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Do you display your guns?

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Red Eye Fred

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Display or hide? I prefer to have some of my rifles displayed. How about you?
 

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I have an old piece-of-junk nickel .32 H&A revolver in a curio cabinet in my living room with other odds and ends. I will occasionally bring a weapon out and leave it in the corner of the living room for a few days or (if a pistol) on the coffee table. Because I like looking at them and to off-handedly allow for informal familiarization with my kids when I can get their attention away from their Ipods/Ipads and so on. They've only shot a small portion of the collection and I'd like to get them curious about some that they haven't tried yet.
 
I don't and there are not many that I would.

About the only way I would display a firearm would be like having a Kentucky rifle or a side by side shotty over the mantle. Something like that.
 
Never. I also have made it clear to my kids over the years that what is in the gun safes is our business, not that of anybody else. I did not want them telling people around school and have that information passed on to whomever.
 
Looking at guns makes me happy, so yes, I have three old revolvers on display in my living room.

I live alone in a low crime community and area. I am not very social, so I let very few people into my home, and am cautious about who that may be. My particular situation is pretty low risk, so I don't worry too much. But I do a little.

I acknowledge that some day, I may regret it.
 
Definitely yes, in a limited sort of way. There is a gun rack behind me as I sit here at the keyboard. In another room there are a couple of older pieces hanging on the wall. In yet another room the same set up.

Live in the country and there is always someone on site 24/7 armed and alert.
 
Only time my firearms are on display is when I open whatever locked box they are sitting in. I considered displaying a commemorative 1911 I own but decided against it when burglaries started up ticking in my area over last summer.
 
What 460Kodiak said. I have no children and live in a Low Crime rural community. miles from the highway. I have a locked gun cabinet in my library and a cased BP Lemat on display on a table in there as well. No one that I do not know comes into my house and my circle of friends is small. I keep a revolver and an automatic up in my bedroom on stands by my bed because they give me comfort and I like to look at them. Part of that comfort comes from the ammunition I keep close by. I work from home and am on premises almost 24/7. My two Greyhounds are my early warning system. The Indians are attacking the Fort is my best description of what it is like whenever someone comes to the front door. *chuckles* There is a real neighborhood watch. We look out for each other. Like Kodiak, I may be real sorry in the future but I don't want to live frightened all the time of what 'may' happen.
 
I keep three old break action shotguns on display at my farmhouse with ammo in a belt on the stock. They are for HD as well as predator control opportunities and are hanging over each door.
If anyone breaks in, and they have not in 10 years, they will have $100 worth of guns...maybe.
 
I have a Henry rifle as well as a couple of 1911's that are not only fun to shoot, but works of art IMO, which I'd like to display. Living in the Chicago suburbs makes that a non starter, as they'd be stolen pretty quickly. Throw in an early grammar school aged son who would be a pariah at school if the soccer moms found out i own guns, and I make sure to keep them locked in a safe, with no one but my closest friends knowing I own them.
 
NO. And I don't wear anything gun related or have any stickers on my vehicles. I pull up next to the door to load and unload my truck. Paranoid? No I only want the people I trust to know I have firearms these days. Except the guy to tried to break in my back door at 4AM a couple years ago. He got a pretty good look at the business end of my 870 through the glass. Got a good look at me in my Fruit of the Looms too.:eek:
 
Yes I still have an old Glass fronted Rifle case in my Living Room... While its only got a couple rifles and a shotgun in it.

In case of a break in, I am hoping that will be what they target, and no go looking for my real safe.
 
I have an old Turkish miquelet lock musket on the wall above the doorway of the study. Even that is not easily visible. Nothing else on display, so as not to tempt fate. Nobody has reason to see my collection unless I specifically want them to. Security has become an obsession with me.
 
No. I have a high security safe that is designed to withstand skilled attacks and intense fires. With how easy it is to break into a house, I want valuables inside the safe. The only firearms not in the safes are handguns for self defense, which are stored in Fort Knox Simplex Pistol Boxes, for fast-access.

I've considered putting knives and firearms into glass cases that I could hang on the wall when I am home, and then take the entire case off the wall and slide it into one of my safes when I am away.
 
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