Firearms

[CigarPundit]

Originally Posted by Grumpy Old Man

Purple is the colour of Royalty.

Purple is the color of decline, since it almost always follows red.

[tcphoto]

I lived in Nashville for about seven years and still have family there. It has changed a great deal in the past twenty years and not for the better. When I visit, it’s difficult to watch the local news because of all the crime. The gangs are recruiting early teens and they’re committing violent crimes, burglaries and carjackings. My brother is a firefighter and brother-in-law recently retired from the NFD, so I hear all about how it’s changed. They both CCW and I seriously doubt that I would move back even after living in downtown Atlanta for fourteen years.

[CigarPundit]

Originally Posted by tcphoto

I lived in Nashville for about seven years and still have family there. It has changed a great deal in the past twenty years and not for the better. When I visit, it’s difficult to watch the local news because of all the crime. The gangs are recruiting early teens and they’re committing violent crimes, burglaries and carjackings. My brother is a firefighter and brother-in-law recently retired from the NFD, so I hear all about how it’s changed. They both CCW and I seriously doubt that I would move back even after living in downtown Atlanta for fourteen years.

That’s really a shame. I went to school in Nashville and absolutely loved it. But that was back in 1989-1992.

[tcphoto]

I was there off and on between 1981 and 1998. During the four years that I lived on the Northside of Chicago, I rarely felt threatened. The homeless in Nashville has always been bad but the rate of growth has brought another element.

[Grip Addict]

Suggestions on storing a SBR-sized rifle, CZ Scorpion specifically?

I have no kids yet, so no danger for someone stumbling upon it.

I am thinking a above the door frame closet mount somehow, but wondering how you guys withOUT gun safes store your guns about the house?

[CigarPundit]

Originally Posted by Grip Addict

Suggestions on storing a SBR-sized rifle, CZ Scorpion specifically?

I have no kids yet, so no danger for someone stumbling upon it.

I am thinking a above the door frame closet mount somehow, but wondering how you guys withOUT gun safes store your guns about the house?

This may not be helpful to you, but I'll offer it. I have a gun safe where most of my guns live, but I built a locking wooden cabinet and installed it in my bedroom closet. that's where my ammo and shotgun live. I also have a locking pistol bok in my nightstand where one of my pistols lives.

[Grip Addict]

Originally Posted by CigarPundit

This may not be helpful to you, but I'll offer it. I have a gun safe where most of my guns live, but I built a locking wooden cabinet and installed it in my bedroom closet. that's where my ammo and shotgun live. I also have a locking pistol bok in my nightstand where one of my pistols lives.

Any reply in the world of guns as long as it is not anti-gun is helpful to me. Thanks for replying.

I am looking more for hidden in plain sight storage.

[chowser51]

buy a hanging system and stick it right above your closet door. No one really looks up when they open a closet door and look in.

[N54Yankee]

Get a safe or at least a stack on gun cabinet and screw it into the floors and walls of a closet. You don’t have kids but it sure would suck to come home one day walk in and see your home tossed and much of your expensive stuff gone including your firearms. Not worth gambling, you never know when they’ll pick your home.

[Grip Addict]

Originally Posted by chowser51

buy a hanging system and stick it right above your closet door. No one really looks up when they open a closet door and look in.

That's my thoughts, any links to a "hanging system"?

[Grip Addict]

Originally Posted by N54Yankee

Get a safe or at least a stack on gun cabinet and screw it into the floors and walls of a closet. You don’t have kids but it sure would suck to come home one day walk in and see your home tossed and much of your expensive stuff gone including your firearms. Not worth gambling, you never know when they’ll pick your home.

Completely agree, but I damn near work from home and am home 24.6, so odds are if some crack head comes through the door I am here.

I have a watched enough prepper and gun content online to determine that odds are if anything ever happens, I will be in my home when someone comes in the door.

From my knowledge research, anyone who comes will either be A. doped up and just kicking any door down to get some $$$ for drugs or B. someone I know seeking me out, any dateline special will teach you that

[CigarPundit]

Would something like this work for you?

https://www.amazon.com/RackEm-Buddy-.../dp/B008GQ8RYG

[Grip Addict]

Originally Posted by CigarPundit

Would something like this work for you?

https://www.amazon.com/RackEm-Buddy-.../dp/B008GQ8RYG

This posting peaked my Googling/Amazoning.

I am currenting eyeballing something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005A32EJ2...=I32H0J5BWYM2B

[CigarPundit]

Originally Posted by Grip Addict

This posting peaked my Googling/Amazoning.

I am currenting eyeballing something like this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005A32EJ2...=I32H0J5BWYM2B

There you go. I love how they picture the gun with a trigger lock. What a bunch of PC bullshit. I mean seriously, does any actual gun owner do anything with trigger locks other than throw them in the garbage? That's what I do. Mine are all loaded and chambered.

[1MOREMOD]

What you heathen my concealed carry has a trigger lock installed. Custom holster to fit it. Guns cant be trusted

[Grip Addict]

Originally Posted by 1MOREMOD

What you heathen my concealed carry has a trigger lock installed. Custom holster to fit it. Guns cant be trusted

I conceal carry unchambered so the issue doesn't matter.

I understand every gun loving person may have a chambered round and thinks it will save them a few seconds.

I just subscribe to the notion that the simple fact of having a gun on my hip will save me as opposed to having my gun X miles away or hours at home when I am at the mall, movies, or Walmart as recent events have shown.

Like I get that having a chambered round wills save me X seconds, but I prefer the 100% safety buffer of not having a chambered round.

I have the skill/training that I feel I would draw/chamber a round faster than any person infringing on my safety and my life.

[CigarPundit]

Originally Posted by Grip Addict

I conceal carry unchambered so the issue doesn't matter.

I understand every gun loving person may have a chambered round and thinks it will save them a few seconds.

I just subscribe to the notion that the simple fact of having a gun on my hip will save me as opposed to having my gun X miles away or hours at home when I am at the mall, movies, or Walmart as recent events have shown.

Like I get that having a chambered round wills save me X seconds, but I prefer the 100% safety buffer of not having a chambered round.

I have the skill/training that I feel I would draw/chamber a round faster than any person infringing on my safety and my life.

Different scenarios. I'm talking about the guns I keep in my house. I don't want to give away my position by having to chamber a round if a guy has forced entry into my house. Carrying is different. I have nothing against carrying a 1911 cocked and locked. But I also don't have any quarrel with your practice of carrying unchambered. To some extent it depends on the gun. I would carry a Glock unchambered because it basically has no safety.

[AlpineWhite_SJ]

Originally Posted by CigarPundit

Different scenarios. I'm talking about the guns I keep in my house. I don't want to give away my position by having to chamber a round if a guy has forced entry into my house. Carrying is different. I have nothing against carrying a 1911 cocked and locked. But I also don't have any quarrel with your practice of carrying unchambered. To some extent it depends on the gun. I would carry a Glock unchambered because it basically has no safety.

VelocityVault to keep it kid safe but accessible.. would have to insert the mag and rack the slide to be dangerous. Trying to balance easy, convenient access with safety.

[1MOREMOD]

Originally Posted by Grip Addict

I conceal carry unchambered so the issue doesn't matter.

I understand every gun loving person may have a chambered round and thinks it will save them a few seconds.

I just subscribe to the notion that the simple fact of having a gun on my hip will save me as opposed to having my gun X miles away or hours at home when I am at the mall, movies, or Walmart as recent events have shown.

Like I get that having a chambered round wills save me X seconds, but I prefer the 100% safety buffer of not having a chambered round.

I have the skill/training that I feel I would draw/chamber a round faster than any person infringing on my safety and my life.

I was joking no one carries a gun with an external lock on it as a concealed carry. If you have the training you know it doesn't take probably under a second to rack the slide and be ready. Problem is, if you were to attack someone how much time you think you would give them to defend themselves? Me personally none. You wont see it coming and will need to defend and respond under that attack. It's all personal choice though and you need to ease into being comfortable that's what you do.

[Grip Addict]

Originally Posted by 1MOREMOD

I was joking no one carries a gun with an external lock on it as a concealed carry. If you have the training you know it doesn't take probably under a second to rack the slide and be ready. Problem is, if you were to attack someone how much time you think you would give them to defend themselves? Me personally none. You wont are it coming and will need to defend and respond under that attack. It's all personal choice though and you need to ease into being comfortable that's what you do.

I am at the point, where I do not fear using my firearm in a self defense scenario, but that I fear using my self defense firearm in a self defense scenario.

Like, having the skill and knowledge to protect oneself is a scary thing and lays responsibility of my own life my shoulders.

Hard to explain what I mean with words, but a gun enthusiast/2nd amendment lover/self defense person will understand.

[1MOREMOD]

Are you assuming I'm not one after trying to explain why a gun lock on a handgun in a holster is a joke? I'm an rso at my range and am definitely an enthusiast.

[Golddots]

All firearms should be ready to roll with one in the chamber, unless stored away.