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Do you hang rifles on your wall?

No.

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I have 2 inoperable firearms on display. My local ffl took them as part of an estate, and the chambers were drilled in multiple places for scope mounts, and he felt they were unsafe. He transfered them to me, and i removed the firing pins and hung them.

1 is an Arisaka 99 hung in my den over a wooden Gadsden flag, the other is a old Stevens hung in my man cave.

But... that sounds cool.
My grandfather had an old Stevens shotgun that my father now has hanging on the wall in his basement. It's still "operable" but not really up for modern shells. So, it hasn't been fired in probably 50 years.

I used to in a previous home. I ran a cable through the trigger guards in a glass gun cabinet, secured through the wall behind the cabinet and locked. Theft would have been pretty difficult, and not swift.

With grandchildren ages 1 to 17, any firearms here need to be secured. I don't think my wife would like the artistry either, unless it were a very old flintlock.

Yep. Loaded 45 Colt over the door...just in case. I've been meaning to find (or build) a display type hanger for my Shiloh Sharps, but haven't gotten to it yet. I have no qualms about hanging or putting in gun cabinets. On the very unlikely chance that someone decides to break into my home and steal them, I'm well insured, so I don't even give it a thought.

I have known people who do - or did - hang fancy (highly figured wood stocks and polished bluing) rifles on walls. My brother has a circa late 1960s Weatherby Mark IV, caliber .257 Wby. Mag., that would qualify for such decoration. I don't own anything like this, nor am I likely to.

I may look at this a bit differently.

Owning a firearm is a right, but also a responsibility. If I own something that others cannot and should not (criminals, kids), it is my duty to ensure that it does not fall into their hands.

I cannot guarantee that my house will not be broken into, but I can work at making sure that if that occurs, that the criminal doesn’t come off with an easy stolen firearm.

Insurance is to protect me; the safe is to protect others.

Michigan law regarding safe storage:
New gun safety laws to protect families go into effect February 13
February 08, 2024


Requires secure storage of firearms to prevent access by minors, enacts penalties

LANSING, Mich. – To help protect Michigan families – particularly children – from the tragedies of gun violence and unintentional firearms injuries, a law requiring secure storage of firearms goes into effect starting Tuesday, Feb. 13.

The new secure storage law, Public Act 17 of 2023, requires individuals to keep unattended weapons unloaded and locked with a locking device or stored in a locked box or container if it is reasonably known that a minor is likely to be present on the premises.

Storage laws (which are becoming more and more common) aside, any guns that aren't on my person or close at hand, stay in the safe. It'd be cool to have one of my lever rifles hung on the wall, but no.

I have some toy guns displayed in my “gun room” where my gun safe is located.

On the wall I have a toy percussion rifle and pistol set that I got at Disney World (or was it Six Flags over Georgia?) when I was very young (early ‘70’s).

Also on the wall I have a very authentic looking Uzi SMG water gun. It has a removable magazine to hold the water and a motorized action to shoot the water. It even has a functioning collapsing/sliding stock. I bought it in the mid ‘80’s.

In a glass cabinet I have several toy pistols from my youth.

All my actual firearms are locked in the safe or other security lock boxes of some sort if not on my person. I have young grandchildren in the house frequently.

If I didn’t have children to worry about I might hang an actual firearm on the wall. I have a few inherited rifles I would love to display.

I don’t and I’m not keen to. Neighbor is a very good woodworker and made a light up case and even though it has a lock it doesn’t feel super safe to me.

My grandpa had a few rifles and shotguns on either side of his great fireplace for 60 years. Never a break in or theft. But their house also had that mid century aesthetic. And a good alarm system. 2 of them are in my collection now. A 1880’s Parker bro’s hammer gun that was my 3x grandfathers and my great uncles 1894 from about 1919.

Old timer I met one time. Had a huge walk in gun safe room off his man cave. He kept x3 pretty old busted Mosins or something hung on the wall right in front of it.

Said he kept them hung there cause they were broken. He'd rather someone just grab the broken rifles and run. So they didn't get super interested in his safe door and what was in there. LOL

I understand concerns for safety. I don't know what a thief or gangbanger would do with a bolt action rifle in .257 Roberts. I childproof my home before my grandsons come to visit.
I don't want to live in a home where anything that's dangerous or valuable has to be locked up.
I have many tools that can be dangerous, a rifle is a tool. I have many items out in my home that are worth more than a rifle.
Besides, I think they look pretty!

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Back in Jr Hi, gun racks like this were an available project for woodshop class. In 1962 SoCal no less....

I have a circa 1906 Winchester 94 that hangs on my bedroom wall.
I enjoy seeing it there.
Everything else is locked up.

When I was a kid, we'd go to visit my maternal grandparents at least twice a year. My grandfather had a rifle in every room of the house, and none of the grand kids even thought about messing with them. That era is long past.

Nope. Other than CCW piece everything is in a safe. Thought it was awesome when I’d visit a dear friend (who passed in his 89th year during the COVID insanity) that he had several wood and blued steel rifles in a nice glass fronted wood cabinet in his living room. It made me sad that not only was it against the state laws on safe storage it didn’t seem prudent or responsible anymore. The days when my dad used to ride his horse to and from town for school with his .22 in a scabbard, shooting squirrels in both directions and leaving the rifle leaned up against the back wall of the classroom along with many other kids rifles are long gone. Society has changed, and not for the better. We may lament that change, but it would be foolish and irresponsible not to recognize it.

Lest the OP see this as an attack, it isn’t. That’s the reality where I live. If the OP has the great good fortune to live where the reality is different, I congratulate him and I am jealous.

One of the bucks I killed earlier this year had white legs. I shoulda made a nice mount set if for nothing other than to sell. I don’t like my firearms out of the safe, and I have kids.

But I do like the look of a nice wood and steel gun in a decorative mount.

Yes, finally. Mainly because I needed more storage but also because a few friends encouraged me to display my collection. Not that I invite people over often.

The good old days. Displaying a firearm on the wall is a beautiful thing, though in practice is no longer wise these days depending on location and circumstances.

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Originally posted by slosig:


Lest the OP see this as an attack, it isn’t. That’s the reality where I live. If the OP has the great good fortune to live where the reality is different, I congratulate him and I am jealous.

All my neighbors are very protective of each other. I'm the last house on a dead end street. The only problem I've had
in 30 years is every few years the drunk that plows over my mailbox trying to turn around because I'm the last house on
a dead end, LOL
I don't have my collection on the wall. A rifle and shotgun. If two determined thieves know I'm not home, they'll
get into a two thousand dollar safe. I don't have a sign on my door saying I have A rifle on the wall.

No, but I would love to.
I can't think of much more exciting than walking into a room of wall-to-wall guns.