Do Your Kids Know Your Safe Combo?

[dgc357]

Like the title says, do your kids have the combo to your safe? If so, at what age did you give it to them? If not, what age do you feel is appropriate?

I don't have any kids yet, so I have no idea at what age is appropriate if at all.

[MissiontoMars]

Nope - just my wife.

I have a rule, though, that anytime they want to see my collection - all they have to do is ask. They used to be curious, now not so much. They do enjoy occasional range trips, however.

[audiophil2]

not to my nfa safe.
if he needs a gun he knows where the home defense guns are located. no safe combo needed.

[deadcoyote]

Not my kids, not my wife. If I die, somebody else can deal with it.

[VictorFranko]

No kids at home but no, my wife doesn't even have the combo.
I will not have unarmed bad guys force my wife to open my safe and kill my wife or others with my firearms.
My wife is the bit timid type and would probably have a firearm taken away from her by an aggressive male anyway.

Only one friend has the combo to my safe in event of my death. I trust him implicitly with anything in my life and my firearms are going to him anyway per my will.

[splithoof]

Adult kids do.
In the event that the greedy government thugs start confiscating, they may have a chance to empty everything out in the event I'm somewhere else. When I pass, it all goes "into the wind".

[IVC]

I'll join - no, kids have no access to safes and I don't intend to give it to them.

While it might be a safety issue when they are young, I have completely different reason for not giving them access to the safes. It's a place where I can put critical documents, some cash and, of course, valuable guns. That's a place where I know what I put in and I know that it will be there every time I open the door. If kids need access to something, it shouldn't be in the safe in the first place. Just my 2c.

[mwr]

Negative - Neither my wife or my children, the only other person is BF who lives out of the state.

No one is opening the safe, other than myself, unless my family is safely somewhere else.

[RaffiD]

No kids yet, but my wife knows the combo only since we keep our passports and other important paperwork in there.

[Roering]

My eldest who is 27 knows it.
My youngest who is 17 does not.

Same rule as the poster above. Any time they want to fondle a firearm they need only to ask.

[duckman1]

Wife has it and cannot remember it. All the kids had it, 2 have forgotten and the middle uses it to store his firearms.

[Garand Hunter]

No one but me, and my 4th daughter has been told that in my will is a code with the combination numbers. It will be up to her to figure out the r-l-etc turns.

Psalm 1

[bergmen]

We have two safes. One strictly for firearms (it's full), second for additional firearms + all of our valuables, passports, pink slips, etc. Safe #2 has electronic lock, wife and I access it frequently.

Safe #1 has mechanical dial type lock, more complicated combo and I'm the only one who opens it. Combo is on a card in a safe place and wife knows where it is if she needs to get into safe #1 if I am not at the house.

My kids are grown and gone. I should share the combos with them in case both of us are lost for one reason or another.

Dan

[sloppy joe]

Nope.

[ECG_88]

My dad never told me the combos to the safes, however he would open them and show me the guns whenever I asked.

When he retired and moved the collection to a new location, we had the combo to open them and move everything.

Now that I have my own safe, I have only told my wife but she doesn't care enough to remember the combo.