If you don't have a safe

[MB24 37]

I'm looking to get a safe but I'm just wondering, if you don't have one where do you keep your firearms. Do you hide them somewhere in the house/garage, just stick them in a closet?

[Celraysoda 7]

Before my safe, I chained the plastic case with padlock to a shelf in bedroom closet.

[Old Glock guy 1,127]

Interesting question, but probably not a good subject to discuss on a public forum. I would suggest you take it up with some of your shooting buddies in private.

[silverado427 10,722]

I would think trigger locks while you were waiting for your safe...

[Celraysoda 7]

I would think trigger locks while you were waiting for your safe...

 

Great idea.

 

[Duppie 73]

I'm looking to get a safe but I'm just wondering, if you don't have one where do you keep your firearms. Do you hide them somewhere in the house/garage, just stick them in a closet?

I own 3 hand guns as I just got into firearms quite recently,don't have kids and don't own a safe devoted to firearms

All my pistols remain loaded and hidden to allow easy access. When leaving for extended periods there is ample room in a secured safe for them.

Accessories and ammo is stored in a utility closet.

One day I anticipate buying a gun safe but right now I don't see the necessity.

[Wojo 98]

Vinyl coated bicycle cable or dog cable secured to an eye-bolt is low tech but can work if in the right spot.

[PK90 3,570]

You would be surprised how many gun owners keep there firearm unsecured under their bed.

[Howard 538]

Probably just keep them outside in your mail box, it is a Federal offense for anyone to touch anything in there so they should be safe

 

Just kidding. You should probably put the lock on them and then keep them somewhere out of sight. Probably best NOT to keep in the master bedroom as that is the first place the bad guys go to look for stuff.

[SpecialK 193]

Just hang them on your wall they make pretty decorations.

[BlueLineFish 615]

Until my gun room is done I use a jobox bolted to the floor with grade 5 locks.

[Kingsoverqueens 10]

Interesting question, but probably not a good subject to discuss on a public forum. I would suggest you take it up with some of your shooting buddies in private.

Why not? Aren't we here to exchange information?

 

To the OP, before the safe I kept my pistol in locked briefcase, and the gun itself was locked as well. Not ideal to say the least.

 

I wouldn't hide it in the back of a closet...you aren't hiding it from anyone. The first thing a theif is going to do is turn out all of your drawers and empty the closet.

 

Consider up in the attic or in the rafters in the basement.

[jgofnj 5]

I have a friend to claims to have one inside the walls of his beedroom behind the sheetrock. He knows exactly where it is incase he needs it in an emergency situation.

[BOOMSTICK 6]

I have a friend to claims to have one inside the walls of his beedroom behind the sheetrock. He knows exactly where it is incase he needs it in an emergency situation.

 

How does he access it?

[Duppie 73]

I have a friend to claims to have one inside the walls of his beedroom behind the sheetrock. He knows exactly where it is incase he needs it in an emergency situation.

Did he just rock over the gun and then punch the wall out if needed?

[rlsbee 1]

There are a lot of items such as fake clocks, paintings, and other decorative items that are advertised. I use other ideas but they might work for some.

[woodentoe 14]

Until my gun room is done I use a jobox bolted to the floor with grade 5 locks.

 

How much did that run you?

[Old Dog 19]

I used to just use the gun lock cables or trigger locks until one day. I have no kids and neither did my friends but one day some out of State friends unexpectedly dropped by on their way back from a vacation. They had two 8 year old girls. My guns were always kept individually locked in my master bedroom closet. No one goes in there but my wife and I. However during this unexpected visit, the first time we had kids in the house for a few years, I noticed that the kids were not downstairs with the rest of us. I went up the stairs looking for them and sure enough they were in the closet rummaging around. I chased them out and learned a valuable lesson then. Kids happen and they go to places they are not allowed to go to and are very inquisitive. After that I bought a 6' gun safe and moved all my guns into it and kept the door to the room where the safe was locked whenever we had company no matter what the ages were. You never know if your best friend wants to commit suicide and wants to "borrow" one of your guns to do the deed.

 

I know that proper trigger locks and cable locks would work but I just did not like the image of kids playing with my guns and who knows if I may have not properly closed the lock or not. Plus if my house was robbed and the burglars stole my gun which were then used to kill someone it would haunt me. Heck just what I had to do in Nam messed me up for a few years afterwards and it was something that I felt was justified.

[BlueLineFish 615]

they are like 280 a piece from lowes. Plus the locks and bolts. About to get another one for my handguns and ammo

[Bob2222 317]

I have a couple of safes. But since I'm not too sure I ever want to be fiddling with a combination lock at 3AM, I also have one of these gizmos.

 

($38.59 plus shipping from Mossberg)

[Barms 98]

I had a topic about this a couple weeks ago. Just search for the word "freezer". Lol.

[vladtepes 1,060]

am I the only person that bought a gun safe before picking up my guns?

[kahout 0]

I have a couple of safes. But since I'm not too sure I ever want to be fiddling with a combination lock at 3AM, I also have one of these gizmos.

 

($38.59 plus shipping from Mossberg)

 

That's nice for a long gun, but is there something simple like this for a pistol?

 

I don't see the point of the night table pistol safes when a thief could just walk away with the safe, gun and all. They could torch it open at their leisure.

 

I would like something to secure the handgun to the building structure, available when needed, but would thwart a grab and run. It would have to be something that I could use in an apartment where I couldn't just do anything I please. Any suggestions?

[PK90 3,570]

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[PK90 3,570]

am I the only person that bought a gun safe before picking up my guns?

 

Yes

[Old Glock guy 1,127]

Why not? Aren't we here to exchange information?

 

 

Because if any of the bad guys happen to be reading, I didn't want to be telling them where we stash our guns.

[brocglock23 4]

am I the only person that bought a gun safe before picking up my guns?

I bought my handgun safe while I was waiting for my FID but I'll admit that I finished my AR a few days before I had a safe to store that in.

[siderman 1,138]

When you build your own house like I did you get to make all kinds of hidden slips/storage areas. However they're mostly for storage and only a few are live with ammo.

[vladtepes 1,060]

i just see no sense in not making some serious effort (at least a mid level safe) in securing something that if stolen could cause a lot of serious problems.. for me a safe was a necessity for gun ownership..

[Socom 19]

Before I bought a gun safe I just kept them in the original boxes with all firing pins removed I have two boys under 4; now that I have a safe I keep them all in the safe in gun socks with firing pins removed! For my safety children's safety and if some asshole robs me he won't have a F**** clue why it won't shoot. Yes it's a tedious chore on some guns but worth it in the end to me!