Table top gun safe/alarm clock

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Years ago, I remember seeing a webpage that had a gun safe hidden inside of a working alarm clock. I think the post was on Glocktalk, but can't find it now. Does anyone know of a safe way to put a handgun on your nightstand, out of sight, secure but still having it handy.
 
What I do is

put it under the bed under my side with our room door locked. I wear it all other times that way it is under my control at all times. I'll assume you have a wife and/or kids to lock it from, but no door on your room to lock. You could use any digital type safe made for handguns. They make then for behind picture frames etc.

Remember though, if trouble comes knocking in the night, you may have as little as ten seconds or less to get your gun and respond if a BG really wants to get in or is all ready in the house.
 
I understand the 10 second warning time.

I was specifically looking for this alarm clock safe thing, or for alternative quick open safes for handguns. But I don't want it to look like a safe if that makes any sense.

You see I just bought a really expensive handmade Belgian bedroom set and don't want to screw anything into the nightstand. This thing is very nice and the wifey would just die if I screwed it up!:fire:

My kids know what to do if they find one of my guns left out. I am more concerned with neighbor kids.
 
I was told by a couple of dealers that the "Safe & Sound" people with the handgun safe/alarm clock radio combo went out of business and they can't be found anywhere. Would sure like to get one of these though, they worked quite well and looked nice in the bedroom, came in oak & cherry wood etc.

If anyone knows who might have some of these left over, please post the location or contact info. Splat
 
G27,

That's it, so I sent them an e-mail, waiting on the reply. Thanks for finding it...how did you find it because I have spent the better part of the day looking.
 
I used to have a Safe and Sound. I didn't like it for a few reasons. First, the keypad was hard to find in the dark. Second, the keypad would illuminate on the first keystroke...too late now and last thing I want is lights turning on. Third, the keypad beeps everytime you push a key...again possibly alerting an intruder. Fourth, the lid didn't open on its own and you needed two hand to open it. Fifth, because it was so large there was a tendency to put things on top of it.

I think under the pillow is best.
 
I've always thought the under the pillow idea was a bit off...Just for the fact that I'll wake up to find the pillow....elsewhere. I'd dread to wonder where the gun might wind up during the night! :)

My nightstand has a drawer where the Beretta sleeps. I have thought about rigging up some kind of lock on it, especially something with a remote release, like a button on the back of the night stand.

But, since I'm single, and not too concerned about my dog fiddling around with the gun....I haven't thought much about it.

Now, one time I saw a really slick nightstand, where the drawer was hidden. It was like those Chinese Magic box puzzles where you have to know the trick to get the drawer to open....that would be pretty good I think.
 
Here's my tip:

Go to Home Depot and buy a half dozen plastic carpenter's spring-clamps.
These are like fat heavy duty clothes pins, five inches long by an inch wide. They have hinges with an allen screw going through, so you can easily dissassemble them.

Take them apart. Using small wood screws and tiny washers (so the plastic won't split) mount one half of the spring clamps to a piece of plywood about 6" X 6". Any scrap will do. Next, reassemble the complete spring clamps.

Now you have heavy duty spring clamps, that you can mount anywhere. Just screw that plywood to the backside of your bedboard, side or back or under a table, in a closet, under a desk, you name it. Even works great in cars, under the dash board or other sneaky places.

The barrel of your pistol is clamped in the gun friendly heavy duty plastic jaws of the spring clamp. It will stay there forever, even in a bouncing car. But when you need it, you just grab the grip and yank it out. (Orient the clamp for maximum ergonomic "draw-ability," obviously.)

This is a GREAT set up. Your pistol resides safe and sound, in easy reach, out of the way, in unexpected places, (like under a desk or your car's dashboard.)

(Not so great around nosy children, of course.)

Also works great with long guns, in closets, behind bed boards etc. One clamp for the muzzle end, while the butt resides on a small wooden shelf that you install. Just grab the gun and it's ready to go.

"Try it, you'll like it!"

Matt
 
Made something to adapt different needs. At the time the company called themselves "Simplex", I understand that "simplex" refers to the programmable buttons + knob configuration...patent?

Anyway more styles now than then, anyway bolted into a nightstand, and then add a decorative key/cabinet lock to nightstand works. Fit well into desk drawers, secretaries, computer desks, buffets, file cabinets...vehicle trunks...etc. Quite adaptive, just don't show or tell anyone. Out of sight/ out of mind.

Great for securing valuables, especially on a road trip, some laws require a lockable container also. My theory is if not on the market, the BG might not find it. Many items like Fort Knox hollow books and such...the BGs know more about these and what to look for than we do. Just a thought.
 
Get some cushioned clips -- like the kind for hanging brooms, mops, etc -- and mount them under a table next to the bed. Then hang your firearm from them. Ready access for you, hard to find for the burglar. Not a good idea if there are kids shorter than the table around.

You can also do the same thing under the top of a dresser or nightstand. There is usually a pretty good space between the top of the drawer and the bottom of the top.

Take out the top drawer and, using the cushioned clips, mount the firearm under the top, screwed into the wood. Be careful the screws don't penetrate the top or you are back to that part about "My wife will kill me". Then replace the drawer. When you want it, it is there. If a BG comes in and rifles the drawer, he won't see the firearm. If you need it in the middle of the night, it won't matter much if the drawer ends up on the floor as you will likely be in a hurry anyway. This one is better if there are kids around.

You could also use velcro to stick it to the underside of the top and wrap the mating material around the firearm.
 
That is a scary place to keep a loaded firearm.
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Have you ever watched yourself sleep ?
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No, but when I wake up the gun is right where I left it.

I think under the pillow is best for women because of the incidences of a rapist jumping on a woman while she's sleeping. She just won't have the opportunity to reach anywhere else but under her pillow. Under the pillow is also the fastest.

Just get one of those memory-foam pillows...you won't even feel the gun there.
 
Have you thought about hollowing out a book and putting the gun inside it? As cliche as it might be I think it would be effective. Just make sure it is a really boring book no kids/intruder would want to read :p
 
Travis McGee and re1973,

Like your ideas, btu they are hard to imagine, got pics or the ability to take pics and post them?

Daedalus,

Yes I had thought of that, I think it would be difficult to create one of these yourself. And all my tools are back in the states. I searched the net but the largest I could find on-line was approx 7" x 4", which is not big enough for any of my handguns, with the exception of maybe my DW Model 15 .357, not my weapon choice.
 
http://www.handgunsafe.com/safes.htm

I like these, naturally, because I've had mine for awhile , less money back many years ago and paid for. ;) Oh, I personally do not want anything with a battery device. ( Murphy's Law). I can change the combo if choose to.

So you take a pc of furniture you already have ( no suspicions on new furniture) and "adapt". Dresser, file cabinets, nightstand...bust of Ben Franklin...yep true... (business is now defunt) now you know why I hung close to Ben...I was packing...but two guns better than one. I know , I'm either wired funny or real creative. :) That bust with the gun vault is in a private home now down in FL. So everyone in FL will now will be checking out busts and looking at the bases. :).... Works great for vehicles.

I had safes with time locks, I used mechanical clocks , I had three mechanical time-locks, double combo requiring two persons to open, and the building was "built around it". All to keep honest men honest. ;)
 
Glockster35: I can't scan in pictures from here. But it's easy, just go to Home Depot and ask for plastic carpenter's spring clamps, that look like giant gorrilla clothes pins.

The idea is to mount that spring clamp in a good place, where it holds the barrel of your gun in a great place to draw from.

The problem is it's almost impossible to mount the plastic spring clamp alone, all by itself, because you can't drill and screw through one half of the clamp, and then the other, and into what it's attached to.

So I came up with taking them apart, so that you can easily screw one side of the spring clamp (like half of a clothes pin, but way bigger) to a little square of plywood. Then you reassemble both halves of the clamp around the spring part, and now the entire spring clamp is attached to your little square of scrap plywood.

That little square of plywood, being wider than the spring clamp itself, is then dead simple to mount to the back of your bed board etc.

/1/ 6x6 inch piece of half inch ply is wood screwed to your bedboard or elsewhere.

/2/ Heavy duty plastic spring clamp is screwed to the plywood. (IOW, the plywood is your adapter or mount, in order to easily attach your clamp where you want it.)

/3/ Gun barrel is held firmly in the jaws of your plastic spring clamp, ready to yank out.

That's all there is to it, I hope this explanation was more clear.

Matt
 
Travis McGee,

Nope, doesn't make it much clearer.

I don't think this would work for me anyway because I have little one's about. And as far as just driving down to Home Depot...I would love to but unfortunately I am In Germany serving for another 3 years...so it isn't that easy!
 
I have a Safe and Sound. I got it for Christmas 3 years ago. I have to agree with what Graystar said (except about the pillow thing)

I sleep softly and wake up alert and I know I couldn't get into that thing in less than 10 seconds.

Also, the leds in the alarm display are the brightest I've ever seen with no way to dim the illumination - not even a potentiometer inside. If you like to sleep with a nightlight - this is the model for you.

If your still interested though, I'll check the gun shops when I make my Wednesday rounds. Wife bought mine locally and there were at least two shops that stocked them.
 
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