Posted on 10/14/2016 5:01:20 AM PDT by w1n1
For decades, gun owners were forced to make difficult choices or to compromise when it came to firearms storage. On one hand, owners needed firearms to be stored securely to protect them from theft and to ensure the safety of younger family members. At the same time, protecting those same loved ones often required that the firearms be quickly and easily available for access in case of an intruder or other emergency.
There have been excellent gun safes on the market for decades, and many do their intended job very well. But until recently, gun safes were all about security and safety, not easy access.
That all began to change a few years ago, when technological advancements such as radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled companies to think outside the big, steel box and develop products that could provide both security and access. One of these, Tactical Walls, has done an excellent job creating firearms storage products that "hide in plain sight." Read the rest of the review here.
Expensive solution which could fail at the worst possible moment, IMHO. Cheap solution? Keep one good, dependable weapon where it is at hand at all times. My motto. Ask Laz if he endorses my solution.
With regards to gun safes, I have a hard time making a decision.
On one hand, a gun safe protects them from theft and fire.
On the other hand a large gun safe is a good common place the leftists can easily see when they come and get your guns. Even if it’s empty, they can easily figure out about how many you have.
Concealing them in-home in plain sight is a good idea, but a thorough search will find most if not all.
Grand kids are now not in local area so seldom have reason to sanitize any area anymore.
When I was in the Navy, one of my shipmates told me about his father. He had worked in South America as a diplomat. He had guns placed, so that wherever he was in his home, he was in quick reach of a gun, even in the shower.
Early scene in the Christopher Walken movie “Dogs of War”.
He even had one in the refrigerator. I wouldn’t go quite that far. Moisture problems I’d rather not take a chance on.
I believe it is a FReeper who has the tag, “A handgun is what you use to fight your way to your rifle.”. Mine is ParaOrdnance .45 ACP with 14 round magazine. I am never more than “14 rounds” from my rifle.
You seem to allow in your thinking for the possibility of a government search in your home for weapons. Do you expect to be alive when it gets to that??
And where do you hide the RFID card?
We have a well hidden gun safe for the long guns and for when the great grands come, the hand guns can be stored there. Grands are all old enough and been taught not to touch or know how to shoot. Key is not easy to find or get to. Well bolted to wall and floor. I like my hand gun with in reach. If I carry outside the house it’s on my hip, not in my purse, which does have a compartment for it. I just don’t trust it. We have to many purse snatching around Memphis.
Dogs will set up a fuss if any one tries to enter the house, and grown kids know better than to come in with out singing out who they are. There are night lights all through the house so there is always some light available to see with.
“...leftists can easily see when they come and get your guns.”
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If ‘they’ come to take my guns they won’t have to look very hard.
One in each hand.....no compromise.
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That's NOT where my guns will be when they come....
The safest place to store a gun is a holster.
Rare earth magnets mounted under waiste height surfaces like kitchen and dining room tables work well for those rooms.
Why the hell should I hide my guns in my own home?
If you come into my home, you have done so at my invite.
Otherwise, you are not a guest, you are a corpse.
Don't like sitting on my couch and seeing a loaded .357 magnum sitting on the coffee table?
Well, get the hell out...'cause if it offends you, then you ain't no acquaintance of mine...you're a liberal dipshit that somehow got into my home, probably under false pretenses.
But don't worry, I've had a talk with all my guns...they have all promised, one and all, not to just willy-nilly jump up and start killing people.
They have all sworn allegiance to me.
Another thing...don't bring your squalling kids over to my home and expect me to run around and hide all my guns (and liquor and beer and porn).
I taught my kids to ignore all of it and you should have done the same with yours.
These are some really stupid observations in the first place.
A gun is a tool...do you hide your damned Crescent Wrench...is your vise concealed...is your welder disguised as your old Granma's pie safe, with a finger-print scanner on the "on-off" button?
Ludicrous bullshit.
I've lost count of the guns I have lying around my house, but I guarantee you that I can find at least one of them to shoot the home-invading asshole that takes issue with it.
All you nancy-boys with the RFID bracelets and smart phone apps can take all that crap on a boat ride, along with your guns...and hopefully sink.
Trying to force this "safe gun" crap down my throat is an "infringement" on my rights.
Can you say "infringement"?
I can and I can find it in the Second Amendment to the Unites States Constitution, also.
Hide my guns!!!...pffttt!
www.covertfurniture.com
I have one of their products showing up today. I’m waiting for delivery. I’ll place 3 handguns and a long gun in it but have a loaded .40 Springfield XD in the nightstand for easy access. I live by myself in an access controlled building and rarely have visitors so I’m not too worried. It has an RFID card for access. It hides in plain sight as a functional piece of furniture.
Family, friends, and acquaintances have pretty much determined I am not a fan of "surprise" drop-in visits for coffee, so they call ahead.
It takes no more than a minute or two to lock everything if needed.
Yep - some time ago, our alarm went off in the middle of the night. I opened my nightstand drawer and took a weapon out and headed to check it out. Turned out the system had malfunctioned but my wife started keeping a weapon on her side of the bed too because she said she felt absolutely useless as I headed out alone.
She's one that, as Louis L'Amore said in one of his novels, is a companion to walk the river with - I trust her at my back with a loaded weapon.
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