Truck Gun Racks

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Gunracks? I have used them in my teens. Every hunter had them. Redneck calling card? I am a redneck and proud of it. That is my heritge and makes me stick out like a sore thumb to those who don't know the meaning of good southern out in the country values.
 
I've got one, but it's laying in the floorboard.

The reason you don't see them anymore is they don't work anymore. There was a time when you could SCREW a gun rack to the cab. You can't sink a screw into plastic and think it's going to stay there to hold the rack up, much less a rifle/shotgun. The ones that slip into the window channel, like the one I've got now, work "ok" as long as you don't have a sliding window. If you do, the double window channel is too wide to hold the rack securly. Extended cabs don't help. I never worried about anyone stealing a gun. I didn't store them there. I carried them where I was going and back home.

Now, back in the day, when I drove Jeep CJ's (Yes, they were actually called "CJ"s back then.) I'd carry my old Sears/Roebuck 12 ga. pump, standing up straight, strapped to the rollbar with a bunjee cord. Talk about Redneck. WHEEEEEEE Doggies, I was. Shoot. I still am, I just don't dip anymore. :D
 
The new models have suction cups on them to accommodate the window designs of modern trucks. I look forward to the day when open carry becomes the norm here in Georgia.
 
back years ago I use to see them. The last several years I do not remember seeing any.
 
The are legal in Texas but you are stupid to use them for anything other than an umbrella. You will leave your truck and come back to find a broken window and no gun. I think that is the main reason nobody uses them anymore.
 
Ha! Reminds me of a guy I worked with once. He was deer hunting and had a loaded Hawken .50 BP rifle in the truck's gun rack. Bouncing down a dirt road, with a cap on the nipple and the hammer down, and it went off right behind his head! Blew a big hole in the cab, filled it with smoke, and he nearly wrecked the truck. Probably STILL can't hear right.
 
A friend of mine who just moved from North Dakota has a gun rack anchored to the ceiling of his hunting truck. He was disappointed when we told him he couldn't use it in Minnesota.
 
The only thing more American other then apple pie is a pick-up with a gun rack.
:D
 
Me and my buddy were just talking about this.

Where he lives most of the police are transplants from LA or other CA cities, and they treat anybody with a gun like a potential gang member. They left the city and brought thier big city attitudes to what once was a cowtown.
 
My 1985 Ford F150 (300ci straight-six, manual granny-low 4-speed) pasture truck wouldn't be right without a rear-window gun rack. There's a 30-30 lever and a machete (but no level) hanging in there right now. It's unlocked, and parked about 100 yards from the gravel-road out front, in case anyone wants to come steal it.

Have Fun, Good Luck!
Les
 
Here in Michigan i believe the law states the firearm must be in a locked case inaccessible from the driver, ammo cannot be stored in the same case and its preferred not even in the same compartment (ie: if the gun case is in the passenger compartment of a car the ammo should be in the trunk). If you have a CCW the law is a little different but displaying a long-gun will still get you pulled over as will having one visible should another traffic stop occur (so dont put a roof rack in and store a shotgun above your head).

On another note:
I would reccomend watching a movie called "Wrong turn",
then "Wrong turn 2". Part 2 is a bit cheesy, but there is a truck in
that movie with a gunrack. I think it is a registered short barrel shotgun
or maybe an AOW, anyhow, if you wanna see a gunrack being used,
rent the movies.
Click to expand...

Cant believe they made a part 2.
 
Seen Them

I have seen them used during hunting season in parts of the South. It is legal to have a long gun loaded without any goofy license in the rack back home in Arkansas and many people do in the country. In Tennessee, if you have a permit, you can have the magazine loaded, but not chamber. I wouldn't have a rifle/shotgun in the window of a truck in a populated area because someone will bust the glass and try to steal it.

It is sad that some parts of the country make it ILLEGAL to have a long gun in a rack.....that's almost UnAmerican sounding...but then again I do live in the South where most people own some sort of gun and a lot have 'car guns' (legally or not).
 
The 1980's and 1990's happened.
Here in my state of Connecticut in about 1984 as a wee little one, I clearly recall that it was common for pickup trucks to legally have rifles/shotguns on the rear window gunrack. It was also common for a used pickup in the classified ad to have options like: New tires, gunrack, winch, plow.
By about 1986 the option "gunrack" was rarely mentioned because you couldn't use it anyway. Feelgood (to who) legislation hard at work.

Ah yes, that would be me during hunting season back in the 1970's in CT. My shotgun was proudly displayed in my pickup ON SCHOOL GROUNDS, much like everyone else who raced to the woods after school! So happy to be in Virginia where this time honored tradition continues out in the rural counties.

And BTW, where I live, I see them so frequently, racked up with a firearm, that it is commonplace! Yes, my 4X4 '97 F-250 has it's rack filled with an old Montgomery Ward single shot shotgun, that piece, and my diesel tank and dispensing pump, complete my truck as a classic piece of farm equipment!

John
 
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