Telling others about your guns.

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Alright, just got a bit of advice from my dad as we went through our combined arms. He told me to never tell anyone we have guns, since they may tell someone and so on and someone may come rob us. I've told my close friends at school I enjoy shooting and such, and people may have overheard. Has anyone ever gotten advice like this or anything relating?
 
Your Dad is a very smart man. Listen very carefully to what he has to say. Listen and learn while the opportunity is there.

Thanks, George
 
Telling others

Not probable that you are more likely to have someone break into your house because they know you have guns. I would hope it would be just the opposite. Telling your friends about your hobby( shooting) is ok IMO. I tell no one about my ccw, number of guns, type of guns etc.
 
no tell!

I told my 15 yr old son the same story! Don't brag about what guns you have or they will tell a druggie cousin or someone else with no scruples that may decide to steall them while we are not home! I also have our weapons locked in a steel, mounted to the wall, gun cabinet. They may take the whole thing, but it won't be a 5 minute robbery!
 
Keep it to Yourself -

A little discretion goes a long way, and more is beter. Unfortunately, guns, particularly handguns, are a very portable and liquid commodity, and are therefore quite attractive to the morally/ethically/criminally challenged. No body needs to know. Stay safe -
 
That's what I thought, Davhina. I mean, I talked about my new rifle too. And I thought owning guns would be a sign for people not to rob you. Though my dad just told me tonight and I've talked about my hobby from time to time. Hell, my History teacher tells us about his 30+ guns and he has never been robbed.
 
Exact thing happened to a relative of mine. Relative showed a friend the collection. Friend told brother, brother told someone else. Someone else was a dope head and knew guns could bring quick cash. Hit the house at night (while they slept). Luckily we got them all back before they could be sold.
It's nobody's business.
 
It's hard to avoid letting others know that you and your family are gun-owners or enthusiasts. You have already kinda spilled the beans.

The important thing is that all weapons in the home be secured from the prying eyes of others. That is responsibility #1. And that means secure storage of some kind. The best might be a 20-30 gun safe for general gun storage, and a smaller safe for your family's primary defense weapon (a bedside mini-safe, etc.).

There is no way to absolutely store guns safely. But the stand-alone safes are a good start.
 
Rasputin747,
Don't worry I'd never rob you for a
Mosin-Nagant M44
S&W K-frame .22 revolver
Marlin Bolt-action .22:neener: :evil: :neener: :evil:
 
People talk; they love to talk. Get used to it. So, my general philosophy is to not tell anyone anything other than I enjoy shooting firearms. It is one of the reasons that I keep guns out of sight at home when visitors are there. People love to talk. I rarely even list guns on this forum. But, if you piece together all my comments, you could probably get a pretty good idea.
 
Keep It To Yourself

I have a teen (adult, but still teen) daughter.

She knows I have a few rifles. She's been to the range with me and shot the 10/22 and the Savage MkII.

She has unbelievably poor judgement in friends.

After she went through her third set of friends, and the pattern became clear, I resolved that I would not tell her about my pistol or her mom's pistol. Coincidentally, at this same time, I suddenly got a hankering for a lockable gun safe (RSC).

Oddly, she herself can be trusted with many things, but she doesn't get that some of her friends are . . . broken. So, the simplest way to keep it from her friends was keep it from her.

Information Security is your first layer of protection.

Don't give it up.
 
Your dad is right on. It is always good to keep what you have to your self and always keep them locked up. I had a friends cousin break into my house. He had picked up my friend one day from my house so I let him in to hang out for a few minutes before they left. He saw the nice t.v and stereo I had and thought I would be an easy target. The next day he had broken into my house while I was at work and stole a few things and even tried to drag out my speakers which are extremely heavy but was not able to do so. Then the idiot accually bragged about it to my buddy. So I got a call a few days later that my buddy had found out his cousin did it and apologized for what an idiot his cousin is. We ended up tracking him down and I guess my buddy had told him that I was not the kind of person to mess with because when we met up with him he turned over the stuff he took and was scared out of his mind. He got smacked around a little from my buddy and he started to cry so we left it at he is lucky it only went that far.
 
Man, I feel really bad about it now. Most of the friends I talk to it about like guns themselves or don't really care. They aren't into drugs or anything illegal. So I assume I'm OK, not in the clear but OK?
 
I was told the same thing by a friend of mine years ago. But the way I see it, if I can't talk about my hobby and have to keep it some big secret, then what's the point? I own guns because I enjoy them and I like to share that with my friends. I mean anybody with eyes can see I am a gun owner. NRA hat, NRA sticker on my truck, bulge on my right hip, targets full of bullet holes leaning against the garage and on more than one occasion my neighbors have watched me carry arm loads of guns and ammo to my truck. I think they know I own guns and I didn't have to say a word.

RH
 
Don't worry about what has happened, just learn from what you've done. (I see you modded your sig-line, unless people here know who you are or where you live that isn't necessary. Look at my list of rifles, Then try to find out which of the millions of people in the Inland Empire I am) Just remember if you are talking to a gun owner who isn't a fool you'll be safe because they want to keep their guns safe too and probably wont brag about what you have. It's the ignorant in society that will cause problems.
 
With the logic that you shouldn't tell other people that you have guns when you are out and such, to be truly safe you shouldn't be on here admitting that you own guns:rolleyes: . After all if someone wanted to steal some guns, it would be pretty easy to log onto a Firearm website and track people down :rolleyes: . Having a person find where you live just to steal some of your firearms is by far less of a risk then a theif that just so happens to hit your house out of chance. My best advice is lock them up in a decent RSC/safe, don't go bragging you have 100K in firearms everywhere you go, and use common sense.
 
We don't have a safe or anything. But the area where they are has a locked door leading to it, well, a door we could lock but don't. Should I suggest we lock it?
 
As a friends father who is a police officer told me when I was young.


Dont draw attention to yourself.
 
new rifle

I talked about my new rifle too
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It is sometimes seriously:cuss: difficult not brag about or want to show off your new gun...it is up to you to know your "gun buddies" and keep the showing off of your new rifle to a select few. Good luck!:)
 
What are the top things thieves like to steal?

Cash
guns
drugs
jewelry

If thieves knew you had guns at home and wanted them, they would be motivated to shoot first from ambush.

Don't tell anyone, especially school friends, they may be friends, but they don't know how to keep a secret. It's nobody's business.
 
Well, I started talking to my dad about getting a safe to keep our guns safe. He really likes the idea, espically after we got out one of his dad's guns. He seems to be pretty interested in getting one now.
 
A friend of my son's has a WW2 Colt Model 1911A1 which he kept in a nice Boyt holster marked 1918 and proofed. He knew I had a Colt 1911 made in 1918 which I kept in a nice 1943 holster and he asked me if I wanted to trade holsters, then we would have holsters which went with the arms. I dropped by his house and he went immediately to the hiding place in his front room where he kept the pistol and holster and said, "This is where I always keep it."

I begged him not to keep it there anymore because if someone were to come in and steal it I would be the first suspect. He said, Oh no, I know you won't tell anyone. I worried for weeks that someone would steal that pistol and I would be blamed. That's the way we lose guns, unfortunately. I told nobody and apparently it was never stolen.
 
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