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

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What is *RSC*?

Todd.
I think it is a reference to a Residential Security Container. A RSC meets certain specifications while a Safe meets another more strict set of specifications. Specifications like fire and how well at what temperatures a RSC verse Safe will stand up to before the contents are toast be the contents jewelry or guns matters not. I guess it is all about meeting specifications.

Ron
 
That was the same in Germany until 1972. Rifles were sold to anyone over 18 years old, or who looked old enough and had the money.

I also remember going to the Woolworth on 163rd Street in Miami Beach to buy a stroller for my oldest son and while my wife chose the stroller, I walked over to the rack with dozens and dozens of surplus M1 Carbines for sale. That was barely 30 years ago and society has changed a lot in that time!
Back in those days guns were traditional wood and metal "hunting" rifles and shotguns. We never heard of "Assault rifles" or "Tactical " shotguns. Back in those days guns were sold in mainly hardware and department stores in the " Sporting" department. Go into a lot of gun stores today and see what's hanging on the wall. You can hardly call them "Sporting". Back then people didn't hoard ammo. No need to fear a rabbit or squirrel attack or deer invasion of your home. Society has changed. For the Good?? Or Bad?
Yes, There were the bad guys. Just like today. Always has been, Always will be. To me, What has changed. Hate,Greed and Envy preached 24 hours a day by our beloved politicians and new Media.
 
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A rifle is a rifle. It doesn't matter in the least that stupid people call them "assault" or "tactical" or "sporting" as if "this one is evil but that one is OK". It's just a rifle. Personal interpretations have no purpose.
 
Many of the people I know have an old, beat up single shot scattergun of some description stuck behind their kitchen door. Generally loaded with hb #6 shot, for use against any critter foolish enough to raid their garden, bee yard, or hen house. Mine is a Stevens 1915 12 gauge with broken stock repaired with rawhide. Works pretty darn good, just don't miss.

Mac
Mine is my grown up kids New England Firearms .20 gauge one shot beater. By the kitchen door.
 
Still display them. Living in a red state, in a good small town, and good neighborhood, makes a big difference. If I lived in a city, no way. Where I live? No problem. You won’t make it through the front door to even see them if I’m not home. My very large Catahoula and Saint Dane will ensure that.
 
A rifle is a rifle. It doesn't matter in the least that stupid people call them "assault" or "tactical" or "sporting" as if "this one is evil but that one is OK". It's just a rifle. Personal interpretations have no purpose.
You absolutely correct. Rifle is a rifle . It's people. "Assault" "Tactical" The mindset of people. Hate, Greed and Envy.
 
I still have my wood gun cabinet with etched glass door. It's in my garage buried behind my boat. It hasn't been used in years. I made a wall hanger for my guns when I was in High School. It would hold 3 guns. Shop teacher said I needed more guns.
I have guns in several places but none are visible.
 
My kids are adults, someone is always home, and we don’t entertain nor need repairmen. So, I’ll take things out of the safe and position them where I can enjoy and / or need them.

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Openly displaying in view from outside you house is just not done anymore. If its not potential thieves its nosy folks with a political bent. The safe business is huge and growing as is security stuff. States requiring stuff to be under lock and key is another impact. BTW when buying a new gun it may be wise bring your own lock ( or buy theirs) and don't do the waiver thing by indicating you have a safe ( or provide any details about it.) Some states collect this info in addition to your name and address.
 
In view from outside your home is surely unwise. I don’t want people seeing in our garage either, or any window at night. But I also live on acreage in the sticks and can’t see my neighbors homes...but you never know who might poke around regardless of where you live.

Our German Shepherd ran off one ex con who was deranged and living in the woods. My three kids were outside at the time (11 yr old boy, twin 8 yr old boy & girl) with Lily on guard when the guy came out of the wood and approached my younger son. Long story, I’ll post in the appropriate forum sometime....but the dog ran him off and he was picked up by the local police 8 hours later.

I was doing some tiling in the kitchen, heard the dog, and grabbed my .45 that was on top of the fridge. He was long gone in the 30 seconds or so it took me to grab a gun and get on point. If everything was in the safe, I might as not as well not have them at all. Well, I take that back...I’d never want to give them up....but in states like Massachusetts where they must be unloaded AND in a safe? Forget it, I’d move.

Ever since, I usually carry at home and always out on the back 40.
 
Security systems with indoor and outdoor internet linked motion detection cameras may really change things. I tried one and was amazed.
 
Security systems with indoor and outdoor internet linked motion detection cameras may really change things. I tried one and was amazed.
And inexpensive too, we have some Nest devices...but I’ve read of them being hacked (door bells, ‘swatting’ pranks) as well. We’ve got indoor and outdoor cameras, not too worried about them being hacked and they work great.
 
I certainly remember well the days of wood gun cabinets with glass doors! But I think we're trying to make a virtue out of vice here. We had 'em because we were poor hillbillies/rednecks. They do nothing to protect your guns from humidity or theft, much less fire. For all the worry about gun laws the primary threats to well maintained guns are theft and house fires. Of course we had gun racks in our trucks, definitely a mixture of living in a different time and growing up in a podunk, one-horse town. Even when I was a kid in the 70's and 80's growing up in rural South Dakota you wouldn't be stupid enough to park your truck on the streets in Rapid City or Sioux Falls at night with your rifle still in the rack, at least not if you wanted it to be there in the morning.
 
Had a wood gun cabinet with glass front as a teenager. Rifle racks in pick ups were not uncommon, this is late 70's early 80's. Noticed and change in the mid 90's when my kids started to have friends come over and the Glass gun cabinet made some uncomfortable, thats when I went to wall safe. And I am from Long Island New York, how times change.
 
Then there's all the laws that make it illegal to display unsecured guns period. Then again its ok to walk into a bank wearing a mask.
 
We actually built gun racks in Industrial Arts class in Junior High. Mine was in my bedroom holding a couple of shotguns and a couple of rifles until I left home and they converted my bedroom to a sewing room and the gun rack disappeared.

Also had gun racks in the back window of various trucks. My stepfather's company vans had gun racks on the inside because we worked a lot out in the boonies and you never knew when an opportunity might present itself.

And of course we had the glass door gun cabinets also.
 
Not to change the subject, but I didn't have much interest in handling any of the guns on display in that cabinet when Mom and Dad weren't around. The gun that did interest me, and I did pick up and play with once in a while when my folks weren't around was the revolver (I think it was a .357) that Dad kept hidden in a the top drawer of the dresser in their bedroom.;)

My Dad was a State Police Sgt and my parents were divorced. The bedroom I slept in doubled as his office and had a four drawer cabinet in there. He showed me an old semi-auto pistol that he kept in there. It might have been a Makorav. Dire consequences if I touched it. If I was in the house alone I would take it out, disassemble it, wipe it down, and just mess with it. He didn't even have ammo for it.

I told him many years later when he was dying and he said "of course you did" and laughed. I don't know what became of that pistol.
 
I had a beautiful glass inclosed gun cabinet made over from a homemade china cabinet a gentalman lovingly made for his wife out of knotty pine.
After he passed away her daughter moved in and her husband tore the whole dinning area out and tossed it to the curb. I asked and salvaged it and remade it into my gun case where I could display all my guns and knives proudly. As time went on I was told insurance co. and lawyers were trying to pass a " law " that if someone stoled an unsecured weapon and did harm you could be held responsible and sued. Don't know if it ever passed but I know lawyers around
here would jump on it like bears to honey. Needless to say all I own is in a heavy safe now. God help the person that tries to break into that.
 
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