benick wrote:

One pistol will easily fit in a document safe. The purpose of the
gun is not to be protected by the safe, it is to shoot several times
a gremlin that has some less effective method of forcing to you to
open the damn thing (such as a knife to the throat of your wife).
Hint: shoot the hostage first.

Gun safes are to protect guns. A single gun IN a safe is to protect
you. As an aside:
One problem with safety deposit boxes is that people can get in them
without your knowledge or permission - such as the Attorney General
with a valid warrant.


If you have said gun ON YOU he will never get that far , he will be
dead already...A concealed weapon permit is much better than a gun
hidden in a safe...You and SWMBO might be dead BEFORE the perp
descovers the hiudden safe with the gun...What then???If the AG has a
search warrant , your house will be searched at the same time...You
will have to find a better spot than a safe or a SDB to hide your
illegal stuff and drug money...LOL...An airtight container buried out
back , perhaps???

Your points are well taken.

I ALWAYS have a gun on me (except when taking a shower, sleeping, or playing
hide the pickle).

I have a concealed handgun license and never leave home without carrying two
pistols (admittedly one's not much - a five-shot .22 revolver - but it's my
BUG (Back Up Gun)).

True about the AG, but putting your valuables in a safety deposit box is
like burying Pharaoh under ten billion tons of stone blocks - it's just a
question of determination.

And it's often the "legal" stuff that gets you in trouble. In the '60s, in a
book called "Up the Organization" Peter Townsead made the point about
purging your files: "In a dispute with the taxing authorities, your records
will convict you irrespective of whether you're guilty."