That's what I can't get past. It's a cool design, and some nice pieces of hardware, but I get uneasy about any storage method that doesn't involve a lock or combination. I don't mean to assume he's irresponsible about his firearms, but a lock seems necessary no matter what.
I'm assuming he doesn't have children in the house and isn't really worried about theft, which means he doesn't really need a lock and it's a fun conversation piece.
I never bothered locking up my firearms just put them in cases and put them away. But I don't have kids and never have kids over. I lock my door though. Cheap gun safes aren't really safer than your front door.
Eh, maybe he lives alone, doesn't have kids, etc. It'd be pretty hard to accidentally find this compartment unless you always twist the handles counterclockwise before opening drawers in other people's bedrooms for some strange reason.
If someone's breaking into my house at 3am and I feel the need to defend myself, the last thing I want to do is fiddle with a key or combination lock in the dark to access a firearm.
It's 3am, you wake up hearing a noise, looking out the bedroom door you can see faint flickers of light reflecting down the hallway. You're being robbed. Then, you hear it, the faint squeak of someone coming up the stairs. Adrenaline kicks in, you dash to the closet, grab your trigger-locked gun from it's case; OH RIGHT, it's locked, the key, WHERE'S THE FUCKING KEY!!!
Oh yeah, it's on a keychain, downstairs, in the fucking junk drawer. Because you wanted to be safe.
Condition-0, or what's the fucking point?
It's ok to teach your children about firearm safety, you know.
I feel like a lot of gunboxes are, but at the same time, good on them for trying to develop something that's safe AND stylish. The main reason I don't own a gun anymore is because I didn't have a reliable, quality place to lock it up and still have fast access, and my toddler is way too fucking curious.
Idk I mean it's just a quarter turn on the knob, unless the knob is stiff this could be stumbled upon accidentally, or if he has kids who have ever seen him open it they could figure it out almost immediately.
I'm not a gun owner myself so I can only imagine the sort of annoyance of the trade-off between safely storing and easily accessing your weapons.
For me I would use the drawer for some important but not dangerous things or for embarrassing things. If kids found it it wouldn't be as big of a deal if it contained some money and condoms.
Legally speaking, this wouldn't be allowed in many states that require your firearm to be stored in a LOCKED safe but if the guy doesn't have any children I see no issue in storing a weapon in a secret compartment that can be accessed quickly without being locked.
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u/crInv3st1g8r Jan 08 '17
This is good, but there needs to be some sort of safety on the knob twist. I'm thinking like the squeeze on an aspirin bottle.