JayMcB
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I work overnights (the holiday scheduale has messed up my sleep) so it takes me awhile to reply.
I am located in Central Massachusetts.
Currently I have all my guns legally secured in locked gunvaults (the nothing special ones you get at the gun store).
Getting rid of her is not an option obviously. She can't stand illegal aliens. She comes from a family that wasn't raised around guns.
I offered to bring all my guns over to a relatives house to be secured and out of the house. She actually got pretty annoyed with me. She basically said if and when a baby arrives that she wants the guns stored in a better safe. Preferably a quick action safe. She doesn't want me to give up my guns.
The 3913 slide is simply too heavy for her to pull back at times. The 442 revolver will be used for now. I am leading towards a M&P 9 mm. I want something that I can mount a light on. Is the Mass Trigger that bad on the M&P? I heard never get a trigger job on an a handgun you plan on using for self defense for legal reasons.
My plan is to.
1. In the spring take her to the range to try multiple guns and to do fun things like shoot at soda bottles like hicok45 does on you tube. More education is needed instead of me saying here is a gun.
2. Involve a women who likes guns maybe she can take a home safety class.
3. She says as long as I get a mega idiot kid proof safe. I can keep the guns.
4. I can continue to carry.
5. Retire the 3913 as a home defense gun and use it as a Range gun. I with I could find a 3953 (the DAO version of it). The decocker/safety is a pain in the ass when carrying. Plus holster options aren't as common.
Don't wait until the Spring.
Any safe is kid proof if you lock it and don't tell them the combo.
If you go 'quick action', don't give the kids the combo there either.
A locked gun has never hurt a child.
If my fiancee told me I was 'allowed' to carry, it would set off a warning bell with me. Just sayin'. My wife (and daughter) will tap my strong side to make SURE I'm carrying.
This answer doesn't look as bad as the first post, but it's bad enough.
Be sure if it comes down to a choice between the guns or the fiancee'/wife/kids where your decision would lie, and make sure SHE knows it too.
As an FYI< my son started shooting at an Appleseed at age 7. Given their instructions from the RSO and here at home, There's no set of circumstances where they would go near the safes, much less in them.