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Once again, this is not for home defense in the typical sense. I have no intentions of trying to shoot an intruder. This is for ensuring the safety of my family (wife & I--no kids) in the highly unlikely event of a breakdown of law & order. We hope (and fully expect) that we will never take it out for anything other than cleaning and range practice. It will be kept locked and will not be quickly accessible. Our thought was that a trigger lock would suffice for the time being, but that we would buy a gun safe when we thought about having kids.

Based on some of the suggestions, I'm thinking we might have to go and shoot some shotguns to make an informed decision.