Are you old enough to remember when firearms were proudly displayed?

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This thread has been a great memory, I too remember the gun racks in our trucks, and the time the CHP officer pulled me over coming back from the desert camping and shooting. I had forgotten to remove the empty magazine from my Ruger 10-22 in the rack on top of the 30-30. He just walked up and said that magazine isn't loaded is it, I told him no sir, I just forgot to remove it, he didn't even bother to check it and along we went home. Now can you imagine the swat team and tv press nowadays?

I too miss the good old days.
 
Yep sure do. My father always displayed his guns. He has a nice cabinet with a glass door. And his Remington 22 pump always hung above the fire place. His M1 Garand he had hanging about the entrance to the kitchen. Now he keeps them all locked up in a upstairs bedroom. We both had gun racks in our truck. I think he still does.
 
ASRELLL said:
My dad was 95 when he passed away in 2019. He always talked about the boys in his school bringing .22 rifles to school as the school had a "gun club" on certain dates. He said no one was afraid and there
were never any accidents but the rifles had to be kept in the student's locker during school hours.
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Currently at 71 I trail your dad by quite a few years. I was Class of 68 and living on LI NY about 15 miles from NYC. Same thing exactly. We had a range under the high school and on certain days we brought our 22 rifles to school and kept them in our lockers. Heck prior to the GCA (Gun Control Act) of 1968 you could mail order a gun or just buy one in most hardware stores or department stores. We never had a problem with gun control. We did have moral character and I guess you can't legislate morality. Go figure huh.

Ron
 
In contrast back when i was kid my neighbor was rumored as mean marine survivor from Iwo and elsewhere. Didn't talk much but hired me to cut his lawn. Was in his house twice and not a gun or picture anywhere. One hot Saturday he invited me to sit in garage and have a cold drink. Over in corner was a number of rifles, swords and Japanese money. spilled on floor. I knew better than say anything.
 
The house I grew up in had a room called "the gun room". One wall was all guns (mostly old levers) and books in a home made floor-to-ceiling display case made of weathered barn boards. There was no dining room. :) Now between my father and I, we each have one over the mantle lever on display. Mine is a 1904 '94 and his is a '95. Everything else is in vaults.
 
I'm not that old, and gun racks were common in my town growing up. I had one in the back window of my '72 chevy 4x4. It always had a shot gun and 22 rifle in it, and a deer rifle in deer season, even at school. Now days you get expelled just for having a knife in your car on school grounds.
 
There are new glass gun racks with high security unbreakable glass fronts and wood covered heavy duty steel cabinets for those that still wish to display their firearms. However, prepare for serious sticker shock to purchase them.
 
As I’m far behind on work, and haven’t read all of these posts, I’ll simply add....yes I do remember those days! Often, rifles or shotguns were proudly displayed in the back window of a pickup truck.....at the high school!

How times have changed! memtb
 
I remember store fronts, with guns on display, for all to see. (Pre-1968)

I remember deer hunters returning home with a nice buck tied to the car hood. (Not good for the meat) .

Now, no gun display, locked in the safe.
 
memtb said:
As I’m far behind on work, and haven’t read all of these posts, I’ll simply add....yes I do remember those days! Often, rifles or shotguns were proudly displayed in the back window of a pickup truck.....at the high school!

How times have changed! memtb
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"easy rider rifle rack"
 
I'm not old enough to remember that. But also I don't really consider most of my guns to be 'displayable,' i.e. there's nothing particularly attractive about any of them.
 
Most defenitely. I used to walk into my uncles house and was amazed at the taxidermy and his hand made, hand carved trim gun cabinet that held about 12-15 long guns. I was always in aww. I wish the world wasn't the way it is now days and you could still do this.

I'm going to date myself with this one just so you guys see how late this stuff was allowed. 2004/2005 Highschool woodshop I asked to make a 6 gun, gun rack for my uncle equiped with a small cabinet under it for shells. I was waiting for a big fat no but I went to a highschool where kids drove tractors to school and F250 beater farm trucks. I made the rack and was able to show it off. Not anymore.
 
Yes I well remember when I had my ever growing firearms displayed on a large gun rack in my bedroom with my handguns in a sizeable drawer built into the gun rack, later placing all in a HEAVY gun safe, about a year later someone stole the GR.
 
I got a kick out of reading some these. It remeinded me, I had a shotgun and rifle in the truck window gun rack, that I drove to high school. I don't even think I worried about locking it and I am pretty sure they were loaded, all of the time. I can remember the wooden gun cabinet my father and grandfather used. My grandfather and my dad's brother had guns displayed on the wall, in their study. They never worried about anyone touching them, as we all were very aware of gun safety. If you didn't know gun safety, you would not be allowed to hunt with them and that was unheard of. That was a very different time from where we are today. That was before bike helmets and car seats, so life is way different. I have to reflect back on the shows, the Rifleman and the Real McCoys, as the rifleman kept his gun by the door and the McCoys shotgun was beside the fireplace. Even though they were television shows, that was just they way it was back in the day. Not that the present is a bad thing, but that is what happens when you are white headed and have great grandkids running around. I am just glad I still shoot, hunt, fish, reload and enjoy life to its fullest today!
 
LOL... I remember when pickup trucks all had gun racks which were full during hunting season. Due to theft, mostly rifle racks hung coats and coffee cups during the off-season.:)

Today, I don't remember EVER seeing a rifle IN a rack of a pickup truck. People prefer safer options in their vehicles for weapon storage, than leaving something "worth stealing" visibly displayed in a window.

As far as I can tell, people nowadays prefer to display their valuables and weapons INSIDE gun safes lol

On a side note, I can recall when some stores quit carrying firearms, the shelves and cases were emptied, but pictures of the products that WOULD have previously been on the shelves and cases remained for a time. This created a surreal experience, considering that cardboard cutouts with pictures of firearms was the only approved weapons allowed LOL:rofl:

I'm supposing that the same could be said, in some areas for truck gun racks, where cardboard cutouts picturing guns would be the ONLY ones that remain legal? idk

How about this fun idea? Putting movie props from sci-fi like Star Wars blasters, Star Trek phasers, Klingon disruptors and that sort of thing in pickup truck gun racks? :neener:
 
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Brad Cobb said:
LOL... I remember when pickup trucks all had gun racks which were full during hunting season...
Due to theft, mostly rifle racks hung coats and coffee cups during the offseason.


Today, I don't remember EVER seeing a rifle IN a rack of a pickup truck. People prefer safer options in their vehicles for wespon storage, than leaving something "worth stealing" visibly displayed in a window.


As far as I can tell, people nowadays prefer to display their valuables and weapons INSIDE gun safes lol


On a side note, I can recall when some stores quit carrying firearms, the shelves and cases were emptied, but pictures of the products that WOULD have previously been on the shelves and cases remained for a time. This created a surreal experience, considering that cardboard cutouts with pictures of firearms was the only approved weapons allowed LOL


I'm supposing that the same could be said, in some areas for truck gun racks, where cardboard cutouts picturing guns would be the ONLY ones that remain legal? idk


How about this fun idea? Putting movie props from sci-fi like Star Wars blasters, Star Trek phasers, Klingon disruptors and that sort of thing in pickup truck gun racks?
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A Bat'leth would look wicked hanging off one.......

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yIHIv !
 
Axis II said:
Most defenitely. I used to walk into my uncles house and was amazed at the taxidermy and his hand made, hand carved trim gun cabinet that held about 12-15 long guns. I was always in aww. I wish the world wasn't the way it is now days and you could still do this.

I'm going to date myself with this one just so you guys see how late this stuff was allowed. 2004/2005 Highschool woodshop I asked to make a 6 gun, gun rack for my uncle equiped with a small cabinet under it for shells. I was waiting for a big fat no but I went to a highschool where kids drove tractors to school and F250 beater farm trucks. I made the rack and was able to show it off. Not anymore.
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Yeah, I never took workshop classes because.. they didn't exist anymore. I used to explore my highschool when I first got there, to get a layout of the place. All the workshops had been turned into storage units.

Apparently, workshop classes became so regulated here because of 9/11. I live maybe half an hour from Fort Bliss. My buddy took workshop classes, and had to be bussed out to a separate "secure" site for the workshops. El Paso traffic is ass at noon, so every day he got there about an hour late, and would get home at 6. That ruined the aspect of taking workshop classes.

I'd like to make display racks for the rifles I have, hang them over my window or something. Maybe someday.
 
My handgun is proudly displayed... In a duty holster... With active retention.

(I am an open-carrier.)

Such method of carry will change when I acquire my CHL.
 
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