Securing weapon in vehicle?

[taodoc]

If this has already been beaten to death, please post up a redirect.

I have my TX CHL and carry at all legal times. I sometimes have to enter facilities where I cannot carry. What solutions have you found for securing your weapon in your vehicle?

 

[Texas42]

I believe the best thing is simply out of sight, and not iin a bad part of town.

 

[thorkyl]

Depends on where I am.
Some locations, I just slip it into the door panel, under the seat, or in the center consul.
I just never stick it in the same place twice in a row

 

[Dawico]

At one time, I bought a cheap metal locking box and screwed it to the floor of my truck. It plays into both the out of sight and locking it up aspect of leaving a firearm in your vehicle.

 

[kingofwylietx]

I just put mine on my dash, that way I'll see it when I return.....I'd hate to forget it. JK. I put it out of sight in a spot that is easily accessible to me.

 

[Willy]

For Jeeps, they make lockable metal center consoles and glove box doors. As mentioned, you can bolt a lock box to the floor of your vehicle. If you drive several cars, I'd suggest a small metal box that locks with a cable. They sell them at Cabela's. I'd upgrade to a locking bicycle cable though. You could tuck it under your seat, in the trunk, or anywhere out of sight.

 

[Blue Falcon]

I use a lock box with a lanyard as well. I think I bought it at Cabelas too. Slips right under the passenger seat out of sight.

 

[codygjohnson]

I used to have a metal lockbox bolted to the floor of my old truck. I often had to disarm as my work puts me into a lot of PDs, City Halls and on one day flights. Once, I was running late for a meeting and just stuffed it between the seats. I came back to find my door unlocked and my lockbox pried off the floor and stolen. My pistol was still where I left it. I got a kick out of the fact that some punk took the time to jimmy my door open and pry an empty, unlocked safe off the floor. I wonder how much time he spent at home trying to cut it open before he just tried the latch...

 

[TimberWolf7.62]

I used some thick sheet plastic and made a false bottom for my console with just enough room for a pistol to hide neatly beneath.

 

[ricor]

This is what I use: In Car Gun Safe

 

[txinvestigator]

I just leave it in the console, 'cause I have one of these; Suburban Auto Group :: TRUNK MONKEY COMMERCIALS

 

[Dawico]

I just leave it in the console, 'cause I have one of these; Suburban Auto Group :: TRUNK MONKEY COMMERCIALS

Trunk monkeys are cool.

I just leave my kids in the car with my guns. Don't worry though, I leave the windows cracked.

 

[Maxpower]

I just put mine in the console

 

[Skip]

No room under the seats, so I am stuck using the center console.

 

[D-Day]

Handcuffed under the seat to the seat frame.

 

[jdh]

You do know everybody and his brother have handcuff keys, don't you?

 

[TimberWolf7.62]

You do know everybody and his brother have handcuff keys, don't you?

I'm torn between making a comment implying your kinky use of handcuffs and admitting that I have a handcuff key on my keyring . . . . .

 

[MikeN]

For $40, I use this

 

[D-Day]

You do know everybody and his brother have handcuff keys, don't you?

I figure that much, but if fate has it that whatever scumbag breaks into my vehicle, one of the very few time I leave it in there, and has a handcuff key, then so be it. A bicycle lock can be cut with a leatherman, but it will take a pretty determined scumbag to cut a set of handcuffs or break them with the screwdriver they probably used to enter the vehicle with. They are thieves because they are lazy, not determined. Is the sheetmetal box much better?

 

[kimbercarry]

I figure that much, but if fate has it that whatever scumbag breaks into my vehicle, one of the very few time I leave it in there, and has a handcuff key, then so be it. A bicycle lock can be cut with a leatherman, but it will take a pretty determined scumbag to cut a set of handcuffs or break them with the screwdriver they probably used to enter the vehicle with. They are thieves because they are lazy, not determined. Is the sheetmetal box much better?

I agree with you. Most criminals are looking to get in and out as quickly as possible, and do not want to do anything that will slow them down. Then again, if a crook is determined there won't be much that will slow him down.