Places To Hide Your Guns Where Nobody

Will See Them

One of the most effective home defensive weapons you can own, without question, is a
gun. A gun is what will equalize you to your invader (or perhaps give you an advantage)
and should always be your primary choice for a home defense weapon.
That being said, owning a gun for home defense still comes with a large amount of
responsibility. Two things need to be accomplished when storing a gun in your
home:

1. The Gun Must Be Kept Hidden and Secure

2. The Gun Must Be Easily Accessible

The reason why your home defense gun(s) need to be kept hidden is so that children
or guests can't find them when they visit your home, and also so burglars can't find
them should you have a home intrusion when you aren't there. At the same time,
your guns also need to be kept easily accessible so you can get to them quickly in the
event of a life-or-death emergency.
If you're at a loss for ideas of places where your guns can be both properly hidden and
readily available, you've come to the right place. Here are eleven places to hide your
guns where nobody will see them:

1. Empty Food Box

Take an empty food box in your pantry and place a gun in it (such as a cereal box).
This is a very creative place to hide your gun, and it's easily accessible from your
kitchen, but you also run the risk of a child or guest rummaging through the pantry
and perhaps finding it on accident.

2. Pottery

So long as you have any pottery pieces that are large enough to hold a handgun, you
can very easily stuff one in there. Be sure to wrap the gun in a towel before placing it
into the pottery, so it will still remain hidden if anybody looks inside out of curiosity.

3. Electrical Outlet

Or perhaps more appropriately, a fake electrical outlet. Fake electrical outlets can be
purchased online and are one of the most creative places to hide a gun. While it is true
that some burglars may search the electrical outlets in your home for hidden valuables,
the chances of them choosing the specific outlet where you've hidden your gun are pretty
low.

4. Under The Floors

Cut into your wooden floors so you are able to lift up a piece. You can then stash a gun
in there for hiding. Be strategic about where you make the cut; underneath or right next
to a table or couch would probably be the best option. Speaking of couches ...

5. Underneath Your Couch

Most couches have fabric underneath them. Simply cut away this fabric to store your
weapon underneath it. The beauty about using your couch for storing guns, unlike a
chair, is that you can store long guns like rifles or shotguns.

6. Your Closet

Really, your closet? Isn't this the most obvious place for people to store their guns?
Yes it is, but you can still be intuitive about how you hide your firearms in your closet.
For example, you can hide it above the door frame on the inside of the closet, where it
will be easy for you to reach but also not where most people will think to look.

7. Air Vents
The concept here is very similar to using the fake electrical outlets: you can either use
fake air vents, or you can use real air vents if you want to. The best aspect about hiding a
gun in an air vent is that children won't think to look for anything there, but the biggest
negative is that experienced burglars might think to look there. The average burglar,
however, probably won't think of it.

8. A Book

An old gun hiding trick is to hide it in a book designed for concealing weapons: the
inside of the book is carved out with enough space to store a handgun. The best kind
of book to use for this concealment method will be a hardback rather than a paperback.
Or you can buy a book gun safe online. If you do opt for this method, be sure that the
book is among several other books (such as on a bookshelf), rather than resting on its
own where someone may curiously pick it up.

9. Picture Frame

Just as how there are many 'books' designed for concealing handguns, so there are
picture frames designed for the same purpose. You may initially think this is
counterintuitive because pictures are often a target for burglars to steal, but you can
offset this by selecting a rather ordinary or drab-looking photo/painting to put in the
frame so no burglar will be compelled to take it.

10. Cabinets

It's possible to hide a gun in kitchen cabinets, but not right next to your food and kitchen
supplies. Instead, put it on the top shelf between two corner cabinets below the counter
in that little space that usually doesn't get used. You could also strap a gun to the
underside of the counter where it can't be seen and where you can only get to it if you
open a floor cabinet and reach inside.

11. On Your Person

Last but certainly not least, hide your gun in the place where it's the most easily
accessible: you! It may certainly not seem appealing to have to lug your gun on your
person while you're in your own home, but a smaller gun (such as a pocket .380) will still
be very lightweight and hardly noticeable.

Conclusion
Obviously, not all of these places for hiding your gun are equal. Some are going to be
more accessible or keep the gun more hidden than others. But if you have multiple home
defense guns, then you need to have a variety of ways to hide those guns, which is why
you will want to use more than just one of the hiding methods that we have covered.