Storage of Firearm while travelling

Appendix carry.
The only way someone will steal your gun is if they kidnap you.
If you get kidnapped, you'll have a gun to defend yourself.

win win.
 
Virtually all hotels have a safe behind the front desk. When I was young I used to work in a nice hotel in a small town in B.C. We would have armoured cars come through town, and when they stayed at the hotel they would leave their revolvers in the safe behind the front desk. Maybe they stayed with us BECAUSE we had a safe.....hmmmm.
 
tumbleweeds13 said:
Virtually all hotels have a safe behind the front desk. When I was young I used to work in a nice hotel in a small town in B.C. We would have armoured cars come through town, and when they stayed at the hotel they would leave their revolvers in the safe behind the front desk. Maybe they stayed with us BECAUSE we had a safe.....hmmmm.
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The last thing I would do at a hotel is give up custody of a gun case to the counter staff. "Hey, can I leave my expensive handguns with you? Great, thanks!"

I'd rather leave it under the bed in the room.
 
Stevo said:
The last thing I would do at a hotel is give up custody of a gun case to the counter staff. "Hey, can I leave my expensive handguns with you? Great, thanks!"
I'd rather leave it under the bed in the room.
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Depends on the hotel. I had a Disney Resort in Florida ask me to lock my guns in the manager's safe deposit boxes while not in my room.
(psst...if you don't want people to know you have a gun in your room, don't have 1000 rounds shipped to the hotel) :redface:

They felt that the in-room safes weren't secure enough.

Anyway, it was just like a bank. I had a key - they had a key - it took two keys to get in - I saw the log book while I was there - I wasn't the only one with guns in there. :d
It wasn't so bad; just a bit of a extra time to get it in the morning when leaving for the match.
 
Freedom Ventures said:
Depends on the hotel. I had a Disney Resort in Florida ask me to lock my guns in the manager's safe deposit boxes while not in my room.
(psst...if you don't want people to know you have a gun in your room, don't have 1000 rounds shipped to the hotel) :redface:

They felt that the in-room safes weren't secure enough.

Anyway, it was just like a bank. I had a key - they had a key - it took two keys to get in - I saw the log book while I was there - I wasn't the only one with guns in there. :d
It wasn't so bad; just a bit of a extra time to get it in the morning when leaving for the match.
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A separate safe deposit box is completely different than handing your case to someone to lock into a general-use safe.

I don't have any issue with using the setup you describe.
 
Magellann said:
Ive never had one in any of the places Ive stayed.
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abb1 said:
Hmmm, I stay in hotel rooms all the time through government travel. I have NEVER had a hotel room with a safe, here in Canada. I have had hotel rooms with safes when travelling to the USA though. My next business travel, I will ask them if they are available, just for interest sake.
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You guys need to stay in a better class of hotel. I've not stayed in one in the past 10 years that didn't have one...Canada, US or Europe...
 
I'm leery of in room safes after having $50 USD ($10,000,000 CAD) get stolen out of my room safe at a resort in Mexico. Granted, Canada and Mexico are not the same type of place, but it was a resort, and it freaked me out knowing that strangers would have a universal password to access it.
 
Innavedaw said:
You guys need to stay in a better class of hotel. I've not stayed in one in the past 10 years that didn't have one...Canada, US or Europe...
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Other than resorts in Jamaica while on vacation I have never stayed in a hotel with a room safe, Days Inn, Hilton, Howard Johnson, Super 8, Wandlyn, Comfort Inn, Best Western, plus a bunch of crappy motels and none had in room safes.
 
xldbldbl said:
Other than resorts in Jamaica while on vacation I have never stayed in a hotel with a room safe, Days Inn, Hilton, Howard Johnson, Super 8, Wandlyn, Comfort Inn, Best Western, plus a bunch of crappy motels and none had in room safes.
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Well I must be some lucky SOB then, considering I travel about 20 weeks a year and can't recall the last time I did not have a safe to throw my tablet/laptop, passport and occasionally my pistol in...
 
dasbrow said:
I am going to an IPSC match in Kingston, ON (I live in Ontario as well) this month and will be staying there for two days, taking the wife. We plan on doing a few things around town after the match, do I just leave my pistol in my hotel room? Make's me nervous, you just never know with staff these days. Or can I keep it in my car while out?
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The front desk might offer secure storage, if you ask. If they don't, when I have to leave a firearm in a hotel room, I lock it in a Pelican case that is chained around the toilet; cover it all with towels; place a 'do not disturb' on your room, both on the door and at the front desk. If you use good locks (with cores that are not susceptible to being picked, like Abloy Protec 2) you'll have nothing to worry about.

 
Interesting. Years ago the Ontario CFO told me to leave the guns locked in the car as it is safe storage. But now you say they tell you to leave them in the room and not go shopping with gun in the trunk? So also make sure the hotel will let you stay with guns as at a small private motel I had been booted out at midnight when they realized there were guns around.
 
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