Do You Try To Hide Your Gun Hobby When Workers Are In Your House?

[otisrush]

When you have work done inside your house (plumbing, electrical work, getting the furnace serviced, etc.) do you put in extra effort to hide your gun hobby from them?

My reloading room is in the same area as the mechanical services for the house - furnace, water heater, etc. I have to have some work done and I'm wondering if others put in effort to not make it apparent what you do. My setup is on a portable workbench, so moving that would actually be not very hard. It's the shelving I have that would "give it away". I'm considering putting sheets over stuff just so it's not obvious.

What do other folks do?

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[Bajadoc]

I consider anything gun related highly classified and on a need to know basis. Weapon security is paramount.

 

[Big Cholla]

Absolutely! I consider it just good prudence to remove all clues, examples, etc. that my interests do not include firearms. You might trust your service people, but you don't have a clue who they are talking to at the bar, service station, ball field and so on. I even remove the gun magazines that I am reading. Further, I never join into casual talk among people I might be talking with ....say at the dog park.....when the conversation turns to firearms. IMHO, it is far best to just not spread the word that i am into firearms, self-defense, handloading, gunsmithing among the public. I will talk about my "metal shop", but never mention that the metal projects I work on are firearms. Several of my neighbors are retired LEOs or are very well known to me and I will talk 'guns' with them, but I always ask them to never discuss me and what I am into with 'others'. .................

 

[timn8er]

I consider anything gun related highly classified and on a need to know basis. Weapon security is paramount.

Need to know basis is exactly right...& they don't need to know!

 

[JGR_LV]

I'm with bajadoc and timn8er. I don't advertise that I have guns in the house and I'm picky about who I share that information with. In the rare event that I have someone working on-site, everything gets put well out of sight.

 

[Duster340]

X3. No need for folks to know.

 

[otisrush]

Firearms are stored seperately from this room in a very secure safe that is not in a very obvious location. It looks like I'll be cleaning out my reloading room before the workers come over - which is not a huge deal at all. I guess this is one upside to having things on a portable bench: I can tear it down and remove all traces of the activity done there quite easily.

Thanks.

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[Frank46]

My stuff resides in 3 safes and only when I'm actually in the room are the door open safes closed. When our monthly bug shows up that room stays locked.And anytime we have company the safes stay locked and only door to that room is locked only is I'm not in it. Frank

 

[old11bravo]

One word "opsec"!

 

[williamlayton]

There is evidence that I have a gun or guns---the specifics are not open for lusting after.
Blessings

 

[BigBoy99]

Absolutely! I consider it just good prudence to remove all clues, examples, etc. that my interests do not include firearms. You might trust your service people, but you don't have a clue who they are talking to at the bar, service station, ball field and so on. I even remove the gun magazines that I am reading. Further, I never join into casual talk among people I might be talking with ....say at the dog park.....when the conversation turns to firearms. IMHO, it is far best to just not spread the word that i am into firearms, self-defense, handloading, gunsmithing among the public. I will talk about my "metal shop", but never mention that the metal projects I work on are firearms. Several of my neighbors are retired LEOs or are very well known to me and I will talk 'guns' with them, but I always ask them to never discuss me and what I am into with 'others'.

I do exactly the same thing. My gun safe is behind a door which is kept locked at all times. I only have an HVAC guy as serviceman and he is one of my shooting buddies. I do all the rest of the home repairs myself.

 

[M1A]

Impossible. Firearms go in safe, but the rest is out for all to see. I know the people I contract with. The odd tech for tv or cable does not worry me either.

 

[pinduck]

All of mine are in a safe in a locked room, no one needs to know what I do or what I have.

 

[kraynky]

I once thought a cable technician lifted my model 66 one day after I came home from work and found out they had been there. My wife quickly calmed me down by showing it to me and saying, "I put it up where they wouldn't see it". It was one of those companies that says "We'll have someone there between noon on Monday, and Thursday!" It is the only handgun that is really out in the open, on the entertainment center.

The reloading room is so spread out it is impossible to move or hide all of it. But everything else is put away when I know someone strange will be entering my home.

 

[Jessie]

My gun stuff is always out of sight or locked up.
There may be a Guns&Ammo mag on the coffee table, but it gets put in the drawer if somebody is coming in.
It's been a habit my whole life and easily done.

 

[Brian41]

My reloading bench and safe are in my mechanical room so it's pretty obvious I have guns. I haven't had too many repair people out but don't get into gun discussions with them either. When I had my basement waterproofed they had to move my 2000# safe out from the wall and put it back in place so pretty obvious to them I have guns.
I don't discuss outside my house guns except with friends and some co-workers I trusted.

 

[Hunter8282]

I've moved ALL my gun stuff and hunting stuff to my "office" (spare bedroom) upstairs. There's a locking door knob on the door. I can't think of any reason I would ever let anyone in there other than maybe getting the carpet replaced.

Other than that, in the basement there are a few taxidermy specimens on the walls, but they'd never see anything more than that.

 

[Damn Yankee]

After reading all of these posts I've got some work to do because the ATT man is coming. I am going put a tarp over the loaders put a sheet to cover up the big Liberty safe and move my unit with the big star on the doors down the street to my neighbors house. That will keep him from thinking or knowing if there is any firearms on the property.

 

[OLDSTER]

ABSOLUTELY !!!

 

[redlevel]

It doesn't do a whole lot of good in my rural community. I don't leave gun stuff out on purpose, but if a burglar broke into ten houses at random here, probably at least eight of them would have 10 or more guns. Four or five would have 20 or more. What I mean is that practically everyone here has multiple firearms, and everyone knows it.