My safe for my 1911 is the magazine being loaded and the chamber empty. When it goes out i chamber it. When i come home i empty the chamber with a double or triple rack slide.

To ensure my son never gets injured or killed by the weapon i do a couple things. I trained him for years even inadvertently about gun safety. Never allowing him to point fake guns at people not playing toy guns with him.

Two, i let him be around firearms and drill sergeanted him about gun safety. The state of his weapon, using the safety and where his barrel was at all times. He has swept his barrel over the ground and it went over my feet before and i called him out on it.

Three, i didnt grow up around guns, so when i purchased my pistol i went with a 1911 because a. They kick ass. And b have multiple safety features. The slide is so heavy i feel confident enough that i could throw it into a room of elementary aged kids with a loaded magazine and an empty chamber and not in a million years would one of them be strong enough to rack the slide. This is all just me. I dont own a safe. But once my collection were bigger i would have one for excess and have my self defence weapons on standby but secure to know the state of the weapon, where it is hidden and that nobody in my house would dare touch it.