Safe Storage means poor people can't have guns

I’ve pointed out before that I think that the majority of gun control is elitism. Nowadays the gun grabbers hasten to tell you that “law abiding people have nothing to fear,” but then they propose complicated rules and certification schemes that will price the poorer of us out of the self defense market entirely. “Safe Storage” is another such scheme. The ultimate in “safe storage” would be requiring you to store your gun off site either with the police or at a gun club. That’s what you have to do in some countries. The next best (from their point of view) is locked, disassembled, and unloaded. This is what was required in DC until Heller struck down both the ban on new guns and also the ban on functional guns. Now they are turning to “child access prevention” laws. Cause anything’s Constitutional if it’s “for the children.”

Our opponents would like to make the use of guns as difficult and expensive as possible. For them, the fact that the poorer citizens will not be able to afford a gun and all the legally mandated, permits, training, and storage containers, is not a bug, it’s a feature. They cling to the false belief that gun owners are stupid low class rednecks. If they can restrict gun ownership to the “right sort,” then problem solved. The right sort knows better than to own a gun, and the wrong sort needs to be ruled over. This is why I get so bent out of shape when someone who should be on our side repeats such foolishness.

Just as a responsible journalist has an obligation to trade in facts rather than innuendo, a responsible gun owner has an obligation to maintain a careful record of his or her firearms, store them in a proper safe and maintain security awareness. Rather than make it easy for the weapons to slip into criminals’ hands.

Umm, no. Unless you leave your gun lying in the middle of your lawn, who cares how you store it? When called out on it, he doubles down.

Buy a gun safe. By “proper” I mean a safe that thieves can’t prise open in minutes or simply remove from the premises. (Remove perhaps, but not simply.) Every gun owner should have at least one. That’s the one you use for guns that you don’t need RIGHT NOW. And thieves don’t need ever. If you don’t have an alarm system, when you leave your abode unattended, move you guns from their satellite locations to the mothersafe. And then back.

I wish I had the kind of money to have a system like that. I wish I had enough guns to warrant having multiple lockboxes. I wish I had a pony.

I make decent money. There are a lot of people who live on far less. If I can’t afford this system, none of the rest can either. So climb down off your high horse. Everyone deserves access to the best self defense tool available, the firearm. If all someone can afford is a cheap used revolver stored in his sock drawer, I’m ok with that.