Does your house mark you as a gun owner?

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A close friend of mine brought a friend of his out to the range this weekend. We had a great time talking guns and shooting. After we left the range we went by the house for a beer and to visit a little more. The new guy remarked that by looking around the house, one would never know that I'm a gun owner.

What about your house? Are there gun rags laying all over the place. Does the air smell of Hoppes? Guns proped up in corners, or on display? Large safe in the living room?
Other subtle or not so subtle indicators?

As the idea was mentioned I took notice that he might be right! My gun safes are hidden or disguised. My gun rags are hidden in a box in the office. My books are mixed in with a rather large collection of other books in the office. There are no trophies, or mounts anywhere that would indicate I'm a hunter. All gun parts, cleaning supplies, reloading equipment, etc is in my shop behind the house.

So I'm stealthy (not necessarily by design) are you?
 
Nothing lin the living room or kitchen, but the CZ poster in the computer room, the Ruger and CZ posters in the kids room, the Galco poster, the cleaning gear, well, that might say something, not to mention holsters laying about in the bedroom area. All weapons and ammunition not currently in use are locked up, though.:cool:
 
The only gun "on display" is a Thompson Center Hawken rifle over the fireplace. All others are in an undisguised safe.

Only place the gun rags are are in the bathroom or back bedroom (computer room/office) along with a lot of other junk that I don't want to store in the basement.

The only outside "sign" would be the trail from the gun-rag publisher through the US Mail and to my mailbox (which is a pigeon hole in a box of pigeon holes about 200 yds away from the house which is in a suburban development - of course, the mail has a house number on it and so does the house, so it wouldn't be difficult to associate the magazines with the house.)
 
"So I'm stealthy (not necessarily by design) are you?"

Except for the gun mags all over the house. Maybe need to do something about that.

I'm probably like you. Those who need to know, or I trust to know, do. Those who don't, don't.
 
I'm afraid there are all kinds of signs I have the equipment mentioned in the house.

My office is my work room, thats where most of it will be found. The safes are hidden in plain view.

By the time they get to the office, the PD will be there in force. They may have two-three minutes. They can steal all the rags, cleaning equipment they want in that time but I hardly think they'll be there long enough to take the "good" stuff, let alone find it.

Brownie
 
When you walk into my reloading room, there are automatic presses on the benches, shooting bags in the closet, a gun safe in the corner, targets on the wall for dry firing, brass neatly stored in five gallon buckets, etc. The rest of the house is spotless.

I live in Wyoming where almost every home has a gun inside as do most automobiles. The state is shall issue and a high per centage of the population has a permit. The whole state is gun friendly and no one gives firearms a second thought.

Heck, around here you can be a gun fanatic and it's viewed as normal. No one really cares.
 
I live in Wyoming where almost every home has a gun inside as do most automobiles. The state is shall issue and a high per centage of the population has a permit.
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Ankeny, do you have the number of permits issued in WY? Just curious. I tried to find it on the Wyoming DCI website but couldn't find the demographic information.

TX has the rep of being a "Pro Gun" state but only 1% of the population have CHLs. (my county has double that ....still low)

I looked up Wyomings census info out of curiosity ...your whole state has less people than Ft. Worth Texas! Are you accepting immigrants? I might want to move.:D
 
I don't have the stats for WY. A buddy of mine at the SO told me WY has a high per centage of permit holders. In retrospect, I suppose that could mean .5 %. I think WY and TX are about as gun friendly a place as you will find.
 
Actually, we designed our house around our hobby. In 90% of the house, there are no indications that I have guns. BUT, if you are one of my gun friends (and I have few others), I have both a reloading room and a walk in vault!
 
If you look hard enough you may find a gun mag among the time's newsweeks, popular sciences, backpackers, etc in the magazine rack in the bathroom. Other than that, you couldn't tell.
 
NO
I look like a older returning student that needs to clear his breakfast bar and the floor around the 'puter desk.

You might trip over the backpack...please don't step on the papers I have in order on the floor. I need another notebook , first I have to hole punch them. I have 3 textbooks open on the breakfast bar...I find standing up to study a good thing.

If you want a SWAT mag it is filed under "Research" in the file cabinet. Open the drawer on PC desk if you need a 1911 mag...oh some loose rounds in there also.

I do have some fishing rods hanging on bedroom wall , some old fiberglass ones. The custom Loomis , Brownings, and Orvis Fly rods are put in their tubes.

The antique style "Duxbax" tin poster in the bathroom matches a Cloth shower curtain - with ducks on it.

Looks like a guy lives here, going to school. Likes green and gray for color scheme...has something marked in the LLBean catalog in the bathroom...next to a book of crossword puzzles.

Fella also cooks, uses cast iron it seems.

Nope, just a regular old fart lives here.
:)
 
All anyone has to do is be within a couple miles of my house and the noise will definitely tell you I am a gun owner!:D
 
From the outside...no...just a normal house.

Once your inside...Shotgun News, American Rifleman, and Shooting Times on the coffee table...Supreme Court Gun Cases next to the couch...That Every Man Be Armed on the kitchen table. The stack of books the ATF sent with my C&R license on my desk in my office.

The safe is fairly well hidden...there's a plywood 'cabinet' built around it, covered with interesting beer art-sides of carboard sixpack carriers. Bunch of backpacking gear stacked next to it.
 
First, I lived in Gillette, Wyoming, for two years.

You better dad-gummed well like snow and really freakin' cold, long winters if you move to Wyoming. Thirty below without the wind chill is absolutely awe-inspiring, at least to this old Southern boy........However, if winter in Gillette wasn't seven months long, I'd probably still be up there.

Second, my house is rather obvious.

You might even have to slosh through some empty shell casings to get in the front door. Foam ear plugs and casings litter some of the book shelves. There are gun magazines, both paper and metallic box type, on the shelves and counters.

Plus, there's that pistol range with safety berm in the yard.

Not to mention the vehicles in the driveway with NRA stickers of various kinds on them.

hillbilly
 
It’s not really obvious in my house. I keep the firearms-related stuff cleaned up and put away for a variety of reasons, including discretion. No one who didn’t already know has seemed to notice anything. My parents were still surprised the second time they saw my gun safe.

~G. Fink
 
Lets just say the Dianne Finestien, Sarah Brady, and anyone from PETA would be uncomfortable. :neener:
 
In the house .... ''guns?? - see, no guns here!''. The wife's house gun is way too well hidden to ever be seen!

Now ...... the big shed within which is my office/gun-room ..... *hurrumm* .... different matter entirely!:rolleyes: Ahem ..... shall we say ''painfully obvious''?? But there are very few who ever see inside the ''inner sanctum'' .. and it'll stay that way!:p
 
I'd better clean up that old dog-eared stack of Shotgun News' in a ragged stack that is in my office. This is a good reminder. Aside from a dinky little set of antlers off a deer the size of a German Shepherd I'd say I was otherwise pretty low-profile around my house. I don't keep much stuff exposed in case the dogs are caught napping and the front door doesn't get closed good enough.

Smoke, even with the cold rain we're having this week I wouldn't move anywhere they have snow and mountains for all the screwdrivers at Brownells.

Later.
Rabbit.
 
If I didn't live way out in the hills, have a benchrest by the house, a six-shooter hanging in a holster from the newel post, two wall-mounted racks of long arms from floor to ceiling, and subscriptions to half a dozen hunting and shooting magazines, or have a room in the basement devoted to reloading, no one would ever know I have guns.:D
 
If you cant tell from the Starlight rifle cases stacked in the guest room (which I've performed a hostile take-over on as college graduation rapidly approaches and I get more and more bachelor pad equipment every time I see my relatives, much to my mom's dismay) and my bedroom containing: the Grotto's beer glass filled with 5 inert 12ga shells, about 6 rounds of .45acp and one round of .22lr, the Oleg Volk posters on the walls, targets everywhere there isnt a letter/proclaimation from a politician/plaque regarding my getting Eagle Scout or an Oleg Volk poster, or the desk covered 6" deep in cleaning supplies, you might just want to go see an eye doctor.

Kharn
 
If you look in my garage, there are buckets of empty shotgun hulls that I might eventually get around to reloading, a trap shooting vest hanging up on the coat rack, knee high LaCrosse hunting boots, ammo cans used to store various tools and items in the garage. My basement workshop is nearly dedicated to manufacturing ammo, my office is my gunroom, I have a few gun and reloading magazines lying about, and a pile of solicitations from the NRA sitting on my kitchen table that I'll have to sort through one of these days.
My favorite is that my wife came with one of those circular department store clothing racks that she used to hang her clothes on in college. It now serves as a rack for a dozen different camo pattern clothes, jackets, smocks, and blaze orange hunting gear.:D
 
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