Hiding guns throughout the house?

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got a 4 year old...I got them hidden up high...

Two K frames (just ordered a second NY-1 .38) since the wife knows the manual of arms. One in the living room way on top of the armoir (spelling and yes both of us can reach it clean) and the one in the bedroom has the trigger lock on it when we're not in bed.

I got a great kid..but she's still 4, too smart for my own good and curious....

Taffin in "American Handgunner" did an article last month about hiding snubby Bulldogs in the medicine cabinet...that's pretty close to the potty!:neener:
 
I used to have seven handguns stashed around my house. I went through my gun safe and found I had SEVEN K-Frame revolvers, ranging from .38 Special Model 10's to K-Frame Magnums of various configuration. So, I stashed them in places where I was MOST likely to be, including the side pocket of my La-Z-Boy. All were loaded with +P+ jhp's backed up with an HKS Speedloader.

I believed they were a good choice because all of them operated exactly the same, so no matter which I grabbed, it would be the same as grabbing any other, and I wouldn't be fumbling with safeties, or other levers, switches, or stun settings.

Now, I have a percocious 3-year-old daughter, and the practice of "stash" guns has gone the way of nights alone with the wife, and seeing any movie we wanted to see, when we wanted to see it. So, I just carry on my person all the time.

I have carried daily for 20 years now, so it is no hardship...though I do switch out from my Glock 30 or 21 (usual daily carry gun) to my Glock 26 when I get home. It rides in a clip-on leather IWB holster of my own manufacture, and won't "pull down" the sweat pants that I favor as house wear.

I don't live in a war zone, and feel more than warm and fuzzy about 13 rounds of Federal 9mm +P Hydra Shok in the magazine equipped with a Glock +2 floor plate.

I am all about caution....just enough to be on the short side of paranoid.
 
While I don't personally like the idea of having guns hidden in breadboxes or above ceiling tiles, etc. as some advocate -- I have thought about the hollow book thingie for a backup gun but rejected that due to the chance of a guest browsing my bookshelf.

I do sorta like the hollow clock idea but never bought one. I don't have small children in the house and it might be a good idea for a backup gun. I wish I could see one of those clocks in person to determine if they're cheesy or not. There are probably other brands/styles of gun clocks out there. Or one could always build a custom clock based on your weapon. Easy enough and clock faces and battery operated works are cheap. Just a thought, as that to me, would beat hiding a gun above a ceiling tile.

Hollow Clock
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=261437
 
Closet at front door has a baseball bat, other than that everything downstairs is either in the big safe or the multivault beside the bed (other than the one I'm carrying).

Wife has the code to the multivault (yep, she shoots too) along with a can of 5.3m shu Fox labs pepper spray on her nightstand and a 300k volt taser in her nightstand drawer.

Upstairs I have a closet vault with a 12 gauge pump and 10 rounds of 00...just in case I'm upstairs and for some reason I don't have a pistol on me...;)

It's nice now because all the kids are grown and no grandkids around yet...once that happens we'll have to put the pepper spray and taser back in the multivault.
 
You could easily hide a few long arms and ammo in the walls that surround or border the Furnace or water heater. If those are to out of the way arrange them to back up on a metal door frame. Next to metal to shield them from metal detectors and such the grabbers will employ in the next NFA.
Just takes a stud finder a good sheet-rock cutting tools and patch back up like nothing is there.
 
I hide all mine in the safe. And I mean a safe.

Sometimes on weekends I'll stick one down the side between the arm and cushion of the chair is usually sit on. No kids so its OK.

But when we leave I lock em up.
 
Not exactly hiding.
I leave a 4” 357 magnum revolver locked in a trunk ( combination padlock) on the ground floor.
The bedrooms and the rest of my guns are on the first floor, so its good to have one downstairs just in case someone brakes in through the roof or I come home and believe someone is upstairs. Don’t hide anything, always secure your guns. There are little safes with electronic locks that should work very well for this.

FerFAL
 
at various times....loaded glock 26 in a watertight ziplock in the toilet cistern, that same Glock hidden in an empty granola (yes, really)box amongst the real cereals, in a holster securely taped to the back of a sliding closet door, and currently hidden behind a knockdown filler panel in our current kitchen....and a topfolder 870 hidden in the basement.
 
For the past several years, I have resided in first floor 1 bedroom apartments in several communities; I used to keep a gun with me in the front of the apartment and another one 'stashed' in my unlocked security chest just in case;

I have since bought a larger firearms security cabinet that is mounted to the wall inside of a closet and I basically do the same thing...one loaded with me and another one inside the unsecured cabinet; all guns get locked up when I go to work in the morning or when I go on trips (minus my CCW gun); when I go into the shower, I keep a gun in the bathroom since the bathroom is very close to the entry door to the apartment;

thankfully, I have never had to advance a defensive posture to drawing/pointing a firearm at someone, but I have had one in my hand while answering the door late at night where I previously lived (I cracked the door and kept the gun out of sight, but it is in a low ready position behind the wall next to the doorway); seems 'visitors' got my apartment mixed up with the guy upstairs...hhhmmmmmm...

I used to 'stash' my 'with me' gun between the cushions in the couch until a friend came over one night and he sat right where the gun was stashed...ooopppsss...when he felt the hard object in his back, he knew what it was and carefully got up (I got the idea from him and he was aware of what I had done)...no damage done!
 
hiding places

I used to have a trundle bed where I could stash a couple of AKs in the back support.

Also, I messed with the mechanism for opening it so it wouldn't open (easily).

The down side is it took some time to get em out.
 
Pangas, lots of pangas.
I keep one in a non-obvious place in every room in the house. Burglars who break in while I'm not there are going to get a weapon they can pick up for under ten dollars anyway and that's only if they search carefully. In a face-to-face confrontation, I'm betting I'm at the very least better armed than they expected me to be. I'm not getting caught again.
Don't own a gun any more (SA gun laws), but my dad and my grandfathers either kept them on their person or in the safe (or next to their bed at night). I could never get my hands on any of my dad's 'gats' (his term) without his permission. My dad stopped sleeping with his pistol under his pillow after he woke up from a nightmare and emptied his magazine into his old army greatcoat (it was hanging on the back of the door and in dim light did look like something nasty).
As for hiding them, a bad idea if you've got kids. They always know more than you think: I knew where my dad's private porn stash was before I was ten.
 
There was another thread . . .

Recently there was another thread that dealt with common household items in self-defense contexts.

I looked around my house.

Damn.

There may not be guns everywhere, but no matter where I am in the house I'm never disarmed.

I live in a very dangerous house.
 
I have a few guns that are not under lock and key. 38 with a speed loader and a surefire G2 in the night stand that the daughter and the wife shoot. I have a star bm 4 mags by the computer downstairs. In the garage (detached in front of the house) I have one of the russian bolt guns 4 rounds in the mag so you can close the bolt with an empty chamber. I keep a taurus 605 .357 2 speed loaders in my truck.
 
Right to Bear Arms

What are the laws regarding a police officer coming in your home and telling you that you can't hide a firearm because "it's concealed". Can they really tell you that you can't have a firearm hidden in your own home? Is that not a violation of my rights.
 
You could easily hide a few long arms and ammo in the walls that surround or border the Furnace or water heater. If those are to out of the way arrange them to back up on a metal door frame. Next to metal to shield them from metal detectors and such the grabbers will employ in the next NFA.
Just takes a stud finder a good sheet-rock cutting tools and patch back up like nothing is there.
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Tinfoil hat much? LOL


Anyway, I have a .22 revolver under the sink in the bathroom. It makes my girlfriend feel safer taking a shower when she's in the house alone. Other than that, I keep my gun on me, so no need to stash any around the house. I have a friend who has a 9mm mounted in a holster under his kitchen table. It's kind of a cool setup, but I would never need that.
 
What are the laws regarding a police officer coming in your home and telling you that you can't hide a firearm because "it's concealed". Can they really tell you that you can't have a firearm hidden in your own home? Is that not a violation of my rights.
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Concealed carry laws only pertain to public spaces. If you want to openly carry or hide a firearm in your house, that is generally your right.

However, I am presuming that nobody in the house is a prohibited person. There is also a presumption that you are abiding by the local/state laws as regards firearms storage. Some jurisdictions do not allow firearms at all, and some allow them but mandate childproof locks and such.
 
I stash here and there, but not quite everywhere.

My favorite one, done seldom but occasionally, I got from some book I don't remember the name of -- inside an empty milk carton in the refrigerator.

If you're going to do the hollow book thing, for Pete's sake don't use a gun title. Use an old encyclopedia, textbook or bible. My old casebooks and lawbooks are fantastic for this purpose.

A watertight container in the toilet tank not only hides the gun pretty well, it saves on your water bill. But put girly stuff or gross stuff on top of the tank, else the burglar will look in.

And don't underestimate hiding in plain sight. Those decorative swords and antique firearms on the wall may be (and in my case, are) entirely functional and even loaded.
 
hiding guns

Instead of stashing guns around the house, get in the habit of packing at home. If I'm awake at home some handgun is on my person, if asleep or in the tub it's within arm's reach. If I get aout of bed at night it usually goes with me. It's small (J-Frame or Kahr subcompact) and just enough gun to fight my way to a larger pistol or long gun. If someone were to break in (or insinuate themselves into the home and then get violent, or ring the doorbell and bum rush me when I answer, etc.) I won't have to grope for the nearest hiding place, I'll already have the weapon. It will always be under my control so no one can stumble across it or get to it before me.
 
I keep my guns under the military definition of secure, which means under lock and key or within line of sight at all times. And I have four kids, stashing them is a bad idea.

The conversation does remind me of my grandfather's final years. We would play Monopoly with him, and he would keep leaving to go to the bathroom. For days afterward, we would find stashes of Monopoly money he would leave, behind the toilet, in the sugar jar, stuff like that. He was stashing it so we would think he was broke and out of the game, and then he would go to the bathroom and be back in. But his alzheimers was getting so bad he couldn't remember where he stashed it. :)

In Utah, you are allowed to have a gun on you in your home, regardless of what you call home. If you live in a cardboard box on State Street Salt Lake, you can have a gun on you.
 
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