Do you hide 'em from the neighbors?

[Eleven Mike]

Do you sneak your guns in and out of the house so no one will target your house to plunder while you're gone?

Or do you prefer that all and sundry learn to fear you?

Or are you discreet at all times?

I ask because I once lived in a bad neighborhood and snuck my long guns from the front door to the car, and vice versa. I figured even if my neighbors wouldn't rob me, they might blab to their cousin who just got out of the big house and is looking to re-arm. Heaven help the man who breaks in while I'm at home, but when I'm gone, that's another story.

 

[Drav]

I hide 'em from prying eyes. Letting my german shepherd do her business in the front yard and walking her up and down the street every night is plenty deterrent. Everyone on the street knows I have her, good enough for me.

 

[Zen21Tao]

Enough Said

 

[ocabj]

I don't advertise guns. No NRA stickers on the cars parked outside. When I load the gear in the truck to go to the range, I pull into the garage.

 

[gbran]

I don't advertise. My gun safe is very safe, but I don't need the lure of others knowing I have guns.

 

[PlayboyPenguin]

I trot on out to my truck with my goggles on top of my head, my hearing protecting around my neck and my nice big shiny gun case at least once a week...usually twice. I hide nothing. I have had a couple of neighbors ask me what I am doing and I say "going to the range". One of my neighbors is an LEO so he just waves and knows where I am going.

 

[glockamolee]

Discretion.... loose lips sink ships; and gun collections. Only bring them out in time of disaster

 

[PinnedAndRecessed]

My friend sells guns and gun safes. He says that in 100% of the cases where he has known people who had guns stolen, that the guns were stolen by friends, acquaintences, etc., of the gun owners.

He also said that any safe can be broken into with a circular saw and masonry blade, given enough time.

Nobody knows what I've got. And, yes, I carry my firearms very discreetly to my vehicle whenever I leave the house.

 

[CajunBass]

It has never crossed my mind to do such a thing.

 

[30-06 lover]

My dad always taught me to be hide 'em, but now I don't care all that much. I dont walk around with guns in the open screaming "look I have a gun!", but I'll walk them to the car in a case. If you can get into the safe, you can have 'em, but I wouldn't suggest trying that.

 

[rnovi]

I don't advertise them. I do have a big Cannon gun safe in the garage and I do know that some of my neighbors know about it (heh, especially my cross the street neighbor who is building a house in Idaho and is complaining about the elk on his property...), but I don't advertise.

I certainly don't advertise the XD loaded with 9mm Hydrashocks in my wife's nightstand or the 1911 with hydrashocks in my nightstand either.

Some things the neighbors just don't need to know about.

 

[medmo]

Every one should sneak them in and out. Every one should also check their home owners insurance policy. Most have a clause of firearm loss at $2500 or less as coverage. Firearm loss is not included as a loss in the general policy regardless what the "property loss" states. You will need a rider on the policy. Check your policy before you need it. This includes loss from theft and fire.

 

[M2 Carbine]

I shoot pistols or rifles out back every few days. If anyone around here doesn't know I have guns, they aren't paying attention.

I've got gun stickers on the vehicles and this in the window.
Any potential BG can't say they haven't been warned.

 

[Molon Labe]

My buddies and I routinely go in the backyard and blast away with semi-auto rifles and a .50 BMG. So all the neighbors in a 3 mile radius know I have guns. I'm the talk of the town.

 

[distra]

My neighbors are pretty cool. Of course we live in the country with farms and woods around us. I tend to share my enthusiasm with one of my neighbors. I take him shooting and let him check out my new peices when I bring them home. He's a school teacher who used to shoot and provided an excellent reference for me in my gun club application process. Other neighbor's a prison guard, but his wife is an anti so no guns for him Too bad 'cause he really wants to go shooting with me I think I'll take him quietly one day this spring Other neighbors are farmers and have rifles etc used in farming.

 

[Matthew748]

I don't advertise the fact I have guns on hand. I am an early bird, so by the time most people are just waking up I have already dressed, had breakfast, been on the internet for an hour, and loaded my car with gear. For transport I try to use discreet cases. There is no sense in tempting fate.

 

[Geno]

I keep them locked in a vault--

It's nearly impossible to truly "hide" them. When I go away on vacation, I pack them all, or at least the "valuable" ones and take them with me. By the way, all, you all HAVE remembered to BOLT your vault to the floor, correct?

Doc2005

 

[U.S.SFC_RET]

Hidden gun safe. Loose lips sink ships.

 

[Jubei]

I've always tried to be discreet with my guns. Although in the last apartment complex I lived in I was known as "the crazy guy with the swords" (I collect knives and swords).

A buddy of mine down in Arizona, was having a rash of break-ins in and around his apartments. He taped one of his targets in his window and wrote "15 round magazine at 20 yards" on it with a magic marker. His apartment was never broken into.

Jubei

 

[Ala Dan]

Carrying multiple guns on a vacation outing could prove too be a bad idea. Just suppose that for some ungodly reason you got stopped
out of state, by a state trooper and the guns were discovered. He/she
trumphs up some charge in order too confiscate your firearms. You may
be SOL, and may never get your firearms back, even with a damn
good attorney. Here in the "Deep South", South Carolina is the state that
we have too worry about, cuz those (insert your favorite cuss word) will
not honor any other state's CCW license.

When traveling to another locale, out of state I want to carry the least
expensive firearm that I own. So, in case in gets taken (or stolen) they
will get a $200 Bersa Thunder DT .380, and not my Les Baer Thunder
Ranch Special .45 ACP~!

Back too the original question, NO I don't advestise my weapons. But,
my neighbors know that I'm a former LEO; therefore they know I will
come after them quicker than stink forms on #2. All of my weapons
are secured inside my safe, surrounded by a state of the art security
system, security bars and doors, and a few landsharks.

 

[Eleven Mike]

Note to those who live in the boondocks, where your neighbors can barely see your house on a clear day. You lucky punks!

I know how lucky you are, cause my parents' house was and is out on a gravel road where the neighbors would need binoculars to see any rifle cases being loaded up in the driveway. We know and trust both families.

If one has no garage, how do you disguise a cased rifle? The only thing I have long enough to do so is a rucksack which must be extended fully to barely cover the case.

What do you wrap them in a carpet remnant?

 

[SSN Vet]

that's another good reason why....

I live at the end of a long gravel drive in the woods, with the nearest neighbors ~800 ft away.

Heck...we lived in the still incomplete house for 5 years before we got curtains on the windows.

 

[22-rimfire]

I generally feel anyone who brings guns in and out of their residence needs to maintain a low profile. This is especially true if you live in an apartment complex. If you have a garage, load and unload (not ammunition) the firearms there. I generally cover firearms in the car/truck if possible. Blankets work nicely. Small canvas tarp works good to wrap a long gun if you are concerned about people seeing you. Guns always unloaded to and from where ever you are planning on using them or in the case of hunting, hoping to use them.

 

[tenbase]

I live in a 275-unit condo, so it's hard to hide the fact big heavy boxes are regularly delivered to the front office, addressed to me and conspicuously marked "SMALL ARMS AMMUNITION"

That and the American Rifleman mags are sort of a tip-off.

*shakes fist at current living situation*

 

[rbernie]

how do you disguise a cased rifle?

I use double-rifle cases that look like guitar cases. Nobody on my street asks questions....