The keys are on top of the gun rack's top shelf. The cable lock comes off fairly quickly.

I can open the closet, remove the gun lock, cock the shotgun and disable the safety in less
than 30 seconds.

I can reload fairly quicly. A shotgun isn't that hard to load. I routinely have my wife practice
loading shells into it. She's not as familiar with it as I am.

I have considered buying a lock box that I could bolt to the wall and put the keys in there. But
then where do you keep the key to the lock box? My thinking was that would be one more level of
safety against my son getting in there, but he would have to miraculously open the eletronic lock
without knowing the combo, reach up 6 feet on top of the top shelf to get the keys, figure out
which key opens which lock (There are 6 keys), unlock the shotgun, cock it, disengage the safety,
and then pull the trigger.

He's 5 years old, has never seen inside that closet, and has never seen a shotgun, let alone
get it out & fire it.

I have also considered buying a small bolt cutter to cut the cable lock off in an emergency, but
that seems to me to defeat the purpose of the cable lock in the first place.




>Kevin, I can see you've got cable locks as well... how quick do you reckon you can open the closet, and remove the cable- where are the keys for the cable? Do you practice arming up? I'm seriously interested...