Gun vault in your vehicle legal?

[teg33]

I ask CHP and the officer stated as long as the handgun is locked unloaded inside a locked container, you can place the locked container anywhere inside your vehicle while transporting the firearm, that's include trunks, underneath seats, inside glove compartment

[NoNOS67]

Well I did install one

Legal questions aside, how do you like it? Been thinking about picking one up for my truck.

[psssniper]

Legal questions aside, how do you like it? Been thinking about picking one up for my truck.

Just got the truck used, '01 F-250 Superduty 7.3 it has the Bucket seats and a huge console thing in between. The opening on top of the console is small so basically you have a tiny opening into a huge cavern and that cavern is dark and you cant really see inside all that well. Maybe I'll rig up some kind of interior light. Mostly I just want to be able to lock stuff up out of sight and this will work fine. Installation was quick and easy. Its not a steel box but rather a three piece deal. Two vertical legs that bolt to the floor and then bolt to the horizontal lockable upper. So I assume that any determined person could just bash your console to pieces and get in. It's somewhat expensive for what you get I feel. I went for the four digit combo which added $35 to the cost. $294 instead of $259 shipped free.

Just like this

[autoduel]

It merely says that transporting a handgun in the glove box or whatever a 'utility compartment' may be is NOT an exception to prosecution for violation of PC 25400, while using a distinct 'locked container' is exempt from prosecution under 25400, via 25610.

That is to say, of course you can physically carry a handgun in a glove box or utility compartment; absent LTC, just be prepared to be prosecuted for it.

What I meant to say is; a locked container like a gun vault that is exempt from 25400 is still exempt if placed or mounted within a glove compartment. Its location and mounting should not change the fact that it is a locked container that is not a glove box or utility compartment as defined in 16850.
I did not mean placing a gun in the glove/utility compartment without a locked container.

[GoZoner]

I ask CHP and the officer stated as long as the handgun is locked unloaded inside a locked container, you can place the locked container anywhere inside your vehicle while transporting the firearm, that's include trunks, underneath seats, inside glove compartment

What do you mean 'locked ... inside a locked container'? I thought compatible with the law was:
1) in a locked container, and
2) no ammo in the chamber or in an inserted magazine, but
3) (possibly questionable) ammo in the same container.

The firearm doesn't need to have a cable lock, or somesuch. Correct?

[Librarian]

What I meant to say is; a locked container like a gun vault that is exempt from 25400 is still exempt if placed or mounted within a glove compartment. Its location and mounting should not change the fact that it is a locked container that is not a glove box or utility compartment as defined in 16850.
I did not mean placing a gun in the glove/utility compartment without a locked container.

Ah. That's all right then.

What do you mean 'locked ... inside a locked container'? I thought compatible with the law was:
1) in a locked container, and
2) no ammo in the chamber or in an inserted magazine, but
3) (possibly questionable) ammo in the same container.

The firearm doesn't need to have a cable lock, or somesuch. Correct?

(3) Ammo in the same container is fine.

Otherwise, yes, correct.