How to Safely Store a Ruger Mark 2 Gun

Video Transcript

"Alright, now what we're going to do is here we are with our Mark 2. We got it cleaned up. Here's our rag. And really we're just going to talk a little bit about not so much firearm safety, but firearm storage, but safety is obviously a key factor along with firearm storage. We're not going to store the firearm loaded. Alright, so just as a general habit, I'm going to take it, I know I just cleaned it, but I'm going to look in it. I'm going to make sure that there's not a rounded battery and I see that there isn't. And I'm going to physically just again I'm going to look inside the magazine well and I notice there's nothing inside the magazine well. And this is a personal preference, but just to keep track of all my items, I take an empty magazine and I just insert it inside and I just keep it like this. And now what I'm going to do is a final wipe. And here's one of the bags that I keep my storage in. I'm just going to set my firearm in there and I'm going to grab it just by the grips here and I'm going to put it, I'm going to put it in barrel and upper receiver to the bottom edge here. I'm just going to set it in there. I know everything is clean, wiped up, oiled up and I'm going to zip this bag shut and I got a little lock here and key and I can just lock it from this brass to the zipper. And what that's going to do is that's not going to keep out somebody who is really wanting to get inside this canvas bag, what its just going to generally do is keep the firearm safe and out of reach of children. But, as we know, this should if possible be kept inside of a safe and kept up out of reach, height-wise of children inside something else that they can't get in. This is just going to give us a little added security in general so that we know no one is mishandling these firearms that we've put up safely."