Safe storage
Firearm safety instructor Edgar Salazar shows the right way to take out and put away a handgun – carefully.
Joel Martin/Columbia Basin Herald
Bruce Davis, owner of Guardian Arms in Moses Lake, shows a large gun safe in the back of his store. This one uses a rotary combination lock, but PIN and thumbprint locks are also available.
Not all gun safes are large and expensive. Some owners only need a box large enough for a single pistol.
MOSES LAKE — It seems like guns and gun owners are in the news a lot these days. Plenty of people in the Basin keep firearms, both for personal protection and for recreational shooting. But when you have guns in the home, where you can access them, there’s always the risk that a child can too. So could a burglar or a friend or relative who, for whatever reason, shouldn’t be allowed access to a firearm. A recent study by experts at Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital indicated that if 20% more American households kept their guns securely stored, gun-related deaths among children and teens could be decreased by a third. It’s essential to make sure weapons are stored where the right people can get to them easily, but the wrong people can’t. That often means a gun safe.
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