bay area gun storage options

[Vinnie Boombatz]

If you live alone, why do you need a safe to begin with? The kind of safe you can get in an apartment won't really protect you from theft beyond a few minutes.

[Trail Teams]

Try visiting KW Defense in Stockton.
I think they charge $20 for the first gun per month, then $5 for every additional gun.
I think that's a pretty good deal.
I'm thinking of storing some guns with them.

[zouaveherb]

Most self-storage units disallow firearms in the contract. Also, SB-894 from 2016 makes it so you only have 5 days to report a firearm as stolen. Waiting longer is a crime (an infraction punishable by a monetary fine). As a practical matter, storing a firearm in a storage unit makes it difficult to comply with this law.

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB894

The law specifically has an out: "...knew or reasonably should have known..." For example, if you have a safe in a vacation home out in the sticks with no electricity outside of a generator, someone breaks in, takes the contents, and you don't realize it happened until a month latter when you visit the vacation home, you have 5 days from when you discovered/noticed the theft to report it. Otherwise, the law would mandate that gun owners be psychic or omniscient enough to know when something happens outside of their presence in places where electronic monitoring is unavailable. The law would quickly be tossed as being unreasonable.