tl;dr: Newbie (sport-shooter aspirant) apartment dweller looking for insight into legal, safe, and theft-deterring storage solution(s).
Long-winded version
Couldn't find anything else posted on this topic; so here goes...
In a perfect world, in order to make my home and valuables prohibitively unpalatable to would-be thieves, I'd be a home owner, with a gun safe bolted to the concrete of my basement, inside of an enclosed room accessible through an inconspicuously camouflaged doorway.
(Well actually, in a truly perfect world, theft and violent crime wouldn't exist to begin with; but I digress.)
In the real world...
- I rent a reasonably sized 1-bedroom apartment on the bottom floor of a 6-plex.
- The neighborhood is increasingly gentrified area of Toronto.
- Violent crime is low here, with occasional (usually opportunistic, non-confrontational) property theft the only real possible cause for any concern -- in the sense of a random break-in while I'm away and the need to prevent them also stealing the firearms, ammo, and a few other high-value items.
- I live in a city and province whose populace, sadly, has been brainwashed to the point that even legitimate sport use of firearms seems to have been vehemently stigmatized
- Because of 4, I fear that I'm unlikely to get landlord approval to bolt anything to the floor. Never tried, never asked, not sure how to proceed.
As such, I am struggling to figure out how I can store a:
- single handgun (+ammo)
- bullion, jewellery, and other high-value/sentimental items
in such a way as to not only satisfy the RCMP's legal requirements, but exceed them; while also making theft of the contained items highly difficult and unlikely.
Surely I'm not the only apartment-dwelling sport-shooter (whether aspiring or actual) out there; so... thoughts?
*and; to be clear: I currently do not own any firearms; nor am I licensed to (yet). I am merely researching at this point.