Yes that is the question. Do you rely on insurance for protection and no use a safe?

Growing up i remember my Uncle having a wall mount in the bedroom and a cabinet in the living room. I think those days are long gone.

Nope - I did growing up and right after getting married (1984).... Late 80’s I finally got some sense about me and bought a gun vault...None on display since.....Mark

Does a 100+ year old shotgun hanging on the wall count?

I have an old Ithaca that I picked up at a garage sale for $20 hanging on the wall.

Everything but the HD weapon is in the safe.

I have a .357 mag Powerhead pole spear hanging in my garage.

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Originally posted by 95flhr:
Does a 100+ year old shotgun hanging on the wall count?

I have an old Ithaca that I picked up at a garage sale for $20 hanging on the wall.

I'd like to buy an old one for just that purpose...

I have a couple of 100ish year old break-action shotguns displayed with some vintage hand-carved wooden duck decoys and an old leather-bound book on duck hunting. But they're non-functional. (The lockwork on one is broken. The other was rebuilt by my grandfather from a pile of parts, and designed just to look nice; it seems to operate correctly but it might explode if fired.)

I don't display any of my "real" guns.

Nope, no displays.

Nope.

However, my boss still stores his in one of those locking wood and glass rifle display cases. Keeps kids and grand kids out but would take 5 seconds for a burglar to defeat.

my 'den' is decorated with WWI stuff,

I have various prints handing by Trudjian, Taylor and Deitz, and some wooden models of the WWI planes as well,

over one doorway is a DP No1 Mk111, over a print by Trudjian is a Berthier M16 carbine (looks good but not in firing condition) and over another print is a SA 1903, (barrel is indexed but Front sight leans for whatever reason, this one will shoot)

I have 9' ceilings, and they all are above the prints (various fighting knives, bolo's and bayonets displayed as well,



alarm, yep,
out of sight from outside the house, yep,
nice to look at , yep

Even a less than casual observer would find it difficult to discern that there may be firearms in my residence. Anyone in my residence might assume, because of retirement plaque's, but there is nothing now and there will never be any overt signs of firearms ownership.

I have one display and they look like these with the blue tags even:

I have thought about displaying my grandfathers old, beat up break barrel single shot 12ga, but I would likely disable it before doing so.

I have a friend who displays a presentation 1911 that he received as a gift, but he removed the firing pin and the magazine body has no spring or follower.

My cousin still has a glass front cabinet with a half dozen of his hunting guns in it. His pistols are hidden. He says I shouldn’t worry, that doesn’t happen in our nice neighborhood. Last week his wife’s car got burglarized in their driveway. The police said there is gang related activity in the area. My collection is all in safes.

Modern replica 1861 Springfield rifle-musket over fireplace mantel.

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Originally posted by 95flhr:
Does a 100+ year old shotgun hanging on the wall count?

I have an old Ithaca that I picked up at a garage sale for $20 hanging on the wall.

I have a similar side by side on a wall hanger that I made in the bedroom. It has Damascus barrels and the hammer on one doesn't function.

Everything else sleeps quietly in the safe

When I was a kid there were multiple gun racks on the walls in my room and a vertical locking gun case with glass for the good stuff.
I got my first 22LR rifle and 410 shotgun at 10. I would routinely clean the shotguns/rifles after hunting for my dad, whether I went or not.

In recent days we've had an antique rifle (black powder) hanging over a fireplace but everything is locked away. Only thing "out" of the safe now would be HD firearms. I have two sons and both of them are familiar/trained on firearm handling/safety.

I'm just being practical in 2019 bizarroworld. (We had a break-in some years ago and lost two firearms. I didn't have a good safe at the time). Just as a side note- evidently about half of the states+ require guns to be locked away.

I think that a good bit of it depends also on where you live-

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Originally posted by Mars_Attacks:
Everything but the HD weapon is in the safe.

Same here!

I don't trust the "legal" community since it started down that liberal BS trail. Somebody breaks in, steals a gun, kills somebody. . . . ?

MY late friend's dad used to have a whole room dedicated to his gun collection. Built in cabinets on all four walls of their Victorian house northwest suburbs of Detroit circa late 60's-early 70's. That was his dad's retreat, nobody entered there unless by invitation.

I was only in there twice,amazing collection. As the saying goes "above my pay grade". Winchesters,Mausers, Hi-Standards, Brownings. Handguns, S&W, Colt, a smattering of Lugers.

He passed in the late 90's, my friend in the early 2000's.