House Guns In Strategic Locations

I firmly believe in having my handgun on my person under my direct control. I will call that Plan A. Having a Plan B and C is not a bad idea. To the OP I would suggest a good flashlight be near each stashed Gat, and to strongly consider a good bio-metric safe for them.

When you live in a 900 square mile County with 2 Sheriff Deputies at most on duty, when and if trouble comes you are on your own for quite a long time.

As a matter of fact with the Riots and Politically motivated violence we have currently, you could be on your own in a Metropolitan Area full of evil doers. Prepare accordingly.
 
My first line of defense is my dog, a very territorial, loud mean sounding barker. When the day comes and she is gone I will probably get paranoid at every sound. But now, just a nightstand gun and one other in another undisclosed location, known only to me and my 19 year old grandson who is living with me. Yes, he is well trained in shooting and safety, in an emergency he would probably be calmer than me.
 
Great feedback

Thanks for the comments. To clarify I do not have these firearms dispersed. Lots of information to process before I decide to go ahead

Short term I will keep my 36 on me at all times.

I live in the suburbs in a decent neighborhood but crime can happen anywhere. I did just install an alarm system and some cameras forgot to mention that.

Also it's a split level ranch not some monster house and it's just the two of us. Not many visitors.

Thanks again for the feedback.
 
I don't see what the problem is. The OP didn't write "I live at 1234 Main Street, Podunk Holler, Utah 10000" so he hasn't given up his location. I think his plan is fine.

I have lived in relatively safe neighborhoods (all neighborhoods are relatively safe, or unsafe, depending....) forever and I keep loaded guns in secret places everywhere. Always one story homes, with guns secreted in closets, drawers, etc. EVERY ROOM. I don't even think twice about it. That's normative for me and has been for many decades not counting when I had kids around, which does change everything because they can find anything.

We had this discussion before. At the time I indicated that I don't even walk around in my house without a gun and that includes a derringer in a robe pocket. Am I paranoid? Maybe. But for me I'm just comfortable doing it. I cannot be caught unarmed no matter what I am doing. If that's not your methodology I have no issue with you, it's totally YMMV.

The streets are on fire across the country these days. Unless you live way outside the city limits and never go into town, assuming the law permits this, do you travel anywhere in any city unarmed? If not, why is your home different?
 
HUH?

Grimjaws said:
So I live in a split level house with four floors.
Basement is a my game room with a bathroom.
Six steps up leads to ground level with a laundry room and door to garage
Six steps up lead to my living room, kitchen and family room
Six final steps to bathroom and three bedrooms

I shower and get ready in the basement. Since the boys moved out she claimed the upstairs bathroom and I gladly located my stuff for getting ready every day to the basement. No kids or many visitors these days.

I have a safe on the laundry level bolted to the concrete floor where I keep a majority of my firearms.

I have a small pistol safe in the closet that I keep my 36-10 carry gun.

I am one floor away from the big safe but I am slow to get in.
The pistol safe is on the top floor. Way too far away if something happens while in the game room.

So I made some decisions. I put a hidden holster in my downstairs bathroom. I figure with the humidity I placed my k frame 15-4 Nickel 4'' there so I have something handy. I have some nickel cased ammo too. I also have a speed strip with another 6 rounds. I lightly wipe down the guns once every two weeks with oil so not worried about rust.

I then placed the 36-10 j frame on top of a curio cabinet in our living room that has a natural indent - you'd have to be 7' tall to see the top and it is bolted to the wall so can't be tipped over. This puts a handgun on the main floor and easy to retrieve when we leave the house. I also placed an HKS speedloader there which I also carry when I go out.

I replaced the 36 in the bedroom sage with a 15-3 2" I recently purchased. I also have a speed strip and a speedloader.

I have Pachmayr grips on the 15-4 and 15-3 along with a Spring Kit upgrade so my wife is comfortable shooting them with her Lupus and Arthritis. Her hand strength is diminishing but she can now shoot both revolvers without any issue with the lighter triggers and rubber grips.

That puts a handgun within reach on the living area floors.
My wife says I'm getting paranoid in my old age but I'd rather have a way to fight back no matter where I am in the house.

So does anyone else have firearms placed in strategic locations?

Am I nuts for doing this?
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Uh... YEP! I would say so!

Time to move, while you are still live and "kickin..." a lot of good/great ideas are best left UNSAID. Get my drift?... I mean REALLY! ;)
 
Some of the above is humorous to say the least. This is my favorite:

Rationality. If you live in a safe place, prepping for deadly threats is a hobby, not reality.
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I think, BICBW, that everyone on this Forum has firearms as a hobby. They might have other hobbies, like fishing, painting, stamp collecting, weight lifting, triathlons, or pole dancing, but firearms is our hobby. When your hobby involves tools that can be used to protect yourself from harm, and when we all insist that anyone who plays with guns needs training and so forth, why would you NOT let your hobby be a part of your personal safety plan?

No other hobby except I guess knives and hatchets, and martial arts, is as effective as gun collecting for giving you the tools that you need to stay alive if the SHTF at home. If it's legal, why would you not deploy some of your "toys" as your self defense "tools"?

As for burglary, no big deal, if my dogs and alarms and locked doors don't stop them and I'm not home, whatever they get they get. If I'm home, well, SURPRISE!!!!!!!!



HE IS NOT NUTS!
 
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biku324 said:
Rationality. If you live in a safe place, prepping for deadly threats is a hobby, not reality.
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Folks collect all kinds of cool stuff. Sometimes their collections are firearms. It's a hobby; like with other hobbies, a person can get a little carried away. The whole 'self-defense' industry needs firearms hobbyists to get carried away in order to sell more stuff.

Some people really need a firearm in order to stay alive. Nearly all firearms owners don't; it's instead our right and our hobby - trying to make it into something else is nonsense. Or fantasy.
 
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Nearly all firearms owners don't.............
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Indubitably correct. The operative term is "nearly all". When you find yourself on the opposite end of "nearly all" and your hobby has to save your life you can thank Larry Goldstein (see story above) and remember to send biku324 a smiley face. :)

Nothing personal, biku324, but I have to quote Joe Biden to you - "COME ON, MAN!!!" Firearms collectors/hobbyists are, in the main, shooters. Shooters, more often than not, have guns for self defense. Nobody is making it into something else - it is WHAT IT IS!
 
SAFE LOCATIONS

Well, for my money, no where is safe these days. Without entering in to the no no area, I will just say, I stay armed when ever I am awake. asleep, I am about one or two seconds away for my needs. The dogs will alert me when needed and then some. Between the druggies, and the current other problems, I just refused to be a victim End of story here. ;)
 
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