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Bits and pieces in other threads inspired me to bring it all together here.

Gone, sadly, are the days when I could ride with a gun rack in the window.
With strict control and decreasing % of population owning thieves are targeting owners increasingly.

So... How do we camouflage our guns.
All posts from hiding your gun safe from thieves to concealing the lock box in a vehicle to CCW carry. Emphasis on hiding in plain sight.

How do you disguise your gun safe? Or do you?

What about those bedside handgun safes that scream "Steal Me!"

If you keep a vehicle gun, in a lock box? Under the seat or more concealed?

CCW's do you carry under a shirt? Or disguise that bulge with a man purse or hip pack?

I realize that between disguising my safe as a pile of old boxes of yearbooks and baby clothes, disguising my truck box as an under-seat per-amp, travel with my Bible (lockable 'Book Safe") camp carry in a maxpedition bag with a hidden holster zipper, and keeping my ammo in a giant rolling igloo cooler that my life almost looks gun free.
Now i just need a way to carry long rifles and make them look like golf clubs!
 
I heard somewhere once that in a wallpapered room, you could cut a hole in the dry-wall, hang a nail on the stud, hang a loaded gun on there and then put wallpaper over the hole. A serious SHTF scenario but it's "camouflaged" and would be fun to do.
 
Make the alphabets hunt, leave some realistic fake kids guns in traditional hiding spaces, a LOT of places, make it a game, slap something back in their arrogant faces, make them tie up resources and all they will get is chinese toys.

Hide guns elsewhere and never tell anyone. And not here.
 
I made a cradle/holster to fit in the center console of my car. When the lid is opened the grip is presented in a way that doesn't make you fumble around getting it out.
 
put up "Gun Free Zone" signs that will hide the fact that you have guns :D
will probably make it more likely that your house will be tested about that fact though.
 
An empty milk carton (washed!) in the fridge makes a good hiding place for a small pistol. The interior of a large, heavy chiming clock like my cast-iron Ansonia has plenty of room and is easily accessed from behind. Stealing such a clock would be a major effort and relatively unprofitable, and metal detectors obviously would be baffled by the cast-iron clock body. Somewhat similarly with my Edison cabinet phonograph (remember Sean Connory in "The Untouchables"? I have the same or a darned similar phonograph, and keep a gun (not similar to his Overland) therein. If you have a room with a hung ceiling, make a shelf above an old iron drainpipe above the removable ceiling tile.

Don't worry, I'm not giving away my best hides.

- Mister Hide
 
"I heard somewhere once that in a wallpapered room, you could cut a hole in the dry-wall, hang a nail on the stud, hang a loaded gun on there and then put wallpaper over the hole. A serious SHTF scenario but it's "camouflaged" and would be fun to do."- hadmanysons

I saw what you explained in a tv show scene once, it was from season 1 of Terminator:The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
 
I once had fairly thick, wooden living room coffee table where I kept a small pistol right up under it. Provided quick access if someone broke in as it was in front of my couch. Was virtually hidden from anyone coming over and why would anyone look there during a robbery?
 
clemson: "I once had fairly thick, wooden living room coffee table where I kept a small pistol right up under it. Provided quick access if someone broke in as it was in front of my couch. Was virtually hidden from anyone coming over and why would anyone look there during a robbery?"

Burglars and robbers flip over the coffee tables, large chairs and couches for this very reason.

People think the burglars "trash" their place out of spite, but usually it's just a quick and rough search of common hiding places.
 
For the guns that you won't need in the heat of the moment, you can always disassemble them and put components in different places. I would think most thieves would not recognize them right away. Has anyone tried that?
 
ChronoCube: "For the guns that you won't need in the heat of the moment, you can always disassemble them and put components in different places. I would think most thieves would not recognize them right away. Has anyone tried that?"

Years ago I knew a guy (online) who took the bolts out of his vintage military rifles when he took them over to the range to shoot, in order to prevent misuse, accidental discharge or theft. Well, someone grabbed his bag of bolts, for whatever reason. He had to buy replacement bolts, at a unit cost approaching what he paid for some of the entire guns, which bolt numbers now mismatched those of his rifles. He was rather miffed. I lost touch with him years and years ago, so I don't know what happened in the end.
 
i know a guy that lived in small house an had a short hallway between two closets.... he put up a rack of guns on the ceiling an built a false ceiling below it complete with mouldings..........

the 2nd amendment is not about hunting........................
 
My home is too small for camo. And it's usually occupied 24/7.

Castle Doctrine in our area too. That door comes smashing down, there will be rounds returned through there.
 
1. Place gun on chair.
2. Place algebra book on gun.

Nobody willingly messes with algebra.

Works in the car too, as long as the person can read.

I'm not giving up any other secrets or hiding places.

JT
 
Get a safe and install it in a way that it will be a major PIA to get out. Do not leave your glock 35, 12 mags, 1000+ rounds, spare parts, all in a neat little bag that says GLOCK right on the side sitting in the closet. I cought myself doing this after shooting ipsc events then one day my wife says "if some one breaks in they will get all your compition stuff and you packed it for them". Now I make sure atleast the gun is in the safe but not usuly room for everything else. I have had pretty much every house I have lived in broken into since I was a little kid and this is what I have seen. BG's will use your luggage, bags, pilow casses what ever to pack off your stuff. They will turn over things like couches and tables and dump your freezer full of elk out. Pictures will come off the wall and the more time they have the more destruction you should expect. Pepper spray will stop a big dog long enough to lock it in a bathroom.
 
"I heard somewhere once that in a wallpapered room, you could cut a hole in the dry-wall, hang a nail on the stud, hang a loaded gun on there and then put wallpaper over the hole. A serious SHTF scenario but it's "camouflaged" and would be fun to do."- hadmanysons

Good idea but,you better remember exactly where the hole is or else you will have to shoot off hand. LOL
 
In Missouri, we have a "peaceable journey" law. Anyone can carry any gun, in any manner, anywhere, as long as it's in your privately owned vehicle. You can throw the loaded gun up on the dashboard if you want.

I have a holster mounted near my gearshift that keeps my gun in easy reach.

But, there are some states where it is required to be concealed.

For this, I merely place my pistol in an empty Cheetos bag (I've seen this on T.V. somewhere) and place it on my center console like I'm eatin' Cheetos.

It's still easily accessible. I can shoot right through the bag. Yet, it's concealed.
 
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