Where's a good place to hide your firearms?

[Will3212]

I'm a part time PA resident and part time NY. I keep my firearms at my PA home. Sometimes I would be away from my PA home for a few days. I was wondering where are some good places to hide long guns and hand guns. Some people recommend a safe, but I'm afraid if a burglar/home invaders find the safe and carry the whole thing out with all the guns inside. Some places I thought of was the attic, the storage cabinet in the yard, or even under the bed. Some people just leave their handgun in the drawer when they go out, but I don't think this is a good idea. If someone broke in the drawer is the first place they'd look. What do you guys think?

[arjohnson]

I'm a part time PA resident and part time NY. I keep my firearms at my PA home. Sometimes I would be away from my PA home for a few days. I was wondering where are some good places to hide long guns and hand guns. Some people recommend a safe, but I'm afraid if a burglar/home invaders find the safe and carry the whole thing out with all the guns inside. Some places I thought of was the attic, the storage cabinet in the yard, or even under the bed. Some people just leave their handgun in the drawer when they go out, but I don't think this is a good idea. If someone broke in the drawer is the first place they'd look. What do you guys think?

Get a good heavy safe, bolt it to the floor and if your away from your home for extended time periods get an alarm system.

[ungawa]

If you have an attic with low ceiling and exposed insulation (it sounds like you do), hide the firearms under the insulation. Not at the entrance, but far away. So far away from the entrance that somebody would have to spend hours pulling up all the insulation to find them if they did not know where they were. Not right by the entrance which would be the only place they would bother to look.

If you have a basement, you probably have a secret space that could fit 20 bodies. You could live there for 30 years and finish the basement and still not know it. But it's a secret, so I can't tell you

[Gunsnwater]

A car on blocks makes a great storage shed. Cover everything with McDonald's trash, let he weeds grow over. Nobody will ever look, can even leave it unlocked. Shit! Now I let the cat out of the bag.

[Emptymag]

Start Googling "hidden gun" or variations of that nature. Tons of ideas out there.

I like the ductwork thing. If you have exposed furnace ductwork on the basement cieling it would be relatively simple to either cut a hole and add a "door", or add a false run for the sole purpose of gun storage.

Here's a start.


Back when I only had one shotgun I built a false wall in a storage area. Basically it was an unfinished wall (only one side finished with studs exposed on the other side) and I stood the shotgun between the studs and made a "cover" for that section that could be easily removed.

[ungawa]

The biggest thing to remember is the majority of burglars will toss everything.

If you think skid marked underwear will keep them from finding guns in the laundry bin, forget it. They will dump that SOB and pull everything off the shelves of your linen closet. Dump every drawer in your house and check the bottoms for good measure.

If it can be dumped, thrown on the floor, or pushed over, it will be. Obviously this goes for your beds and couches as well.

[Emptymag]

I came up with this one on my own.
Only works for small handguns, but the same concept could be applied to other household items.








Here's the thread showing how I made it.
http://forum.pafoa.org/general-2/914...ets-oh-my.html

[Hodgie]

Just drop them off at your local PSP station and they will watch them for ya.


I don't have much to add except that if you are not in this location for long periods of time then hiding them is a waste when someone can squat in your home for a week and trash it. It also will not protect them like a good safe will if there is a fire or water damage.

[louie]

http://bedgunsafe.com/

About the cost of a decent rifle.

[Hodgie]

http://bedgunsafe.com/

About the cost of a decent rifle.

This is a great idea and the couch remains functional too.