Such houses are extremely rare. I'm going to assume you have never attempted this silly scheme for obtaining free guns. Most police cars have a shotgun under the front seat; have you tried looting those? I don't recommend it. This has to be the most ridiculously out-of-touch comment I've ever seen on HN.
No, they are not. The most common storage system I've encountered is a wood cabinet with a framed glass door. Some people have safes they'll keep some of their guns in: it's where you keep the nice ones to prevent hanger rash. The rest are near a door, on a night stand or behind a truck seat.
There's a variety of things going on here:
1. The bar for "gun worth stealing" is often "any gun". Just in the same way that the bar for stealing a car is "any car". Thieves aren't exactly targeting Kia and Hyundai because of their great resale or scrap value.
2. The vast majority of houses with guns aren't keeping them locked up in safes.
2. The vast majority of houses with guns aren't keeping them locked up in safes.
This is false. Source or gtfo.
22% in a safe
https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/per...
> The 2016 survey found that 46 percent of gun owners stored all household guns locked, of whom 22 percent stored them in a gun safe or cabinet, 13 percent in a gun rack, 6 percent in a locked gun case, and 5 percent in another locked location
Cabinet = crowbar opens in seconds
Rack = easier than a cabinet
> Mostly from cars
It's like 50% from cars, yes. Still well over 100k stolen from houses
Also the reason why people end up with guns in cars is often because of dumbass laws like forcing you to abandon the weapon before going into a liquor licensed restaurant, park, daycare, post office, etc. Theyd rather the gun get stolen and carried by a crim than a licensed carrier walk into the post office.
Removing carry restrictions I think would significantly lower accounts of unsecured (car) storage. Only takes one time of going into post office or picking up your kid at daycare and now you're tossed into stats of someone who doesnt keep all guns secured at the home safe.
No idea, I'd guess it doesn't get included in the numerator or denominator
> Also the reason why people end up with guns in cars is often because of dumbass laws like forcing you to abandon the weapon before going into a liquor licensed restaurant, park, daycare, post office, etc. Theyd rather the gun get stolen and carried by a crim than a licensed carrier walk into the post office.
Yes I think this is pretty much correct.