Creative ways to hide gun in car
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bigfatdave
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And if you are seated in a car, either leave or run over the threat.
Gross? Its just a cardboard box with a picture of a tampon and a name on it.
You think that's gross, try being the only driving male in a house full of hormone-enraged females. Nothing proves your manliness like walking up to the cashier at your local grocer at 11pm with the jumbo box of sanitary napkins.
When I go to the range before work, I slip the slide group off the frame and put it in my back pocket. The frame and range bag get locked in the trunk. No problem.
You think that's gross, try being the only driving male in a house full of hormone-enraged females. Nothing proves your manliness like walking up to the cashier at your local grocer at 11pm with the jumbo box of sanitary napkins.
When I go to the range before work, I slip the slide group off the frame and put it in my back pocket. The frame and range bag get locked in the trunk. No problem.
Erik M
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That is signature line quote worthy.
I keep my weapon inside a folded up hoodie in the floor behind my passenger seat. It is completely out of sight and I can draw it with one smooth practiced motion. I never leave it unattended.
bigfatdave
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Perhaps the people who feel a need for a firearm in the car are left-handed, and can fire while driving?
Seriously, what is up with this perceived need for a readily-accessible handgun while driving? I understand that you went to the trouble to get just the right handgun for carry, and I understand a desire for effective self-defense ... what I can't understand is why you need the handgun while seated in the vehicle. If on foot, then yes, carry! But a handgun can't be both properly secured against theft and readily accessible/deploy-able, so why so many threads about where/how to stash a handgun in a car/truck?
Seriously, what is up with this perceived need for a readily-accessible handgun while driving? I understand that you went to the trouble to get just the right handgun for carry, and I understand a desire for effective self-defense ... what I can't understand is why you need the handgun while seated in the vehicle. If on foot, then yes, carry! But a handgun can't be both properly secured against theft and readily accessible/deploy-able, so why so many threads about where/how to stash a handgun in a car/truck?
bigfatdave
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Then it goes in the lockbox ...
or I change my plan for that trip ...
or sometimes I only notice the sign on the way out (whoopsie!) ...
or it goes in the trunk through the split rear seats (really fast, and a one-way trip for a holstered pistol) ...
or I go in and MrsBFD stays with the car/guns (or the other way around)
My issue is with the concept of the pistol needing to be readily accessible, because I don't see much need for something between on-body carry or locking up. Hiding a gun in the cushion of your vehicle is both foolish and unlikely to be more useful than just carrying on your person or in a purse/man-bag/urban-assault-bag.
or I change my plan for that trip ...
or sometimes I only notice the sign on the way out (whoopsie!) ...
or it goes in the trunk through the split rear seats (really fast, and a one-way trip for a holstered pistol) ...
or I go in and MrsBFD stays with the car/guns (or the other way around)
My issue is with the concept of the pistol needing to be readily accessible, because I don't see much need for something between on-body carry or locking up. Hiding a gun in the cushion of your vehicle is both foolish and unlikely to be more useful than just carrying on your person or in a purse/man-bag/urban-assault-bag.
9MMare
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Rangemaster gave me an excellent example of why it can be good to have it handy while driving just the other day.
We were discussing lasers, but I think it would work without it.
Female range regular was forced off the road by a road rage idiot one nite. He came up to her window, she red-dotted his chest....and that was the end of that encounter. Most likely if he saw the gun in her hand he would have reacted the same.
9MMare
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This is my main concern.
I was more reading the OP as a inquiry as to what one does to HIDE their gun not to have it readily available... tampon box in the back seat is not readily available. Nor is a wrinkled fast food bag or the like.
as to readily available.. well.. if I feel the need (which I sometimes do depending on where I am and when) the passenger seat under a shirt.. not much more readily available than that and there is no fumbling for it.
This is your answer... as was the trunk between the seats...
as to readily available.. well.. if I feel the need (which I sometimes do depending on where I am and when) the passenger seat under a shirt.. not much more readily available than that and there is no fumbling for it.
scrat
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That would be a total dead give away in my shiney clean spotless inside and out BMW
c919
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Well post 33 (irate road enraged morons) is a good example. Car jacking in general is another.
It's improbable, but so is somebody breaking into your house and attacking you in the middle of the night, but I still sleep with a gun right next to me.
Any way you look at it, I will agree that there are very few situations where a driver would shoot someone from their car and not do jail time for it.
DeepSouth
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This is my situation on a basically daily basis. I can't carry where I work so I must leave my pistol in my vehicle. Fortunately we have security and cameras around the parking lot so I don't worry much about it, I just throw it in the glove compartment and go on. Occasionally I might just slip it under a magazine that happens to lying on the seat.
TimM
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Ever see Dog Day Afternoon? The snub was hidden in the armrest.
sfc_mark
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In GA the law requires the weapon to be uncased on the passenger seat unless you have a CWP. With the CWP it can be concealed on your person or anywhere in the car.
sfc_mark
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If Michael Jordan's father had a readily-accessible handgun in the car, he might still be alive.
9MMare
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I didnt see any LE (that I knew of) answering, so I'm going to add something.
No matter how good your hiding place or even your lock, do not ever hide your gun (or wallet or camera, etc) in your car **once you have reached your destination.**
Do it before you get there. In many places, theives/opportunists watch parking areas and see exactly what you do. This is very common at parks, but also malls, event parking lots, tourist attractions, movies, etc.
In any case, I never consider anything in my locked car actually secure. I leave as little as possible in it.
No matter how good your hiding place or even your lock, do not ever hide your gun (or wallet or camera, etc) in your car **once you have reached your destination.**
Do it before you get there. In many places, theives/opportunists watch parking areas and see exactly what you do. This is very common at parks, but also malls, event parking lots, tourist attractions, movies, etc.
In any case, I never consider anything in my locked car actually secure. I leave as little as possible in it.
bigfatdave
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9MMare, that's a good reason, but why not just carry on-body?
I'm still not seeing a need for a pistol in an unattended car if it isn't disabled/locked to prevent theft.
I'm still not seeing a need for a pistol in an unattended car if it isn't disabled/locked to prevent theft.
22-rimfire
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Keep a cluttered vehicle and there are lots of places to store a handgun. Of course you might not be able to find it if you need it.
Officer asks if gun is secured during a highway stop after seeing your CCW permit.... yes, officer, it's back there behind the seat somewhere... as he looks and sees that there is stuff piled a couple of feet thick in the cab extension part of the vehicle.
Any long guns?.... yes officer, I think there are a couple, but they aren't loaded. I put them in there about a month ago when I picked them up at my Brother's and forgot to take them out.
Officer asks if gun is secured during a highway stop after seeing your CCW permit.... yes, officer, it's back there behind the seat somewhere... as he looks and sees that there is stuff piled a couple of feet thick in the cab extension part of the vehicle.
Any long guns?.... yes officer, I think there are a couple, but they aren't loaded. I put them in there about a month ago when I picked them up at my Brother's and forgot to take them out.
scrap iron
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I'd just wrap it up and put it in the trunk
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Guillermo
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there are reasons to hide a gun in a car, for instance when I go to a school activity I cannot legally carry inside the building here in Texas.
Tampon box is funny, inside trash like a fast food bag or slurpy cup are creative. Tissue box would probably work (unless the crackhead had allergies).
suspended under the dash on the left side of the steering column would work.
Tampon box is funny, inside trash like a fast food bag or slurpy cup are creative. Tissue box would probably work (unless the crackhead had allergies).
suspended under the dash on the left side of the steering column would work.
9MMare
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My concern is at work. Cannot carry there. Also, when I'm out running errands...I live in a rural area and try to run all my errands when I'm in the major town in the area. I cant carry in all places.
Disables/locked? As I said, it's still vulnerable to theft and I cant afford another $500+ for a new gun.
if you see a need for a gun in one place, you can usually see a need for one in another. Home, college campus, restaurant, night-stop gas station, while simply walking down the street or taking your dog for a walk... All of those places have seen examples of what happens to good people when the improbable bad person comes their way. So, why NOT have one accessible in the car while driving?
I like the simple steel cable and padlock idea the most. If you can't carry it with you after you leave the car, then that would be a good, cheap way to lock it up.
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