Where do you keep your firearms?

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Where do you keep your guns at home?

I keep mine in a gun safe.The safe is inside a lockable cabinet built into my wall.(the security is a requirement for me)

I don't keep ammo in the house unless I am going to use it the next day or within a short time.

If you do use your firearms for self defense, where do you keep them for quick access?
 
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I keep my bersa 380 in a nice padded plastic carry case(9.99 on sale). It has my "speed loader", 2 mags, 5 dummy rds, a spare spring for both mags, bore snake, manual and trigger lock(not on gun) in side the case.It stays in my room on the floor next to my book shelve. I dont have any live ammo in the case ever. ITs locked with a padlock. I keep it in there becuase its easy to just grab and go to the range. My family has a rule that no loaded firearms are to be stored in the house.

I dont plan on getting a safe/"hidden safe" until my M1's get here. Its just not worth it. There are no kids in the house so i dont have to worry about someone shooting someone.



For self defense i have a bright led light, a k-bar, a dagger designed by me, a viking sword, a katana, a paintball marker, all hanging on my wall with no shealths and a Kukri with a 23 inch blade perfect for selfdefense in a house, about 3 inchs from were i sleep. Unless you break into my house and sneak into my room and kill me in my sleep ( with knife or gun) i feel i can defend myself ok
 
I live alone, so I also do not have to worry about kids and such finding my weapons. My carry pistol, a Ruger P345 stays with me and goes next to my bed. I also have a Remington 870 in my bedroom closet. My Walther P99 is in my computer desk, which is in another room. And my P22 is in a case, also on my closet.
 
The guns not in my safe are next to me or in my pocket(hangun) . A HD shotgun sits next to my bed, and a .22 RF rifle hangs above my doorway for varmit control.
 
One under bed my side...

One under bed her side...

One in end table drawer by my recliner downstairs...

One in my desk drawer in my office...

2 in closet in cases.

No kids.
 
Well, 3 of 5 are in a range bag. The other 2 which are used for HD are always within a few steps. No kids yet but expecting. At that time, all firearms except for my daily carry will be unloaded, unchambered, and cable-locked. Once we move into our house, then I will get a safe and return all firearms back to Condition 2.
 
I'll never tell.

Well, a few:

AR15 stashed in bedroom.

Sidearms (mine, wife's) stashed in rapid access biometric safe.

Two safes.

Several 6" PVC pipes full of carbines and ammo around the property "covered" by many steel pinballs driven 3-6 inches into the soil.

More guns on my NEIGHBOR's property and parkland behind my house.

You never know.
 
One episode of It Takes a Thief, along with an actually robbery of my bedroom by a family friend/relative during a party got me away from keeping my handguns in their carrying cases in my nightstand and dresser. I have a safe for my extra handguns & valuables along with two push button pistols safes bolted to the floor under the bed. I don't have any longguns yet, but when I do I will get a gun safe hidden in my closet or basement.
 
I keep my guns in a plain old locked closet. It keeps the kids out, and i can get into it in a few seconds if the need be.
 
There is a 12ga in the corner of my bedroom hidden behind some window curtains, empty. Five rounds of 00 in the nightstand.

The rest of them you will never find.
 
here and there.....

hand guns....

loaded in a gun vault by night stand.......

long guns.....

in cases (soft and hard) in closet... unloaded.......ammo. stored seperately.
 
Right now, I have one .38 special in my night stand.

My two 6906 S&W's are at the gun smith and everything else is in the gun safe in the garage.

I have a de-humidifer rod in there and enough silicon dry tech to keep the humidity down.
 
Gunsafe in the attic, with another gunsafe for the ammo. In the UK we have to store guns and ammo in seperate secure places.:banghead:
 
Quick open gunsafe next to bed. Larger gunsafe with large collection stuffed in it in my den. Need a new gunsafe.:rolleyes:
 
Pistol in the night stand and 870 bed side. Other shottie and AR are well hidden in the basement and stand at the ready. Magazines are preloaded ... 2 shells in the coach gun.

I'm adequately protected anywhere I go in my home.
 
I have one of those GunVaults with the quick access key pads bolted down in my bedroom closet. The rest of my guns and ammo are in a closet that I converted and put a dead bolt on on the door. It's a cheap alternative to a gun safe and doesn't stick out like a sore thumb screaming, "Hey here's a safe full of guns!" :D
 
As long as I'm awake, my carry gun is on me. All other guns in the house are loaded with one in the chamber. We're semi-retired so there are no children around and we live in a small 2 bedroom house with one bedroom converted to a computer room.

In the living room my wife and I have quick access to a .357 and a high-cap .45 semi-auto.

In the computer room a .45 Colt DA revolver lies on the computer desk right beside my monitor.

In the bedroom there's my carry rig hanging on a peg on the side of the bed, there's a high-cap .45 ACP on my bedside table, a .410 shotpistol with 00 buck on my wifes bedside table, a Mossberg 500 with an 18.5" bbl loaded with 00 buck in the corner and a .38 Spcl +P between the mattress and bedframe on my side.

All our other guns are neatly placed on shelves or hung unloaded on wall racks in a long, narrow "bonus" room. Surplus ammo along with reloading tools and supplies is stored in an insulated metal panel building on the property about 60' away from the house.
 
Where do you keep your guns at home?
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What guns?

(This is a question that I would be most evasive answering, if asked in person by someone with no legal right to know (which is to say, pretty much everyone).)
 
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