Stashed guns

[Bush Pilot]

Do you keep any guns stashed around your residence other than on your nightstand? I'm not speaking of guns put away for safekeeping, I'm thinking of guns strategically hidden for quick access in the event of an emergency. Where/how do you hide them? We don't have any kids in the house so it makes options a bit easier. Also, what about flashlights?

 

[Drail]

Yup. No children in my house - ever. Loaded guns are stashed in easy reach all over the house. As are 3 D cell Maglites. My wife knows where all of them are - and more importantly - she knows how to use them very well. Even have a couple of Louisville Sluggers strategically placed. I may not be able to keep them from getting in - but they're gonna know that they picked the wrong house.

 

[aarondhgraham]

After watching a TV show,,,

After watching a TV show,,,
Where they interviewed career robbers,,,
I now keep a stainless revolver in a baggie in the bathroom.

This one career criminal said he always watched for a bathroom light to come on,,,
He knew that the resident would be at a severe disadvantage then,,,
The proverbial "caught with your pants down" scenario.

For some reason that thought stuck with me,,,
So I keep a Charter Arms .44 bulldog in a baggie,,,
This is stashed on a shelf in easy reach of my commode.

My EDC lives in a shelf at hand height by my TV chair,,,
I have a 9mm Semi with a light in a nylon holster,,,
That holster is affixed to the side-rail of my bed.

I'm not paranoid,,,
I like to call myself properly prepared.

Aarond

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[joem1945]

A couple of pistols and shotguns in various locations. Shotguns with #2 shot alternating with # 4's, plug removed.

 

[psyopspec]

Not in our case. The house is pretty small, and we make a habit of pants on = gun on.

Flashlights are stashed everywhere. Headlamps on the bed post, EDC light in the pocket, WML for the night stand gun, and others around the house. They're less expensive than guns, so it's easy to have a few stashed about. They're useful for us and for guests, and we live in the country so if the power goes out we won't have ambient street light to help keep from a stumble.

 

[chicharrones]

I still have three kids in the house with their friends coming over frequently, so I can only stash a gun on me.

 

[Panzerschwein]

The muzzle loaded Hawken's rifle hanging above my mantel isn't just for decoration, if you know what I mean.

A .54 ball with a full charge of powder behind it will sour your milk real fast. If I can't get to one of my other guns, I feel it would do well and double as a stout club after firing.

 

[bainter1212]

Have a 2 yr old so no unsecured guns for me.
When I am using the commode, my carry piece is in it's holster in my waistband right in front of me.

 

[Fiv3r]

I don't stash guns around. I live in La-La Land with my head in the sand where I don't feel the need to be able to snatch a pistol from any room in my house. That said, i do have a 5 year old. She won't even touch my pocket knives, so I probably could keep one or two about, but I don't see the point.

I live in a neighborhood that is nice enough not to be rough but not so nice that anyone is going to shoulder down the door to get my mid-grade TV and modest collection of both DVDs and BluRay Discs. When I get home, my CCW stays on me most all the time. Therefore, I am armed no matter what happens. Hell, if I am in the bathroom, depending on the holster I have on, I either have my gun at my ankle or sitting on the bathtub. It's probably a faster draw than when I am walking around

I feel fine with a quick safe next to my bed with a Beretta in it and an Ar at the ready needing to just have the mag slapped in and charged. These are bump in the night guns for posting up at the top of the steps while my wife calls the cops.

Flashlights, to me, make better sense to stash around. I've never needed to draw down on a home intruder, but the power has gone off at all manner of weird times. I'll never forget last spring when a dead tree fell over on a transformer or substation or something. There was a loud POP and my little town blacked out from the river all the way to about 3/4 of the way through my neighborhood (about 15 streets). PITCH black. Glad to have a light on my person then. You don' realize just how dark it gets when 100% of the ambient light goes out. No porch lights, no street lamps, nothing. The last time i experienced that much darkness, I was doing a tour at at cave where part of the experience was for them to kill the lights for 30 seconds so that you could see just how much you can't see 200 yards into a cavern.

I usually have a light on me of some kind be it a mini maglite or even a photon key fob. I keep a 2 C LED Maglite next to my bed in a holster as my main emergency light. My wife has an LED 2 C something-or-other next to her. I have a small 3AAA LED in my work/travel bag if I need an extra. I keep a headlamp next to the front door as I use that to see when I go for jogs before for the sun comes up. I keep another by the back door for getting bundles of firewood off the pile after dark (headlamps are handy when you need both arms and don't want to step in a pile of dog poop). I also keep 2 low power/long lasting lantern/flashlights in our laundry room along with 5 or 6 glow sticks. It's our emergency storm saferoom, and I want plenty of light to last until morning if there is an issue. Hell, I even keep a small cheap tripod LED in the crawl space of my house since I am paranoid about my sump pump quitting on me, and check on it often

In short, flashlights have proven to be way handier to have stashed around over firearms or even other weapons.

 

[Teachu2]

I keep a spare pistol in a toolbox in my outbuilding, as sometimes I won't carry when working on/under a piece of equipment. Other than that, I'm usually packing.

 

[bearcreek]

The muzzle loaded Hawken's rifle hanging above my mantel isn't just for decoration, if you know what I mean.

A .54 ball with a full charge of powder behind it will sour your milk real fast. If I can't get to one of my other guns, I feel it would do well and double as a stout club after firing.

Do you keep a cap on it?

 

[cc-hangfire]

My EDC is either on me when awake or in the night stand while I sleep; the others are locked away securely. As I was once told on this forum, the running gun battle in your home is Hollywood fiction. If I need a gun, it needs to be on my belt or in my pocket.

Flashlights, stashed everywhere. And there's the big pepper spray for dogs by the back door, if that counts for anything.

I am trying to talk my wife into carry around the house -- I understand that practically 100% of home invasions & home burglaries happen at home

 

[Jlr2267]

For some reason that thought stuck with me,,,
So I keep a Charter Arms .44 bulldog in a baggie,,,
This is stashed on a shelf in easy reach of my commode.
.

making myself a note to never, ever buy a CA Bulldog from aarondhgraham

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Here, no bathroom window, no kids -- they're grown. Wife passed away, just me and the cat.

Home security includes:
o Firearms kept loaded and accessible for defense
- .38 revolver in home office
- .38 revolver and 12ga pump shotgun in bedroom
- .22 semi-auto rifle in living room.
- .22 semi-auto rifle in cul-de-sac computer room
All hidden from casual view, well tested and loaded with ammo from lots that gave reliable function when I tested them at the range.

My home security also includes:
o front and back porch lights checked and working
o dead bolt locks (plates secured to wall support 2x4s with long deck screws)
o working smoke detector
o fire extinguishers in living room, kitchen, bedroom
o cell phone kept charged
o a radio scanner pretuned to a local national weather service, batteries periodically tested
o a LL Bean Grundig portable radio w. both 3 AA batteries and a crank powered internal rechargeable battery
o three day supply of set-aside emergency rations and bottled water
o first aid kits (bathroom, yard work tool belt, range bag)
o flashlights, checked them all in prep for winter weather.
- Four two cell AA battery Maglites
- D battery Maglites: one each in two cell, three cell and four cell size.
- A two cell D battery and a two cell AA battery of the dollar store variety.
- Two doctor office give-aways with magnets, one on the fridge, one on the home office file cabinet.

By the back door a paintball gun (to scare off stray cats around the bird feeder).
Plus household/yard tools by the kitchen backdoor (entrenching shovel, machete, hammer, hatchet, and "Thor" my 5 lb sledge on 12" handle) which could be pressed into service.
Two sturdy walking sticks by the front door.

That reminds me. I have a pepperspray on the keychain the spare house and car keys that is past due for testing.

 

[jleonard]

I have a loaded handgun within quick access from the bed.
Nothing else stashed other than in a safe.
Heck, I don't even lock my doors unless I go away for vacation.
I guess I don't feel threatened.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

I hang out in three main areas of my home. There's a loaded gun in a drawer in each area.

 

[Ironicaintit]

Growing up, my dad had guns everywhere! Pretty much a rifle in every room, shotgun in the pantry, pistol on the fridge, between sofa cushions, most drawers had a pistol etc etc. all loaded, of course.

Somehow all three of us kids survived!
Theres a lot to be said for the idea of showing your kids what guns are, and the destruction they can cause....vs treating them like a forbidden thing of alluring mystery.

I have a couple stashes myself, but not nearly to that extent. And once my boy starts having friends over, the stash will mostly go back in the safe. I always have one on me, so theres no need to go overboard.

 

[TanklessPro]

I sometimes carry while at home. I have young girls so my "stashed" guns are long guns up high. They are high enough that they can't reach standing on stool or chair. My nightstand handgun is also high enough that the 8 year old is the only one that could reach it, but she knows better.
My first line of defense is the three +90lb dogs. If I'm not carrying, they should buy me enough time to get to one of the carbines.

 

[gripper]

Several. Handguns, a few sizeable cutting/stabbing implements as well.

 

[Ignition Override]

No way. The chance, though unlikely, of somebody in this situation (decorator, piano tuner, choir member?) bringing a child over when I'm out of town, or away from the house would Still present an extremely dangerous situation.

Even though our area is really safe, I would rather have no gun around which is unsecured, than take the solid chance that a child could hurt/kill himself or herself. Nothing could be Worse.
They are smarter, more clever about finding concealed objects and curious than most adults can begin to realize. The terrible statistics prove it. If I were home 24 hours a day, that would be quite different.
People often forget about Murphy's Law.

 

[gripper]

No kids. No visitors. No one. So,I keep things seeded throughout the place, hidden but accessible.

 

[gbran]

Dad is backed up to the hills, semi-large spread. He has at least 5 or 6 strategically located handguns as well as one on his person.

 

[Candyman87]

Only in my office and bedroom. If I'm anywhere else in the house, it's on me. But I will read in the office late nights and don't always get dressed.

 

[wgp]

Pistol in nightstand with flashlights. Pistol in adjacent walkin closet off of master bathroom w/flashlight. Pistol in home office at other end of house. Pistol in basement workroom. Wherever I am in the house I have pistol quickly available. Kids in house so all of these guns are in quick-access safes with the same access code. All are Glocks so they all work alike.

Also, good outside lighting and alarm system.

 

[Leanwolf]

Why would you keep guns stashed around the house?? If someone breaks in, just call 9-1-1.



L.W.