hiding your house guns (undermount magnets?)

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I have just purchased and mounted a couple gun magnets. These are very strong, plastic covered magnets mounted to the underside of my kitchen cabinet and desk.

I LOVE the idea of these. No fumbling. Just grab the gun.

The magnets (Quickdraw) are $19 each. Seems a bit steep. I was thinking of buying my own hi-power magnets and coming up with a way to create the same system.

Anyway, does anyone have clever ways of hiding your handgun in such a way that it is easy to access?

In particular, I have not come up with a way to have a handgun next to the bed and yet quick to hide.

I don't have kids, so a safe isn't quite as necessary. Also, I don't want to go through a bunch of steps...so I prefer quick places to stash the gun.

My idea is to have a gun at-the-ready in the primary places that I am likely to be: kitchen, desk, couch, bed

For now, for the bed, I still have my glock shoved, barrel first, under the edge of my mattress. Then I hide it after waking in the morning.
 
I don't really understand the whole "hide one or two dozen guns all around the house" thing. It's expensive, and in an emergency situation, you might not have enough time to swing back a painting or pull up floorboards or couch cushions or whatever.

It also makes them more accessible to theft.

Anyway, does anyone have clever ways of hiding your handgun in such a way that it is easy to access?
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Yes, it's called a holster.
 
I have heard some talk of the slide becoming magnetized from the magnet. I'm not the person to prove or disprove this, but it does make sense to me. The issue you run into is that it can hold onto little bits of metal in that magnetized area. This can then lead to issues with the gun functioning.

It may seem a little excessive at first glance, but there is a reason a lot of guys carry their guns on them even while in their house. Additionally, I dont think carrying in your house is any more/less eccentric then stashing them around your house.

When I was younger I was visiting an older gentleman and he pulled out a photo album for us to look through. "Great we get to look through old family pictures...". Nope, it was pages and pages of pictures of all his guns. Then he told us that he could access a gun from every seat in his house without moving from the seat. Two things, I sat a little more gently on his couch and I thought he was nuts. I think I would have thought him more normal if he just had one on his hip....

If you are set on the whole magnet thing there are some wicked strong magnets in a computer hard drive. Just be sure to coat them with something so it doesn't mar the finish on your gun.

Additionally this was recently covered here..... http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=474794&highlight=magnet

Be sure to review post 9 as it discusses the magnetization of the gun... Good luck to you with storing your guns around the house.
 
I also have several guns stashed in places where I spend alot of time. Computer room, bedroom, one sits on top of my gun cabnet and another inside my valuables safe. Then there is the one that I just carry around the house with me as I go from room to room which is also my , get this, carry gun :p


No no, all kidding aside, when it comes to the bedroom, although the nightstand or similar location that's easy to access seems a natural choice, I sometimes question it's wisdom. I have had occasions where I have been awoken during a seriously developing situation and yet for some reason I just was very slow in really waking up. It was like my brain was still fogged. In that kind of situation where you don't wake up alert, maybe a gun in easy reach isn't the best idea. Sometimes I think I would be better served by having a pump action 12GA in the closet instead. At least then if I am going to lay my hands on it I have to make a deliberate effort to do so and might be actually alert before I lay my hands on a serious instrument of destruction. And if I am going to make a short trip for it, better a 12GA then a pistol.
 
Wow. I love how someone can take something so simple like a rubberized magnet and turn around and sell it as a "gun magnet" specializing it into something else for 3x more than the same product would cost if you weren't searching specifically for a gun magnet.


You can get neodymium magnets all over the internet with rubberized coating for a few bucks.

that's all it is.. a neodymium magnet.

the mounting options can be left to you own judgement.
 
yep, i put one in my gun cabinet to create more space on the door for small items.

i was tired of moving them around all the time whenever my wife would come in and pester me about playing with my guns (cleaning). Have kids so can't leave them laying around.

Magnet is stroooong. Got at Home Depot for like 7 bucks. I just put knives on it though as guns are on shelf.
 
I can make a staple stick to the barrel, but it isn't strong at all. My glock 21 has been on that magnet for a few days now.

I did read on a web site that the magnetism quickly goes away when the gun is no longer mounted there. I will continue to use the two magnets that I have, but might just look for other option... but what a great idea!

Knowing myself, there is simply no way I'm going to carry a gun from place to place in the house. It is great just to have the weapon near at hand without that hassle.
Perhaps a plastic, wire bracket, undermount system would be just as good.

If I leave the house for more than a day, I will seek a more appropriate hiding place, though. (always an interesting conversation in itself.
 
I live in a small apartment with my wife and we keep a couple guns around. While they are not hidden, they are easily reached. When we are home, the Sig comes out of the safe and goes into the living room. There is also a revolver on my night stand and a 12 gauge by my wife's bedside. I also carry my 637 around the house pretty much all the time.
 
So let me get this straight:

You folks that carry your guns (on your person) all day. Do you mean, even when inside the house for the evening? I can barely tolerate having my wallet on me, so I can't imagine hanging heavy metal on me.

I'm fairly sure that I can't/won't do that, but you folks do have me thinking:
Maybe I can just go through the daily, evening hassle of taking the guns out of hiding an putting them right where I want them.

Because I walk in and out of schools all day, I can't carry very easily during the work hours. Wish I could.
 
I'm not necessarily against hiding a couple of guns around the house. I would just be concerned that I'd forget about one or two of them. They might sit there for years with dust and moisture getting to them and then I have a ruined gun.
 
Magnets are a bad idea. Even if the magnetism goes away after a while it will be magnetic just when you need to use it and magnetic parts act differently than non-magnetic parts.

BTW, A soldering gun will de-magnetize.

Hiding? Any thief worth his time in jail knows every popular hiding spot there is.

If we knew when we would need a gun we would carry only when we need a gun.
 
Before I had my carry license, I would go to bed at night and fish the home defense gun out of the safe and take it to bed with me. In the morning, I'd bring it downstairs and drop it in the safe.

As I got more aware of why I keep a handgun for defense, I began to unlock the safe during the day while I was home, so that I would have access.

Now that I carry, I simply carry my gun all the time... yes, around the house. Get a good belt, get a decent holster and have a good carry gun and no, it's not a hassle to carry all day long.

My fundamental problem with hiding guns around the house all of these:
  • When I am home, if someone comes in, I do not want them to find one of my "stashed" firearms and use it against me. It's bad enough they may be armed when they enter my home, I don't want to help them
  • When I am not home, I don't want a bad guy to find one of my "stashed" firearms and steal it... or be in my home when I arrive to interrupt him, where he might use it against me
  • I don't want one of my children to stumble across a "stashed" gun, even though we talk about how to handle firearms on a weekly basis, and what to do if they come across one
  • I don't want a friend of one of my children to come across a "stashed" gun in my home... for about a MILLION reasons

It cracks me up that gun owners actually believe they can hide something that either a child or a professional criminal isn't going to find, or in a place where they think a child or a professional won't look.

Really? Were you ever a kid? Was there anywhere you never looked?

Were you ever a professional crook? Are you really better at hiding things than a pro is at finding them?

Please secure your firearms and don't be part of the problem.
 
It cracks me up that gun owners actually believe they can hide something that either a child or a professional criminal isn't going to find, or in a place where they think a child or a professional won't look.

Really? Were you ever a kid? Was there anywhere you never looked?

Were you ever a professional crook? Are you really better at hiding things than a pro is at finding them?

Please secure your firearms and don't be part of the problem.
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I keep a Glock 17 in my night stand. It's not locked and I do not intend to keep it locked. Safety from kids is not an issue. Let's get something straight here, if a CRIMINAL comes on my property, breaks into my locked house and steals my gun, I AM NOT PART OF THE PROBLEM!
 
Think about this:

Recently, here in the Little Rock Arkansas area, bad guys tripped the outside breaker to a couples home. Owner (male) goes outside to see why the electricity is off...bad guys hold gun to his head and take him inside, 1 bad guy ties up the wife and the holds the owner "hostage" while the second bad guy rounds up the "goodies" in the couples home.
 
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