# Gun safe in your car?
**URL:** https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884
**Category:** Gun Safety & Storage
**Created:** [June 19, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884 "2019-06-19T23:00:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Dawn](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Dawn)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 11:00pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/1 "2019-06-19T23:00:09Z")
On a recent trip to Tennesee, I spent a lot of time going through the lovely state of Illinois. If you’re traveling through Illinois with a concealed carry permit from your home state, you can carry through Illinois as long as the firearm stays _in your car. If you get out of the car, you must remove it and to secure it in the vehicle._
A safe in your car is a great way to secure a firearm.
[https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/gun-safes-in-your-vehicle/](https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/blog/gun-safes-in-your-vehicle/)
### What car safe do you like? Any suggestions on the type of safe or installation of it?
Edited for clarity - and added a few words missed when I first posted.
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### Author:  [@BrophE](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BrophE)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 11:04pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/2 "2019-06-19T23:04:05Z")
I keep one of my gun boxes in the car in case I need to run into the post office, courts, or other government building that is gun free.
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### Author:  [@Shepherd](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Shepherd)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/3 "2019-06-19T23:28:00Z")
I keep one in my car with a cable lock to the frame of the car. I’d feel better if the whole safe was bolted to the body of the car instead of the cable, but I don’t leave it in the safe very long. Those places very similar to @BrophE. It’s a SentrySafe.
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### Author:  [@Brian1](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Brian1)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/4 "2019-06-19T23:33:38Z")
I’ve got a center console safe in my truck and a cable safe in her car. Gotta have something.
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### Author:  [@Zee](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Zee)
#### Post date: [June 19, 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/5 "2019-06-19T23:58:27Z")
I have a hornady cable-secured gun box that will hold 2 guns, plus a separate cable-secured box, smaller, for loaded magazines (thank you Illinois 😒). Both are looped through the seat frames.
My abdolutely-love-it preference is the Jotto locking holster, super secure, bolted right into the floor, but it may not qualify as a “container” so check your state law.
> [@Report on the Jotto locking car holster](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/report-on-the-jotto-locking-car-holster/1212):
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> Here’s what I’m looking at mounting between my drivers seat and console, into the floor of my truck… anyone have one? How do you like it? [https://nrajottogear.gojotto.com/nra-handgun-by-jotto-desk.html](https://nrajottogear.gojotto.com/nra-handgun-by-jotto-desk.html)
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### Author:  [@Patrick3](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Patrick3)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/6 "2019-06-20T01:26:07Z")
Dawn, doesn’t the USCCA sell some gun vaults?
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### Author:  [@Dawn](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Dawn)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/7 "2019-06-20T01:27:56Z")
We offer a safe in our online store:
[https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/product/rangetraining-uscca-biometric-safe-usccasafe/](https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/product/rangetraining-uscca-biometric-safe-usccasafe/)
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### Author:  [@BJP](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/BJP)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 1:48am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/8 "2019-06-20T01:48:56Z")
I have Snapsafes small keyed version, one in each car, and one in the trunk of the motorcycle.
I keep the key in them until firearm / knife is in them because of not knowing which of us will use what vehicle (except for the motorcycle).
The combination version does not have enough number for my liking. If it was four digits instead of 3 then I would consider the combination version.
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### Author:  [@DBrogue](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/DBrogue)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/9 "2019-06-20T03:44:40Z")
@Dawn
> [@Dawn](#):
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> If you’re traveling through Illinois with a concealed carry permit from your home state, you can carry through Illinois as long as the firearm stays on your body.
Are you sure about that? Last I read you could not get out of the vehicle with it on your body. Also as long as you had a valid permit from your home state it could be sitting on the car seat next to you. If you left the vehicle (as in walked away from the vehicle) to go inside the station to pay, the weapon needs to be unloaded and secured inside the vehicle.
This is why I avoid Illinois when on my bike. If I get off the bike I am no longer considered in my vehicle and I cant secure the weapon in my gun safe on the bike without pulling it out of the holster and exposing it.
You can do that in a car but on a bike you are kind of screwed.
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### Author:  [@Zee](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Zee)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 10:17am UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/10 "2019-06-20T10:17:05Z")
> [@DBrogue](#):
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> you could not get out of the vehicle with it on your body. Also as long as you had a valid permit from your home state it could be sitting on the car seat next to you. If you left the vehicle (as in walked away from the vehicle) to go inside the station to pay, the weapon needs to be unloaded and secured inside the vehicle.
That’s what I understand too.
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### Author:  [@Fish](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Fish)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/11 "2019-06-20T13:36:55Z")
> [@Zee](#):
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> Here’s what I’m looking at mounting between my drivers seat and console, into the floor of my truck… anyone have one? How do you like it? [https://nrajottogear.gojotto.com/nra-handgun-by-jotto-desk.html](https://nrajottogear.gojotto.com/nra-handgun-by-jotto-desk.html)
[Same one on Amazon, $170 vs. $134](https://www.amazon.com/Jotto-Gear-Locking-Handgun-Locations/dp/B00GOEVGKE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Handgun+Holster+by+Jotto+Gear&qid=1561037657&s=gateway&sr=8-1)
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### Author:  [@Dawn](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Dawn)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/12 "2019-06-20T15:05:39Z")
WOW! THANK YOU! I totally knew what I meant to say and then forgot to add the ever important _ **IN THE CAR** _ to the sentence. 🤦♀️
> A non-resident may transport a loaded concealed handgun in a vehicle if they have a valid CCW permit in their home state. They cannot under any circumstances remove the firearm from the vehicle. If they need to exit the vehicle they must lock it or place the firearm in a locked container. Any ammunition needs to be stored separately [[430 Ill. Comp. Stat. § 66/40(e)](http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3497&ChapterID=39)].
My apologies for not completing my thought in that first post! And thank you so much for pointing it out to me!
Here’s a link to the IL reciprocity page: [https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/ccw\_reciprocity\_map/il-gun-laws/](https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/resources/ccw_reciprocity_map/il-gun-laws/)
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### Author:  [@Zee](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Zee)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 3:12pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/13 "2019-06-20T15:12:45Z")
@fish big difference in price! The one I have through the Jotto site has the NRA logo, so maybe that’s part of the price. On the other hand, Amazon takes a huge percentage of the profit, so I sometimes prefer to buy directly from the manufacturer… support the businesses I want to stay in business.
… and sometimes I need the price break, so Amazon it is 🙂
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### Author:  [@Fish](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Fish)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/14 "2019-06-20T15:36:19Z")
> [@Zee](#):
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> The one I have through the Jotto site has the NRA logo
Here you go.
[https://www.nrastore.com/accessories/pins-patches-decals/nra-ultra-flex-3d-emblems](https://www.nrastore.com/accessories/pins-patches-decals/nra-ultra-flex-3d-emblems)
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### Author:  [@Zee](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Zee)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 8:00pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/15 "2019-06-20T20:00:17Z")
ha! @Fish that’d get it done 😃
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### Author:  [@DBrogue](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/DBrogue)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 9:18pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/16 "2019-06-20T21:18:55Z")
I knew you knew it, I was more concerned that something had changed in the last wo weeks since I read it again and missed something. I mean there are times when you seem to find out things before the rest of us mortals (lmao).
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### Author:  [@Dawn](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Dawn)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2019, 9:20pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/17 "2019-06-20T21:20:49Z")
The only thing I found out is that I needed more caffeine when I was writing my initial post 🤣 ☕
Thanks for the catch, @DBrogue! I’d hate to have wrong info out there!
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### Author:  [@SeakK038](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/SeakK038)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/18 "2019-06-21T17:13:55Z")
I’ve thought of doing this to and like the one pictured that goes in the console. Which one is this how much and where do I get it.
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### Author:  [@Dawn](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/Dawn)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2019, 7:26pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/19 "2019-06-21T19:26:59Z")
[https://www.consolevault.com/console-vault.html](https://www.consolevault.com/console-vault.html)
It appears to be priced by vehicle, it isn’t a universal installation.
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### Author:  [@David12](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/u/David12)
#### Post date: [June 22, 2019, 3:37pm UTC](https://community.usconcealedcarry.com/t/gun-safe-in-your-car/2884/20 "2019-06-22T15:37:33Z")
I’ll just stay out of that state. A concealed carry permit does not mean ‘only’ in my car.
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