"Oh my Gawd....do you have a gun in every room?"

drk1 said:
Many years ago, I was trying to help a friend who had recently lost her husband, who was a very good friend. She mentioned that she had found at least one gun in several different rooms. That's when I began to wonder.... I asked her to point me towards the rooms where she had not found a gun. After some searching, we found a gun in every one of those rooms too. Then it was on to the three outbuildings!
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When my Dad’s lifelong friend sold his Oklahoma ranch 30 years ago, he gathered up about 2 dozen guns he had around the house and shipped most of them to an FFL here in Texas for me & my two brothers to divide.
He kept several for HD in his new house, but was miffed because he knew he had forgotten where he had stashed a few others in the old place.
We always wondered if the new owner of the ranch ever made a surprising discovery. 😄
 
Where I grew up in very rural Pa, we did have a gun in every room. mostly because we didn't have a gun cabinet I guess. Every corner had a rifle leaning in it. My Uncles were all the same way.
I didn't see anything wrong with it.

I remember when my, now, brother in law, was first dating my sister, the first time he came to our house he saw all the rifles leaning up in the corners of the rooms and almost turned around and left.
He didn't know what to think. It was quite a while later that he told me about how intimidated he was.

But after he was around us for a while, he started to chill out a little bit. He was from Boston, Massachusetts, so obviously he didn't understand our ways, and we didn't want anything to do with his ways, but my sister liked him so.
Turned out all three of us got married the same year, My wife and I got married normally, my twin brother had to get married, and my sister wanted to get married bad enough to also get married in the great year of 1979.
Dad just said, OK, lets get this over with.

My wife would never let me keep my guns in the corners of our rooms, she wanted them out of sight so, I had to change,

Now a days, I wouldn't want anyone to see my guns in plain sight, because of someone seeing them and later trying to break in to steel them.
 
I live in a rural area so my threats and safety concerns are probably a little different than an urban apartment dweller's. I'm more concerned with a meth head crashing thru a door at any moment than I am a jugging, planned burglary, or an unsecured firearm. I guess the definition "unsecured" varies as well. I have some guns "stashed" in various places in my home that I can get to quickly but are not accessible by small children. I don’t point them out to guests and you won't see any of them except a couple on gun racks that are meant to be seen. Now I'm fully aware that if someone got past my security systems and broke in, these could be stolen. But they'd be getting the low hanging fruit. They might get away with a Taurus, Hi-point, or a cheap shotgun if they can get in and out in a few minutes, but they're not getting anything I'd cry over without spending an extended period of time. Part of my philosophy is to leave some tempting fruit to spend thier time on so they won't have time to try and get to the good stuff. If they don't get in and out in a few minutes, they probably ain't getting away 🙂
 
I keep guns in various places in my home. They are secured. I have a small home and it’s just my wife and I. Any visitors we get are pretty much all family who I trust.
I definitely do not live in a crime area, let alone a “high crime area”.
I have neighbors, not nosey neighbors, but if something looks amiss they will call the police who are just a couple of minutes away.

If someone thinks I shouldn’t have guns in nearly every space in MY house they can go………..read the second sentence of my post again.
 
I'm not as blessed as @Creaky_Old_Cop, but similarly, I have tall fences and a very large dog that roams the house and property freely (dog door).

I live alone with the dog, so I can leave firearms out or put them away as I please.

It seems easier to lock most of them up and just leave a couple in unobtrusive places.
 

do you have a gun in every room?​

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"What's it to you, snake?"

Since, at that point, it's either a major OpSec failure, or a major failure in communications--at least to me.

If a visitor does not understand that, within my mindset and training, everything within reach is a potential "weapon" then one of two things attains. One, they don't need to know. Or, two, they are not going to be able to understand.

And, if they either "have to know" or are just thick as a plank, then, maybe they ought darken someone else's door.

I take the same view for those who make my dog uncomfortable, too.

But, I freely admit to being a person its easy to get on the wrong side of, too.
 
The Night Rider said:
No offense intended but I think leaving an unsecured firearm anywhere in your home is really dumb thing to do.
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I carry most of the time around the house...and I pretty much agree with the above quote from NIGHT. In my case, my grand-daughters ages 5-11 live 100 yds from our farm house...they're over almost daily and they bring any friends along that happen to be visiting.....you get the point....I trust my girls, but ... an oz. of prevention goes a long way. Rod,,,yep, I'm carrying right now even with my sciatic acting up....
 
Rodfac said:
In my case, my grand-daughters ages 5-11 live 100 yds from our farm house...they're over almost daily and they bring any friends along that happen to be visiting.....you get the point....I trust my girls, but ... an oz. of prevention goes a long way.
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Pretty sure that most, if not hopefully all of us here fully grasp that if we have children (or non-family visitors, or strangers over) in the house, any handgun not worn on the body will be secured in the safe or a locked container. That'd fall into the category of common sense.

But for those of us who have a ritual of securing our firearms when the alcohol is brought out, or the non-drinkers, who live in situations in which children rarely or never visit, for someone who doesn't know everyone's circumstances yet states un-secured firearms inside the home is a dumb (another word for stupid) idea, is simply being judgmental, pure and simple. The concept of treating everyone as though they don't know any better and making up rules based on the lowest common denominator is a fairly recent phenomenon, championed by those of the leftist, liberal persuasion. That's how we've arrived at the Nanny State. I've found that treating everyone as if they're actually a responsible adult garners better results than acting as though I know better than everyone else and characterizing those with whom I don't agree as "dumb."

PistoleroWadcutterGANG said:
It's not a problem till your zipping the Glock 17 with mag extenders to 25 rounds in the water proof bag for "Shower" time.
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Naw, that's not a problem. Bed, Bath and Beyond and Home Goods both sell a great shower holster. (If you can't afford one of those, I highly recommend the Ziploc Gallon Freezer Bags and a wire clothes hanger...)

DIdn't I post one of their Christmas specials? The "Tactical Stocking"
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FWIW an inmate of the Otero County Jail escaped from a hospital last night. He stole the first car he found which had an unsecured firearm under the driver's seat
 
The Night Rider said:
FWIW an inmate of the Otero County Jail escaped from a hospital last night. He stole the first car he found which had an unsecured firearm under the driver's seat
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And that ... would be a different kettle of fish entirely. The thread topic at hand is "guns in every room of the home." Cars (and trucks) are ridiculously easy to break into. If one was to postulate that leaving an unsecured firearm in a motor vehicle is really dumb, I'll be the first to agree.
 
Creaky_Old_Cop said:
I have two English Mastiffs, both are less friendly to strangers than I am....and I am not that friendly to non-strangers.
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Yes the mastiffs would be a formable defense.

We have greyhounds which are primarily 45 MPH couch potatoes. They are not great protection dogs. Our male is very protective of his "female pack" including a whippet. (we had four greyhound females but lost two due to age in the last 6 months) and he notices when a delivery truck is in the driveway. He reacts even the horses pass by the back of the house headed to the horses "dinner bell".

We live in the country and have more issues with 4 legged critters and winged critters than various biped interlopers. Besides the various opossums and raccoons, we had a neighbors cow come by and disturb the horses. ( an expensive repair to the horse trailer with that experience The local sheriff department was very helpful).

I have plans to keep a pistol in my detached work shop but have not set up a good storage place for the pistol yet.

Our male greyhound is a good early warning system and when he alerts in the late hours of the day, I retrieve my pistol.

We have a grandson that visits periodically so I keep "loose"firearms locked up and make sure other firearms are out of his reach.
 
Old Dog said:
Pretty sure that most, if not hopefully all of us here fully grasp that if we have children (or non-family visitors, or strangers over) in the house, any handgun not worn on the body will be secured in the safe or a locked container. That'd fall into the category of common sense.

But for those of us who have a ritual of securing our firearms when the alcohol is brought out, or the non-drinkers, who live in situations in which children rarely or never visit, for someone who doesn't know everyone's circumstances yet states un-secured firearms inside the home is a dumb (another word for stupid) idea, is simply being judgmental, pure and simple. The concept of treating everyone as though they don't know any better and making up rules based on the lowest common denominator is a fairly recent phenomenon, championed by those of the leftist, liberal persuasion. That's how we've arrived at the Nanny State. I've found that treating everyone as if they're actually a responsible adult garners better results than acting as though I know better than everyone else and characterizing those with whom I don't agree as "dumb."


Naw, that's not a problem. Bed, Bath and Beyond and Home Goods both sell a great shower holster. (If you can't afford one of those, I highly recommend the Ziploc Gallon Freezer Bags and a wire clothes hanger...)

DIdn't I post one of their Christmas specials? The "Tactical Stocking"
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I actually do think too much of my Glocks to keep one in the shower. 😆 I do have a cheaper but reliable stainless handgun in there though.
 
I carry all the time. The guns I’m not carrying are locked up. Since gun hiding furniture has been advertised all over the internet, i would not trust it. I believe in gun control , If there is a gun around , I want control of it.
 
TarDevil said:
I don't know the OP's relationship with his guest, but I'm somewhat judicial about revealing my weapons and their locations.
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....same here. Always believed the statement...."Discretion is the better part of valor". While I have no problem showing my gun friendly folks, with tight lips, my firearms, if I don't know how they stand, I don't feel the need.
shafter said:
I don't leave them stashed. Too easy to find if someone breaks in while I'm gone.
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....again, same here. Having witnessed how burglars tear apart rooms looking for treasure, I doubt if most places that would allow quick and easy access to a firearm, would be a safe hiding place. If I'm not there, I don't need guns all over the house and they go back in the safe.

tightgroup tiger said:
Where I grew up in very rural Pa, we did have a gun in every room. mostly because we didn't have a gun cabinet I guess. Every corner had a rifle leaning in it.
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....Kinda how it was when I grew up. During hunting season especially. Ammo was on the kitchen counter and the guns behind the door. Our gun safe was the broom closet, while the broom was tucked behind the stove. But times have changed. While during hunting season you may still find ammo on the table or counter in my house, finding a gun sitting around anywhere is not likely. Grandkids stop by unannounced with friends all the time. While they are gun savvy, I don't always now about their friends. No need to temp anyone, either to pick up and play with or to take with them at some point. The whole issue of liability as it it relates to unsecured weapons, is too big, IMHO, to risk.
 
Old Dog said:
Well, in the immortal words of the legendary actor Patrick Swayze as "Dalton" in the classic motion picture Road House would say, "Opinions vary."



Well, not all of us reside in similar circumstances. My house is fairly well-hardened and it doesn't matter if we're home or not in the home. Every door and ground-floor window is hardened and alarmed. It'd be a major hassle just to even break-in through a window, and before anyone even got a leg inside, the alarm will be screeching loud enough to wake the dead, the strobe light on the front of the house will be seen by commercial airliners at 35,000 feet, the alarm company will already have notified the entire family and dispatched law enforcement. The two alarm systems with battery back-up will work (if potential burglars can jam the Wi-Fi, cut my cable internet and landline phone line, they must be targeting the wrong house and be part of the IMF or maybe DEVGRU). There's always at least one trained GSD on duty inside the house, usually two plus the bonus psycho Rottweiler mix. Motion sensors and lights outside, 360 degrees of camera coverage outside and in the living, dining, family rooms and hallways.

In any event, all firearms are returned to the safes (over 1K pounds apiece, bolted down, which will take quite a while to break into) when we leave the house for any extended length of time, if we leave for a weekend or a vacation, we've got family to house-sit. If we're at home, pretty confident we'll know immediately if someone is attempting to get inside.

Anyway, I digress. Obviously, were I ever to go back to being an apartment dweller (not likely), I would radically change my gun storage routine.
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And here I am, feeling good when I remember to lock the door at night.
 
The "every room" thing immediately brings an old movie to memory.
I found a copy of "Bowling for Columbine" video at a barn sale.
Its was close to a pile of other stuff you might find in a barn.
However, it's good opposition research material.
I remember during the interview, Charlton Heston saying he had a gun in every room.
You might remember the producer, Michael Moore. He gained his interview under false pretenses and ambushed Mr. Heston.
 
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