Posted: 8/31/2011 6:09:28 PM EDT
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I was told today by a co-worker that, in California, it is illegal to store any firearms/pistols in a safe deposit box at the bank of your choosing.
I had never heard that before. Do any of you have any info or experience with this? Thanks...... |
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More and more banks are retrofitting metal detector's, more securities. You got a pistol in a bank, and they'll know when you go through their equipment (coming or going).....that's what I was told.
Sounds like BS to me, but co-workers daughter works in a bank and "verified" that handguns in boxes is illegal. Just want to "verify" that this is BS or real, from someone who might know. |
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It is a good question. I know of nothing in statutory codes that would expressly prohibit it. It may be more of a bank policy thing. It would be too far of a stretch to apply possession and lending laws here. A safety depo box is your property, so the firearm is technically still in your possession, I think. I will ask around at work and let you know. Someone with experience please weigh in. |
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Much of this may be apocrypha/FUD, but I can see metal detectors on entry/exit causing issue
in certain branches. If you are doing this, transport gun(s) via small locked container into privacy room, and store the small locked containers within the safety deposit box [i.e, you might have to buy a larger safety deposit box]. That way there is no drama about transport/exposure of an unlocked handgun. and worst case the bank can only bitch/make you remove it. Bill Wiese San Jose CA |
Metal detectors? So you best not be bringing in any rare coils, silver or gold ... sounds an awful like FUD but you truly never know here. Next you're going to tell me that the kids of Marines stationed in California can't get student aid and have to pay out-of-state tuition while we give both to illegal aliens.
I've never had the bank give a look - or even attempt to look - at what I'm putting into our taking out of my boxes in that tiny little room. I do look for hidden cameras but that's just a habit of mine. |
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Thanks for the input guys.
Doesn't sound "illegal" or against any state laws. Just bank policy perhaps. Appreciate the input. If anyone ever hears about, or finds out, if there are actually any statutes in this regard, please chime in. I'm sure if you ask the bank personnel......."of course that's illegal." |
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Here is a funny story.
On the way to work one day, I wanted to stop at a coffeeshop/deli my partners and I frequented. They only accept cash. I had no cash on me, so I decided to walk across the parking lot and w/draw money from the ATM at eh bank there. I would give the name of the bank except that I forgot it. The bank had a sallyport type entrance with a metal detector between the two doors of the sallyport. So, I am carrying my off-duty sidearm and the metal detector goes off. I get locked in this sallyport. The bank manager comes to see what's up. Through the glass, I show him my LEO credentials. He refuses to let me in or out until uniformed police arrive. I was detained there for about fifteen minutes. I was late for work and pissed . . . |
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All in all, it doesn't sound like a good place to store a handgun, regardless of the legalities (unless, of course you are Jason Bourne).
It's just that I know of someone else who stores a very expensive collectible in his box, since he doesn't have a real safe. I have told him (repeatedly) to invest in a real safe! |
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This is actually an interesting question. I don't know the laws but have some experience with safey deposit box policies and procedures.
Metal detectors on the entrance might be used by a bank but could not result in a search or seizure. If you happen to trip their threshold on the way in they might start watching you. So? You could have a box full of precious metal coins. Go straight to the safe deposit box area. Get access to your box. Make your deposit. Leave. The biggest issue is how to transport the firearm into the bank in a concealed manner, yet do so legally. |
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I was told today by a co-worker that, in California, it is illegal to store any firearms/pistols in a safe deposit box at the bank of your choosing. Why would you want to? You can't get to it when you want or need to. And the state of California has been known to seize banks accounts and safe deposit boxes because they suddenly decide you may have forgotten about them. If that happens, you'll never get the gun back, guaranteed. the-classic-liberal.com/california-seizing-safe-deposit-boxes-balance-budget Google the topic, and you'll find lots more. |
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Here is a funny story. On the way to work one day, I wanted to stop at a coffeeshop/deli my partners and I frequented. They only accept cash. I had no cash on me, so I decided to walk across the parking lot and w/draw money from the ATM at eh bank there. I would give the name of the bank except that I forgot it. The bank had a sallyport type entrance with a metal detector between the two doors of the sallyport. So, I am carrying my off-duty sidearm and the metal detector goes off. I get locked in this sallyport. The bank manager comes to see what's up. Through the glass, I show him my LEO credentials. He refuses to let me in or out until uniformed police arrive. I was detained there for about fifteen minutes. I was late for work and pissed . . . So the medal detector goes off for every woman who has a handbag or guy with a pocket full of change? The kidnapping law suites must cost that the ass hole running the bank a damn fortune! 
Magnetometers aren't really that smart. Neither are bank owners apparently. Can you send me the location of this bank? My lawyer and I want it for personal reasons. |
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Why would you want to? Why not? I'm way too smart to abandon property in a storage unit or safety deposit box. In North Carolina the state will seize the box of person who dies instantly and the family has to fight the bank in court to obtain the contents. My folks will not call 9-11 until the other gets to the bank and clears the safety deposit boxes. Once those goods are in hand they'll call the death in to the authorities. |
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It is off the 60 freeway at the Fullerton Road exit. There is a strip mall a couple blocks up with a Lee's Sandwich Restaurant. It is the bank across the parking lot from Lee's. I don't understand what he was thinking. Mayne I should not have identified myself as LEO and just said it was my belt or something.
And technically, if you set off a metal detector in a private place of business, they cannot force you to subject to a search, but they can deny entrance until you agree to one. |
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Here is a funny story. On the way to work one day, I wanted to stop at a coffeeshop/deli my partners and I frequented. They only accept cash. I had no cash on me, so I decided to walk across the parking lot and w/draw money from the ATM at eh bank there. I would give the name of the bank except that I forgot it. The bank had a sallyport type entrance with a metal detector between the two doors of the sallyport. So, I am carrying my off-duty sidearm and the metal detector goes off. I get locked in this sallyport. The bank manager comes to see what's up. Through the glass, I show him my LEO credentials. He refuses to let me in or out until uniformed police arrive. I was detained there for about fifteen minutes. I was late for work and pissed . . . Damn 
When a urniformed officer arrived you should have told him to grab a private persons arrest form out of the trunk. Be the dumb assed bank managers turn in a sally-port for false imprisonment. |