That's what I always thought about locked gun cases. By the time you've opened it up, you're just clearing the way for them to steal your guns too. That said, I wouldn't want to live in a place where I felt the need to always have a loaded weapon on hand.
Biden still won't do anything about the borders. He has said it! This Ohio Sheriff is talking about training. Ohio has a border that has issues in the rural areas. Florida has a border being breached. New York just deported ONE HUNDRED illegal criminals. BIG WHOOP. Communications are being targeted. Contact your local sheriff to see if there is training near you and what you can do. It took only 11 people to cause 9/11. We have MILLIONS waiting.
Having a firearm locked and not ready to use is just asking for a bad thing to possibly place, take especially a trigger lock, mine is always ready for use here especially after dad and were attacked and stabbed. Those who feel safe with a locked gun are literally living in a dream of denial. In the mental state anyone whom is a victim and don't believe this is living in denial of reality that can happen and does daily somewhere, my firearm which is ready for use saved my and my dad's lives. A Colt officer's 45cal, model. Which could be deployed the fastest mine or a gun with a trigger lock not even loaded? Children with semi access would be one exception to that! But it really could cost someone their life in a time of need. Things go very wrong in stressful times.
One of the quick access pistol safes is a good compromise if children have access to the space. It takes about 2 seconds to access a pistol from one of these.
When I had children at home (my son and, later, my nephew), I didn't lock my guns up, but I hid them very well, as evidenced by the fact that neither one of them had any idea that I owned a firearm until they became adults. In my son's case, he was twenty and helping me pack up for my move to Texas. Now, my shotgun is in my office, and, by sliding my chair over a little to the right, I could reach it without getting out of the chair. The handgun is in the bedroom.
When our children were at home, they even had their own guns once they hit 12 years old. We shot all the time in our "backyard", and the males hunted (the girls weren't interested). I had full confidence that our children wouldn't mishandle firearms. I have no such confidence with the grandchildren, so the guns are under lock and key except the ones that won't fit into the gun safes. Those are separated from the ammo, so they are useless.
When I was a kid, we had our own gun by the age of twelve and could use any of the guns in the house except for the handgun, which I think I only saw once. However, I raised my son in Southern California. The only firearm I had then was a handgun, and buying him a firearm at the age of twelve didn't seem like a good idea in Long Beach or Anaheim. My nephew was here with us because he had reactive attachment disorder, so firearms wouldn't have been a great idea with him, either. As it is, he would stash knives under his mattress until we progressed into the recovery process.
Once we are finished getting our boat/trailer ready to sell, I will (again) clean our three handguns and two rifles and adjust the laser on each handgun, so we can go to local indoor range here. It will be our first time. However, as I believe I've already stated in this thread, no loaded firearms in our home! Each firearm has a lock on the trigger, but all magazines are full of ammo, but not in the firearms. Just our choice.
Funny. I had a 22 rifle in my girls' closet that neither I nor they touched for 15 years. Not loaded but space challenged. No body thought anything about it back then.
I never really had any interest in handguns until things got more dangerous and they threatened to take away our means to defend ourselves from said threats. Almost everybody who hunts carries a handgun in addition to a rifle or shotgun up here, mostly for bears, since it is inconvenient to have a long gun at the ready at all times. Many people carry big handguns even when fishing for the same reason. My three sons in Alaska all have chest rigs and .44 magnums they carry when fishing so they have access to a weapon above their waders. None have had to use them, but just in case....
Do not think I have ever told this story. When my brother was about 3 he had a little toy pistol. The kind that came with like a cowboy western set complete with handcuffs. My mother was standing in the door way looking out side when brother comes up to her and points the gun at her stomach- pulls trigger and says Bang. Oh wow, guess what he had found a bullet ( not sure where) and put in that gun. My mother was unhappy with him even playing like that, so she took the gun and then saw the bullet inside the gun. She was very rattled after that. Best of my knowledge, we never had fire arms in the house- least not at that age. Even at three he was strong enough to pull the trigger so that it made that noise once it hit the other end, so the bullet could have - well who knows.