On the first page I had talked about this only being an immidiate solution until I could afford a tall safe that fits a shotgun.

[infiniti1982]

If you have a couple of 5 yr olds playing cowboys and indians and they happen to see a gun, might they try to get it--just to play with it? Drag a chair over, stand on a table, whatever, they will figure out how to get it down if they want to. And if the 5 year olds in your region of the world aren't bright or capable enough to do that, then what about 7-15 year olds who are?

Your line of thinking is how situations are created where kids shoot themselves or their friends by accident.

[infiniti1982]

On the first page I had talked about this only being an immidiate solution until I could afford a tall safe that fits a shotgun.

ahh, gotcha. didn't read that

[infiniti1982]

and i think a shot gun would be a great choice in that case then.

[spidey]

If you have a couple of 5 yr olds playing cowboys and indians and they happen to see a gun, might they try to get it--just to play with it? Drag a chair over, stand on a table, whatever, they will figure out how to get it down if they want to. And if the 5 year olds in your region of the world aren't bright or capable enough to do that, then what about 7-15 year olds who are?

Your line of thinking is how situations are created where kids shoot themselves or their friends by accident.

That is where education about guns and gun safety comes in. It was drilled into me from the time I could walk that guns were dangerous; not toys. All guns were loaded (or should be treated as if they were). I was not allowed to have toy guns that resembled the real thing. I would have had my ass kicked for pointing a cap gun at someone.

I had a BB gun by the time I was 5 yrs old and my first real gun (a 20 ga shotgun) by the time I was 8. I kept it in my room with ammunition. I can look back and say with confidence that I was never unsafe with that gun or even my BB gun. I never pointed it at something I didn't fully intend to shoot and I never shot anything I didn't fully intend to kill. I had a friend who wanted to play cowboys and indians with our BB guns and I refused and told on him. I knew that was dangerous.

By the time I was a teenager, I had a variety of rifles, shotguns, and revolvers. I kept them all in my room on a gun rack with all the ammunition in the gunrack drawer.

It came in handy when a drunk redneck with a beef and a gun was threatening my mother in our front yard. Again, I didn't even have to fire. He looked up when I whistled and saw me aiming a rifle out my bedroom window at his head and had a hasty change of heart. And yes, it was loaded. My finger was on the trigger and I was fully prepared to kill him; I was 13.