Hiding spots for firearms

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When I had my house built, I had a period of time before I got my big safe. I hung peg-board over studs in the garage. I hung tools on the face of the peg-board and hid guns behind, between the studs.
 
I think having one in every room of the house (including the bathroom) is a good idea. I also hide a pistol by the safe. But that is due to the layout of the room where my safe is. I won't divulge the layout, but I did it for a tactical reason and it works very well. I don't hide guns where people would normally look. But I hide them close to where people look and quicky accessed. All I need is a split second of a BG looking away and he's done.
 
Years ago I bought some nce piece of gear. It is metal rod with a 90 degree bend ar the end and screw holes. The rod is covered/dipped with a plastic compound that so far (15 years) has never reacted with the metal. I still covered the with a very thin film of grease. I have then mounted under my desk and many other places. Simple and workes like a charm. Fast access and no noise. I do not recall the company name but they are great! I bought 20 for like $30 at a gun show but he went on to have a web site. Which of course I do not recall.

I wish I did as it is so simple a product but works great. Yes I have mounted all 20 but want to by more for my sister and her new house. Workbenches, desks, back of wood liquor cabinets use you imagination. I even put one on a wall stud I was placing to build a wall. Strange I know but I can break that sheetrock and have a firearm. Wish they had extra mag holders but I improvised with magnets.
 
Blue - what BigBore said about "every room" is pretty much it.
I Have a 50+ y.o. house so certain modifications are out. In the bedroom that I use as a computer room/home office, there is a small SA in the drawer.
There is another in the table next to my recliner in the family room.
In my sleeping bedroom, I have a 4-hook gunrack on the wall next to the bed. It has been slightly modified so that the barrels of a 12 ga. SxS will lie flat, with a small shelf holding 4 shells just below that. Above the 12 ga. is an AK with a 40-rd. banana with a leather holster hanging on one hook with a .357 magnum in it.

Because of humidity levels (and space limitations), I don't have firearms in either the bathroom or the kitchen. But, there is a heavy 12" chef's knife capable of chopping through a wrist next to the sink. :D
 
For a bit I had a two shot derringer stuck in a fake plant (near the base of pot not visible, you reached into the plant to grab it) on a table by the front door. Loaded with hot hardcast, reliable after sitting a long time loaded due to very little moving parts.
 
Blue Brick said:
what are some of the more popular bad idea hiding spots?
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Somewhere near the front and/or back doors in the house. Bad guy kicks door in and enters the house, now where is your gun at in relation to the bad guy? The bad guy is between you and your gun.

Inside a woman's purse, especially when she is in public carrying it. What is the first object the bad guy is going to grab from a woman?

Although we were doing home entry training before deploying to Iraq. We entered this mock "home" and did the search and declared clear. Imagine our surprise when the instructed pointed out the AK-47 hanging from hooks right above the door we had entered through! But that's what you get when you send the Navy to do the Army's job.
 
I have a few "hidden" in my custom built dvd storage cabinet in the living room. These pics were back from when I was building the cabinet...for some reason I don't have any final pics of it completely loaded with dvds and guns (as it is now).

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I also have a couple randomly placed throughout the house for quick access.
 
I assume that X-Ray is someone who did it to smuggle it in somewhere,
Couldn't they have at the least got a hammerless gun, thats got to hurt either way it goes.
 
Although I live in a city with a high crime rate (Rockford, IL), the part of town I am in is very quiet (I know, that is no guarantee of the future). But between having grandkids here quite often, and not being paranoid, I just can't imagine planting firearms all over the house for that once-in-a-million chance that I will encounter some scenario where it pays off. I keep all but one gun in a safe, and the one out of the safe is in a small GunVault in my bedroom, relatively accessible.

Rather than "hiding" firearms, I prefer to secure them. And if my house is broken into when I am not home, and all of my guns are stolen, well, that is what insurance is for. Between the one gun in my bedroom, and some common sense practices (like not opening the front door to just anyone who rings the bell; or discretely carrying a concealed handgun when showing an item for sale to a potential customer, in my garage and not inside my home) I feel reasonably secure.

Maybe I'm just not enough of a gun nut but it seems like overkill to be thinking about a mass invasion of one's home and planning for highly unlikely contingencies.
 
Henryfan1 said:
How about buried in the back yard
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There are survival videos on Youtube that show how to prepare and store firearms in a PVC pipe, then cap both ends off and bury it in the ground. People supposedly started doing this around the early to mid 1990's when there were worries of gun confiscation amidst a flurry of anti-gun proposals and legislation like the Brady Bill, AWB and a anti-gun administration.
 
Whenever I read a thread like this I think the same thing, there are only so many places that you can stash a firearm in your house and I’d be willing to be that by the time a thief has been at it for an month or so he’s probably figured them all out. I don’t stash guns around my house
 
This is one of those topics that doesn't belong on a public forum. Better left word of mouth. If you tell it here, it will no longer be a SECRET hiding place.
 
If it takes more than 20 seconds for you to reach from anywhere in your house it's a bad spot! That's why I always keep one on my person or close at hand.
 
...bad idea hiding spots?
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  • On the front porch welcome-mat
  • Down in the longer grass out back
  • Resting on the rear bumper of the car
  • In the toilet tank
  • Tree branch through the trigger guard
  • Up in the rain gutter
  • Wired up under the wheel well of my truck
  • Sneak it into the neighbor's fridge
  • Hang it on the front door like a Christmas wreath
  • Just keep it on the bench at the range
  • Under my kid's pillow
  • Shoved into the compost pile
  • At the bottom of the bird bath
  • Dangling from the chimney flue
  • In the mop bucket at the local diner
  • Baked in a lemon meringue pie
  • Under the largest pumpkin in the garden
  • Buried in a bucket of ice-melt salt
 
If you tell it here, it will no longer be a SECRET hiding place.
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There is no such thing as a "secret" hiding place for a career B&E man.

Even the above cabinet. The sides have to have piano hinges revealing that there is something there.

You can youtube "hiding a gun in a book" for some ideas. But one of the places a B&E guy will look is in/behind books. They'll take all the books down, as well as removing mattresses and drawers.

Given enough time, there's nothing safe. Not even a safe.
 
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