Folks, let me just say this one time and one time only...
Kids are smarter than you think they are.
If you have a gun for personal protection and there is a child living in your house you can not, in no uncertain terms, prevent that child from accessing a locked gun.
Oh yeah, you heard that right. They can and will find your firearm. They will be able to unlock the storage box and get to playing. As you can imagine "kids, playing, and guns" should not be in the same sentence unless the phrase "parental supervision" is in there as well.
So, here's what you do: Teach your children about firearms, their uses, the power that they can unleash and the whole 9 yards.
I've mentioned before that one needs to wear the novelty off of a firearm so it isn't a toy any longer, the same holds true for children.
Teach your child about how your firearm functions, how it works, and what it does.
By "what it does" I mean what that little bullet can do to someething so they know, without equivocation, that it will destroy whatever it hits.
Take them shooting, let them hold the gun whenever they want. Do not demonize it, do not make it forbidden. That's the fastest way to end up with a tragedy on your hands.
Just my two cents.
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