Does anybody use a gun rack anymore?

[SteelyNirvana]

I've got an old gun rack that my grandma bought for me when I was little. I always kept my single shot .22 and BB Rifle on it in my room at my parents house. I would like use it again, but I know that these are different times now. I know it would make for an easy snatch-n-grab if someone ever broke in. Where I live I don't have to worry about that, yet at least. So does anyone use gun racks anymore or does everyone keep there guns stored away?

 

[hrgrisso]

Sure

But I don't live where I can keep them exposed, I bought one of the Cabela's behind the seat racks for one vehicle and a ride high roof rack for the other.

A rack in the window may work in the sticks but I don't want to lose my guns or my SUV's windows!

 

[bensdad]

I worry about theft enough to remember to keep my homeowner's insurance paid. I have a rider for firearms. I have three Homak gun "lockers". It would be an insult to safes to call them safes. I keep most of my firearms in those three lockers. They can be bolted to the floor, and will be when I finish my basement.

Guns that I think look cool, but aren't overly expensive, stay on the rack. Sometimes it's a couple of milsurps. Sometimes its scoped rifles. It also depends on what I'm shooting alot of. I have a rack that holds 4 guns over my lockers. I can just reach the top rack.

Lately, my bows are all on my gun rack. I haven't figured out what else to do with them.

 

[Milkmaster]

I keep an old antique unusable shotgun and a black powder Hawken rifle in an antique rack on the wall. I like the decoration and the conversation they develop. If the conversation is good and the person trustworthy, the rest of the guns come out for show and tell.

 

[cloudcroft]

No, because America has changed. Back when I was a kid in the 1950s/early 1960s, lots of people had/used them...guns on display in the home were commonplace.

Not today, with the "new and improved" America.

What a sorry state of affairs...

-- John D.

 

[matt87]

You could try the old trick of a chain or hawser through the trigger guards. Pass it through a steel plate attached to the wall or something and then put a decent padlock on it.

 

[Lonestar49]

You can move to the Country, but..

...

But the BG mentality is moving there as well, like a plaque, and IMO, having a gun rack in one's truck, with "exposed rifles" is asking for a break, grab, and run, 10 sec hit when your back is turned, or your eyes are distracted.

Nope, wouldn't do it, city or country, as:

~ Out of sight is Out of Mind ~


LS

PS.. not to mention LEO's seeing them, and stopping you for a long, thorough, check-out.. just because we all look like BG's in today's world, unfortunately.

 

[win71]

Memories

This brings them back. 1958, 8th grade woodshop project. 3-gun oak wall hanging gun rack. Took me 3 years to fill it up! Doubt they are doing that project anymore........

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

You can move to the Country

Not even there, anymore. I grew up in about as rural of an area as you get out west and while less than 20 years, filled gun racks in the trucks and on the walls were common year round, you just don't see that today. Used to be that if you looked any living window, you saw a nice gun cabinet or full rack on the wall. Even in the county that has gone away.

3-gun oak wall hanging gun rack

I also did that one in middle school shop. In high-school shop, it was the full-size oak gun cabinet with the glass doors. Ahh, the good old days...

 

[Titan6]

PU truck gun racks have gone the way of leaving your kids out to roam and play where they wish in the neighborhood. You leave them unattended and you are liable never to see them again.

Hunting season you might see one or two but they would not be unattended for long if it all.

House racks are not much better they don't say ''Break my windows'' like a PU rack but will cause your guns to grow feet if someone breaks in.

 

[92GreenYJ]

Its funny how some people apperently dont read the OP before posting. I see a few references to vehicle gun racks here when the OP was asking about an in home, wall mounted gun rack.

And yes I use one. Don't have the room in my house for a safe or a locker. So I found an empty patch of wall up above the stairs. (can only get the guns down from upstairs) I built a rack out of redwood and it holds ten rifles. I'll post some updated pics later. it only has two empty slots left on it now

 

[jaholder1971]

I've got 10 rifles and 1 longbow on 3 racks in my gun/ham radio/computer room. No big deal.


Jon

 

[Hardtarget]

In the early 60's my Dad made a gun cabnet. It would hold seven long guns and four pistols. He set it in the den and it was visible from the street through the kitchen window. Never had a problem. I used the cabnet untill three years ago. Thats when I got my safe. Thats just the way it is now.

Mark.

 

[Dockery]

Bar your windows, barricade your doors, and then put up a gun rack.

 

[cloudcroft]

92GreenYJ,

Well, after they get stolen -- and that would be real easy -- you won't need the rack anymore...at least for guns. I mean at least you could put some fishing poles there.

-- John D.

 

[Leanwolf]

HRGRISSO - "A rack in the window may work in the sticks but I don't want to lose my guns or my SUV's windows!"

I've had three friends who lost their guns from their pickup trucks' in-the-rear-window racks... and all were "out in the sticks." One here in Idaho, one in Calif., and one in Arkansas.

That was 20 years ago +/-.

As for racks at home, nope. That's why God invented gun safes.

Thieves are not just restricted to cities.

L.W.

 

[bluetopper]

Yes I remember also as a youngster all the pickups I used to see with loaded gunracks mounted inside the back glass.

Driven by wonderful, hard working family men in sweat stained Cowboy hats and dried tobacco juice down the side of the truck.

Ah, the good ole days.

 

[f4t9r]

I remember when I was young everyone had one. Now that the land has been sold for malls and Lowes and Home Depot , you just do not see them anymore around here.

 

[Elza]

It does bring back memories! Everyone I hung out with in H.S. (as did I) had a gun rack in his room. Now I hide all of mine in an 800 pound safe. Rather sad to say the least.

 

[CNYCacher]

I actually just received a gun rack from my brother as a groom's gift for being his best man in his wedding. It has a nice picture of a buck between the uprights and a lockable box built into the bottom.
Practicality be damned, I am going to find a way to use that sucker somehow. If I ever get into BP guns, that's what I will use it for.

 

[target1911]

I have one in my PU. Only gets used during Hunting season or on a 100 mi road trip to a friends house. As soon as I get there I pull them out and take them in the house. They dont leave my sight when in the PU.

I used to have a gun cabinet too. It looked really nice in the living room but I got tired of worrying about them gettin stolen so moved them and got rid of the cabinet.

 

[saspic]

If I used a gun rack for display purposes, I would remove the bolt/firing pin/whatever from the weapon and store it elsewhere. It might not stop a thief from stealing, but it could prevent them from using the weapon.
They often don't seem to know much about guns and probably wouldn't know what to do. I could also give the serial numbers to the local smiths in case someone was stupid enough to bring the stolen firearm.

 

[Ala Dan]

Nope, we store all of our weapons in a RSC type SAFE~!

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

Not in my truck. I will get locked up and the key will get thrown away in this day and age. Gun cabinets yes, gunracks no.

 

[Mannlicher]

yes, but just in the 4Runner. All the guns in the house are in one of three safes.