Bob...if it was someone looking for cash I'm safe....cause we don't have none

alpha..not agrueing with you...you said I should get a scattergun, I was just letting you know that I already have a few. For now I have my 357 locked in a box in my closet until my safe comes in... good enough for my peace of mind for now. I honestly don't like the idea of having a shotgun in my bedroom...although they acan be nearly childproof all it takes is one time for my kid to get lucky...with all the crap going on in my life right now I don't need to take any more chances...even as slim as they may be.

Muddy...putting a shelf up won't work...this kid is AMAZING. He's the size of a 6 year old and is one smart ****. A few weeks ago I couldn't find him...but heard noise. He dragged his potty training chair out of the bathroom, used it as a stool and pulled down the attic ladder from the ceiling in the hallway...the kid was in the attic for almost an hour before I realized where the hell the noise was coming from.

thanks for all the ideas guys...I appreciate it.

 

Wow, that is pretty amazing! I'd say that sucks because you can't hide anything but dam, your kid is smart. I do know what you mean about the firearms. I grew up and my father is a huge gun collector, already telling me to make room at my house because he's filling his up too much in his safe. I can't imagine anything other than a safe with finger print ID for you though. I know as a kid I found my dad's gun safe key a few times but he grilled me for as long as I could remember about how if I touched that safe I would loose everything I held dear in life. Just a thought, I know that one day I will have to think about it too.

 

Impy with your kid's sense of adventure he is going to be a natural outdoors and wheeling. I was taught gun safety and shooting by my Dad when I was 9 or 10. We even had markmanship medals in Boy Scouts and a shooting range with 22 rifles at the Boy Scout camp. Your son is still way too young but with his sense of adventure he is going to drag you along on a lot of good times.

 

yea, I hear ya...I spend most of my days just looking at him shaking my head...the stuff he does still shocks me

 

You haven't seen anything yet, wait until he is a teenager. But it will be fun.

 

I'm not looking forward to it...the docs said he has a 90% chance of being between 6'8 and 6'11....figure I have about 10 more years until he can kick my azz

 

importkiller-my wife keeps a 44 spl revolver on top of the wardrobe and my 40 stays on the kitchen counter. my oldest son is 8. ive never allowed him to have a toy gun-so he wouldnt equate firearms as toys. i taught him gun safety around 4 and he's never touched our firearms and i trust him around all of them.-before some of you call dhs on me-all kids are different. i may not do the same with my newborn.
your son sounds really smart and i bet he will catch on quick.

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wow....you have a set that clank when you walk if you leave a loaded 40 on the kitchen counter with an 8 year old in the house. Equating a firearm with a toy means nothing....curiousity killed the cat. I wish you luck....hopefully your kid doesn't get bored one day.

 

I do agree about the toy thing. I have never allowed them to play shoot anyolne, point a toy gun at anyone. Always told them what guns can do if you don't repect them. At 9 my boys took gun safety course. I took them out side and filled milk jugs with Cherry Kool-Aid and taped a picture of thier friends on them and let them shoot the jugs so that they could see what it would do. Still don't leave anything loaded laying around though. Kids are kids and they are nosey little chits. Love em, just call them as I see them.

I don't trust ANY kid any further than I can throw them. Besides, they have my blood in them and I know how I was...

 

I payed guns as a kid...shot cap guns at my brother...played laser tag and shot kids with water guns....and I never killed anyone. It's all what you teach them. I was shooting 150 yard targets when I was 5 and killed my first buck at 9. But that was also a different time