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Originally Posted by stomachmonkey
Kids are stupid, stuff happens.
Looking for a safe balance.
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Well stuff doesn't just 'happen'.
Children are injured because of lax parental oversight of their firearms, and a lack of training for the kids.
I have a wonderful 4 year old daughter, and I don't worry about my guns.
I have the following precautions in place:
-All long guns are disassembled and kept in locked cases with trigger locks installed. I bought a 6 pack of locks that are keyed alike. Its the first product on this page:
http://www.winner-intl.com/hardware/trigger.html
-All hand guns are kept in a small Stack On gun safe. This is the model:
http://www.stack-on.com/securityplus/strong_box_safes/ps-514.html
-All ammo is kept in army ammo boxes 7 feet off the ground in a closed cabinet.
-Keys to everything are well hidden far from the guns.
Rubber bullets are an extremely poor idea for a number of reasons:
A) If you display a firearm, there is the expectation that deadly force is going to used. An armed person may respond in kind and shoot you with real bullets.
B) Rubber bullets are still just as deadly to a child when fired from close range.
C) Rubber bullets have a high likelyhood of producing injury of some kind to the intruder, which will result in YOU getting sued over the dirtbags injuries. Wrongful death lawsuits are cheaper than paying for a lifetime of care for some criminal who was rendered handicaped in some fashion by your rubber bullets. A grim calculation I'm afraid.