Three out of every 10 men in a street these days own a gun in their households. There can be several reasons for keeping a gun with you which include, trespassing theft, protection of a family, self-defense, hunting purposes, job requirements and much more. But the foremost thing people skip about keeping a gun at home is, it’s safety inside the house. The gun that is going to provide a shield to you can be equally harmful in many cases.
Following things should be kept in mind when you own a gun:
- The gun should stay out of reach of the children at your home.
- Not every individual at your home should know that where the gun is kept to avoid any negligence.
- There should be a gun safe present at your place where not everyone but you can have an easy access.
- Presence of kids in home
Everyone has kids at home, a three-year-old child is capable enough to pull a trigger unknowingly and causing serious trouble. Kids will normally treat it like a toy. So they might injure themselves or the others.
Also, kids are used to watching television shows and movies where using a gun is very common, so they would surely know where the trigger is and by pressing it what will happen, the only thing they don’t know is its consequences.
- In the case of trespassing and intrusion
You must be thinking, guns can be used to avoid trespassing and intrusion, but just think the other way round, a poor trespasser or thief, who has entered without a gun, can get easy access to your gun if not put in a safe place.
- Physical damage
Other obvious reason to keep your gun in a safe place can be to protect it from any physical damage or wear and tear.
These days, firearms have reached a new level, they are precise and efficient like never before and are powerful enough, so they should be taken care of. Below are some points which can be considered for keeping a gun safely at home.
Guns should be kept safe due to many reasons as already mentioned above in the blog. How to keep them safe is the question that arises. Here is a list of ways to keep your gun safe with recommended tips and tricks that one should know when keeping a gun.
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1. Gun Case
Get a case for your gun to be kept in. There is a variety of cases available in the market coming in various ranges; Soft Cases and Hard cases. Hard cases are preferred over soft as they provide protection more than the soft ones. Fancy cases are also available for people who are fond of keeping fancy accessories for their weapons.
2. Safe Place
Think of a safe place that cannot be accessed by every individual at your place. But, on the other hand, this is the most important thing for you to keep it in your easy access as you would be the one to have your hands on it the moment when someone intrudes in your home.
Choosing a safe place to keep a gun is very tricky. It varies from home to home. Depends on the design of your house and how the movement of people at your place varies from room to room. Because in some homes, a living room is the most populated place while in others, the living room is only populated when guests come over. So, you should observe all of the spaces at your place that is easily accessible yet are not always populated.
3. Trigger Lock
Trigger locks are one of the most reliable approaches to keep a gun safe from accidental shots. Triggers should be locked by the clips that are present near the trigger. These trigger locks provide a lock that allows creating a hindrance in order to avoid accidental fire from the gun. Accidental fires can be shot anytime during cleaning of the armor during mishandling, so, in order to avoid these types of mishaps, triggers should be locked.
4. Gun Safe
Gun safes are also a very good option to keep your gun into. During the advancement in recent years, various types of gun safes are now present.
Your Gun safe should have following traits:
- It should be portable so that if in future you may need to change the location for your gun, you would do be able to do it easily.
- It should be password protected so that not everyone, but only you can have access to it in order to avoid any of the mishaps already mentioned at the start of this blog.
- If you cannot afford a new gun safe, second-hand gun safes are not a bad choice too.
- Gun safes should be bought from a reliable source.
5. Keeping a Check
Keep a check on your gun on a regular basis so that you are sure that it is present there.
At times, when people forget to keep a check on the presence of their weapon, theft and missing of weapon cases have been reported. For instance, you forgot to check you had your gun in your case or not and somebody had already stolen it and you don’t even remember for how long it had not been there.
6. Taking Care Of Your Gun
Keep a check on the working condition of your gun, like, see it’s machinery and check whether it needs lubrication or not. Rusting takes place on guns if they are not maintained or checked properly. So, in order to avoid this error, one should keep a weekly check on his guns so that they are not rusted off.
Keeping the gun at home is beneficial but on the other hand is very risky and requires care. So one should take care of this precious weapon by not forgetting the points mentioned above.
Hope this blog proves to be beneficial for all the readers out there. Happy surfing, people!
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