Temporary Secure Gun Storage Network

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Find Temporary Secure Gun Storage in Washoe County

This map is to help anyone seeking temporary, voluntary firearm storage options in Washoe County. When possible, temporarily removing all access to firearms, ammunition, or disarming firearm components – such a bolt or firing is important to keep persons at risk for suicide safe for now.

  1. The gun shops noted on this map in RED are voluntarily providing a form of temporary gun storage outside of your home as a way to help prevent suicide. Please contact the facility providing the gun storage service prior to going to or referring someone in crisis. (Any retailer can refuse to provide the service).

  2. Ensure the firearm is unloaded before you take it in.


If you represent an FFL able to provide temporary gun storage, such as rental storage lockers or taking firearms into inventory for storage services here in Washoe County, and are interested in being listed on this community safe storage map, please fill out the WSPA Suicide Prevention Network Sign up Form.

 

Why do gun owners sometimes store firearms away from the home?

  • They are travelling out of state and want to keep firearms secure while they are away.
  • Anyone in or with access to the home is in crisis and at risk of suicide.
  • The grandkids are visiting for a week.
  • A couple is divorcing, and arguments are getting heated.
  • A family member is experiencing mental health or substance use concerns.
  • The homeowner is listing the home for sale and wants firearms to be secure while showings occur.

Find Free Suicide Prevention Storage Safes and Gun Locks

To Protect Children Ages 17 and under
DCFS Mobile Crisis Response Team (MCRT)
  • In Northern Nevada call: 775-688-1670
  • In Rural Nevada call: 702-486-7865
  • In Southern Nevada call: 702-486-7865
  • VA Sierra Health Care Health Systems
To Protect Adults and Other Questions about Locks and Safes
  • In Northern Nevada contact the Office of Suicide Prevention (OSP) at 775-684-2240.

Nevada Firearm Transfers, Safe Firearm Storage and Red Flag Laws

Nevada Firearm Transfers – Exceptions to Requirement of Background Check and Safe Gun Storage Laws
Nevada gun laws allow a firearm to temporarily be given to an individual outside of an immediate family member for safe storage without a background check if:
  1. It is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm, and
  2. Lasts only as long as immediately necessary to prevent such imminent death or great bodily harm. The individual receiving the firearm must be:
    • An adult (age 18+),
    • A Nevada resident, and
    • Not prohibited from possessing a firearm (e.g., due to a felony conviction, mental illness, or being on probation or parole). Possession means to have actual or constructive control over the gun
  • A firearm may also be given to an immediate family member without a background check, regardless of a threat of imminent harm (NRS 202.2548).
  • Nevada gun laws do not require gun owners to store their firearms in a safe or to put a lock on the trigger. Though gun dealers are required to provide locking devices with the firearms they sell or transfer (NRS 202.3623).
  • Nevada law encourages safe gun storage by making it a misdemeanor when:
    • You negligently store or leave a firearm at a location under your control; and
    • You know or have reason to know that there is a substantial risk that a child under 18 years old can access the firearm (NRS 202.300)
Nevada Aiding a Child to Possess a Gun
  • It is a Nevada offense to aid or knowingly permit a child under 18 to handle, possess, or control a gun for any purpose exceptwhile the child is accompanied or directed by his/her parent, guardian, or adult legally authorized to have charge of the child. In short, it is unlawful to let a child possess a gun without lawful permission and supervision (NRS 202.300).
Nevada Red Flag Laws
  • If a person in Nevada appears at high risk of self-harm or harming others, the state’s red flag law allows police or certain family members to ask the court for a protection order preventing the high-risk person from having guns.
  • High risk behavior has several definitions, including when a person uses or attempts to use violence or physical force against themselves or another person; when a person communicates a threat of imminent violence; or when a person engages in conduct that presents a danger while the person is in possession of a firearm.  When the protective order is granted, the subject of the petition is prohibited possessing or having under his or her custody or control or by purchasing or otherwise acquiring any firearm.
  • Emergency high-risk orders last for seven days, but they can be extended for one year at a time. If the high-risk person ever violates the order by possessing a gun, they can be charged with misdemeanors carrying:
    • up to 6 months in jail and/or
    • up to $1,000 in fines (NRS 33.540-620).
(Source: Shouse Law)

 

For free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones

  988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Logo     Veterans Crisis Line Dial 988 then press 1      Nevada Warmline    

Last modified on 02/21/2025