| If your house is on fire would your gun or | | | | Worse, children and kids may mistaken a real |
| firearms be safe?If a burglar were to break | | | | gun for a toy and mishandle it if the gun is |
| into your house, would he find your gun | | | | not stored away properly, resulting in |
| easily and steal it?Is your gun easily | | | | accidents.We have read and seen actual cases |
| accessible so that it can be reached by | | | | where kids have easy access to the parents |
| others who are unauthorized to handle the | | | | firearms, resulting in terrible unnecessary |
| gun, allowing misuse?These are the three main | | | | loss of lives and untold misery that lasts |
| important questions that every gun owner must | | | | for life.3. It is estimated that over 30% of |
| answer, and if the answer to any one of these | | | | the firearms used in the commission of a |
| questions or to all of these questions is in | | | | crime are stolen from American homes and |
| the affirmative, then what he needs | | | | businesses. Now, that is a really worrisome |
| immediately is a gun safe.Consider these 4 | | | | figure. Theft of guns is becoming a source of |
| revealing statistics:1. In the United States | | | | further crime and gun-owners must take on a |
| of America, the FBI has estimated that there | | | | role to prevent increasing firearms theft.4. |
| are more than 341,000 incidents of firearm | | | | A burglar has a time window of around 6 |
| theft from private citizens every year on | | | | minutes to look quickly for prized |
| average.By nature, we tend to believe that | | | | possessions and assets to steal when he |
| firearm theft will not occur to "us" ...and | | | | breaks into a home, this being the time |
| that theft only occurs to others. It is time | | | | burglars would be "comfortable" in the |
| to get wiser, that theft does not wait for | | | | commission of his crime.Frustrate the |
| any man. For many who possess guns or | | | | burglar's "time comfort zone", by storing |
| firearms that are actually hierlooms, the | | | | away your gun properly.Considering your |
| loss of the firearms would mean much more | | | | responsibility as a firearms owner,it is no |
| than normal loss. It means loss of something | | | | longer wise to store your gun in a drawer, or |
| sentimental, and it would be worse if that | | | | under a desk or behind a picture frame - |
| hierloom was used in the commission of a | | | | places where burglars and unauthorized |
| crime resulting in loss of life.2.Guns and | | | | persons will zoom in for.Every responsible |
| firearms are stolen with a purpose - stolen | | | | gun owner needs a gun vault or a gun safe - |
| guns often end up in the hands of unwanted | | | | fireproofed, locked and inaccessible to |
| individuals and criminals who may use them to | | | | unwanted persons...and safe from theft, fire |
| commit further misdeeds, burglary, theft, | | | | and misuse.Peter Lim is a Certified |
| robbery and even cause bodily harm to others. | | | | Financial Planner and webmaster. |