Advice on Hiding Guns Around the House

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I've read some posts where guns are being hidden around the house.
I'm hearing of home invasions in all kinds of neighborhoods and I thought it would be a good idea to put one in easy reach.
I'm thinking a cupboard for me. I put a pistol in one but when you open the door, There It Is. So I put a towel over it and its not so noticeable.
(got the safety thing covered & no small children. No safety police please)
My question to you is do you leave your hidden gun bare or cover it up?
If you do try to make it not so noticeable, what do you do?
Thanks
 
If you aren't carrying it, I would recommend that you put it in a flip open safe, where you can get at it easily and it is not accessible to visitors or thieves. I know you said that you will not allow it to be accessible to kids and that you are always around, but that's in a perfect world. I have no children and work in an office in the front of my home so I see anyone approaching from the street. I could keep next to my keyboard, but I keep my carry pistol on me so that I always know where it is.

In New Orleans, post Katrina, we hung a Mossberg JIC on a coat hook in the front hall closet of the place we were staying just in case someone tried to follow one of us in, or push in the door, but that was a little different environment.

I would suggest that if you are going to put your handgun in a cabinet, you put it in the same cabinet/drawer location everytime. No point in having it if you have to think about where it is.

One thing that I always keep in every room is a flashlight.

Free advice, worth every penny of what you paid for it. . .
 
seen a site (if i recall it ill post it here)that had a magnet that held guns under tables and night stands for easy access and concealability.they even had one mounted in the shower
 
I'd like to eventually do that, stash a few peestolas around the house. But I'm thinking more along the lines of under or behind things, where they're out of sight and not likely to ever be seen accidentally.

This would be a good use for the inexpensive surplus guns like Makarovs or PA63's from Aim or other surplus dealers. Good guns, but not necessarily something you want for carry use or target shooting. Great for hideout guns, IMO. I should buy some more.
 
Besides the safety of kids factor, the main thing I have against the idea of hiding guns around the house is that you might forget they are there. Seriously, do you remember where the car keys are all the time? Anyway, the way I have thought of to always remember is to log on to Mitchell's Mausers and buy one of their presentation Lugers or buy a commemorative piece from the NRA. If you spend thousands on something, you will most likely NEVER forget it is there... :cool:
 
Concealed or not concealed, keeping a weapon on your person all the time at home is as good as hiding one around the house - if you've practiced bringing it into play... and you get a chance to bring it into play.
 
Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you instructions and photos of how to hide your house guns. I don't want to carry at home. I usually lounge around in a bathrobe in the evening. I'm not much interested in strapping on a gun under the robe. Nevertheless, I have a gun well concealed but within arms reach wherever I am in the house or garage. Each gun is in a permanent location, so there is no question of wondering where I put the gun.

The primary reason I decided to stash the guns is so they would be available for my wife when I am not at home. She certainly isn't going to carry one on her person at home although she does have a CCW.

So that she doesn't have to worry about safeties or otherwise manipulating controls on the gun, I have used only revolvers or double action autos. All she has to do is point and pull the trigger if the need should arise.
 
also remember, that gun in your coat closet, might be used against you.
 
My 2 cents -secure is better than hidden. If you don't want to spring for an insta-open safe, get a slower-to-open safe and leave it open when you're home.

If you aren't worried about keep your guns secure, you either aren't dating hard enough or you don't own enough guns.
 
I don't have guns laying about, no. If I need it, I want it to be (1) right with me and (2) not subject to me forgetting where I stashed it. Adrenaline dumps are funny things, and trying to access memory at that point is not the best, IMO.

Springmom
 
I agree with Rob that a flashlight in every room is good.

I like a paddle holster. I never have to remember where I put the gun.
 
Sportsman's Guide has plenty of picture frames and wall clocks which are also gun stashes. Check them out.
 
A Yellow Pages telephone book with the inside hollowed out to fit a pistol is an excellent tactical storage option.

I was bored one day, and I did that with a phone book to exactly fit my 1911. I then ripped the cover half off, making the book look old and worthless, then placed it on a table, with gun inside it. I wouldn't have known there was a gun inside.
 
I have one of those wall clocks with the gun compartment behind the clock. Nice clock, too. I also have a wooden Shaker style bench with a storage area under the seat with a pistol and a francisca. The 12 gauge is on a vertical rack on the back of the bedroom door, the boar spear is in the corner. The rest of the stuff is in the safe. There's a 14th century italian flanged mace in the magazine rack next to the couch. I've been told that someone on crack can shrug off the effects of mace. I don't see it. I'm pretty sure if I mace someone they're STAYING maced, I don't care what they're on!

John
 
Why not just carry one all the time?

That way it will always be in arms reach, it won't get into the wrong hands, and you only need one gun.

Bobo
 
Try this....

If you're handy, hollow out wallboard between two joists, insert a dowel or nail to place your revolver barrel on into one of the studs. LEft or right depending on strond hand scenario,cover the void with wallpaper to match the balance of the room (yea, I said handy) and remember to remember where it is. Although dust will acumulate, it will fire afer 5 years, that's all I've been able to test.:D
 
RobNDenver said:
...I would recommend that you put it in a flip open safe, where you can get at it easily and it is not accessible to visitors or thieves....
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We have several such lock boxes stashed around the house. With the combination (known to my wife and me) they're quick to get into without looking, but the guns are secure from unauthorized access. We don't have children, but we do have visitors. And I wouldn't want a BG getting one of these guns and using it against me.
 
as I sit here in my boxers, I can reach my S&W model 60(W/ a speedstrip rubberbanded to the grip), and the M1a1 Carbine repro is only 3 steps away w/ a 40rd mag(25loaded to save the springs) and 2 15 rounders in a stock pouch. My 2cents
 
Little personal story.

While on holydays in our beach house, I left my Glock in my night table and went to a nearby video store to return a DVD, couldn’t have taken more than 15 minutes, so I didn’t turn on the alarm.
Hell, 15 minutes, what are the chances of something happening just then, right? WRONG!

Went to bed and the next day I checked on my Glock and it was gone. Looked everywhere and a closer look at my parent’s bedroom window showed it had been forced open. I didn’t even notice it when I went in there a couple times. The thief just closed it shut again.

So, at some time when I left someone broke in and stole my gun.
It could have even happened while we were in the living room watching a movie the previous night.

Us sitting stupidly watching a movie, the guy brakes in through my parent’s bed room, slowly checks the nearby rooms and finds by Glock in the night table’s drawer. I could have been killed with my own gun.

So no, even if you don’t have children NEVER, leave a gun unsecured.

Best thing to do is to carry it all the time, even inside the house, that way you are always armed and the gun is secured.

I do keep and extra gun in the first floor, since my other guns are upstairs, but I keep it in a locked compartment.

Remember, just like conceal aint cover, a concealed gun isn’t secured. A criminal looking for stuff will probably find it. Lock it up.
A Yellow Pages telephone book with the inside hollowed out to fit a pistol is an excellent tactical storage option.

I was bored one day, and I did that with a phone book to exactly fit my 1911. I then ripped the cover half off, making the book look old and worthless, then placed it on a table, with gun inside it. I wouldn't have known there was a gun inside.
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My neighbor’s house got broken into a few week ago. One of the things I noticed when I went in there was that they checked every book in the house for money. They opened and threw all of them to the floor.

FerFAL
 
My neighbor’s house got broken into a few week ago. One of the things I noticed when I went in there was that they checked every book in the house for money. They opened and threw all of them to the floor.
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It would take them a long time in our house. We have 16' of floor to ceiling shelves full of books in our bedroom alone.
 
Anyone have thoughts on concealed drawers (underneath bedside tables) with locking mechanisms??
 
Watch It Takes a Thief. There is no truly safe place to hide a gun in your house, other than a safe. Somebody breaking it will trash the place and find it. And even a good safe won't keep the BGs out forever.
 
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