Air Condition Vents : Good Place To Hide A Spare Gun?

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Been thinking about this ... would an air condition vent (where you change the air filter), be a good place to hide a gun and some ammo or would the constant air flow and changes in temperature quickly turn it into a rusted piece of garbage? I was thining about bolting down one of those GunValuts to the cement floor behind the filter and putting a couple of guns there along with some ammo. Does anyone think that this would be a good idea and harmful to the ammo and the guns?
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No! I tried that and found that within several days I had enough lint/dust to make a sweater.
 
I've been considering the same idea and had the same concerns. If you have to dig your piece out of a "couple sweaters" than I'll use the ziplock.
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Morning Fud,

A quick thought: The area by the filter in normally on the "return side" of the AC's air flow system, not the "discharge side". Accordingly, this is relatively humid "house air" about to be cooled -- thereby precipitating water vapor into liquid water. In addition, I'd be a little careful that any water (for example, from the coils) doesn't have a "leak path" to wherever you're planning on storing the weapon.

Regards.
 
The house that I live in doesn't have a lot o storage space and originally being from up north where we had basements, attics, etc.; tbis is something that is a little hard to adjust to. Just behind the AC unit, there's this huge amount of unused space -- I realize that it's the air vent for the air to pass through but I'm tempted to give these suggestions a try. Thanks for your comments.
 
I'd be wary of it myself. The air in the area that you describe in my Apt is EXTREMELY saturated with water. I wouldn't consider it unless your guns were nicely sealed in whatever container. Even then, I would be hesitant at best. Like someone suggested, I would place a metallic something-or-other in the area for an exteneded amount of time to see how it goes first.

Whatever happened to just pruchasing a safe? You seem to like all these snazzy little lock-boxes?

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Mornin' KaMaKaZe, I DO have a safe (5ft tall, 600+ pounds, fireliner & dehumidifier) where most of my guns are kept. However, I also like to keep a few guns scattered through the house -- hidden & secured but within quick access so that I do not have to run ALL the way back to the 'safe room' to retrieve a weapon (an extra twenty or thirty feet sometimes might make a difference and may not always be an option). Regards, FUD.
 
FUD: Get a copy of "The Big Book of Secret Hiding Places"; It's a great guide to where you should never hide stuff, because everybody's read it!



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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by FUD:
Mornin' KaMaKaZe, I DO have a safe (5ft tall, 600+ pounds, fireliner & dehumidifier) where most of my guns are kept. However, I also like to keep a few guns scattered through the house -- hidden & secured but within quick access so that I do not have to run ALL the way back to the 'safe room' to retrieve a weapon (an extra twenty or thirty feet sometimes might make a difference and may not always be an option). Regards, FUD.[/quote]

Good point. Well, I would still go with my initial re-iteration of someone's suggestion in being wary of this area. Seems like it could pose potential problems. Any particular reason you wish to use this space.. other than it being unused?



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There's a Dragnet episode where Sgt. Friday tells a lady not to hide anything behind the vents becase the burglars look there.
 
Some ideas:

GunVideo.com sells hollow books cut to hold a handgun. In catalogs, I have seen picture frames that conceal a gun holder, and a phony can of Pennzoil that would probably hold a mini-Glock. A lot of pistols will fit inside a video tape slip cover; put the gun in a sleeve marked "Ishtar" and no one will ever find it. :) Buy a cheap nylon holster and screw it to the back of a piece of furniture that stands close to a wall. In the kitchen, keep a gun in a Grape-Nuts box or empty flour cannister, or in the breadbox underneath the pumpernickel. A lot of reclining chairs have a pocket on the side. I have a milk-can-size umbrella/walking stick stand that would probably hold a couple of 6" Colt Pythons. I know one guy whose spare gun is in a holster attached to the underside of a laundry hamper lid.

There are a lot of odd spaces behind or underneath things in the home. Try to avoid hiding a gun behind stuff a burglar grabs first, like TVs and stereos.
 
I've considered a A/C vent coming out of the wall...one that the went goes in a foot then makes a sharp turn...stick the gun and ammo in a plastic bag and around the bend. The problem I see with this idea and many of the others: Quick access in a adrenal situation is impossible...If your thoughts are to hide a couple of guns in case someone does a 'door-to-door' confiscation...I'd prefer to hide off property in a pvc tube.

Even that carries a risk...say they plow up where to hid the firearm or someone with a metal detector finds it.

Tough question really...just from a 'can I stick it behind the filter?' :)

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I don't want to just hide the gun (such as behind a picture on in a hollowed out book) but I also want to secure it from unauthorized access. By bolting a strongbox to the cement floor, it will keep the gun out of the hands of children and it will also be secure from theft. It obviously will not be as safe from theft as if it was in the safe since with some effort, a theif could use a crowbar to remove the strongbox but it's more readily accessable than the guns in the safe which is the trade-off. The reason that I was thinking about this spot because there's so much wasted space there and I do not have a hidden/secured gun in that part of the house.
 
FUD, maybe we should review what you are trying to achieve here. If you are worried about having access to a handgun when you are in the house why don't you carry when in the house? A lot of people do this. Clip type IWB will attach to shorts, sweats or swim suit. I have two safes, one built in and a GunVault. MWT
 
Powermwt, I do carry while at home -- a Taurus 85UL/UC .38 snubbie. I was thinking about putting something more powerful (like 15 rounds of 9mm in a S&W 659) in the vent to have in the very early part of the day or the very late part of the evening when I've already unholstered the snubbie.
 
I'm with Satanta.

PVC & motor oil a few feet deep. :D


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No no no you got it all wrong..

The best place to hide a gun is what East German Spies used to do to sneak guns(small ones)into the West...... Lets just say the sun dont shine there. :eek:

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