Originally Posted By: crwdz7Growing up I was taught by my father to respect the weapons in the house. To be truthful, I respected his firearms, but even more I feared what would happen if he found out I had been playing with them. I never dreamed of playing with his guns.
Fast forward about 20 years and now I have my first son. He is not quite 8 months and is very close to walking. He already crawls and pulls up on things (including my nightstand). He is now getting into things. At his age he obviously does not understand guns and there consequences. My wife did not grow up around guns and is beginning to get a little nervous about the pistol in my night stand (I must admit I agree that I need to do something differenct.) I am tempted to just move it out of the nightstand to a higher place where my son has absolutely no access, but that puts in in the closet. Has anyone ever used one of the fingerprint safes? I think a fingerprint safe would make more sense that a trigger lock or moving the pistol to the closet. Keep in mind that theft or loss in a fire is not the reason for this safe. I have a fireproof safe in the basement. How have you guys handled this situation? I must also add that my son cannot reach the top drawer of my nightstand where my pistol is located, but he will be able to before too long.
an 8 mo. old will not be able to work the action on a pistol, and I doubt could work a Da revolver
However you would not want them to get their hands on it reguardless......so I'd recomend moving it
to a higher place, non accessible. Now there'll be a time when he gains understanding about things..
My boys time was 6 I taught him how to shoot and what guns could do. however since you never know
how smart his little friends might be when they start coming over you might one day have to put under
lock and key sorry to say.....just more work for adults to do when you have kids.....
