garage gun

[OldracerJones]

12 gauge with either game load or 00 buckshot, depending on the varmit.

 

[LS6 Tommy]

Sorry... I couldn't resist.

Tommy

 

[reddevildemo]

For me it depends n the day really. Always something out there but never sure which one.

 

[Farmall 1066]

Mod. 15 Smith, and a Ruger 22 auto. Usually drop the LCR 22 in my coat pocket when doing chores. Our place is overrun with opossums and raccoons. Old Stevens bolt action 20ga for winged pests.

 

[purpurite]

New house here in an affluent neighborhood. I wouldn't worry about the neighbors, but the interlopers just passing through. We're on the edge of the subdivision, right off the main drag, so likely a first stop and a highly visible location. When I will be in the garage working by myself—especially after the sun goes down, I will be pocketing a small Glock 26 9mm once I am CC licensed in Iowa to legally do so.

Not paranoid, just prepared.

Keep 'yer hands off of my stuff and my family.

 

[Jackfre]

Hate to bring this down, but unless it is "on" me it is locked &locked. When I was 10 my best friend, Sean, went over to another friends, John's, house. John went into his parents BR grabbed his Dad's shotgun, and promptly blew Sean's head off. I lost two friends that day. It just took another 10 years for John to kill himself. It happens!

I've been a gun owner all my life, but with the Grand kids around, and with my experience, unless it is "on" me, and I mean "on"me, it's locked up. If it is on me it is a Star PD or Les Baer SRP. With time, it would be an Ithaca M&P.

Having gone through this entire thread this morning I think a worthwhile addition to the "open door" garage where you are working is an electric eye type alarm so that while you have the hood down or your back to the door you are at least aware of having company.

 

[Bobdog]

It's pretty quiet where I live, but there might be a .38 snub nose out there someplace handy. And more than likely a shotgun during groundhog season.

 

[Stevie-Ray]

Generally just have my EDCs on me as usual, a Kimber UCDP primary and KelTec P32 BUG.

 

[32fordhighboy]

I just pickup a sign that reads" This garage is guarded three nights a week.You guess which three. And it has a picture of a 45 caliber pistol.

 

[NUTTSGT]

Let's keep the gun control debates, crime rates & US/Canada gun laws discussions out of this thread and on back on track. Thank you.

 

[BigWil]

I'm Canadian, and this is my garage gun.

 

[jwvess00]

Hi there!

I don't keep anything on me while I'm in the garage, right now, but I have thought about it. I'm out in the country now, and I know there have been animals running around but I'm not sure what. Dogs and cats for sure, which I don't mind. Raccoons, probably and that's okay as long as they keep their distance. Coyotes are a real possibility here, though I haven't yet seen or heard one.

For a garage weapon I think it should be just like your wife's car. Dead-nuts reliable, and something you don't care anything about at all. If it's a Belgian-made Browning Hi-Power, for instance, you'll worry about scuffing it.

So, pick yourself up something like a CZ-82 (9x18 Makarov) for $200. It was a police carry weapon for decades, but it's ugly as sin and you'll never care if it's scuffed up a bit. (I have one, and it's actually in great condition so I accept I'm being a hypocrite here).

My other favorite for cheap and intimidating is a Mosin-Nagant M91/30 rifle. They're best described as "kills on one end, hurts on the other" but you can get them for $100 still, ammo is cheap, and they've got the power of something like a .308. Fix the bayonet on it for extra scariness. It's also good to keep your daughter's potential boyfriends in check When he comes by the house, make sure you're cleaning it on the kitchen table...

 

[STANIMAL]

I'm Canadian, and this is my garage gun.

What is it ?

 

[BigWil]

What is it ?

It's a Dominion Arms (rebranded Norinco) Grizzly mag fed 12 gauge, 3", with a 12.5" barrel, ghost ring sights. The design is based off a 870, with a magwell attached. The tube is defunct, just used as a guide for the forearm. I just bought it, it works very well with everything I fed it. (slugs, 00 buck, and some #8)

 

[zkling]

For me it depends n the day really. Always something out there but never sure which one.

Nice collection. What 94 is that on the far right? Looks like a limited edition or something with the engraved stock.

 

[metal1313]

i pretty much always have a glock 23 or 36 on me. at work i have the 36, and a usp 45, but thats out in the open.

when you live and work in a 4.5sp mile city, with 50k people, where the avg income is only around 20k your gonna have a decent crime rate. granted my part of town the avg income is actually closer to 150k. i've had violent arrests where the very next day ive run into someone's mother/father/brother w/e while off duty, you can bet im armed.

i dont keep anything in the garage, its small and detached and well could have been built better by the keebler elf's. everything in the house is in my safe, and while no one else in my family owns or is interested in guns, everyone knows where they are and how to use them, and THAT EVERY GUN IS ALWAYS LOADED....even if its not a few are, and i'm of the treat every gun as if its loaded, even if you know its not school

 

[truckaddict]

I keep two guns on me at all times. Lefty and Righty haven't let me down yet. Just a question for the guys that keep them on themselves, Doesn't that this get in the way of doing things in the garage? I can't even work with a cell phone and keys in my pocket!

 

[sam03]

yep and almost always one on me.

 

[macmini706]

Thanks very much

 

[98ramtough]

THAT EVERY GUN IS ALWAYS LOADED....

I also keep every gun in the safe loaded. Always have. If someone breaks into my house and I want something bigger from the safe, I want it to be ready to go...

 

[harley jim]

we have concealed carry here, so I am always packing. either a S/W 22/22mag or super red hawk, just depends on the mood.

 

[LWW]

Sig 239 on me and Sig 229 in the safe ready to go. If I need something bigger, I'll grab the SLR-95 or the Ruger Gunsite Scout.

 

[QwikKotaTx]

I now oftentimes carry my glock 19 well visible in a holster on my property so that everybody can see it. When i work in my garage I have to have my garage door open and everybody can see from the street directly into my garage. So i oftentimes lean my M4 carbine (semi auto) with 30 rd mag or my Mossberg 590 12ga Shotgun against my car that everybody who has a close look can see it. This behaviour is absolutely uncommon here in germany but being completely left alone when it comes to my safety i do not know anything else what i could do. The whole neighbourhood is not amused about my politically uncorrect behaviour but from that time on no one did break into my house again.

I think that it is great that you have gone through all of the hoops to exercise your right to own firearms and can defend yourself and your family if need be. I always like to ask people who are against guns if they have a spare tire in their trunk. Better to have it and not need it than the opposite. You have our support!

 

[Jimmy_B]

I always like to ask people who are against guns if they have a spare tire in their trunk. Better to have it and not need it than the opposite.

I also have a fire extinguisher in the house even though I don't expect to have a fire.

 

[daparrothead]

Kimber .45acp always near by, if 8 rounds of .45acp won't do the job nothing will.

 

[bigpokie]

I also have a fire extinguisher in the house even though I don't expect to have a fire.

this ! i got my carry permit and ever since then, if i have pants on, most of the time my sigma 9mm is on me. i take it out when i work on the cars or if i plan on mowing, things like that. but i take it everywhere i go (other than schools and bars). my thinking is im?we are going home. i may have to fill out alot of paperwork but i will go home. people are just to ******* crazy these days.

 

[crewchief888]

Kimber .45acp always near by, if 8 rounds of .45acp won't do the job nothing will.

you could always get a couple of 10 rd mags

 

[Rag Roc]

Taurus .357 mag in a drawer in the detached shop. 12ga coach gun in the house. Maybe more.....

 

[reddevildemo]

Nice collection. What 94 is that on the far right? Looks like a limited edition or something with the engraved stock.

Both those on the right are actually BB/Pellet guns. Seems the only drawings I win at the Rocky Mountain Elks dinners are the kids raffles

 

[LWW]

That's a good start for a new collector.

For me it depends n the day really. Always something out there but never sure which one.
[

 

[LWW]

New house here in an affluent neighborhood. I wouldn't worry about the neighbors, but the interlopers just passing through. We're on the edge of the subdivision, right off the main drag, so likely a first stop and a highly visible location. When I will be in the garage working by myself—especially after the sun goes down, I will be pocketing a small Glock 26 9mm once I am CC licensed in Iowa to legally do so.

Not paranoid, just prepared.

Keep 'yer hands off of my stuff and my family.

I also live in a very good neighborhood with average household incomes well into the 6 digits. This also makes us a target for auto smash and grabs as well has home robberies.

They usually happen when nobody is home but we've also had one murder just down the street from me by a handyman that came back 3 months after completing a job to kill and rob the homeowner. I've also had 2 friends who were victims of hot (occupied) home invasions.

3 incidents in 23 years isn't a lot compared to East Oakland or the South Side of Chicago but it's more than my wife and I needed to change our opinions.

My wife wasn't a big fan of guns in the home but I used to keep a S&W M66 locked away in the bedroom. Due to the way our house was configured I spent most of my time in the garage and she spent most of her time in the kitchen/living room. After the murder she asked me how we would get to the gun if someone broke down our front door. I told her we probably couldn't get to it. She thought about it for a bit then she responded, "I want one in that room, that room, that room and that room." That's when my serious collecting began...

After I got my FFL it became an "Inventory"!

 

[LWW]

Still hasn't crossed my mind. I don't need a gun because most people in Canada don't have 'em. I guess if most people had one, I'd suddenly feel a need for one. Sort of a self fulfilling prophecy.....

I see it very differently. My 102lb wife is no match for a 200lb male attacker. My 102lb wife with her .357 Magnum is every bit the equal of a 200lb male attacker. Given that she probably has more training and experience with a gun, that 200lb guy with a gun is probably still not her equal.

It takes the physical prowess and hand to hand fighting skill off the table and puts the weak, physically unskilled and infirm out of the reach of most criminals.

 

[coma13]

I see it very differently. My 102lb wife is no match for a 200lb male attacker. My 102lb wife with her .357 Magnum is every bit the equal of a 200lb male attacker. Given that she probably has more training and experience with a gun, that 200lb guy with a gun is probably still not her equal.

It takes the physical prowess and hand to hand fighting skill off the table and puts the weak, physically unskilled and infirm out of the reach of most criminals.

The great equalizer.