SecureIt Course – Where to Begin with your Home Defense Gun Safe

We have discussed in previous SecureIt articles how this gun safe company is more than being about safes. They have built out an entire curriculum – that continues to grow – to help people access their firearms in a more real-world, practical manner for home defense. In fact, they don’t view their products as simple, cold boxes that house firearms. They view what they’re offering through the lens that they are a home defense gun safe. A safe yet rapidly accessible place for firearms to defend yourself and your family. It is a complete mentality shift from what other gun safe manufacturers are doing and it is very refreshing. For those who may have missed our initial coverage on SecureIt, check out a bevy of those articles below. Today, we are going to discuss how you should stage your home defense gun safe, how you can train with them, and the positioning of your firearms within the safe. Let’s dive in!

Home Defense Gun Safe Coverage from SecureIt

How to Setup Your Home Defense Gun Safe

SecureIt outlines in their YouTube video below how setting up your home defense gun safe can look different for everyone because of a multitude of factors. This can vary because of physical ailments (poor shoulder mobility, bad back, maybe you can’t manipulate the functions on a handgun, etc). It could also vary based on your firearm preferences and tastes (you stage a handgun differently than you do shotgun). Give a listen to what SecureIt has to say on the matter.

How to Create Clearance in Your Home Defense Gun Safe

Aside from assessing your own body’s capabilities, the firearms you want to deploy for home defense, and how you may want to setup your home defense gun safe, you also need to evaluate the clearance you may need to retrieve a firearm from your safe. Many of us treat a safe as a simple storage device (which, yes, it is) by cramming as many firearms inside as possible like a haphazard wood pile. This might suffice for simply keeping firearms out of the hands of people you may not want to touch them, but it does little to prepare yourself for a self-defense situation. In this SecureIt video below, they discuss how allowing for clearance of your firearms – those few specifically set aside for a home defense situation – is very important.

How to Practice Your Draw from Your Home Defense Gun Safe

The another message that SecureIt wants to drive home to its users and firearm safe owners is the “act” of retrieving your firearms and practicing it. Similar to how we go to a gun range to practice our draw from concealment with handguns – clearing a garment, firm grip on the firearm, sight alignment, trigger press, etc – we also can practice all of those elements at home. With an unloaded firearm, you can stage your preferred home defense firearm in your safe and work on all of these elements:

Going to your Safe – Practice moving swiftly yet safely to your safe from different rooms of your house like the kitchen, basement, bathroom, and living room
Entrance into your Safe – Work on entering the code on your keypad, using your keyfob, running the dial, or whatever mechanism your safe uses to gain entry into it
Get Hands on your Firearm – Intimately understand how you grab your firearm, pull it from your safe, and shoulder it or gain sight alignment
Dry Run It and Repeat – Do everything previously mentioned, identify where you can improve, and iron out the wrinkles so you can get better and smoother with every repetition

Again, the goal of SecureIt Gun Storage is to make all safe and firearm owners more proficient, confident, and capable with the tools and storage they use to defend themselves. This starts at the moment you hear a Boom! or Crash! in your home, your adrenaline is immediately spiked, and you have to spring into action. In those hair-raising moments, you might be surprised or startled, but you don’t want to be scared – and you won’t be – if you take the time to practice and become proficient with your safe setup.

We mentioned that staging your firearms – their orientation, presentation, and ease of access inside your safe – all matter when retrieving a firearm. If your at-home safe setup needs some sprucing up, feel free to browse the SecureIt website as they offer a bevy of accessories and modifications to make your safe perfect for you. As always, let us know all of your thoughts in the Comments below! We always appreciate your feedback, and will be sharing more content surrounding this exact type of training in the very near future.

Adam Scepaniak