Urban camouflage

[lance22]

Do a cut-out in a Bible. Nobody wants a Bible, you can't even give them away for free. When the Gideon's hand them out at college the trash cans are filled with them. Not a chance in the world anyone will take your bible when everything else in the car is being stolen. No disrepect to the good book, btw, but spend an afternoon trying to give away Bibles and you'll see what I mean.

They might look in your planner, in your first aid kit (you got needles in there?), definitely in your glove box and for sure under the seat but the Bible will repel a criminal like hard work repels a teenager.

That said - I prefer to keep my carry piece on my hip. The Brady's want me to take it off everytime I get out of the car but they will be the first to condemn me if my car is stolen and eventually find my gun. Better to have it on me where it won't get stolen, it remains under my control, and no punk will be out using it in the commission of a felony.

my .o2

 

[Brian Dale]

I want to stencil the following warning on the hard case for my match AR:

CAUTION: SEWAGE TESTING EQUIPMENT
* WASH HANDS AFTER OPENING CASE *

Who's going to open a case marked with that message? A lock wouldn't look out of place on it, either.

Permission is freely granted to use the suggestion, of course.

 

[freeon]

Wow the medical kit is a good idea. The rest of the ideas are also great. It shows people are really thinking. Now it will be hard for me to choose the best urban storage case for my handgun! Great tips!

 

[ZeSpectre]

CAUTION: SEWAGE TESTING EQUIPMENT
* WASH HANDS AFTER OPENING CASE *

Just read this.

HahahahahahaHAAAAAAAAAA HE HE HE HE (thud)
(That thud was me falling on the ground after passing out from laughing).
What a great idea

 

[Mulliganpaintdee]

Here's my take on how that soda machine disguise thing works. . .

Imagine some lady on the street starts screaming and takes off running. After a block she ducks around the corner and whips out this Coke machine costume and throws it on. Now I don't know about you, but I would sure as heck stop what I was doing and watch for a while. Is it an invisibility cloak? No way. Will it get you an entire city block full of witnesses? Yes, and in Japan that is a whole lot of witnesses.

 

[douglaswlloyd]

I had the same problem. Can't carry everywhere, even in Tennessee<g>

So I keep an old videotape box under the seat of my trucks and cars. No one wants these much anymore. You will find that a Glock 26 fits nicely, even with the mag in.

Doug

 

[Warren]

What about closing up your door pockets? Make it look like your car doors do not have those little pockets for maps, but leave a way to get in there fast if you need to.

Scummy opens the door claws around inside for a bit and doesn't notice that which isn't supposed to not be there.

I read somewhere where a dude removed his center air vents and modded the duct back there to secure his gun, then put the vents back in a way that they would come off easy but wouldn't fall off due to normal driving.

If you are willing to have a go at your seat, create a slot in the foam into which you place your (muzzle pointing at the floor) gun and then velcro the cover back together. Of course your seat needs to have room for this surgery to work.

Raise the level of the floor in the back a couple of inches. In the backseat footwells put a hard cover that is made so it matches the carpeting and looks like it belongs. Under that cover would be a couple of inches of space to hide a gun. It would take a keen eyed thief to notice that the front and back foot wells were at different heights.

Maybe one speaker is a fake? Behind the screen is the gun.

The case of the missing cup holder. Maybe you more of those than you need, maybe a middle set goes missing and looks like it was never there.

Inside the lid of the glove box. Thief opens of the box to rummage around but never examines the lid. This would require a light gun, for the weight to go un noticed.

Keep a box of religious tracts in the car, no thief is going to look in there. He opens the lid and sees Jesus and even more Jesus and all of his pals. Will the thief really rustle through all of that?