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Locked, stock and barrel!

There used to be a time — and not long ago — when it wasn’t a requirement to keep guns and rifles under lock and key in a steel cabinet. Instead, it was left to gun owners to use some old-fashioned common sense in deciding how they were stored.

Having a gun stolen by a passing thief back then was rare, as indeed was any kind of gun-related crime. Instead, ‘safe keeping’ chiefly meant making sure a gun and cartridges didn’t fall into the hands of an inquisitive child about the house. Which is still the case today,

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