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I now put mine in the center console. My Glock 19 won't fit the console very well, it's just a bit big. For now, I'll do that..but I see gun magnets and other ways to attach it inside the car. I'd love some input on them. Not sure I want to go drilling holes in the interior of my car. I'm also leery of how well a stick on magnet would hold a fully loaded glock 19 with a 15+1 mag.
I just keep it in my holster on my belt unless it's a long trip and it starts digging in your ribs, then I might take out and put in center console. Works well if you have a detachable holster so you can keep it in the holster.
The important point is not to LEAVE it in your car unattended, for what should be obvious reasons.
I just keep it in my holster on my belt unless it's a long trip and it starts digging in your ribs, then I might take out and put in center console. Works well if you have a detachable holster so you can keep it in the holster.
The important point is not to LEAVE it in your car unattended, for what should be obvious reasons.
I get that. And yes---there are times when it must be left in the car when one enters a gun free zone. At that point, it's hidden under a seat or in a center console, with doors locked.
My issue is that my Glock 19 is just big enough that there isn't a simple place to put it in my car. And I'm getting ready to go on trip to a place 9 hours away by car in a few weeks, so I'm just thinking ahead.
I get that. And yes---there are times when it must be left in the car when one enters a gun free zone. At that point, it's hidden under a seat or in a center console, with doors locked.
My issue is that my Glock 19 is just big enough that there isn't a simple place to put it in my car. And I'm getting ready to go on trip to a place 9 hours away by car in a few weeks, so I'm just thinking ahead.
Don't overthink it. You can buy accessories that attach between the seat or the center panel or the door panels, they sell fancy storage options on on the market, but really why spend the money? - It's like a wallet or cell phone, just shove it in somewhere easily accessable and shove something next to it so it doesn't bounce around or knocked over, keeping safety in mind of course as well. Gotta be somewhere - glove compartment, cup holder?
Not to beat the subject to death but I have a car safe for when I have to leave it in the car for even a few minutes. Safe is under the seat secured to frame. I purchased it for the sole purpose of when I have to enter gun free zones. Smash and grab car burglaries are the number one source for stolen weapons. Glove compartment or under seat is not good enough.
This was a topic a few months ago and we actually had one knucklehead that thought nothing of leaving handgun in a car, not for a few minutes, but overnight on the street. Locked or not, safe neighborhood or not, that's just stupid.
I now put mine in the center console. My Glock 19 won't fit the console very well, it's just a bit big. For now, I'll do that..but I see gun magnets and other ways to attach it inside the car. I'd love some input on them. Not sure I want to go drilling holes in the interior of my car. I'm also leery of how well a stick on magnet would hold a fully loaded glock 19 with a 15+1 mag.
Years ago I was leery of keeping a gun stored in a car, I have already had my car at my parents old house, and had my wife's cars had someone go through it in our driveway. No firearm was stolen so that is a good thing.
As to a magnet, at least 4 years ago, I bought a single magnet one that is designed to hold a firearm mounted even upside down on a desk. I mounted it on my desk in office at home, and mounted a Browning High-Power for a year or two, I have a Beretta 92F currently mounted their, 15+1 no issues.
That might not be my first choice for a car, but yes their are magnets that support the weight of a Glock, since it is a magnet, you would obviously have to have the magnet attached to the slide. You would need metal to hold it.
I keep my pistol on my person at all times. I prefer the crossdraw carry, which is perfect for when you're seated in a vehicle. A pistol in the console does you no good if you're outside your vehicle, even for a moment. For those rare occasions that I can't take my pistol with me, like a courthouse, I store it in the lockbox that each of my vehicles has.
Magnets are an auto no-go IMO. While they may hold the gun at rest or at normal motions, I don't believe for a moment that they'll hold the gun through a minor crash or even an emergency stop.
I'd like to say that I always put my gun into a safe bolted to the frame when I dash into a no-gun store, but, no, I don't. But I don't leave it there for any extensive amount of time, and I don't have a vehicle that would be anyone's first choice to break into.
I've thought about having some specific gun-holding device in the car for long trips, but I've decided that the laws for "gun in the car" differ enough to make it a possible trip to jail if I forget to change it when I cross the state line.
So, generally, it's going to be in my waistband holster.
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I don't dash into no-gun stores as a rule, but if I do, my pistol is in my pocket anyway.. Solves that problem.
Seriously though, most of my EDC is an LCP which is either in my pocket or in the little dashboard compartment under the radio (Honda Accord) where it fits perfectly in its Desantis Nemesis holster. The compartment has a snap-closing cover.
Same thing for road trips, but with the addition of my Ruger SP101 .357 that rides in the console. When stopped for the night both of them go into the hotel with me. I never leave guns in my vehicles overnight or if it is out of my sight.
I don't dash into no-gun stores as a rule, but if I do, my pistol is in my pocket anyway.. Solves that problem.
Seriously though, most of my EDC is an LCP which is either in my pocket or in the little dashboard compartment under the radio (Honda Accord) where it fits perfectly in its Desantis Nemesis holster. The compartment has a snap-closing cover.
Same thing for road trips, but with the addition of my Ruger SP101 .357 that rides in the console. When stopped for the night both of them go into the hotel with me. I never leave guns in my vehicles overnight or if it is out of my sight.
Well, I might ignore the sign sometimes around here, but you never heard me say that.
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