If you cannot maintain direct control of the weapon, you should lock it up. If it is in a true safe, it may not matter what orientation you store it in, since the walls of the safe should have no trouble stopping most rounds, but you should consider where that projectile would go if the weapon were to discharge.
If you use one of the popular steel lockers, they will do absolutely nothing to contain a round. The obvious criticism is that, if a gun is locked up, it is not immediately accessible. There is no denying the fact that any locker will delay access, but it is worthy pointing out that, if you are not in the room with the gun, it will take you a moment to get to it anyway.
The quickest types of lock are going to be a physical key or biometric sensor. After that are pushbutton electronic or mechanical locks and the slowest will be the dial type of combination lock. This offers quick access while you are home, but is less secure. When you leave the house, you spin the dial and the safe is locked more securely.
There are a wide variety of options here and there is absolutely a locker or safe that will fit exactly your set of needs for the balance of speed and security. It gives them a feeling of security. Unfortunately, it also gives the intruder a good indication of where you are. Newsletter Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more. Contact Us Advertising.
Never heard of the safe vs. Since you would NEVER keep the shotgun loaded and in the cruiser, there should be no such thing as cruiser ready. It's strange, as hard as we fought to have rifles in our cruisers, there is usually NO situation where according to General Orders we may deploy without first asking someone of higher rank. We keep rifles and shotguns on safe when deployed if at the low ready and remove the safety when bringing them on target. Pretty standard fare as far as I know.
Too easy to snag a long gun trigger on equipment if you drop it on sling without engaging the safety I hate that crap. Supervisors shouldn't want you to have to ask. Train guys how to use the things and let them do their job. That time could be very important, not to mention the possibility that a supervisor that doesn't know street work will say no. Happens here when we get a promotion from detectives. A guy who hasn't worked a hot call in 10 years is suddenly making tactical decisions, makes no sense.
IMO any time a firearm is involved, Officer should deploy rifles or shotguns. Why not use a rifle if the bad guy has a pistol? I don't put my pistol away and get out my knife if the bad guy has a knife. Normally, these pump-action shotguns are extremely reliable, but when they do fail, one of the things that tends to fail is the magazine spring. A great many people wanted to make sure I know that springs do not lose tension from staying compressed for long periods of time.
They lose tension from being cycled — from being compressed and decompressed. Yes, as a rule, that is true. My original explanation was not very good, and my suggested solution was not the best one. But that decline levels off and it should be able to stay compressed for many decades before noticeably losing more tension. And it should be able to withstand many thousands of cycles before it loses tension. The average shotgun owner is not going to get anywhere close to that.
Maybe the spring has been exposed to temperature fluctuations or corrosion and its integrity has been compromised. I am not trying to argue against the rules of physics. I know springs are supposed to last a long time. Sometimes they live a hard life. Again, a lot of people have shotguns that have been around for a while. The top two shotgun manufacturers right now — Remington and Mossberg — have not had awesome track records for quality control the last few years. Down-loading the tube by one shell is one way to try to mitigate the feeding issues that can result from a bad spring.
A better solution would be to simply replace your mag spring every couple of years. You can get a new one from Wolff Gunsprings for under 10 bucks. Also, replace your ammo at least once a year because the shells occasionally get deformed from sitting in a full tube for too long. And keep the follower and the mag tube clean and free of debris. In the next part of the video, I demonstrated the procedure for setting up your gun in a cruiser ready condition.
Basically, you clear the gun, double check it, dry fire it — pull the trigger on an empty chamber to release the action, and then load the mag tube. That works fine for most pump actions. For example, for this Beretta , if I load the mag tube and then run the bolt, nothing happens. The gun will not pull a round from the tube and chamber it when I do that. I have to press this little shell release button.
That releases a shell from the tube onto the shell carrier. Then if I run the bolt, it will chamber the round. So for cruiser ready on this gun, I would load the tube, then press the shell release, and leave it in that condition.
Or if I really wanted to get one extra shell in the gun, with the Beretta, I would fully load the tube, then open the bolt, place a shell onto the carrier manually, and hold it down while I let the bolt ride forward over the shell. Other semi-auto shotguns have different buttons or latches to release a shell onto the lifter and completely different procedures for ghost loading.
And some semi-autos will chamber a round directly from the tube when you run the action.
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