Do you hide 'em from the neighbors?

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My pistols are cased when going to and from the car. I live with 3 antis, plus one quasi. The only thing the neighbors see is the stainless 38 on my hip.

A side note here, the neighbors across the street say "nice gun!" when they see it, the next door neighbors moved here from whoknowswhere, but they cant believe gun ownership is legal...
 
People aren't really looking at me loading my car, so I don't worry about cased rifles. My range bag is a navy blue Land's End diaper bag :D so I'm worried even less about that. I needed a bag, my wife no longer used it. It's really perfect for the job, lots of compartments.

-Jeff
 
Hiding to me would indicate that I was embarrased or ashamed of what I am doing. I'm not.

I don't advertise... no NRA stickers and so forth... but all my neighbors know I shoot. Some of them ask me gun related questions, most don't care one way or the other.

My neighbor's wife doesn't like guns at all, and she works at the Walmart where I buy ammo :) Her husband asked me if he and his son could go to the range with me this spring :D
 
A few of the neighbors know that I have guns but no real specifics. I don't specifically hide them, but I certainly don't advertise especially to people that I don't know. I'm quite sure the postman knows my gun interest :) I try not to load or unload the vehicle if neighbors are outside. My thought is that the family is safer with the reduced break-in risk.
 
I don't make a big deal out of hiding my pistol case when go out to my car. It goes into the back seat floor, close door drive away. My pistol cases are black, nondiscript, and don't shout "gun".
Most people I've found, look,but fail to "SEE" what they're looking at. People for the most part see what they expect to see....not what is really there. Look at eye wittness acounts, five people, five different accounts!
 
My garage entrance is in back of my house which makes it convenient to back in and load the armory into the car. Suppose my neighbors next to me could see, but don't really care; they seem upstanding.
 
I was raised not to talk about or advertise any valuables my family had. I grew up out in the country near a small town. Anything you say can spread around pretty quick if you let it. It is amazing who can hear you are going on vacation and stuff like that. I guess that habit still sticks with me. If an acquaintence finds out I like to shoot, the first question is always "How many guns do you have?" I am always a bit cagey about answering and some people take that the wrong way.

Now, I am unmarried and live alone in a townhome. There are a number of hours in the day when I am not home. Sometimes I travel with work as well. I can't afford to have all my neighbors know what is in my house. Luckily, I have a garage and a privacy fence on the patio so I can load and unload in relative privacy.

Friend of a friend has almost his entire gun collection stolen a couple years ago. He didn't have a safe. He figures it was a couple guys who came to work on his house who came back and did it. The tragic part is he had an inventory on a floppy disk and the disk was corrupted when he tried to pull it up.
 
These posts make me extremely happy to live in a rural area. There is no reason to hide anything from my neighbors.They will see it the next time we shoot.
 
Around here I don't hide my guns, because I don't want to be some kind of freak who is known as "the guy who doesn't have any guns."

Most folks have a rifle, or two, or three, hanging in the back of the cab of their pickup and even in a very rural area the local gun club has over 1000 members. We're up to about a 10 percent CCW rate in this area. One of the funniest things I ever saw was several years ago at a City Council meeting, we had a crazy guy ranting and raving at the Council. He made a quick move inside his coat and instantly 7 city councilors, the city adminsitrator and the city recorder all did the same. Fortunately he came out with a tape recorder and everyone relaxed, but afterwards we all had a good laugh.

Just one of the reasons I moved west many years ago.
 
my parents live in a rural area so I have no problems there, for a while I was living in an appartment complex in Liverpool, just outside of Syracuse. when I moved in it was a quiet neighborhood, but after a couple of months some less than desireable individuals started to move in, me and my roommate never had any problems, of course it was pretty well known I had guns, always going hunting and to the range, but within a week of me moving out my roommate had his computer stolen from the appartment while he was at work. guess the punk who did knew that there was no longer a threat to break in.
 
M2 Carbine

If you are ever unfortunate enough to have to shoot someone in your home, you'd be way better off without that sign. You may have a perfectly good SD shoot, but the cops and the DA may see you as someone itching to shoot someone.
 
I back the car up to the garage, load the rifles and range case, and then shut the trunk and leave. No one needs to know, and if my next door neighbor is in a position to see, I'll just go inside for a couple of minutes.

Some of my friends and family know about my guns, but none of them will ever say anything.

As for protection gained from letting criminals know you have a gun...this is Texas, and the default assumption for a perp is that the homeowner has a piece (or 6).
 
I'm in the Uk so no CCW but still lug my gun cases out the front door, across the road and into the car, can't really hide them.
My bigger concern is making sure I don't pick up a tail on the way home from the range.:eek:
Always try to come home a different route and spend more time looking in my mirrors than where I'm going:)
Having a trunk full of guns doesn't help when you have one pressed against your temple at the traffic lights, even getting hit from behind and rammed of the road can still happen, thankfully that hasn't happened here.....yet.
 
Sam Adams
If you are ever unfortunate enough to have to shoot someone in your home, you'd be way better off without that sign. You may have a perfectly good SD shoot, but the cops and the DA may see you as someone itching to shoot someone.
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I don't agree Sam. A good shoot is a good shoot.
And thankfully, in our state we have the laws on our side.:)
 
Hiding to me would indicate that I was embarrased or ashamed of what I am doing. I'm not---cmidkiff
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Hiding firearms, and their storage location, from people I don't know seems like good sense to me.


Respectfully,

jdkelly
 
I think I may have given myself away a couple of yrs ago when I blasted a skunk in m backyard with a 12 ga. This was after the 911 dispatcher said to go ahead and shoot it if I could do it safely. (We had 4 confirmed rabid skunks in our county that yr.) My next door neighbor was going to shoot it, but he didn't make it back in time from borrowing a .22 from his brother across town...he's totally PW'd, his wife won't allow a gun in their house.

Our town has a definite "backwoods" ambiance. It's a "Uni-ethnic" community, well, there is one lady from the PI hereabouts but she was essentially a mail order bride. I don't think there's ever been such a thing as an "unsolved burglary" here. Somebody knows somebody who knows who did it and sooner or later somebody will run their mouth. Just the same, we take security measures that are probably far beyond those of the lifelong residents.

No delegation of concerned citizens has shown up on my front porch after I've loaded guns into/out of the house about 100 yds from the elementary school with the playground full of kids during recess.

My safe is tucked into a closet with shelves built around it so that it can't come out of the doorway without dismanteling the screwed-together shelves that are also screwed through the drywall to the studs. The safe is also bolted through the floor.

In other locales I've been far more circumspect.
 
I don't advertise, but then again I don't hide it either. Some of my neighbors have seem me lugging out my range bag, ammo can and rifle case to my truck. None have commented and that's the way I like it. I live in a small townhouse community so the neighbors are very close to each other. On one side of me is a lesbian married couple and on the other is a lady in her 50s that still has a slightly mentally handicapped son living with her. They are both very nice and quite and I am the same to them.
 
Same thing. I don't advertise, but I don't make a large effort to hide. I think of it more in terms of asset management than about how people politically view me. It's the same to me as moving around high-end home entertainment system gear, computer gear, or an art collection. People don't need to know and I am not trying to advertise to perhaps someone visiting a neighbor or a bad relative who might try to think of stealing them.
 
Looks like I'm not the only one who doesn't want to reveal my tiny arsenal.

Hiding to me would indicate that I was embarrased or ashamed of what I am doing. I'm not.
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I don't think so; it would just indicate that you don't want criminal types to find out where they can steal guns from. Unless, of course, you never leave the house.
 
I'm not too worried.

I've only got one neighbor who could readily see me taking my guns between my house and car. He lives in a solid brick house with lots of antennas, on a hill surrounded by a 7' razor wire fence with an electrically operated gate watched by a security camera, and he's got a Gunsite sticker on the back of his Bronco.:D

Seems like my kinda guy, I'm not worried about him.
 
I live in the bluest county of a blue state. I always load/unload my stuff only after pulling into the garage.
 
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