06-13-2004, 09:52 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: somewhere out there
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Where do you keep your firearms?
Currently, I store my guns in their cases in my garage kind of by a cabinet... probably a horrible place to keep them. I have been looking at a few safes but they are pretty expensive and will take up a bunch of room which I don't have.
So, where do you store your guns? Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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06-30-2004, 09:10 PM | #9 (permalink) |
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Location: Champaign, IL
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I usually just leave them out on a bench in the front lawn with some ammo sitting next to them....
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07-01-2004, 06:15 AM | #11 (permalink) |
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Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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We just keep the shotguns in the closet. No little ones running around to get in them, and there isnt enough in there to really warrant a safe.
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07-06-2004, 07:21 AM | #13 (permalink) |
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I keep them at the gunstore, that way when I want them, I just go take some cash in to "unlock" them and then I can use them.
=(.... no monies = no funnies
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07-08-2004, 11:18 AM | #14 (permalink) |
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Location: Wisconsin...
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All our guns are on wooden gun racks in the living room...high enough off the ground where small children can't reach them and we alway leave the chamber open and ammo is stored in plastic boxes hidden under the stairs to the attic. Plus in my dads office we keep the sawed off shotgun and usually a rifle up there just in case someone breaks into our business or if we see skunks wandering around.
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07-10-2004, 11:11 PM | #15 (permalink) |
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Location: Windy City
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Rifles and handguns stored in gun safe, ammo stored seperately in coolest part of the house.
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07-21-2004, 09:44 PM | #16 (permalink) | |
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This is my practice as well. Unless you live in an area that has a high crime rate, oh....never mind......keep them close.
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07-22-2004, 04:24 AM | #17 (permalink) | |
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Re: Where do you keep your firearms?
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You can get a safe at Wal-Mart pretty cheap. About 70 bucks. It's nothing hardcore, but you can bolt it to a wall or floor. Even if you don't, it's better then leaving them lying about. The point of a safe is to make it difficult for someone to walk off with your guns. Even though my safe is basically thick sheet metal. I'd like to see someone get it out of my closet without emptying it first. |
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07-27-2004, 05:51 PM | #20 (permalink) |
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Location: Chicago
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Well I used to have a small handgun I kept on my work bench, but after it got stolen I decided I'd better take a bit more precaution. Now one of my BB guns, .22, and shotgun are in the top of a closet behind all kinds of stuff.
My other BB gun is sitting next to my back door behind the curtains, incase a chipmunk shows up or a rabbit decides to have lunch in our flowerbed. Last edited by todd; 07-27-2004 at 05:53 PM.. |
08-01-2004, 08:24 PM | #24 (permalink) | |
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Location: OH, USA
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Oh, and I have two rifles on the wall, but they are locked both on the triggers and to the rack, along with the room they are in being locked at all times
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08-10-2004, 04:44 AM | #25 (permalink) |
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Location: Arizona
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Stored with friends who will love it and take care of it in Flaggstaf while I am trapped in Hawaii.
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08-12-2004, 10:04 AM | #26 (permalink) |
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Location: Howdy from Oklahoma
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Hand gun in a drawer by the bed, one under my car seat, and one on my person if I am in a bad part of town. We have the right to carry a hand gun here in Okahoma, after passing the required background checks and taking the required classes plus passing a written exam.
I refuse to be a victim! Oh, my sporting rifles and shotguns are in the attic. "People call me paranoid because I carry a gun. If I'm armed, what the hell do I have to be paranoid about?" Ted Nugent
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08-12-2004, 11:51 AM | #28 (permalink) |
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I have mine sitting out in the open, such as on a worktable or on the floor in the middle of the room. However, if someone tries to take one, it activates one of the various traps I have set. These include, but are not limited to, the floor dropping away and leaving you in a pit of giant spiders, or having the walls open up around you, revealing an assorement of zombies and other monsters to jump you.
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09-10-2004, 09:26 PM | #29 (permalink) |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Keep your guns that are not in use in the best firearms safe that you can afford. $500 to $1500 expenditure now sure beats the misery and expense of having your guns stolen and/or used in a accidental shooting. Bolt the safe to the floor, wall or what ever. More and more successful lawsuits are being aimed at the gun owner that contributes a gun to a felony by another user because it was not secured to the fullest extent. This is not to say that your home defense gun is in the safe. You just have to secure that one in another method. I prefer to just carry it around with me in a clip-on holster.
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09-12-2004, 06:51 PM | #31 (permalink) |
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Location: Normandy, June of '44
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I keep mine in my pants, right next to my genitalia. I always keep the safety off, alway keep it loaded, and I fire it by holding it sideways like a true gangster, because true gangsters love getting hit in the face by flying red-hot shell casings.
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09-18-2004, 04:40 PM | #32 (permalink) |
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Location: Louisiana
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My .38's in my bedside table, unless I'm traveling by myself, then it's next to me in my vehicle. My hubby's .40 is in the entertainment center's drawer near the door for quick retrieval, his .38 Special is in his bedside table. He carries the .40 if he has to respond to something at the bar he runs.
We don't have any kids, though if we did, I think the only changes we'd make are locks on the drawers where the guns are kept and the keys on our person. (My friend has a couple of kids and can't afford a safe, so she installed a lock on her dresser drawer where the gun is and keeps the key on a chain around her neck.) Bryn
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10-11-2004, 08:53 AM | #36 (permalink) |
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Location: Madison, WI
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In my gun safe, in my workshop.
The exception is my home defense shotgun, which is in a rack above the bedroom door. I might be adding a trigger lock to that soon, since my daughter just turned three. I'll have to get one of the combination style trigger locks and spend a bunch of time practicing opening the lock in the dark.
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10-11-2004, 02:52 PM | #37 (permalink) |
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Location: Austin, TX
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I have no kids in my house, and had a problem a month or so back with someone trying to break into my house while I was asleep. I have a solid oak Bookcase right next to my bed and keep my Makarov behind the row of books closest to me.
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10-13-2004, 02:40 PM | #39 (permalink) |
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Location: Heart o' Texas
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glock 23 in night stand... wife keeps her kimber ultra carry in her purse, or in the night stand. other handguns are in a range bag in the closet. Shotguns are under the bed, unloaded. No children running around yet, but i figure a cheap safe will be purchesed when little ones are around.
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