TAP Videos
Real Conversations. Real Stories. Real Impact.
Hear from TAP partners, affiliates, and team members about how voluntary, temporary firearm storage and trusted community relationships help prevent suicide. These videos explain how TAP works, answer common questions, and offer practical insights for supporting firearm owners and bringing TAP to your community.
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Start Here: A message from a TAP partner
Caleb Morse is a TAP co-founder and FFL owner who has helped shape what this program looks like in real shops. In this video, he shares how temporary, voluntary out-of-home storage and respectful conversations can become part of a life changing support system.
An FFL’s Guide to TAP
These videos answer common questions and explain how TAP works from the perspective of an FFL partner.
Why The Armory Project Exists
The why behind TAP, and how the program supports communities with practical options.
A TAP Storage Partner Shares His Story
Thomas Vice, owner of ViceWorks LLC in Louisiana, shares what led him to join The Armory Project.
Turning Awareness Into a Practical Solution
How firearm retailers can turn awareness into action by offering voluntary, temporary storage as a practical option for their communities.
How to legally receive, store, and return firearms
A clear overview of how temporary storage can work in an FFL setting, including the basics of receiving, holding, and returning firearms.
The Quiet Impact: How FFLs make a difference one conversation at a time
Why everyday conversations at the counter matter, and how firearm retailers can reduce risk and support customers without judgment.
Bringing TAP to Your Community
Community organizations play an important role in building local storage options and connecting firearm owners with support. Jared Avilez, a TAP Affiliate from Johnson County Mental Health Center in Kansas, shares lessons from working with firearm retailers and expanding TAP in his community.
How TAP Expanded Across Kansas
How local outreach and partnerships helped bring TAP to Kansas and expand voluntary, temporary firearm storage options.
You Don’t Have to Be a Firearms Expert to Start
Practical advice for approaching firearm retailers with curiosity, listening, and a shared commitment to community safety.
Firearm Retailers Are Already Doing Prevention Work
How TAP builds on the care firearm retailers already show their customers by providing tools, resources, and connections to support.
TAP Questions and Answers
Explore how TAP works, how partners support firearm owners, and why trusted community connections matter. In these short clips, Gala True, TAP co-founder and executive director, shares the purpose and practical approach behind the program.
How Does TAP Help People During Difficult Times?
How TAP builds on communities’ existing support for one another by offering temporary firearm storage through trusted retailers.
What Support Can TAP Help Firearm Owners Find?
How respectful conversations, mental health resources, and voluntary storage options help firearm owners find support.
How Does TAP Equip Firearm Retailers to Help?
How practical tools help firearm retailers discuss secure storage and offer support in places their customers already trust.
Why Build Solutions With Local Partners?
Why working with people who know their communities helps shape TAP’s approach.
How Can Someone Find Help Through TAP?
Where to begin when you or someone you care about could benefit from temporary firearm storage and community support.
What Does Community Support Look Like?
How trusted local relationships make it easier to find support, start conversations, and explore safer options during difficult times.
What Inspired TAP’s Work?
The experiences that brought Gala True to this work and why building trusted community options matters.
What Do TAP Partners Say About Participating?
A look at the positive feedback TAP receives from retailers and ranges helping bring practical options to their communities.
Looking for more answers?
Find additional guidance on TAP, partner participating, and voluntary, temporary firearm storage in our Frequently Asked Questions document.
What Happens When You Call 988?
Reaching out for support can feel easier when you know what to expect. Marcie O’Neal, a TAP Affiliate from Kentucky, walks through what happens when someone calls 988, from the initial greeting to speaking with a trained crisis counselor.
Partner Training Video
This training video gives new storage partners and supporters a shared foundation for the program. It covers respectful conversations about mental health and suicide, the S.A.V.E. response framework, voluntary temporary-storage options, partner roles, and the support available through the TAP network.
Owners and managers should watch the training with their team and discuss the specific procedures, capacity, and storage options their location will use.
Ready to take the next step?
Whether you are a firearm retailer, range, community partner, or advocate, you don’t have to start from scratch. TAP offers free resources, templates, and step-by-step SOPs to help you learn the model and begin building support in your community.
Stay Connected with TAP
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