Best places for hiding guns in house?

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Posted: 1/28/2015 12:06:54 AM EDT

Long story short, a home invasion happened in our neighborhood (in Texas) this past Sunday night and the home owner had a shoot out with the intruders. The story is on TheBlaze.com. There were over 30 shots fired between the homeowner and the POSs. Fortunately the homeowner was able to get to his pistol quickly or it would have been a bad situation. I'm looking for ideas and suggestions on where the best places to hide handguns throughout the house. I do have two kiddos (10 and 12) and they have been taught/trained to never touch any of my firearms, but I still need to be careful about their friends coming over. Any suggestions or pics would be greatly appreciated.

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:08:22 AM EDT

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Inside your waistband

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:09:08 AM EDT

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In before "on your hip."

Eta almost

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:12:46 AM EDT

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Drop ceilings and attic space are areas I have come up with.

I also have a small false area framed off in my bathroom that the contractor framed to make the shower fit. With a false ceiling I could get items in and out of it.

Especially since I have a visible gunsafe, I should use more hiding places since they may assume everything is locked up.

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:21:14 AM EDT

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Under the bed, duh

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:21:24 AM EDT

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On your person.

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:21:45 AM EDT

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You could put a bookcase in front of a closet drawer. Or disguise a door.

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Posted: 1/28/2015 12:22:11 AM EDT

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Kids find everything! On your person or locked up if kids are present.

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Posted: 1/28/2015 12:22:42 AM EDT

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Doesn't get any better than that.

Get a good gun and a good holster and get used to it.

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:24:05 AM EDT

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With a 10 & 12 year old, no matter how well taught, they (or their friends) will still be prone to make bad decisions. I'd go with IWB/OWB and the gunsafe only. The odds of them or their friends finding the guns far outweigh the odds of a home invasion.

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:25:38 AM EDT

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A Bryco.25 will fit nicely in a tub of potato salad.

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:26:17 AM EDT

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In your butt.

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:27:13 AM EDT

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On the internet

Posted: 1/28/2015 12:32:46 AM EDT

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1) Buy Lucky Charms.

2) Tell the kids NEVER TOUCH DADDY'S LUCKY CHARMS!!

3) Put gun in Lucky Charms.

4) Offer to make some cereal for any intruders.

Posted: 1/28/2015 11:42:03 PM EDT

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I am going to screw in a serpa holster under a bottom shelf in our bathroom linen closet for my wife's G26. Does anyone have any other good spots around the house that will: 1., not be easily found by kids or crooks if house is broken into. and 2:, be easily accessible. BTW, wearing a sidearm while I'm at the house playing with my kids is just not an option.

Posted: 1/28/2015 11:43:23 PM EDT

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Prison wallet.

Posted: 1/28/2015 11:46:30 PM EDT

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Why is that? My dad was a cop. Unless he was showering or swimming, he was armed. He didn't swim.

Posted: 1/28/2015 11:47:47 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/28/2015 11:49:25 PM EDT

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Posted: 1/28/2015 11:55:28 PM EDT

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This link should be in the first post instead of having everyone look all over that site to find it

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/01/27/anti-gun-advocates-routinely-ask-why-anyone-would-ever-need-more-than-10-bullets-texas-man-now-has-a-good-reason/

Forget hiding a loaded gun with kids around. On your body or in a safe place while rough housing with the kids.

Fortify entry points so that it takes lots of time for someone to break in.

Posted: 1/28/2015 11:56:17 PM EDT

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Couch with armrest console.

Recliners, on the underside of the foot rest, mount a holster.

A large bushy plant, stash one in the center of plant.

Large lights hanging from the ceiling, if they have a flat upper side you can stash one there.

Cut the back of a speaker housing, install a hinge and mount a holster to the inside of the newly made access cover..

Picture on wall that's actually a cover for a niche built between the wall studs.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:01:00 AM EDT

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Safest place (with kids in home) is to have a gun on you. No need to worry about the closest gun as it should be on your hip.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:04:05 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/29/2015 12:04:06 AM EDT

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On your hip - that's where I keep mine. Open carry sends a message.

With kids I would buy a couple of biometric fingerprint scanner handgun security containers and keep one in the home office and one in the master bedroom as I spend most of my time there.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:04:30 AM EDT

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... BTW, wearing a sidearm while I'm at the house playing with my kids is just not an option.

Why is that? My dad was a cop. Unless he was showering or swimming, he was armed. He didn't swim.

Don't know why. I play/rough house with my toddler all the time. Before I start playing, gun comes off and goes up high, finish playing the gun goes back on. Really not a big deal.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:05:10 AM EDT

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And lock your doors.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:08:47 AM EDT

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With a 10 & 12 year old, no matter how well taught, they (or their friends) will still be prone to make bad decisions. I'd go with IWB/OWB and the gunsafe only. The odds of them or their friends finding the guns far outweigh the odds of a home invasion.

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At that age, the indoors became my .22 gun range that killed many of phone books, even a school book that I got caught for

I have my own method today but will not share. The only dilemma I think about is that if I may need these tools for myself, shouldn't my young one, when they get to an age to stay home alone, which I was when taking out evil phone books?

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:08:57 AM EDT

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I have younger kids.

I either have one on my person, or in one of the quick access pistol safes in the house.
There is a pistol safe on each floor and one in the garage. It's where several of my pistols live unless I'm carrying that gun right now.

All of the safes are also discretely placed so as not to be in plain sight.
As an added bonus, that's several times as many locations a thief would have to find to clean me out.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:12:09 AM EDT

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With a 10 & 12 year old, no matter how well taught, they (or their friends) will still be prone to make bad decisions. I'd go with IWB/OWB and the gunsafe only. The odds of them or their friends finding the guns far outweigh the odds of a home invasion.

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Idk about this as an all covering case... my old man kept an 1894 behind the bookshelf in the office. Found it when I was ten.. had been there since we moved in and had never moved (I was 4 when we moved in). All I did was touch it to see if it was real and nothing else. Asked him about it a few weeks later and it blew his mind that I was alive.

If you feel comfortable with it OP, my suggestion would put it somewhere where everyone goes all the time (like where you walk in at) but in an oddball place. The kinda place that has an inch of dust and a dust bunny colony inhabiting it (corner bookshelf for example). In an home invasion, pull over the bookshelf for access.

Just an idea from a college kid so that probably amounts to squat though

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:15:59 AM EDT

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With a 10 & 12 year old, no matter how well taught, they (or their friends) will still be prone to make bad decisions. I'd go with IWB/OWB and the gunsafe only. The odds of them or their friends finding the guns far outweigh the odds of a home invasion.

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Quick access safes

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:16:54 AM EDT

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Where?

EVERYWHERE. Its what i do

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:17:06 AM EDT

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This.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:17:23 AM EDT

[#32]

Zaptal Carry

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:18:33 AM EDT

[#33]

course I like this better.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:19:18 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/29/2015 12:21:18 AM EDT

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Thank you MMF and Paul! Those are the type of suggestions that I'm looking for.

Posted: 1/29/2015 12:49:52 AM EDT

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Posted: 1/29/2015 12:51:16 AM EDT

[#37]

All available bholes.

Posted: 1/29/2015 1:23:30 AM EDT

[#38]

Under your stairs

http://smartproducttechnology.com/secret-stairs

Posted: 1/29/2015 1:28:28 AM EDT

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Long story short, a home invasion happened in our neighborhood (in Texas) this past Sunday night and the home owner had a shoot out with the intruders. The story is on TheBlaze.com. There were over 30 shots fired between the homeowner and the POSs. Fortunately the homeowner was able to get to his pistol quickly or it would have been a bad situation. I'm looking for ideas and suggestions on where the best places to hide handguns throughout the house. I do have two kiddos (10 and 12) and they have been taught/trained to never touch any of my firearms, but I still need to be careful about their friends coming over. Any suggestions or pics would be greatly appreciated.

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I'm glad that he was able to get to his gun.

You know, so that having the multiple armed intruders in his house was not a bad situation.

Posted: 1/29/2015 1:30:15 AM EDT

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Surprised nobody's posted the tactical wall shelves

http://tacticalwalls.com/shop/1242-rls/

Posted: 1/29/2015 1:33:33 AM EDT

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OP do you have an alarm system?

Posted: 1/29/2015 1:36:11 AM EDT

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I'd be pretty damn unhappy if I found out that my kids were allowing their buds to wander around the house, especially in to MY room. Guns there or not. I doubt I would also be too open about where I hide things on the internet.

That said, we used to keep the dogs leash and my Dad's snubbie behind the pediment or molding on a china cabinet. The cabinet was about 6.5 feet tall so unless you were exceptionally tall you couldn't see what was up there until you got up on something. So any tall enough piece of furniture with a rim of some sort around the top is a possibility.

You are going to be trading off speed of access for security of the weapon, so the more likely you have curious kids the harder to find and remove the gun is going to be necessary.

False backs and sides in furniture, hollowed out books in bookcases, needs to be a real book that fits in with the rest of the books. Second Volume of Shelby Foote's Civil War would take two pistols.

If you are really concerned, carrying it is the best option.

Posted: 1/29/2015 5:19:54 AM EDT

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In between the wall studs behind a thin piece of sheetrock.

Imagine the look on the home invaders' faces when they break in and confront you and you respond by punching your fist through the nearest wall and pulling out an 870.