What are some good concealment places for a firearm in a home

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Uzi4u2

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I know what you are going to say. Go buy a safe. We had a safe they broke into it. Don't get me started on how long it took the police to respond. They are completely useless. Luckily for me no guns were taken.
I find that the best hiding places are right in front of their eyes. I need to build a storage compartment or buy a cabinet with a concealed compartment. Does anyone have any ideas as what to build and where? I remember seeing once an idea for storing firearms under the wooden floor. The individual had designed the floor so that he could access his firearms in his bedroom by lifting a section of the floor that appeared to be completely part of a whole floor. It was exactly a door. Once he lifted the door it revealed some type of lazy susan flooring underneath where he could put a firearm and move it to another location by rotating the floor. He had a locking mechanism for that lazy susan floor. Once he was done putting away his firearms he could turn the lazy susan to reveal an empty spot and he would activate the locking mechanism. So if you happened to find his hiding place you would only see an empty spot. His firearms were only a few inches or feet away unbeknown to the thief.

Check further down. I posted another great idea for a concealed compartment. Enjoy! Don't be afraid to post your ideas. I want all of us to brainstorm on this.
 
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I'd just figure it out. I wouldn't openly discuss this in a forum like this. Seriously. If you know some folks here, maybe PM them for some ideas--or some could respond to you that way. My .02 - and worth about that much!
 
I wouldn't openly discuss this in a forum like this
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If you are looking for some really good, super secret, hard to find hiding places, getting ideas off the internet probably isn't the best way to go about it. As, once its poseted here............its not really much of a secret.
 
Unless you fear that people on the internet, especially these forums, are your potential criminals coming to your house to rob you, and they know who you are and your address, I doubt very much discussing such things on the internet is a "security risk".

Now, when you say that you had a safe and the criminals broke into it, are you talking about a real safe, or a gun cabinet. I find it difficult for a burglar to simply break into a safe. Not unless they had a lot of time, torches, etc... But assuming they did/could, I guess your options are limited. I personally only put/hide guns in my house that I want to have access to. In other words, I'm not hiding them so the bad guy can't find them; although I do take that into consideration; I hide them in places so that no matter where I am in the house, I have access to a weapon if needed. I'm not the type who carries a weapon on them 24/7. I'm not that paranoid. I have guns in multiple locations in my residence so I can get to one no matter where I am in the house at the time of a break-in.

I have numerous safes, but some aren't the ones I would use for weapons. E.g. Small fire safes. Those are designed simply to protect papers, jewelry, and other valuables from fire and a place of storage. If a criminal broke in, they could easily drag one of these out of the house. Even if it was screwed/bolted down. But for guns, I have real safes. And these safes are bolted in the back and through the floor. And I am confident that they aren't going to simply break into it. So, it all depends on the purpose of what and why you are trying to hide your guns. Is it so you have access to them, or so that a bad guy can't steel them.
 
Uzi, . . . I have to echo the sentiments of Christcorp, . . . you need a SAFE, . . . period. Not a steel box, not a gun cabinet, but an honest to goodness safe.

It will make all the difference in the world as far as your firearm security goes.

The last thing in the world you want is to come home to a burglary in progress at your house and be shot with one of your own firearms. If it happens, it may truly be the last thing for you in this world.

You cannot "hide" things where no one else will find them. You must put them where they cannot be accessed. Think about it, . . . does the bank "hide" the money or do they lock it up in a safe?

May God bless,
Dwight
 
Our contractor robbed us. He had keys to the entire house. While we would out to work he used a torch to make a hole in the safe. The safe was in a hidden closet. We completely forgot about it. We concealed it over 17 years ago. jHe found the location by accident and opened it. Then he reconcealed it. We didn't know that he had stolen anything until a year later. The so called police are supposedly looking for him. Chances are I will bump into him before the police does. My intentions now are to redirect the thieves focus to an exposed safe where I will keep nothing valuable. While keeping my firearms in visible but not visible. AVailable but not easily detected.
Guys guess how long it took the police to respond to our call? 30 minutes.
 
I hide them in places so that no matter where I am in the house, I have access to a weapon if needed. I'm not the type who carries a weapon on them 24/7. I'm not that paranoid. I have guns in multiple locations in my residence so I can get to one no matter where I am in the house at the time of a break-in.
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ChristCorp, I really don't see any difference between hiding a bunch of guns around the house - or carrying one on you around the house. Either of those could be viewed as paranoid or as totally reasonable security, depending both on the viewer and the circumstances surrounding the "viewee".

I personally feel more prepared and and safer from the perspective of the other household members to just retain control of my gun by keeping it on my person, but that doesn't necessarily mean I am paranoid. I assume your way of dealing with it meets your household requirements and I wouldn't call you paranoid - just super cautious.
 
Guys guess how long it took the police to respond to our call? 30 minutes.
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It took the police an entire half-hour to respond to a burglary that happened a year prior??? My God, you're right - they should have been "lights and sirens" the entire way to your house!
:rolleyes:
 
Uzi4U2,

Please don't take this the wrong way but you are one unlucky and crime prone dude.
In less than a dozen threads. You have mentioned your son was chased in his Crown Vic by gangbangers in a Hyundai:rolleyes:, your mother/mother in law is in the hospital, a contractor (who for some reason had keys to your safe) robbed you blind and the police department in your hometown consists of Barney Fife, Chief Wiggum and the Keystone Kops. Also, your favorite guns are "The Browning Pistols." And all of these events seem to happen at our within about a 5 mile radius of your home.

Based on your posts and questions, I suspect you are either very new to firearms and REALLY need to "use the search function" (and I hate to tell or hear that from people) or are simply a troll with nothing else to do with your time.
 
the police department in your hometown consists of Barney Fife, Chief Wiggum and the Keystone Kops.
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That's a fairly accurate description of my local PD, except that none of those fictional characters displayed a marked tendency to murder their ex-wives/ex-girlfriends. That's happened three times here in the last decade.

Before someone busts a blood vessel, I'm not saying that all policemen are incompetent, corrupt, and/or homicidal. However, even one is one too many.
 
Uzi4u2,

You explained that very well on your OP, I didn't even have to read that again.

That's pretty clever, and I'm sure your not trying to go to that extreme to hide your guns/valuables.

I can't add to this but I think it's a very interesting topic.

Once, I was going out of town, and I had to depend on somebody I didn't trust to watch the house I was living in. I had about 5K++ rounds ($$$) and 12 guns, and not cheap guns.
Well, I took the guns to my trusty neighbors, but I didn't want to hall my 10,000lbs of ammo over there, so I spread it all about my house, as to maybe if I was "robbed" they would only find a small amount, if not most or all, if they wanted to look through 33Ksqf, or 3.3Ksqf, cant's remember which (Wild Turkey). Good size house though.

Good luck, and I hope you find some good advise, "I'll be watching!":cool:
 
the story above about the contractor and the cutting torch

reminded me of a bank manager's house I was working on a few years back...

I was up in the attic... one of those spaces you have to squeeze up through a hole (a real squeeze for me) and crawl thought to get to where I needed to work.... I had to move several paper bags out of the way that had been stored up there... on one of the trips back and forth curiosity got the best of me and I looked in one of the bags...

You folks are going to think I'm making this up.... Rolls of 50s!

For about 3 seconds I had to think really hard about this.... but 'good' prevailed.

I'm a 'hide them all about' kind of guy... probably because I can't afford the minimum of three safes it would take.....
 
About 8-9 years ago, I was running cable thru a drop ceiling in a Customers basement. I had to run it thru their little girls bedroom and when I moved the tiles I found an old 30/30 deer rifle. I carried it upstairs to the adults and procede to admonish them for their choice of storage options...ie their minor childs room...
Once they recovered from the shock of me coming up the stairs with a firearm in my hands....
....they realized it was the rifle they had thought was stolen years earlier. They had even filed an insurance claim on it. It turns out that this was THE rifle that every son in the family had killed his first deer with for several generations. Apparently 1 of the brothers wanted it so badly that he had hidden it in the ceiling hoping to come back and get it later. But for some reason after the arguement he had never been allowed back in.
Of course my joke of a finders fee went unnoticed...amazing what you can find in strangers houses huh?
 
Rebel; you thought of keeping the firearm on you is well taken. However, I am not always at home. Sometimes I go out of town on business. The "Man of the House" is not a concept I live by. My wife, son, or daughter are just as dangerous to a criminal as I am if one was to break in and they were home. That's why I have a couple of guns scattered around the house. They aren't in wide open spaces. They are hidden, yet able to get to by a family member no matter where they are in the house at the time of a break in. When we leave town, for whatever reason, the guns are simply put back in the safes. I have a very large house. 6 Bedroom, Family room, living room, 4 bathrooms, etc... If you are on one side of the house, you can't even hear a person if they screamed from the other side of the house. We have an intercom system for that. Point is, carrying a gun is not always practical. And sorry, but having my wife and children also carrying a gun all over the house when they are home, is indeed paranoid. But the guns hidden in my house could not be found accidentally. It would take time. And even if they were found, they are semi-locked up. It would take even more time to get if you were the bad guy. In other words, they can't be used against us. But if you know where they are, and know how to unlock them, they are available for you very quickly; "In a room, Behind a locked door", that you can protect yourself until you're ready to confront the criminal.
 
I have to say that nothing will beat a good safe.I have a friend that has an entire room size vault built into his home.When you open the wooden door(it has a deadbolt lock)you are staring at a bank vault type door.I guess it could be breached,but not in anything like a reasonable amount of time.As for police response time,when we lived in Houston,we had two groups shooting at each other in the street in front of our house.After waiting for 2 hours for a response we finally went to the station.It was only 1/2 mile away.They told us to go home and they would send someone out.They did,but I never expected any assistance from the local P.D. again.
 
My grandfather had kind of a neat setup many years ago. It was a waist-high wall that divided the little entryway area of the house from the livingroom, and it had a big tray of fake plants fitted into the top of it. If you lifted the tray of fake plants off, you would find that the wall was completely hollow and filled with a great number of rifles and shotguns.:)
 
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