How do you display your firearms? shelves, pegboards, cabinets, or?

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My girlfriend got some of those decorating stands that you can nail to the wall. She keeps bugging me on ideas for what things to put on them. While her back was turned, I tried out my own idea. :evil:

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Needless to say the idea was shot down. :scrutiny: But that got me thinking, what would be a good way to display firearms at home? Otherwise they're just sitting the gunsafe. I've some beautiful collection photos, and I am thinking one day to devote one room and convert it to a gun room only. This is assuming the house or gun room will be secured and you don't worry about the kids, or burgulars.
 
A SECURE cabinet would be best. The last thing we want to do is fuel the illegal firearms trade by allowing thieves to snatch our guns while we're away.

Of course just about anyone can break glass and take them, and anything that's made with Lexan is probably not going to look good (unless you retrofit some nice wood furniture with it). The best place is, of course, in the safe.
 
Furthermore, leaving a gun "rested" on a stand somewhere is asking for the gun to be knocked over in the event of an earthquake, careless admirer, girlfriend, etc...

I agree... if you want to display your gun collection, best way is to get a gun cabinet with glass doors. And Lock it up, only you having the keys.
 
mount your guns on the back of a book shelf and rig it so that it turns 180 degrees to show/hide the guns. :cool:
 
I don't.

I don't even show them to people unless I've known them long enough to bestowe the honor of the "Opening of the Gun Safe" upon them. ;)
 
I normally just open whatever rifle and/or handgun case I took to the range with me.

I do recall finding a link here to a company that made something like the wooden gun cabinets you used see everywhere, but they were made out of 10 gauge steel and the glass in the door was lexan, or something simular.
 
I don't display mine..afraid someone might like them enough to come and get them when I'm not home. I keep them out of sight, in secure places.. No one know's what guns I own but my wife...
 
I don't even show them to people unless I've known them long enough to bestowe the honor of the "Opening of the Gun Safe" upon them
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Ditto. And in the past 14 years, that's just been one person.
 
UberPhLuBB, I found that link while googling for the other one. The one I was reffering to had a film on it to make it look like a wooden cabinet, and if I'm not mistaken it had drawers like the old ones did.

Oh, I do sheetmetal fabrication for a living. At some point I want to build a lockbox to put behind the seat of my truck, but the company I work for was recently sold and I dont know if we'll still be able to buy raw materials.
 
Years ago, before I was a gun owner, my husband and I were shopping for a house to buy. One of the houses we looked at was owned by a serious no-holds-barred gun collector -- there were guns on literally every horizontal surface in the house except the floor, hanging on every wall, propped up in every windowsill, and leaned against the wall in every closed.

To this day I've never seen so many guns in one location.

We didn't buy the house, not because it wasn't a good house, but because at the time we had a two year old and I was convinced that the previous owner would just about have to leave one or more guns behind when he moved. There was no way that guy knew everything he had, or would've noticed if he'd walked out the door without one of his vast collection. I had nightmares about my kid finding one, loaded, behind an attic door or something on our first night in the new house.

Now I wonder what treasures we might have found!

pax
 
Its kinda sad

That America has come to this. I still remember times gone by when a nice glass front gun cabinet, home made, graced almost every Den. Or over the fireplace or place of honor in every home. Can't tell you how many wall racks I've seen with the rifles standing in a trough and pistols on pegs and most of the time never a rod or cable thru them. Right after the gun control act of 68 the guns started disappearing into safes and hidden in closets ect.

Times have changed a lot. Now days its just nice to see a pickup with a couple of rifles across the back window. Now that's a truck! And it takes me back to times when guns weren't evil.
 
I'm kicking around an idea. I have a stud wal in my basement between the main pool table area and an unfinished storage area. I was thinking a big sheet of bullet-proof acrylic in the wall with a steel case on the storage side....kinda like a built-in trophy case.
 
I would discourage displaying firearms in your house! I choose to keep mine locked in my 1200Lb browning gun safe! I really dont want the liability if some child gets a hold of one of my guns and I really dont trust anyone enough to let them know what types and how many firearms I own! :eek:
 
I started this thread so people would share ideas on displaying firearms, not about IF OR NOT people should display their firearms. It is sad for America to come to this level that when you cannot even display something you enjoy in your own domain in your own house. Considerations for kids safety aside, there's no other reason to discourage anyone from displaying their guns in the house. It is for home owners themselves to evaluate if their house is secured safe enough to keep guns from would be burglars and thieves.

A trophy case idea is pretty cool. I'm thinking of some kind of display cabinet with glass pane to keep the dust out. that rotary looking Browning case is very interesting, reminds me of how Walmart stores their rifles in sportinggoods.
 
Nothing on display at all, and yes I agree it's kind of sad.

If I had free reign, or if I ever have my own "den", I'd put some proud old bolt action cannon on the wall with appropriate sized hooks, one behind the trigger guard, one under the forearm. Ready for use, as it were.
 
I keep only one out, its a 1900ish Belgian 12 ga that makes a great wallhanger. The rest are locked up out of sight.

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Lets see....."Once upon a time" I had mine displayed on a custom wall rack.

Unfortunately that time has come and gone in many places. The suburbs no longer have the degree of safety they once did,at least where I grew up in Maryland.

If ya have kids, their friends could unknowingly snitch ya out to his/her liberal anti-gun parents who then call "THE LAW" and say you have GUNS 'n CHILDREN ,where the children could come in contact with 'em..... (you know the rest) No,I'm not paranoid as I have seen this scenario happen with a friend.

I had wanted to have a nice cabinet w/glass doors but I wasn't sure how to keep them 100% secure from thieves. After reporting a firearm theft almost five years ago, I am now cured of that.

Now I keep everything hidden in some furniture. I never show anyone what I have anymore UNLESS its my son or two friends I've known for over 45 years!

Only my son and one of my buddies know where its all hidden.

I sure don't want to rain on someones parade....There's nothing better than having a den or trophy room with a fancy wood 'n glass cabinet with your treasures in it right next to "treasures" hung on the wall! We just have to be EVER ALERT and VIGILANT!!!
 
If you're at my house and you see one of my firearms displayed then you've got some major issues to deal with, like whats about to come out of the muzzle pointed at you :eek:

Currently the only time my firearms are out is if I'm cleaning them.
I don't display them.
One day if I have something really nice then it'll probably be sitting on a mantle (rendered inoperable somehow).
I do a little bit of woodworking. I've thought about building a coffee table with a glass top and having some nice pistols displayed under the glass (inopperable of course). Thats far in the future though. I just graduated college and can't afford the time and money to make furniture nor nice firearms to display. :(
However it is displayed, I'll make sure you can't see it from windows or the front door so no passerbys see a reason for breaking in.

Maybe one day I'll have the funds to build a nice (read secure) room for all my guns, reloading tools, gunsmithing tools, work bench, etc, and I can have a nicer part of that room to display the collection on the wall or on nice racks.
A friend of mine's dad has a safe room (more like a walk in safe) where he keeps all his guns on the walls and I think its a very nice thing.
 
My grandpa has a few on display in his basment. Mostly kit guns he has put together. They are hung from hooks. A few are black powder rifles and the others are black powder revolvers/darengers.
 
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