Steel Horse Rider
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What guns?????
Do you display your guns?
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Old Checkered Wool
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Short answer is No and No for me.
I use to wear the 2nd amendment on my sleeve when I was a wee bit younger. I had so much pride in firearm ownership and would let my lips do some flapping that they shouldn't have been doing. It wasn't long before the "wrong people" overheard my conversation and I got burned.
After being burned once, I swore it would never happen again, but lo and behold about 9 years later, I was followed home from the local gun store (unbeknownst to me) my house was cased for 3 weeks (also unbeknownst to me) Then one day while I was at work, my house was broken into and robbed for some pretty substantial property.
It was after that day that I scraped off all my bumper stickers, NRA, 3%er, Don't Tread on Me logos off my vehicles. I also make extra sure that I don't have a "tail" following me home from a local gun store. I also travel greater distances to gun stores so there is less likelihood of someone recognizing my vehicle.
When these things happen to you, it is not a good feeling.
If I want to display my firearms, it will be to myself. If I want to pull them out and look at them, admire, clean, take apart, ect...... I know where they are. Besides my wife and myself, nobody knows where they are.
I use to wear the 2nd amendment on my sleeve when I was a wee bit younger. I had so much pride in firearm ownership and would let my lips do some flapping that they shouldn't have been doing. It wasn't long before the "wrong people" overheard my conversation and I got burned.
After being burned once, I swore it would never happen again, but lo and behold about 9 years later, I was followed home from the local gun store (unbeknownst to me) my house was cased for 3 weeks (also unbeknownst to me) Then one day while I was at work, my house was broken into and robbed for some pretty substantial property.
It was after that day that I scraped off all my bumper stickers, NRA, 3%er, Don't Tread on Me logos off my vehicles. I also make extra sure that I don't have a "tail" following me home from a local gun store. I also travel greater distances to gun stores so there is less likelihood of someone recognizing my vehicle.
When these things happen to you, it is not a good feeling.
If I want to display my firearms, it will be to myself. If I want to pull them out and look at them, admire, clean, take apart, ect...... I know where they are. Besides my wife and myself, nobody knows where they are.
Twiki357
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I have an old style glass front rifle cabinet in the living room. I figure that any intruder is going to spot that before they get to anything else and open the unlocked door with a micro-switch that’s connected to an old fire alarm bell. My hope is that’s as far as they will get.
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pockets
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No.
Sure, like many others, I displayed them when I was young and just could not resist showing everyone what I owned.
I'm much older and far wiser now....so; No, I don't feel the need to display anything for anyone for any reason.
Haven't had a sticker on my vehicles for many years either.
Sure, like many others, I displayed them when I was young and just could not resist showing everyone what I owned.
I'm much older and far wiser now....so; No, I don't feel the need to display anything for anyone for any reason.
Haven't had a sticker on my vehicles for many years either.
bannockburn
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No to any guns on display and no to any other kind of indication (photos, books, gun cleaning stuff, bumper stickers, etc.), that I own any guns. Even have my gun safes fairly well hidden and out of sight.
GBExpat
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FWIW, if we had built this house with a nice fireplace, I would almost certainly have acquired a nice-looking (working) rifle musket to hang above the mantle.
My sister & I have such a place near White Sulphur Springs, but it only sees holiday use, so no firearms "live" there.
Sav .250
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More of a personal choice.
Coyote3855
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Only if I'm about to use it.
Saw-Bones
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Yup. I keep a Daisy .177 caliber Red Ryder resting in a horseshoe rack over the top of the frame of the back door. It’s at the ready to pop the neighboring dogs in the butt that come around to steal my adopted runt-dog’s food. A mans got to do what a mans got to do!
Otherwise, no. It’s like advertising what you have to steal and you know that thieves aren’t anti-gun… unless it’s pointed at them.
Otherwise, no. It’s like advertising what you have to steal and you know that thieves aren’t anti-gun… unless it’s pointed at them.
SSN Vet
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Though I'd prefer to have a nice looking gun case with glass door panels, I keep all firearms under lock and key, out of sight.
I just don't want to advertise what I have to any and everybody who happens to come in the house.
Perhaps if I had a secure room for just my stuff, then I would feel it was safe to display items.
I just don't want to advertise what I have to any and everybody who happens to come in the house.
Perhaps if I had a secure room for just my stuff, then I would feel it was safe to display items.
horsemen61
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Well I would but I lost them in a boating accident they all went to the bottom forevermore 
alexander45
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I have been thinking about getting a rifle rack for on the wall its better that having then stuffed in the back of the closet
Ed Ames
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Tangent, but hopefully not a major one: how many of the "no, never" posters have a large screen TV visible from the street?
I drive through neighborhoods and it is normal to see 60-90 inch TVs arranged so you can watch them from the street. Each of those TVs is proof that the resident had at least $1000, and likely $3000+, to blow on something strictly for entertainment. That means they probably have other stuff worth stealing.
Anyway...
I like to keep a flintlock pistol or something similar on display. It is something well built, with history, but not much chance it will be used by irresponsible parties. It has monetary value but so do the guitars and pictures on my walls.
I drive through neighborhoods and it is normal to see 60-90 inch TVs arranged so you can watch them from the street. Each of those TVs is proof that the resident had at least $1000, and likely $3000+, to blow on something strictly for entertainment. That means they probably have other stuff worth stealing.
Anyway...
I like to keep a flintlock pistol or something similar on display. It is something well built, with history, but not much chance it will be used by irresponsible parties. It has monetary value but so do the guitars and pictures on my walls.
12131
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Yes, but only when at the range, or if I have to defend myself or my loved ones.
SwaneeSR
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No, the only firearms out of the safe are either in quick access safes for HD or in my Jeep or Truck on the way to/from the range.
My mom and dad went to a Christmas party once. My dad and I were discussing his gunsafe sometime later and my dad brought up this Christmas party. The owner of the house had a walk-in gun room and was giving everyone a tour of his extensive collection. I agreed with my dad that it would have been better to not advertise such a big collection. Especially in a rural area.
No need to show off. My kids are even trained, no access to even the outside of the gunsafe when friends are over at the house.
My mom and dad went to a Christmas party once. My dad and I were discussing his gunsafe sometime later and my dad brought up this Christmas party. The owner of the house had a walk-in gun room and was giving everyone a tour of his extensive collection. I agreed with my dad that it would have been better to not advertise such a big collection. Especially in a rural area.
No need to show off. My kids are even trained, no access to even the outside of the gunsafe when friends are over at the house.
Panzerschwein
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I agree.
PhilMc
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All are locked up and I do not discuss much "gun stuff with anyone I don't trust. I never have had NRA stickers or such on my car.
tark
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My least valuable guns are displayed in plain sight, for any burglar to see. They are all missing firing pins. I call them my "bait" guns. My REAL valuables are locked in a safe, hidden in the basement. behind a mountain of garbage. The room they are in looks like the aftermath of a boiler explosion in a whorehouse. It looks like the junk room you throw stuff in to get it out of your sight.
Hopefully, if I am robbed, the perps will grab up the bait guns without tearing the house to pieces and run off thinking they struck it rich. That is, IF they get away before the Sheriff shows up.
I am alarmed to the max.
Hopefully, if I am robbed, the perps will grab up the bait guns without tearing the house to pieces and run off thinking they struck it rich. That is, IF they get away before the Sheriff shows up.
I am alarmed to the max.
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