Do you have a dedicated firearm that stays in your vehicle.
In the South this is commonly referred to as a "truck gun.
Do you have a dedicated firearm that stays in your vehicle.
In the South this is commonly referred to as a "truck gun.
I don't. In western Washington state, it would get stolen in a few days.
Okie John
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Whatever gun is on my person. No gun resides in the vehicle.
There's nothing civil about this war.
I've never been terribly clear on what purpose a "truck gun" serves which would not be better served by simply carrying a gun on your person. If it's in a holster on your person, it's much more immediately accessible than if you have to return to a vehicle to retrieve it, and an argument could be made that if you're in a situation where a gun would be beneficial and you've made it to a vehicle, your best course of action would likely be to start the engine and use the vehicle to escape the situation completely. A "truck gun" also presents a non-zero chance of theft on any given day. I'd like some clarification on what the benefit of having a truck gun is, because from where I sit, the risk/reward calculation does not appear to play out in its favor.
Whichever gun is on my person when I get in.
When I get out, the gun leaves with me.
Unless you have a really dedicated lock box or safe and a reason, truck guns are not a good idea. I rely solely on my pistol outside of the home. I have a carbine and think it is a great force multiplier but its importance is dwarfed by my pistol.
I don't do this, and never did, as far as having a firearm stored/resident within the passenger compartment.
My gun(s) is/are always on my person.
Years ago, I carried a folding-stock 12 gauge shotgun in the trunk, but stopped doing so after having once forgotten to remove it when leaving the vehicle for service, and after considering (as a non-LEO) both my low likelihood of ever actually needing it and the necessarily very slow access involved.
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Living on the edge between suburbia and country, and heading to an urban area on a somewhat regular basis, a firearm that lives in my vehicle is a needless liability and worry.
It's bad enough to have to temporarily leave my pistol in the car during the occasional instance I must......