Do Your Kids Know Your Safe Combo?

[randomBytes]

not even my wife knows combo - she might use the contents on me ;-)
though she does have combo to another safe for documents etc, and in that there's an envelope for after I'm gone ;-)

[L84CABO]

If not, what age do you feel is appropriate?

MAYBE at age 18 if you believe them to be responsible enough. MAYBE.

And yes, I know..."it's different with my kids. I'm engaged in their lives and know what's going on."

We are literally talking about people whose brains are NOT fully developed yet. Does it seem like a sound idea to you to give unfettered access to firearms to someone whose brain is not fully developed yet?

Kids can go from being ok to not being ok in a blink. And it would be damn near impossible for anyone to know the exact instant that a person goes from being ok to no being ok. Hell, you may not even be home from work yet to even realize your kid had a problem today.

Then there are all their idiot friends who are begging them to, "just show me your dad's guns."

[Jwalt]

Or, like my 14 y/o nephew who just thought his best friend was like his brother and never even thought for a minute the kid might be watching him punch in a combination...

Thankfully, that wasn't to a gun safe but to the lock on their garage. The "best friend of five years" stole his bicycle and my brother's skill saw. Not the most expensive tool of that size by a long shot, not a smart thief.

[bajajoaquin]

Once stated openly, clearly, and without doubt, it would be "explicitly", not "impliciitly".

[tnlrat37]

[Featureless]

NO ...!

NOT my daughter, not my grandchildren (the 2 boys would love it) ... and especially NOT my wife!

And ... there is absolutely valid steadfast reason for that!

Sorry to hear you're all alone in this adventure called life.

[XVIga_Rob]

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.

Same here. Plus, oldest daughter shoots Trap fairly well, & hunts with me. She does want the combo though. Someday....until then, I will not open the safe, if she can see the keypad.

[S.A.]

Nope. Me, myself and I only knows the combo.

[holdfast]

No.

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[hambam105]

What Safe?

[newbie1234]

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

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[Subotai]

Yes, but the youngest is 20.

[nitroxdiver]

Absolutely not.


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[sigstroker]

Guess I"m in the same camp, LOL

My wife doesn't want to know it...and I don't need the stepson to know it.

Every time I think about writing the combo down somewhere hidden, I get the feeling that somehow someone will find it....cuz, well, that's where I thought of putting it and someone else would think the same . So it stays in my head. Do you guys trust to write it down somewhere?


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Email it to yourself. Then if you forget it you can always find it.

[lordmorgul]

I would like that, but never heard of it.

Can you tell us a bit more how it works and point us in the right direction where to get it?

Lastpass.com offers this emergency access feature, you get a lot of control who, how long before they can ask, and get it, etc


Andrew - Lancaster, CA
NRA Life Member, CRPA member, Calguns.net contributor, CGF / SAF / FPC / CCRKBA / GOA / NAGR / NRA-ILA contributor, USCCA member - Support your defenders!