Forgetting Guns

I haven't done it, yet, but the Seattle trunk rifle is bringing forth a lot of confessions from cops on the interweb who have misplaced guns.  I've seen it happen three times.  In two of those events, the officer did not have a back-up gun, so they were totally unarmed.  I also wonder if there is a correlation between forgetting a duty gun, and not bothering to wear a BUG, or two.

Probably the best suggestion for avoiding this stupid cop trick comes from LE writer Tim Dees, who mentioned locking the cruiser keys with the gun when going into secured areas like jails or other places where guns are checked in.  At least if you forget you wont get far when it's time to leave.

None of them do it anymore, but my personal nightmare involved instructors setting a malfunctioning shotgun off to the side of our range, where a breeze could easily cover it in leaves and tall grass.  Which has lead me to counting them 4 times in the course of getting  them from storage, distributing them at the range, leaving the range, and re-storing them.  And with 3 styles of shotguns, it's a pain.