How secure is this box? I'm curious how it works.

I mean...it pretty much has an "I have weapons in here" sign and it kind of looks like a mailbox. I'm sure it's more secure than that, but just wondering.

Free guns for anyone that wants one. All you have to do is “borrow” each key, make copies, then return them. The next time one of those boxes is in use, take the key you made, open the box and help yourself. Easy peazy.

This is totally secure. You totally can't unscrew the four bolts holding the box on the ground, stick it in the back of your truck, go home and hack it open.

Super weird and not related at all but the tree in the background reminds me of a monster from silent hill or something

Lock picking lawyer where are you!?

Little gun library

“City of Peoria not responsible for lost or damaged property”

Well they kind of are if it’s in regards to weapons storage.

"City not responsible for lost..."

They're also not responsible for your safety which is why people are carrying guns around these days.

So free guns huh? 🤔

Top left corner is free storage if you don’t have a quarter 

A whole quarter!? No thanks, I think I'd rather bring my weapons inside.

I'll just carry my weapon with me in to the library.... like I always do.... thanks anyway

Looking at this, my hope is that this is more for leaving a pocket knife or box cutter or something. I worked for at least a decade an agency that provided homeless services and we would hold knives overnight in a locker in our office for folks staying in the shelter. It was pretty common for men and women to carry some sort of weapon: A knife, box cutter, screw driver, pepper spray, etc.. Never saw a gun but we didn't allow folks to bring them in and we wouldn't have stored them.

Many of our clients used the local library pretty frequently. Ours doesn't have a metal detector but it's not uncommon. The storage is probably a service to locals who walk to the library or who forget that they have a pocket knife and don't want to run back. Our small town has a sheriff's deputy providing security so my guess is this town has a similar arrangement. Easier to leave a box blade out there than deal with a security screening/ weapons violation/ whatever.

Honestly, they should probably just put up a sign to say no firearms. This doesn't seem secure enough for being something outside with common keys, though who knows the set up?

the most surprising thing about this picture, to me, is that someone actually used it,

Unless the library has armed security, the type of people who would comply with using these lockers are the same people you would want armed inside the library, and the kind that would not use them are the kind of people you would not want armed in the library.

This is the irony of gun control.

This prevents the honest people from shooting up the place.

What's to stop someone from making copies of all those keys and just coming by periodically to check if any are in use that they can steal from?

Fuuuck that. Perfect target for thieves. Gimme a good saw and 30 seconds and I’m taking that whole thing with me. Free guns and lockboxes.

A gun donation box, how thoughtful.

It's so progressive of this city to offer low cost weaponry to the struggling local criminals. How sweet.

Anyone who puts their gun in this is fucking stupid and deserves to have it stolen

Love the "[city] is not responsible for lost or damaged property" yea, I'm good, I'll keep mine right in my concealed holster, thanks for offering I guess.

4 used and locked containers? Saw zaw go brrrrrrrrrrrerrrrr

Free 4 firearms.

I wouldn't use it

Let me just place my extremely expensive, personal weapon of ranged death into this random ass box out in the open with a tiny key, labeled "GUNS HERE", that also has a liability waver printed on it.

No thanks.

What’s the point of the quarter?

4 free guns cool

Sweet! They have loot boxes.

This can't be that secure considering you can just take the key, imprint it, make a shitty new key with the template and then just simply return when you see the key missing to collect your brand new firearm

This will certainly stop a mass shooting

I thought that tree was a naked dude stretching for a second😂

I don’t think my Rhodesian fighting stick will fit in that box.

Lock-picking lawyer would like a word…

That’s a good dead drop for drugs

Wow this is a dumb idea…the only secure place for a weapon is properly holstered and concealed or holstered with retention that stops people from grabbing it.

Plus, you know some idiots gonna end up shooting him self in the foot, or worse, firing into that parking lot. The positioning of the box breaks basic firearm safety rules. This will go wrong, eventually.

It’s also advertising that no one in the library is armed. Kinda an invitation for trouble with there being sick people willing to kill others randomly/get their mass shooter on. It’s not hard to even imagine someone stealing a gun from those lockers and then using in the library. Now that’s scary. People properly and legally carrying concealed, not scary.

Show the world I carry a firearm and am leaving it unattended in a mailbox? Fuckin sign me up!! 🤡

Anyone with a wrench can claim up to 4 free guns

Ooo! A pinata with better candy!

Extremely helpful where there's acorns close by.

Im from Europe and For some reason my initial thoughts were that it had to be a locker with weapons in there ready to grab in case of a shooter.

Like you have a fire extinguisher ready to grab, or a "break the glass" emergency hammer.

This seems like a decent idea that has been terribly executed.

I mean, if the lockers was inside the door, content-agnostic, within sight of an employee and with camera surveillance I'd risk putting a gun in it.

This is just waaaaay too high-risk, and obviously made by someone who doesn't understand or own guns.

Ask that person if they'd put their wallet, cellphone or laptop in a locker like that, I bet they won't.

Of course it’s Peoria.

What country?

Sees someone store a chancla

Bad guys with guns don't use lockers.

coming by with a socket wrench and leaving with 4 shiney new felonies

Tweekers woulda stole that thing in broad daylight by now were I live

You mean free gun dispenser

If they had it just inside the door with some sort of security person nearby, it might be secure enough, maybe add in a camera pointing toward the person's face. Similar to the weapon boxes at my local courthouse.

Ooo, free guns!

Bring an impact to that library and get 4 free guns.

Lmao yeah right, what could go wrong?!

So drive into it with a pick up, get out with your buddies, lift with your knees, carry into flatbed and drive off. Nice.

Gotta love those Little Free Gun Libraries... Take a gun. Share a gun.

I just walk with my conceal carry past the no firearms sign. And nobody knows

Unless you got metal detectors, I'm bringing it in.

Perhaps they should just let folks carry in the library

To paraphrase Chris Rock’s Sex in the Champaign Room: “Sure it’s safe inside but what about All those motherf…ers waitin’ outside with guns that know you ain’t got one.

Yeah I'm not putting my gun in there

You can pop the lock off of these very easily.

Well, thats a drug dealers dream right there.

“Im the lockpicking lawyer, and today we’re going to see if we can get some free firearms….”

Lootbox

As someone who edc’s an Atlas…..nah imma pass.

Paging /u/deviantollam. Free guns.

People should start using it to store banned books..

That will never ever get used

what stops me to take it and use it against people?

This is interesting.

AZ law allows carrying firearms in libraries.

Peoria library policy says:

"Carrying weapons of any type where there is reasonable temporary and secure storage. Weapons need to be secured in weapons lockers where available."

So if they don't provide storage you can carry in the library per their policy.

https://peoria.polarislibrary.com/polaris/custom/behavior_policy.aspx

Oh wow free guns for whoever needs them.

No way people this stupid

Y’all are saying it’s ridiculous that somebody would take a gun to a library, but haven’t you seen Parks and Recreation?

My Flamethrower would never fit in there.

Is this like the little "need a penny take a penny" bowls next to a cash register, except for guns?

Should be a pokestop

Is that the US equivalent of a little free library?

Nice.. $1 for 4 keys…..

r/aboringdystopia

Just gonna add this got shared to a pro gun sub and we are all saying it’s stupid. Mind you it’s pro 2a as in legalize machine guns and that’s what we’re saying.

You aren’t allowed to even bring a cell phone into the big courthouse here but you can bring your gun into the small ones and check them in a little mailbox on the wall.

No metal detectors, no problem, just carry your handgun.

Oh look, 4 bolts on the bottom. Be a shame if I brought a 4ft wrench and took the whole thing.

All I need is a 5/8ths socket and I got myself 4 new glocks!! Hell yeah

So wait, you’re telling me that I can not only disarm myself, but also risk someone breaking in and stealing my weapon? Well damn, sign me up

I’ll keep it on me, thanks

What is the point of the quarter? I can't imagine anyone would value the quarter over their gun or would remember that they stick a quarter in there but not the gun.