My first priority in having a gun in the truck is to have it concealed. Either that, or you take it out with you everywhere you go. Having it in a lockbox would work, but you would have the freedom to take it out and put it in an accesible place while you're in the car.
I agree. When I go to lunch with friends, I don't want my coworkers seeing it. One, if I'm parked on company property, it's against policy, two, I don't want to have the pointless gun control conversations like what's going on here. I'm one of them gun toat'n liberals ya' know. Three - I don't want to carry into every where. Including picking child up from daycare. Even concealed there are places I don't want to risk people noticing. I also don't want it visible to my 4 year old. Why make the temptation?
Anyway - you can have it secured and easily accessable
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Combine either one of those with a tuffy center console, and you're golden.
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mount where the radio in the tuffy normally goes. If you did it in front, it'd still be hard to steel, and easy to access, but would tip your hand that there was something of value there. Solution to that with the gunvault is just put a fabric cover over the front of it, that looks like a storage pouch. But instead you put your hand in there and unlock it.
At the gun show in Tulsa (the biggest in existance according to 'them') - I've seen a guy with boxes with the titan style opening that then have the gun in a poly holster, and the gun and holster are on air springs, so when you unlock the door, the whole thing pops right up to grab. Or if they are horizontal, they have a drawer that slides out, that you then just pick your gun up off of.
If you have a little time and skill, or a little money, just replace your double din stereo with a single din, and put a compact 9mm in there (I don't think a full body 1911 would fit).
You can have a pistol easy to access and safely secured in your vehicle, you just have to think about it. I have a solution that I won't share, cause I wont' post to the net where I keep my gun.