Thread: Firearms Storage Inspection ....

just a 40 year old garage so locks are poked could put bolts and padlocks on the old garage doors and the side door so that will sort it out, i live in the country so really if someones planing on getting in to the garage the padlocks only guna add 30 secs to the time it takes them, bolts are in another safe in another place, and ammo is locked in another place as well

ya know im more looking from the legal standpoint because from common sense standpoint the safe and the dayna bolts and the blanket over it and not telling people about it are the deterrent from the opportunist the lock on the door is just guna cost the professional 30 secs when they can probably be out there all day without a worry anyway

and when i was growing up in the country i didnt know anyone that did lock there house when they went out, so is anyone that leaves there house without locking it who has a safe inside breaking the rules than aswell?

Originally Posted by 1justin

just a 40 year old garage so locks are poked could put bolts and padlocks on the old garage doors and the side door so that will sort it out, i live in the country so really if someones planing on getting in to the garage the padlocks only guna add 30 secs to the time it takes them, bolts are in another safe in another place, and ammo is locked in another place as well

ya know im more looking from the legal standpoint because from common sense standpoint the safe and the dayna bolts and the blanket over it and not telling people about it are the deterrent from the opportunist the lock on the door is just guna cost the professional 30 secs when they can probably be out there all day without a worry anyway

and when i was growing up in the country i didnt know anyone that did lock there house when they went out, so is anyone that leaves there house without locking it who has a safe inside breaking the rules than aswell?

I understand what you're saying, but what you're risking is that someone who may just be poking around gets into your garage and finds the safe, who can then come back more prepared and you will never know they were there in the first place.

Originally Posted by 1justin

and when i was growing up in the country i didnt know anyone that did lock there house when they went out, so is anyone that leaves there house without locking it who has a safe inside breaking the rules than aswell?

times are different now and so are the rules... do you leave your house unlocked when you go out now?

here in Auckland the people I know with gun safes, have had to put a lock on the door on the cupboard/room and windows they are in, weather they use them or not (this was when getting E endorsement)

Originally Posted by Glycerine

times are different now and so are the rules... do you leave your house unlocked when you go out now?

here in Auckland the people I know with gun safes, have had to put a lock on the door on the cupboard/room and windows they are in, weather they use them or not (this was when getting E endorsement)

Times sure are different now . I live rural. Saw our neighbour get robbed a couple of years ago - their house is about 180 meters from us.

Didn’t immediately gel what was happening – saw car drive up the 150 meter drive and straight under their house (open garage under house). Around a minute later they started to depart.
I said to the wife “holy shit, I think the neighbours have just been robbed”. It all happened that quick. Car headed towards town.

Fortunately we were able to raise the neighbour on the other side and they noted the car's rego as it went past and rung the cops. Amazingly the cops picked them up about 30k away – they were known to the cops. And the car was theirs, not stolen, so they were traceable.

They had the neighbour’s chainsaw and some workshop tools in the boot. As I said, around a minute and gone.

Originally Posted by 1justin

just a 40 year old garage so locks are poked could put bolts and padlocks on the old garage doors and the side door so that will sort it out, i live in the country so really if someones planing on getting in to the garage the padlocks only guna add 30 secs to the time it takes them, bolts are in another safe in another place, and ammo is locked in another place as well

ya know im more looking from the legal standpoint because from common sense standpoint the safe and the dayna bolts and the blanket over it and not telling people about it are the deterrent from the opportunist the lock on the door is just guna cost the professional 30 secs when they can probably be out there all day without a worry anyway

and when i was growing up in the country i didnt know anyone that did lock there house when they went out, so is anyone that leaves there house without locking it who has a safe inside breaking the rules than aswell?

Then from a legal standpoint if you fit the hasp and staple and minimum requirement to class the garage as "lockable" you should be legally fine

Not what I would do but it's your stuff, not mine