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I'd like to stash a gun in my garage. I figure hidden among the junk is best, but I want it to be locked and quickly accessible. Mounting a pistol safe in a room full of power tools and pry bars doesn't seem like such a smart move. But I'm not gonna stash a gun behind some paint cans or in a toolbox where my kids can find it one day.

Any ideas?
 
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Got a buddy that dedicated one drawer in his bench size tool box for a handgun. The drawer is kept locked with key in pocket. Not the quickest access but beats a gun in the house while messing around in the garage should an undesirable appear.
 
Interesting post - I've thought about putting a lock box out there several times ... But, as has been pointed out, that's where I also keep tools. I have thought about this more than a few times - and decided that I'll just use my EDC. I go out, early, every workday morning and use this routine: (feel free to laugh if you want) Exit house, and lock door into house, get into car and lock door, open garage door, start car and back out waiting for SHMBO. Ditto for coming back to the garage alone - but have to let her out when she returns cause our garage is small & she can't open door. Either way, I have an EDC with me every moment I am outide the house. I can't believe how many times I've read or heard about the potential for thugs to follow a car into the garage when someone returns home - all I can say to that is a person needs to maintain their situational awareness, and watch for that, before exiting the car.
 
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I had a handgun hidden in the ceiling for 10 years in the back room (storage room). No one would have dreamed a gun was up there. Be creative.



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Mounted my safe upstairs, took 6 of us to get it up the stairs and over the hand rails. It will be there when I sell the house.
 
kbm6893 said:
It doesn't lock. Can't have that.
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True, but if it't not even a consideration to be procured it is an option. Hiding is the element, locking is separate.. for example if you have a locking cabinet in your garage you can store something similar to it is a keyed cabinet.. throw it in with any spray paint or other cans of half used paint you already have. Anything obvious will cause someone to "check it out".

in my bedroom i have 400 cash hiding in plain sight and my wife can't find it.. i also keep a metal box with vintage cash (not worth anything except for face value) but she missed the cash sitting right in front of it against the actual drawer front.

I agree locking would be the best, but some of that stuff is outrageously priced and not large enough sometimes.. it was just a thought.
 
kbm6893 said:
Mounting a pistol safe in a room full of power tools and pry bars doesn't seem like such a smart move.
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So true. :D

Some people may think I'm crazy, but both the door to my basement and the door to my garage are double key locked (i.e., key locks to open on both sides)... just so that some Godless miscreant trying to get into one of my safes won't have easy access to any of my tools. :)
 
TTSH said:
So true. :D

Some people may think I'm crazy, but both the door to my basement and the door to my garage are double key locked (i.e., key locks to open on both sides)... just so that some Godless miscreant trying to get into one of my safes won't have easy access to any of my tools. :)
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Good point, my Garage is detached, and no one touces my "stuff" tools, cars, chemicals etc. so I guess the paint can would work for me but if its attached that can be tough too... There are some of the single gun fingerprint safes, but I wonder if you can mount it upside down under the counter and it not be cumbersome, depending on your work bench.

During X-Mas we stash presents in my 71 Mach 1, it has a cover on it most of the time, and everyone knows not to even lean on or look at it funny.. has been a great place to stash things over the years, as there is no "Trunk Release" from inside the car. :)

Be creative. :)
 
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The simplest sometimes is the best .. attach a strong magnet under your work bench .. or your chair is a good spot .. or any other place you can think of that would suit you and attach pistol to it ..

e-bay is your friend numerous gun magnet sizes on it ..
 
Most thieves are in and out within 10 minutes. I have firearms stashed all over the house. If someone was to break in there is no way they will find all of them.
 
JohnnyO said:
Most thieves are in and out within 10 minutes. I have firearms stashed all over the house. If someone was to break in there is no way they will find all of them.
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That may be true. But I wonder how you would feel knowing that the guns they did find were used in a murder? Or possibly used against you?
 
Seems like it takes the fact that your hidding it away with your tell people that your hidding it.

Friends don't let friends buy Taurus.
 
Fill a large bucket with sand, put the gun in a ziplock bag and shove it down in the sand. My Grandpop kept $10,000 in cash that way in the basement of his rowhouse in Philly. His rational was that people were unlikely to look in a old bucket of sand, plus the sand provided some protection from a fire.

I have thought about stashing a gun out in the garage, but it just seems easier to stick with the P32 in my pocket when working out there. It's a really large garage, so a single hidden gun could still be too far away if I needed it in a hurry.
 
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