Should I register my guns to shoot on-post?

[BluesBear]

Cesiumsponge stay FAR FAR Away from Public Storage! (I used to work for them as well as some independents.) Trust me thay ain't no bargain. My brother is still in the mini-storage business albeit now in Lost Wages.
You'd be much better off with an independent mini-storage company. One with resident managers who are either the owners or who have been there for a long time.
Make friends with them. If they like you they are more apt to look out for you.
Stay away from places with 24 hour access. Every break-in I have investigated at a mini-storage was tied in to someone who also rented space there. Get a unit as close to the office as possible. Especially stay away from inside units far from the office. Get a unit where you can drive your car right up to the door.
Consider a "safe" even if it's only one of the cheaper ones. Just make sure it's too big and heavy to quickly load into a van or station wagon. If you store your guns in cases chain them together with a HEAVY chain and lock. It a;so helps to chain them to some metal shelves. You want to make it too bulky to move without attracting attention.

But the most important things is...

Do NOT get behind in your payments!

In Washington state, after 45 days of no payments your stuff can go bye-bye.
I know because I lost 95% of everything I owned when I was hospitalized last year.

 

[ksnecktieman]

One of the local storage places here, just on the edge of Fort Riley even advertises "storage for firearms" I have no other details. If your area has a market for it I am sure someone there is doing it too.

 

[C-grunt]

DO IT!!!

I didnt register mine and i got in trouble when i was shooting in the woods someplace i thought was off post.

the boundries are approximate and they change.

 

[ID_shooting]

I guess I was easyer on the troops in my company who had POWs in my arms room. They all had to be registered with the Provost and I issued a weapons card for each one. I talked to CO into giving me a signature card to the signout forms, I forget the form #, anyway, my fellow barracks troops and I had an understanding that I was available 24-7 for them to check thier guns out, if I had plans to be gone, all they had to do was make an appointment or check with my assistant. I never grilled or questioned anyone as to what why and where they took thier guns, I just took at as part of the job. ya, being unit armorer was a PITA, but it kept me off many BS details.

As for security, I procured lock boxes for both long and short guns, the troops and top had the keys to the boxes and I just had to call them in once a month for inventory.

 

[Stauble]

i wouldn't do it because i dont want any more paper cause when Hilary is elected you'll be that much easier to find. its true that there is already a small paper trail but you could say you sold those guns years ago.
if you register them at the range then they will know that you had them recently ( and shoot them alot)
plus i just dont like strangers knowin wat i have at home.

 

[Sam]

In the AF base housing occupants are generally permitted to keep thier weapons in their quarters.
Barracks rats have to store theirs in the armory at Security Forces.
All are registered on an AF1314 and signed by their commander or 1st Sgt.

In 1978 I caught one of the armorers from Lackland in the act of shooting my 1909 New Service. He went from E6 to E2 overnight.

Since that time I have always provided my troops courtesy storage off the yard. When I made my diamond, I encouraged the other off base residents to do the same for their troops, even for those who could have retained their weapons in quarters.
Paid big dividends for the troops and the supervisors and kept 1 out of jail on a trumped up assault charge because we could proved he didn't have posession of the pistol in question .

Go ahead and register the things, the 1314 gets pitched when you clear the base anyway at least for the Air Force.

Sam

 

[Lennyjoe]

When I lived on base in base housing (Air Force) I had to submit a form to the orderly room with the serial number and type of weapons I had in the house. Not required to check them into the armory. Living off base, I dont have to register crap. Whenever I come on base with my CCW or any weapon then it has to be unloaded and the ammo and weapon seperated.

When I go TDY and have weapons I have to check them into the armory. Fill out a form, have the unit commander that I'm TDY to sign it and return the form to the armory. Check in and out weapons anytime I want them. Which was every time I went off base for food, ride or whatever. Nothing else required.

I guess the Army is a little more strict.

 

[bogie]

It's the Army. That means that if there can be paperwork about something, there _will_ be paperwork about it, in triplicate, filed, and generally ignored otherwise.

 

[CZ-100]

Just do what has to be done, and go have FUN!

 

[AlaskaErik]

I don't care if the JBTs know what I have. They can take them, for all I care. I won't make a big fuss about it when they're at my door, armed to the hilt and ready to take me down at the slightest hint of resistance. Because, guess what? Did Prohibition stop the flow of booze? Has the WOD stopped the flow of illegal drugs? If America is ever totally disarmed, the black market will soon have a veritable bazaar of firearms available. So don't sweat it.

 

[Ed]

I registered two at Fort Sill. Kept them in the BOQ. Registered one on Fort Carson to hunt with. I was the Battery Arms room officer and we had something like 2 rifles and 5 cheap big ugly knifes in it that were personal. NOONE EVER took the weapons out and fired them without the owner knowing. Someone has some BAD lax security if that is happening.