do ranges offer storage for firearms?

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so heres the story. my wife was fine for letting me get my rpal and while I still have a little money I went out looking for a safe, looked at some in crappy tire then online when she saw me looking at them online she asked "whats that for?"...... long story short, do ranges offer storage?

she is ok with rifles but thinks handguns run around shooting children on their own.
 
Posts such as this make me realize how lucky I am, my wife fully supports my passion for shooting.
That said, I don't know if ranges offer storage, I really hope they don't. Central storage is one of the stepping stones for prohibiting handguns.
I guess your left talking with the wife and coming up with a compromise.
Maybe it would be worth picking up a CO2 pellet pistol and get her used to it, show her how fun and safe shooting can be.
 
I soooooo feel for your Brother!
Just try and focus on the education of safe storage.

You can go a further step and mount a 4 didgit combination (Master) key lock.
It is solid steel, meant for mounting outside to hold spare house keys.

Try and get her plinking with a .22 HG at a range, and especially on club nights if there are other female shooters she can talk too.

Let me know if you can get her to the range....how did you do it? I've pretty much exhausted all ideas.
 
Generally only in the fantasies of Liberals. Spend a bit of time showing her that you have locked the firearms and the ammunition so that in no way the children can ever get access to them. Then be diligent afterwards, because she who rules the roost shall be watching.
 
No, generally most ranges that are rural do not offer storage facilities on site. Yes, the kind of ranges that are below a gun repair shop sometimes do offer storage for a fee.

I don't see children getting into a frigging safe.

If my wife was mentally ill, and paranoid, I'd get her to a psychiatrist. I'd also make certain that she never gets access to my firearms. I'd have to get a combination type safe to make absolutely certain.
 
The story should have been that the safe is for storing the rifles and shotguns. If a few hanguns find there way in there she will never know.

My wife hunts and shoots but has never looked in my safe. The only time she catches me is if she gets the mail before me and sees the letters from the RCMP, or my postal lady rats me out, they participate in some of the same community centre things.

Unfortunately she is also a member of CGN, :wave: hi sweetie, sorry :redface:

Really, if you want a handgun just get one, and let her get use to it.
 
I'd educate her on safe storage and change her perception. If you back down and concede to her you are enabling the premise that she is correct, and shes not....thats the end of the argument, no brainer, no guilt. Tell her she is wrong and explain why until she understands.

If you don't start at home, how can we expect the general public to learn? I'm constantly babbling about gun laws and stupid anti logic around the house....now my wife sees that it's not just about firearms anymore, but our whole system of freedoms could be in jeopardy.
 
geologist said:
I'd just grow a set but that's me. :slap:

YMMV.
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what he said :slap: grow some

OldRanger said:
Let me know if you can get her to the range....how did you do it? I've pretty much exhausted all ideas.
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mine came out a few times with me, now shes getting ready to challange her PAL test, which means ill have to share my toys, but ill like her that much more. shes a member here too :wave: thedutchess
 
When I got my PAL/RPAL my wife made me promise to buy a safe because we have 3 young children, and though I grumbled at the time, it really is peace of mind, knowing everything is locked up safe where they can't get it.
You're going to have to compromise somehow. If you agree to store you handguns partially disassembled then that would be a way of easing her mind I'm sure, since they can't actually shoot unless re-assembled even if the little bounders somehow manage to get in the safe or you goof and leave them out of the safe.
The Shooting Edge does store guns for its members, but that won't help you in Ontario unfortunately.
Bottom line is that you'll need to put her mind at ease by telling her there's no where to store them (short of keeping them at a cigar shop in the humidor maybe! lol). It would be a lot more convenient to get her to trust in a good safe and your due diligence in keeping everything locked up.
My wife actually wants me to get a second safe now so I can keep my .357 up in the bedroom so if someone breaks in at night I can "lock and load" and protect her and everyone else. Maybe try that angle too... whatever it takes to keep her and you happy-- find the middle ground.
GOOD LUCK!
 
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Statistically, having a firearm in your home significantly increases the risk of a child being shot with that firearm.

That is where most people stop reading and start screaming, "Someone think of the children."

What it doesn't tell you is that the vast, vast majority of those incidents are from the owner leaving the thing loaded and ready to fire in the top drawer of the nightstand. Or in a closet. Or the crisper in the fridge.

If you're stupid enough to leave a loaded firearm around a house with kids, then the odds of the kids shooting themselves or others goes way up.

However, a properly stored firearm poses no risk to the kids. You should be more worried about the knives in the kitchen or running them over as you reverse out of the garage. Or course, you need to take steps to ensure you are handling the firearm correctly while in the home. Lock it up every time and it's no more dangerous than any other piece of plastic or metal and less dangerous than many.
 
geologist said:
I'd just grow a set but that's me. :slap:

YMMV.
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".......my wife was fine for letting me get my rpal......"

Dude, seriously.

I know marriage is a two way street made up of compromises, but Jesus Christ. Does she tell you when to go the the bathroom too? Reading things like this makes me even more scared of getting married.

I want my balls to stay where they belong, not in a glass case on the wife's nightstand.
 
Would you leave your car parked at the police station because someone might steal it out of the driveway? Of course not. The notion that centralized storage is better is wrong (as they say) on so many levels.

I have had firearms all my adult life and was raised in a home where my father had guns. As the feds changed the laws for storage, I changed my storage practises. The legal premise is to prevent unauthorized people from accessing firearms. It goes then that the feds expect individual responsibility of gun owners. Leaving valuable possessions in a remote site, that are attractive to criminals, and for which owners have serious obligations for supervision, goes against all those principles. If your family has a history of mental illness or suicide by firearms, those are other sensitivities to face up to.

If you follow the simple mathematics of separating ammunition and guns, and meet legal requirements for locking the appropriate parts, then your wife can be assured you have a clear understanding of your legal obligations.
 
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