EugeneNine
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I told the wife I was going to put a gun rack in my back window just to hangthe kids **** on and she actually wasn't opposed to it
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Pick-up truck rifle racks?
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I told the wife I was going to put a gun rack in my back window just to hangthe kids **** on and she actually wasn't opposed to it
truckemup97
Member
How in the world do you have any tail gate parties without a pick-up truck?
Tail gate parties have a different meaning in WeHo.
The discussion about gun racks in the back of pickups comes up often here. You don't dare have one in the back of the truck now or you would draw attention to yourself and first thing you know the local Law Enforcement would be shaking you down looking for the rifle you carry. Seems like years ago all the trucks had the rifle racks and even had the rifles in them. When I was in school we even had rifles in the racks of the pickups at our high school. True story. Guess I just dated myself. Oh well. I don't know if the rifle racks are still available or not. The majority of vehicles on the road here are pickups. I have 3 and wouldn't have it any other way. Got to have room to haul something. No intent to hijack this thread. I hope you find a rifle rack.
Someone send Sipowitz a picture of a pickup truck so he won't feel left out. Them Hollywood people, well I guess they just don't know sometimes.
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James
Someone send Sipowitz a picture of a pickup truck so he won't feel left out. Them Hollywood people, well I guess they just don't know sometimes.
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James
monet61
US Veteran
I've had a rifle rack in my current(last) p/u for the last 15 years. Never been an issue. Maybe where a person lives has a lot to do with it. Rural vs urban.
Alpo
Member
Teacher in my high school (I graduated in '73), had a shotgun of some sort and a Winchester 94 in the rack in his truck. Saw it every day as I cut through the teachers' lot to get to PE. I'm fairly sure he didn't keep the truck locked, 'cause several times the window was down.
cbvanb
Member
I would have to add my voice to those who recommend a concealed method for carrying long guns. Now days a rifle rack could be considered probably cause, in some locations, to pull you over and search you're vehicle.
And I have a personal bias against them, although it was entirely my own fault. Way back in the day I was headed to the UP of Michigan for a bear hunt. Living in rural Michigan the gun rack was a normal accessory for a truck, but I stopped in suburban Detroit to spend the night with my folks, leaving my rifles in the rack. As anybody with a nickels' worth of common sense could guess, the guns were gone in the morning. That bit of stupidity still burns, 35 years later.
I don't they're a good idea anywhere, anymore.
And I have a personal bias against them, although it was entirely my own fault. Way back in the day I was headed to the UP of Michigan for a bear hunt. Living in rural Michigan the gun rack was a normal accessory for a truck, but I stopped in suburban Detroit to spend the night with my folks, leaving my rifles in the rack. As anybody with a nickels' worth of common sense could guess, the guns were gone in the morning. That bit of stupidity still burns, 35 years later.
I don't they're a good idea anywhere, anymore.
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mkk41
US Veteran
Don't think I ever said I was gonna carry guns in it.
More likely gonna use it for fishing rods , ax handle , 4ft level , hunk of pipe , other long and easily broken stuff.
More likely gonna use it for fishing rods , ax handle , 4ft level , hunk of pipe , other long and easily broken stuff.
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mkk41
US Veteran
Oh, you mean the kind that held our rifles in the trucks back window in the HIGH SCHOOL parking lots
Yep!
I'm still sorta rural so a long gun in the back of a pick-up truck won't cause much shock.
Not even with a Rebel flag between window and rack!
Ranger514
Member
Didn't have a pickup in the late 60's for the gun rack, but the '50 Pontiac Silver Chief had a big trunk, and the shotguns went there. After school, my pals and I hunted grouse and duck. That was back in the day when all you had to do was politely ask a land owner for permission to hunt his land. Sorry for the nostalgic hijack. Good luck with your rack.
carpriver
US Veteran
I call my truck a car with a big assed trunk. you gotta haul firewood, hay, dirt, a boat, lumber. beer cooler, BBQ and other important stuff.
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