SECURING YOUR HANDGUN IN A VEHICLE

[Hiram Abiff]

What happens if you find yourself in a venue where you can not keep your handgun on your person? Do you slip it under the seat or stash it in your glove box?
I had GV1000STD delivered the other day. Going to hard mount it in pickup truck on the transmission hump.

Gun Safe : Gun Vaults : Buyasafe.com

 

[melensdad]

GOOD QUESTION. If you have enough room one of those would be great. I've got a different brand that is very similar and it is way too big to mount anywhere in my passenger area of my SUV. I could mount it in the back but I'd prefer that if I have to disarm that I don't have to do it outside of the vehicle. I've not found any solution for my vehicle (VW Touareg). To complicate the issue, I regularly have 4 people in the vehicle so I can't simply floor mount it to the floor behind the driver's seat in the footwell.

 

[mosesiscarryingapdw]

I have one of these:

In Car Gun Safe

It is reasonably secure against a smash and grab, and is very easy to slip underneath the seat unseen. It also doubles as a secure locking airline container per TSA, so it comes in very handy when i'm flying all over the place.

 

[IUGradStudent]

I'm seriously looking at those center-of-mass ones. Nothing else out there seems to be small enough to slip under the seat of a coupe/sedan. The flight usage could come in handy for me, too.

 

[melensdad]

. . . to slip under the seat of a . . .

Ideally it should bolted through the floor so it does not slip/slide anywhere.

I don't have one of those, mine is similar to the safe in the first post, but mine has a plate that, if use in a vehicle, allows the plate to be bolted to the floor. Open the safe and you can flip a few toggles and the safe lifts off of the mounting plate. It allows you to take the safe with you. If you buy extra mounting plates you can take the safe from car to car and even inside you home and simply lock the whole safe into place at every location where you mounted the plate. It takes about 10 seconds to flip the toggles and remove the safe, but the safe has to be opened to do this, so it is pretty secure.

I don't see the point of having a locking box that is simply hidden under the seat, a thief will just take the whole box with him.

 

[esrice]

I believe the center-of-mass units come with a steel cable that goes around the seat brackets. So you could have the box only after you removed the seat.

 

[ryanmercer]

I have a toyota t100, backseat is a bench seat, lifts up... there is a compartment that opens up that holds the jack and some other stuff. The few times I've had to, I've wrapped it in a shop rag and stored it in there for the few minutes it needed to be away from me.