I wanna Display My Toys!

I think that each person who happens to see them will tell 15 other people in casual conversation. I suspect that at some point someone will tell the wrong person who will tell a equally wrong person who may want them for himself. I keep my firearms locked up and that is my suggestion to anyone who asks.
 
If you have an interior room you can put a steel door on, that is a minimum for safe storage. All it takes is one guest to tell one person who tells one person, and so on, for you to have a targeted break-in. Since they will know you will be armed, they will be armed.

The days when you could leave firearms and valuables laying around openly, leave doors unlocked, and trust your fellow man, are sadly gone.
 
displaying guns

there is nothing more enjoyable for a collector then to be able to display his collection. Myself I would love to do so. sadly, as some others have said in this thread. it is a different society that we now live in then what it was in the past. The wife and I are both shooters. We are looking for a new house. Are plans are to put in a walk in safe and have our guns on the walls within this safe. but only then can we feel comfortable in displaying them.
When I lived in Enumclaw, Washington, I had a neighbor that lost his whole safe while he was gone for only a couple of hours. They must have used a car wrecker or something like that to cart it off. The bad guys obviously had planed this out ahead of time.
 
We keep, FWIW, a bar on the balcony door.
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Would that be a wet bar?

My first thought is, insurance. Are your firearms adequately insured?

Heck, if you don't have "irresponsible guests" or little ones running around, stack them on the mantle, the coffee table, use them for book ends, paper weights, and for nostalgia's sake mount an old truck rifle rack on the shower door or bathroom mirror. Just be careful to keep them out of the kitchen, wouldn't want your P210 to be used for cracking walnuts or pounding moose steak!

My second thought, don't you see enough of them at work?

"Life is very short..." The Beatles
 
If you have the room and the means line the wall with steel plate, use a security door instant vault.
I built mine in the garage with 6" thick concrete block and filled them with concrete & re bar, put steel plate on the ceiling and a steel exterior door filled with concrete and re bar with a custom built steel frame all tied together with concrete & re bar. Added a alarm system and 3 biometric locks 2 dead bolts on each side of the door and one for entry and for an added mesure of security a hardened steel gate.
Down here in FL it is called a safe room. Man I wish for the old days when I had a wood gun cabinet and glass door.

Mace

Happiness is a belt fed gun and lots of ammo
 
Same question... We live in a fairly rural area, home over 90% of the time, and always have a large caliber handgun close-by if not within reach...plus my Chinese Rip-off Coach 12 gauge is leaning against my computer desk (my prime location in the house. Two Neighbors within sight of our doors, and security camera that give me a good view of the approaches from all directions. The inventory is in a 6 long gun oak cabinet and the rest in soft cases in a closet. Total Long Guns about 15. The handguns are New in the box types or sitting on a bookshelf Total about 2 dozen. Thinking of using the Lazy-Susan 9-gun racks to hole the non-boxed guns. They are in a spare bedroom converted to my library and gun room, sitting on empty book shelves.. Out of the main rooms sight, it would still allow me to display to those I choose to share my man-cave with.

I have no plans to buy a gunsafe, but may go to a solid door file safe if I change my 'show-off' attitude.:rolleyes:
 
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