What gun do you keep in your truck?

Kurbsky · July 22, 2021, 03:41 PM

For me it's HK VP9.

shurshot · July 22, 2021, 04:37 PM

I no longer leave a gun in my vehicles. Too many punks sneaking around in the dark looking for wallets, spare change, Cadil. Converters, etc. They can break the window and glovebox if they don't wake me up... nothing in there to take.

mk70ss · July 22, 2021, 04:44 PM

Charter Arms .22 Pathfinder from the 70’s is in my truck. But if I am in my truck, I also have a Beretta 84 .380 on my belt.

TailGator · July 22, 2021, 05:37 PM

My only difference with shurshot is while he "no longer" leaves a firearm in his vehicle, I never did. It's always on my belt, never left unattended. I live in an upscale gated community but no firearms are left in my vehicles.

ccSnoopycc · July 22, 2021, 06:05 PM

High Points, Cheap Commi Stuff (cz/maks/etc), or old surplus shotgun/rifle usually locked in the toolbox.

corneileous · July 22, 2021, 06:31 PM

Beretta PX4 storm 40 Smith & Wesson full-size that’s secured away in a Lock-er Down steel console vault.

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Drm50 · July 22, 2021, 06:49 PM

I have a hard time just keeping gas in the truck lately. Never left guns in vehicles.

TunnelRat · July 22, 2021, 06:53 PM

I carry on my person.

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ballardw · July 22, 2021, 07:17 PM

My dad had a Colt .38 stolen from our truck when I was 11 or so. Lesson learned.

Seedy Character · July 22, 2021, 08:29 PM

Nothing left in truck.

When I am in the truck, then whatever I am carrying. Could be most anything.

corneileous · July 22, 2021, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by ballardw

My dad had a Colt .38 stolen from our truck when I was 11 or so. Lesson learned.

Was it secured?

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corneileous · July 22, 2021, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by TunnelRat

I carry on my person.

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I do too. When I’m in my truck, there are two guns in it….

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TunnelRat · July 22, 2021, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by corneileous

I do too. When I’m in my truck, there are two guns in it….

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I’m not sure why you felt the need to clarify this to me specifically, but okay.

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corneileous · July 22, 2021, 09:56 PM

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I’m not sure why you felt the need to clarify this to me specifically, but okay.

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I dunno, I guess I just kinda took your response of saying you carry on your person as a way to silently and discreetly criticize those who don’t carry on their person when they’re in their vehicle or leaving a firearm in their vehicle. I mean, the title of the thread is “what gun do you keep in your vehicle”, not where you carry it when you’re in it but it’s cool, if I totally misread your post then I sincerely apologize. Maybe it was me who just read far too much into it. That’s why I answered the way I did.

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TunnelRat · July 22, 2021, 09:59 PM

I was simply responding to the thread in a way that conveyed what I do personally. I don’t leave a firearm in a vehicle, I keep it on my person as I don’t have a vehicle safe currently and I’m in and out of my vehicle all day.

I don’t care what another person does with his or her personal property while in his or her property unless it directly impacts my safety. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a comment is just a comment and not a condemnation of a group of people. Have a good night.

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corneileous · July 22, 2021, 10:01 PM

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Originally Posted by TunnelRat

I was simply responding to the thread in a way that conveyed what I do personally. I don’t leave a firearm in a vehicle. I don’t care what another person does with his or her personal property while in his or her property unless it directly impacts my safety. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a comment is just a comment and not a condemnation of a group of people. Have a good night.

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I wasn’t criticizing you, I was just responding in a manner that I took your post as. No harm no foul.

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TunnelRat · July 22, 2021, 10:02 PM

I didn’t say you were criticizing me.

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Kurbsky · July 23, 2021, 07:40 AM

For me it's ok to keep a gun in my truck sometimes but I would never leave it there overnight.

TunnelRat · July 23, 2021, 08:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Madara

If you can't hit with more than a few rounds, your time is better spent at the range or get a more accurate weapon you can hit with!

Capacity and marksmanship aren’t inherently mutually exclusive. A person can be a good shot and still prefer a firearm with “more than a few rounds”. Adrenaline often has a negative impact on what might be good marksmanship especially against a moving target shooting back, there are many examples of people surviving what would eventually be life ending wounds and going on to kill others in the meantime, and in the context of a truck gun where a person might be shooting at another person around a vehicle the chances are fairly high of a round being stopped or deflected by the auto glass or car body. Shooting at nuisance animals is different in a number of ways than shooting at an armed assailant.

It’s disappointing to me that this stereotype continues to get spread around within the firearms community, especially given the fact that this stereotype is often used by anti-gun people to argue why we shouldn’t need standard capacity firearms.

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Seedy Character · July 23, 2021, 09:21 AM

I have a friend that keeps a Ruger Blackhawk .357 in his truck 24/7.

It is secured in a gun vault, mounted under the back seat, unloaded. Ammo is in the glove box.

We have discussed his choice vs mine. We have agreed that what works for us is the best for us.

corneileous · July 23, 2021, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Seedy Character

I have a friend that keeps a Ruger Blackhawk .357 in his truck 24/7.

It is secured in a gun vault, mounted under the back seat, unloaded. Ammo is in the glove box.

We have discussed his choice vs mine. We have agreed that what works for us is the best for us.

I don’t know, maybe I shouldn’t leave a pistol in my truck all the time but my initial thought was that if I don’t cheap out and get a really good steel lock box that actually attaches inside the big bottom compartment of my full length center console that goes all the way from the dash to the back between the front bucket seats that whenever I was in my truck, I could leave my every day carry in my pocket and take the big full-size out of the box and put it in the holster that I have mounted to the side of the console but since I pretty much only do that on long trips, I guess I don’t necessarily need to keep it in there all the time.

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JustJake · July 23, 2021, 02:45 PM

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What gun do you keep in your truck?

Guns left in vehicles result in a high rate of theft. Ask the Memphis Tenn. P.D.

lll Otto lll · July 23, 2021, 03:11 PM

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I have a friend that keeps a Ruger Blackhawk .357 in his truck 24/7.

It is secured in a gun vault, mounted under the back seat, unloaded. Ammo is in the glove box.

My entire truck got stolen...maybe he should re-think that strategy.

BCR1 · July 23, 2021, 04:02 PM

None. Mine stays with me, not in my truck.

Bill

corneileous · July 23, 2021, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by JustJake

Guns left in vehicles result in a high rate of theft. Ask the Memphis Tenn. P.D.

Wouldn’t somebody have to know it’s in there first?

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July 22, 2021, 03:41 PM	#1
Kurbsky Senior Member Join Date: July 22, 2009 Posts: 475	What gun do you keep in your truck? For me it's HK VP9.

July 22, 2021, 04:44 PM	#3
mk70ss Senior Member Join Date: January 12, 2008 Location: Tennessee Posts: 1,642	Charter Arms .22 Pathfinder from the 70’s is in my truck. But if I am in my truck, I also have a Beretta 84 .380 on my belt. __________________ Say when.....

July 22, 2021, 07:17 PM	#9
ballardw Senior Member Join Date: September 19, 2008 Posts: 1,475	My dad had a Colt .38 stolen from our truck when I was 11 or so. Lesson learned. __________________ -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ All data is flawed, some just less so.

July 22, 2021, 09:59 PM	#15
TunnelRat Senior Member Join Date: May 22, 2011 Posts: 12,426	What gun do you keep in your truck? I was simply responding to the thread in a way that conveyed what I do personally. I don’t leave a firearm in a vehicle, I keep it on my person as I don’t have a vehicle safe currently and I’m in and out of my vehicle all day. I don’t care what another person does with his or her personal property while in his or her property unless it directly impacts my safety. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, and sometimes a comment is just a comment and not a condemnation of a group of people. Have a good night. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

July 22, 2021, 04:37 PM	#2
shurshot Senior Member Join Date: August 25, 2006 Posts: 1,819	I no longer leave a gun in my vehicles. Too many punks sneaking around in the dark looking for wallets, spare change, Cadil. Converters, etc. They can break the window and glovebox if they don't wake me up... nothing in there to take.

July 22, 2021, 05:37 PM	#4
TailGator Senior Member Join Date: May 8, 2009 Location: Florida Posts: 3,809	My only difference with shurshot is while he "no longer" leaves a firearm in his vehicle, I never did. It's always on my belt, never left unattended. I live in an upscale gated community but no firearms are left in my vehicles.

July 22, 2021, 06:05 PM	#5
ccSnoopycc Senior Member Join Date: October 27, 2010 Posts: 123	High Points, Cheap Commi Stuff (cz/maks/etc), or old surplus shotgun/rifle usually locked in the toolbox.

July 22, 2021, 06:31 PM	#6
corneileous Senior Member Join Date: October 15, 2019 Location: Nowhere you need to know Posts: 326	Beretta PX4 storm 40 Smith & Wesson full-size that’s secured away in a Lock-er Down steel console vault. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

July 22, 2021, 06:49 PM	#7
Drm50 Senior Member Join Date: November 10, 2014 Posts: 1,499	I have a hard time just keeping gas in the truck lately. Never left guns in vehicles.

July 22, 2021, 06:53 PM	#8
TunnelRat Senior Member Join Date: May 22, 2011 Posts: 12,426	I carry on my person. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

July 22, 2021, 08:29 PM	#10
Seedy Character Senior Member Join Date: July 5, 2021 Location: SW Okla Posts: 201	Nothing left in truck. When I am in the truck, then whatever I am carrying. Could be most anything.

July 22, 2021, 10:02 PM	#17
TunnelRat Senior Member Join Date: May 22, 2011 Posts: 12,426	I didn’t say you were criticizing me. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

July 23, 2021, 07:40 AM	#18
Kurbsky Senior Member Join Date: July 22, 2009 Posts: 475	For me it's ok to keep a gun in my truck sometimes but I would never leave it there overnight.

July 23, 2021, 09:21 AM	#20
Seedy Character Senior Member Join Date: July 5, 2021 Location: SW Okla Posts: 201	I have a friend that keeps a Ruger Blackhawk .357 in his truck 24/7. It is secured in a gun vault, mounted under the back seat, unloaded. Ammo is in the glove box. We have discussed his choice vs mine. We have agreed that what works for us is the best for us.

July 23, 2021, 04:02 PM	#24
BCR1 member Join Date: January 25, 2021 Location: Chattanooga Posts: 108	None. Mine stays with me, not in my truck. Bill