though of something as i was unloading the truck after shooting today

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how many of your neighbors know, wether you told them or not, know you have guns? because someone is bound to have seen you loading/unloading your guns/ammo/targets into and out of your vehicle.

i have no idea, but i know some of them know.
 
Most of my neighbors know, as they can hear me shooting down behind the house. Then again, most of my neighbors are family and this is a pretty gun friendly area.
 
Last year, I was loading my Jeep for a day at the range. It was very early Saturday morning. I loaded my range bag, shut the vehicle and went inside to get my guns. I always look up and down the street because I don't want folks to know about my guns.

Anyway, I was in the house for just a couple minutes and when I came out, my range bag was gone.

I lost ammo, tools, binocs, rangefinder, new camera, pistol rest and lots of goodies.
 
I live in a small apartment complex and only one neighbor knows that I know of and thats because the walls are paper thin...not only can I hear them in their bedroom, they can hear me reloading and cleaning my guns. I try to keep it low key though. People that brag about their amazing gun collection and show them off in the complex worry me. Actually there are only 2 guys that do this and it bothers me to be seen with them because I like my belongings. Thats bad news waiting to happen plus I just hate illegitamate cockiness.:barf::barf:
Does anyone agree with my "paranoia"?
 
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i use the garage but over the years enough friends have taken items to and from their cars that all neighbors seem to know. upside is 2 neighbors on my block belong to the same club as i and others have asked questions in a positive manor. one last fall asked if i could help out with a raccoon problem they were having....:) what caliber for raccoon??
 
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Last year, I was loading my Jeep for a day at the range. It was very early Saturday morning. I loaded my range bag, shut the vehicle and went inside to get my guns. I always look up and down the street because I don't want folks to know about my guns.

Anyway, I was in the house for just a couple minutes and when I came out, my range bag was gone.

I lost ammo, tools, binocs, rangefinder, new camera, pistol rest and lots of goodies.
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Stories like that make me want to have something like full-time camera surveillance (that I own, the data from which I control, on my own property) so that a crime that like could at least (possibly) be solved in short order. Yow -- glad your guns weren't in yet.

timothy
 
Mine might suspect, I don't shoot where I live, I shoot on my property 10 minutes up the road.

I always try to be aware when I load unload the vehicle though. I try to use my body as a shield, so no weapons are visable to the neighbors. Some times I back in, sometimes I pull in.

There is a church sponsered halfway house for druggie women in the neighborhood. So far, no issues, but I'm still not too thrilled about it.
 
One more thing, the only upside to one of my neighbors knowing was that I took them to the range and turned 2 fence riders into gun lovers. Now they moved to the country and invite me to shoot...
 
A few of my nieghbors know ( which really means they all know) but I try to be discrete. I back in to the garage to load and unload and I never load the guns till it's time to go.
 
I also back the car into the garage. Once I get some projects out of the way, I'll go back to parking in the garage like I used to and just load up with the door closed. Sometimes I just wait until it's dark to unload.

Several of my neighbors know. I met one while he was holding a Glock case, got to talking with another and he ended up going to the range with me. Now he and his wife want to take a CWP class. One guy across the street works at FN.
 
My neighbors have seen me cleaning the blackpowder stuff in the back yard. They've also seen me open-carrying.
 
Only have 4 neighbors within a mile of me

All of them are shooters and they can all hear me shoot in my back field, not an issue. Kind of fussy who I let in my shop to see that I have lots of reloading equipment and nobody but family or shooting partners see any guns in the house.
 
After 10 years of packing up and going to the range, I'm sure that some of my neighbors know. So be it. The cop next door definitely knows, as he and I talk about it. The same neighbors see the alarm sign and the 4 dogs, so I'm not terribly worried about them getting the idea to knock over the place.
 
I would say that perhaps 7-8 people in my apartment complex know that I have firearms. 4 members of the Block Watch that I'm a member of, both of my immediate neighbors (done range trips with both families), and the two little old ladies who do all the paperwork at the complex office, one of whom was in my CCW class, and the other is the one who signs for the ammo that Fed-Ex never delivers while I am home.
I've never loaded or unloaded the range stuff outside of the garage.
 
I've had a house and a vehicle burgled and guns taken frome them, so I have a good reason to be paranoid. ;) It is pretty easy to put handguns, ammo, even targets into a shooting bag (cleverly disguised as an ordinary Samsonite nylon overnight bag;)) to carry them out to my car and it is not obvious what I'm doing, but rifles are a little harder.
 
I am as careful as I can be when loading the car with range bags and metal targets, if I take them. The only neighbor that I think might know what a range bag is or what might be in it is a retired LEO across the street. I am not close with most of the neighbors and do not really want them knowing what is in my house.
 
lived in an APT with my dad for quite some time in des moines WA that was how can one say........ straight hood??

teenage girls getting gang raped, car thives almost coming into the kitchen window at o dark 30, enough gun shots to pretty much make me immune to them unless theyre coming threw the windows/walls, DEA raids, illegal machine gun seisures and all types of other stuff.

constantly going in and out with rifles and pistols, uncases and not. Always having friends and fam' coming over showing off and checking out new guns and the like.

Didnt bother me all that much as anytime someone wasnt there for more than a day or two we would stash the firearms at a friends parents.

Was far more worried about getting shot than getting my guns jacked.
 
I load and unload everything in the garage with the door closed for just this reason.

Don't need to show the world what's going on.....or what's in my house.
 
I'm pretty open about it. We're in a nice neighborhood with friendly people, and people do look out for each other. Burglaries are very, very rare here, because the neighborhood is so age-diverse: there are always people out and about and keeping an eye. No overconfidence, but an informed assessment that the benefits of being open about being a woman shooter outweigh the risks of being somewhat public. And one of these days, the woman across the street might get around to going to the range with me.
 
I live in rural North Carolina.

I suspect that the majority of my neighbors also have guns. We do not worry about hiding them when loading them into the car. We try to be a bit discreet when cleaning them in the carport though (more "safe directions" and "adequate backstops" out there).
 
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