Red Flag Confiscation

[buck460XVR]

No one but me knows what is in my safe, and I wonder if they come knocking because someone reported me what would happen if I simply lock the safe. I wonder then what the procedure would be, because there's no way I'd voluntarily open it.

I gonna guess it would be the same if you refused to open the door when they came knocking. As we have all seen, bad stuff happens when folks don't cooperate with the police. If cops are knocking at your door with a search warrant, why make matters worse. Why make them kick the door in? Why make them destroy a perfectly good gun safe and possibly some of the contents? Seems that would tend to make you look like even more of a nut case.

 

[FlSwampRat]

I am surprised some enterprising pro-2A person/company has not started a secure/off-site temperature controlled firearm storage/holding facility similar to what upscale self storage places do for wine collections, but with better, armed security and secure access. Maybe insurance would be too untenable.

The issue here is what level of secure are people willing to pay for? Most public storage facilities I have checked into have naught between units but drywall. There are cameras, whether they are high definition or even working is unknown. Also, you usually have to sign for months of leasing time.
If you're asking about a place where you could go and secure your firearms for "weeks at a time", have the person/business taking possession be responsible the cost would go up commensurately. If you're talking about an "extensive" collection, the exact extent of the collection would, obviously, be the multiplier on the per gun cost.
You can find an insurance company willing to insure anything, it would, again, come down to what the actual cost of the policy and the attendant requirements would be.

 

[Sniper66]

The idea of having a "secure/off-site" storage facility would very much appeal to the anti-gunners. They would then know where to send the goons.

 

[citizenconn]

The idea of having a "secure/off-site" storage facility would very much appeal to the anti-gunners. They would then know where to send the goons.

That's ok, I got the goons covered.

 

[berettaprofessor]

I'm also low-key as to what I have. But friends and family? Why bother to have a collection if you can't brag to someone about what you've spent so much effort assembling?

Oh, some friends or family know about some individual items; that great buy or unique firearm. Or I'll be discussing a particular cartridge with someone, say a 45LC and it may be part of the conversation that I disclose that I shoot a Ruger in that caliber. But no-one knows the entirety.

Bad experiences with two family members (one my mother) who I had heard tell someone else "he knows about guns, he's got a lot of them"...whereupon I have to have THE CONVERSATION where we don't talk about my guns to anyone and why (safety, etc). And I have another family member who keeps blurting out in every other conversation with other family that a cousin died and left a gun collection of "OVER 50 GUNS"...whereupon I change the subject, and resolve again to never, ever, let my "number" out.

Worse was having a trainee come over with his uncle once to shoot their Glocks at my home range area. They're in the house and the trainee knew I had other guns and asked to see them all while we were in the presence of my wife. When I said "sorry, can't" my wife said "it's okay, just lay them out on the bed and show him." To which I had to reply "uh, they won't all fit on the bed." Thankfully, she never pursued it any further. She knows me and my obsessions with this or other hobbies.

This is why I don't talk about guns with family or anyone else in detail......my business and no one else.

 

[citizenconn]

This is why I don't talk about guns with family or anyone else in detail......my business and no one else.

I swear, one of these days I am going to take a boating safety class. I don't know why it seemed like a good idea to transport them all via boat that one time. Darn boating accidents.

When I came to work today, one of my nicer liberal coworkers was discussing the Highland Park incident and made it a point to say that the shooter buying 5 guns in 2 years should have been a warning sign; that no regular person would want to own that many guns. I just bit my tongue and nodded. I'm pretty sure I have more than that legally locked in various spots inside my car at work today.