Do you hide 'em from the neighbors?

[M.E.Eldridge]

My nearest neighbor is hundreds of yards away(800-900), so I doubt he would even know when I'm home and when I'm not. I don't hide the fact that I'm a gun owner though and my neigbor even goes rabbit hunting with me sometimes.

 

[DontBurnMyFlag]

i hide nothing. I walk out with glasses on and my earmuffs around my neck. Its kind of invigorating. When I walk out I say "Thats right NJ, Im a gun owner what are you going to do about it" then go on my merry way.

 

[Lupinus]

well I walk from my front door into my driveway pop open the hatch on my camaro and load um up...so no I don't hide it at all and don't see the need to.

I don't wave them around and advertise it, but I don't hide it either.

 

[nvshooter]

I had some not-so-nice-looking young males from what you would think is a country immediately south of the US border who lived across from me. The neighborhood was "tag free" until they moved in. After they'd set up residence, I notice that funny, squiggly, almost cuniform writing in Magic Marker all over the place and seemingly on everything that doesn't move. They'd have their door open at all hours of the day and night, no matter the weather. A seemingly endless line of other young males would troop in and out, many of whom I'd never seen before or after. When these young gentlemen were around, I kept my guns out of sight. I don't even like to have them visible when the young males who were born in America and who live in this complex can see them. My only security is a deadbolt on the door (a good, swift kick will smash it right through) and double-pane windows.

I was taking a walk in the desert a few weeks ago with a friend. We parked his truck in the parking lot of the truckstop and he then stopped inside a store on the way to the desert to grab a little cake and I continued to walk on, my CAR-15 slung over my shoulder. He caught up to me and told me that I was seen carrying the weapon from inside the store. He says they got excited when I walked past the window. He said one guy asked "Is that the new security guy? Is he carrying a BB gun?" The woman behind the counter said "That's no BB gun he's got there." We laugh about that. We took another walk today; I had my CAR and we popped a few shots off at the various trash laying out in the desert. He carries a 10mm Glock when we walk, in case we meet up with a vicious rabbit or something...

 

[Rabid Rabbit]

Around here in western MD everybody is assumed to have multiple guns. Its just a matter of what type and how many.

 

[nvshooter]

I went to truckin' school in Grantsville. I 'spect 'dey is lots o' guns in 'dem houses out 'dat way.

 

[SRMohawk]

NVShooter,
My sympathies to you. I completely understand!

SRM

 

[GW]

I don't hide it, I don't advertise it, I just do it

 

[SFvet]

I have a Federally Marked POV. (The good ole USAF SF Security Police Department of the Air Force United States of America) Insignia. my privet ground is "Clearly marked" and violators will be prosecuted. As eveyone knows..... an excellent deterent is one that "Actually Deters"

 

[phoglund]

Ye gods! After reading these posts I am doubly pleased to live where I do. I don't worry about showing my firearms. I often leave rifles in my truck window carrier. I shot a gopher (ground squirrel) off the back deck this afternoon at about 100 yards with the .17 HMR. If people around here don't know I have guns in the house they aren't particularly perceptive. I also never lock my doors. Actually I hope nobody does lock the doors since I don't think I know where the keys are . If somebody decides they need to break in somewhere around here to steal firearms they don't have to know I have them...most everybody around here does.

 

[one45auto]

I don't take any pains to hide mine. Granted, I don't flaunt them either. My attitude is if my neighbors see them, they see them. Who cares. I also have pro-gun bumper stickers and an NRA window decal on my truck. Never had a problem.

Most of my neighbors are blue state liberals ~ afraid of both firearms and firearms owners. They give me a wide berth and you know what? I kind of like it.

 

[The_Antibubba]

I live in Downtown Sacramento-take a wild guess

I carry my range gear in a backpack, and my "rifle" case is actually a bow case. A neighbor asked me about it once, and I told him I was taking my bow in for reconditioning. I live in an apt complex; advertising isn't a bright idea.

 

[HuntAndFish]

LOL. Kinda hard to hide when rolling a two wheel automatic trap thrower out to the truck. Don't advertise but don't hide it either. No stickers on the vehicles. Insured and the safe is bolted to the floor.

 

[Davo]

Going to and coming from a shooting trip is always an awkward time for me. I knew a guy who kept his M1A in a fender guitar hardcase. It looked good, and does not offend soccer moms.
Still I thought that a theif would be all over that if he could-even if its an electric guitar.

 

[Eleven Mike]

Kinda hard to hide when rolling a two wheel automatic trap thrower out to the truck.

Huh? I don't know how the sight of a weird-looking machine would tip off criminals to your gun collection. There's some at the range where I shoot, but even I wouldn't know what you were wheeling around. I'm not a shotgunner.

kept his M1A in a fender guitar hardcase. It looked good, and does not offend soccer moms.

If that offends 'em, they need offending.

 

[aaronrkelly]

To me a gun is a tool. I dont hide my cordless drill when I carry it from my house to my garage and I dont hide my chainsaw when I put it in the back of my truck. Why would I hide a gun I was carrying to my car. There is no mystery behind a gun.....your carrying a long chunk of steel and wood; unless your a cheap ass and like synthetic stocks

Anyways - I toss guns in carry cases and toss them in the trunk, back seat etc. Got only one neighbor that can see my driveway and shes hardly ever home....I dont worry about it too much. Aint nothing to see, there just guns. I dont have WMDs......

 

[jdkelly]

I dont hide my cordless drill when I carry it from my house to my garage and I dont hide my chainsaw when I put it in the back of my truck. Why would I hide a gun I was carrying to my car. There is no mystery behind a gun.....your carrying a long chunk of steel and wood;

Anyways - I toss guns in carry cases and toss them in the trunk, back seat etc. Got only one neighbor that can see my driveway and shes hardly ever home....I dont worry about it too much.

So you are saying that you don't hide your guns because there is no one to see them?

Some of us can be seen loading our trucks by many people we don't know. I'd guess it's different solutions for different problems.


Respectfully,

jdkelly

 

[Ala Dan]

Att: BullfrogKen

No one said that I would even suspect a fellow LEO of stealing anyone's
firearms for themselves; so less not even go there~! What I said,
was that suppose you are traveling with multiple firearms in your car and
happpened to get stoppped by a LEO on a routine type traffic stop and
the weapons come under scrunity during this period of time.
Then, the LEO uses a quirk in his state law's too confiscate your fireams
and they are taken to the local police property room while you most
likely reside in jail. Upon you posting bond, the judge orders all of these
weapons held for further investigation. Therefore, when you continue on
your way, you are forced too leave the weapons behind; in the custody
of the township where the incident occurred. IMHO, that would make
for a bad day, and certainly ruin what was suppose too be an enjoyable
vacation.

BTW, I am familiar with several incidents of this type occurring in
the state of South Carolina whereas the weapons were NEVER
returned to the rightful owner. Henceforth, my reference to this
particular state~!

 

[swatem]

in and out of the house

When I first moved into my current appartment I would try to conceal my long guns as I went back and forth to the range. (I CHL so I always have a handgun on me). I live in a good town, but on the "bad' side of it. I was afraid of being broken into. But over the last few months I have started just carrying my rifle or shotgun out to the car open. I haven't been broken into, and the pothead deadbeat punks across the street don't look me in the eye anymore. My next door neighbor is a corrections officer, and I don't think they want to get anywhere near our side of the street. My 2 cents on what I have learned.

 

[Srigs]

Yes I do. The attached garage helps and mature pine trees.

 

[aaronrkelly]

So you are saying that you don't hide your guns because there is no one to see them?

Some of us can be seen loading our trucks by many people we don't know. I'd guess it's different solutions for different problems.


Respectfully,

jdkelly

I dont have a "neighbor" that will see my guns but I live across the road from a business and I also live on the major road running thru town. I dont care if someone "casually" gets a glance of me with a gun.

The neighbor portion was refering to the fact I dont think anyone is watching my house waiting for the time to take my guns. It just didnt come out that way.

 

[MikeK]

I don't take any pains to hide mine. Granted, I don't flaunt them either. My attitude is if my neighbors see them, they see them. Who cares. I also have pro-gun bumper stickers and an NRA window decal on my truck. Never had a problem.

Most of my neighbors are blue state liberals ~ afraid of both firearms and firearms owners. They give me a wide berth and you know what? I kind of like it.

Pretty much the same. I also have an NRA decal on the front door window. The one neighbor that commented on it immediately apologized (jokingly) for any negative comments he may have made about me.

 

[Maui19]

I don't want anyone knowing. There's just no good reason to let neighbors and other know what's in my house.

 

[Eleven Mike]

aaronrkelly,

Firstly, some synthetic stocks are far more costly than wood, but I guess you were just being sarcastic. I like wood, too. Guns are tools, but they happen to be tools that criminals really want, but can't always just go down to the store and buy (or steal). Oh, and I wouldn't really get that upset if a criminal used my circular saw in a crime. Can't say the same about my guns.

 

[KC&97TA]

I live in an apartment, it's kind of a pain, but I take a look around before carrying my hard sided rifle case out side, I've been asked and said it was "camera equipment".

I speak only speak of guns to tow of the neighbors that are into hunting, they're the only ones who have have seen my guns and I trust the two of them. Both are married with gun collections of thier own and avid hunters and "normal" people, both of them are active duty military like myself.

When I travel out with the pistols, they're hard cased and then put into a Nike back pack.

How many people carry a couple loaded mags for thier guns when they leave the house with them? I never go anywere with a rifle alone, I always bring a hand gun along and only latch one side of the case, keeping 2 loaded mags in the center cup holder, just incase the SHTF