They’re Coming for Your Guns and Other Valuables… Hide Them Now and Hide Them Well
Did you know that you are smarter than the people who run the United Nations? It’s true. The U.N.’s Human Rights Council decided that there is no human right to self-defense.
This council of nitwits and nincompoops actually declared that it is a human rights violation for a government to allow a person to use a firearm in self-defense against a rapist or other criminal who is not attempting to murder someone… at least at the moment.
It’s amazing these people know how to put one foot in front of another when they’re walking. I’d like to send them back in time and see how they would respond to Attila the Hun paying them a visit.
Chances are that you are a law-abiding citizen who would never use your firearms for anything other than target practice, hunting or protecting yourself and your family from someone seeking to harm you.
But if a home invader or authority figure targets you as a gun owner, they won’t care. They just want to take your guns away.
This is the second of two blogs providing ideas about how to keep your guns and other valuables such as cash and jewelry from being found and removed from your home.
Let’s take a look at 22 more places where you can hide them. Remember, the best hiding places are ones that are easily accessible but would not be looked at twice by someone trying to find something. We’ll categorize this group by room.
Living Room
- Underneath a couch or loveseat, using duct tape to keep it attached
- Inside a seldom-used cushion or pillow
- Inside the fake drawer of an end table
- Inside a hollowed-out book on a shelf containing a number of normal books
Kitchen
- Inside a large cookbook
- Inside the lid of a breadbox
- Inside an empty can of ravioli or a big box of sugar or flour
- Inside a bulkhead above a kitchen cabinet
Bathroom
- Inside a toilet tank, wrapped in waterproof plastic
- At the bottom of a half-filled tampon box
- Under a used towel on the floor
Bedroom
- Under the bed on a ledge that appears to be a support beam for the box spring
- Between folded blankets under your bed
- Inside a hollowed-out radio clock on the nightstand
- Inside a fake drawer in a dresser or nightstand
Basement
- Inside a fake pipe near your water heater
- In a crawl space; set a few mousetraps to discourage close inspection
- On the underside of your sump pump lid, in a waterproof bag
- In an “invisible” drawer within one of the bottom basement steps
Garage
- Inside a freezer, wrapped in waterproof plastic and then aluminum foil
- Inside one of several paint cans
- Inside an old chest of drawers
I bet you could come up with 100 more great hiding places for guns and other valuables. You can never have too many.
You have shared such priceless recommendations with us here! Thank you!
Once my house got burglarized. Burglars emptied out my cereal boxes and tin cans looking for those fake stashes. He also went into my freezer and through my dirty clothes in the laundry. I guess burglars were desperately desperate:) They found a few bucks (around $ 30). When I was looking for hiding places around my house, I was thinking like a burglar. So I was lucky that all my valuables and cash were not found.
Recently I discovered one more good resource with some smart ideas to hide valuables – https://secretstorages.com/25-best-secret-stash-containers-of-2017/ . You might want to use it for your next articles.
Wish you sucess and creativity!
When they come for your guns, if you fail to produce any that they know about, I understand it is instant death! They are going to be Russians, so no arguments!! Allow them to break in then shoot!!! Are thos little plastic face masks bullet proff? Let’s find out!!!
If you’re going to do this, be smart about it. Write these locations down and lock that piece of paper up in a fire safe with other important papers (your will etc.) Otherwise when you die, your family won’t know where the cash and guns are and could throw them out.
What about childre?????????
Children should be taught at a very young age about gun safety
An unloaded fire arm is useless we have grandkids now and they go out shooting with us whenever they want
It takes mystery out of something when its around all the time
All good suggestions in theory, but I’ve read they might use sniffer dogs to find weapons. If that’s the case there is a whole OTHER set of issues to contend with.
If you’re going to wrap your gun up in a bag for the freezer, put coffee grounds in the bag outside of the bag your gun is in, a bag within a bag. Or on and around the gun itself if its sturdy enough like a glock
I must protest about this storing of weapons (guns) in various places in your home. Not because I am against owning a weapon (Gun) but rather for safety sake.
If you feel that you need to place firearms around your home then do so. But, do so in an intelligent and responsible way.
First you will have to consider the safety issue; are there or will there be any small children or any child of any age living in your home or coming to visit your home. That is say do you have kids or grandkids coming over to your home? If so, then you know that little fingers will sooner or later find that which shouldn’t be found, ie. your hiding places. Yeah, I know how could they possible find a weapon on the top shelf way in the back and they are only three foot something. It is just the nature of kids to find that which will get them into trouble. Only this kind of trouble can be permanent and devastating.
Next, you never want to put a gun in an object that can be carried off by a thief or intruder or to be found by children. All too often a friend, a family member, or person or persons unknown will find your hidden weapon and walk off with it and you wouldn’t be the wiser for it. Then you are faced with a missing weapon, heartache, and a headache of legal problems. Believe me when I tell you that your weapon can be taken even if you are home. It only takes a second for someone to find your weapon and stick it in their pocket or in their waist band and out the door they go.
To put a weapon around your house you need to put on your thinking cap. You will need a safe location and a location that is easily accessible yet hidden from sight and a place that only you know where it is. And for senior citizens like me, a place that we will remember.
You think I’m kidding? If you can’t find your car keys, even if they are in your own hand, how are you going to remember where you stashed your weapon.
The suggestions above in this post are the worst places to keep a weapon. Just ask yourself, who would have access to this weapon other than you? Is this the first place the cops or an intruder will look for a weapon? Chances are it is; therefore, it is a bad place to keep your weapon. Is this location a clean dry place where it will not damage your weapon? Nothing like a rusty or dirty gun to put your own life in danger.
My philosophy is, if I need my gun fast; then I want it fast enough to really think about using it. That is to say having my weapon in a secure location with a trigger lock on it will give me time enough to think, “is this the action I want to take?” The few seconds that will require me to retrieve my weapon, unlock it, then use it, is the amount of time that I might need to reconsider my actions. Remember, once you pull the trigger, you can not take it back. The obligation and responsibility is yours to keep and live with. A life taken is gone for good.
So, be responsible enough to really plan where around your home your weapon can be stashed and is safe for you and your family. Try and keep you weapons in one location and make that your go to scenario. However, there is nothing wrong in having several locations, but , beware you will be doubly responsible for each and ever location you have a weapon.
In a empty cereal box on a kitchen shelf with other cereal.
Empty Christmas cookie tin, put in another room for storage.
Inside the lid of a stereo system.
Hide or you will find them!
The UN should have been shut down YEARS ago! All they do is rip on the US and to a lesser extent Israel. Oh, and they also break our Laws and then claim Diplomatic Immunity. We had a Golden Opportunity to kick them out after 9/11, saying “Sorry people, we need the Office Space.”
The problem with this is that once we post, THEY will have access to our secret places, too. Sorry, Frank.
I once hid a gun under a rain suit hanging in the garage. I couldn’t find it for a long time. LOL
I guess it doesn’t rain in Arizona. hahaha