Inventory Today/Staging home defense guns.

[Defender]

My daughter is coming over to help me inventory my guns.  She’s a good daughter, if you don’t count her teen years. LOL. Anyway, I have been looking for 2 pistols that I may have traded/sold but can find.  I know my intent was to unload them (pun intended) but for a person who keep meticulous records on his firearms, I still show them in my on hand inventory.  Zero chance someone stole them, too many alarms and indoor/outdoor cameras for that, but if I can’t  locate them I will mark them sold.  There has probably been a couple occasions where I met someone and stayed out all day afterwards, instead of my usual come straight home to document my records.  I retired this year and have endeavored to reduce clutter in my room, the gun safes and the room where I store empty firearms boxes and other things.  
Also I need to rethink my home defense/invasion strategy and insure outside safe staged weapons are well thought out and in the right places.  I’ve got three shotguns that I am going to make primary for each room I use.  I’ve got a 20 ga Shockwave that I want to be my primary, and have a Mossberg 12 ga Cruizer pump which is bigger than the Shockwave wave but not as big as those that have a stock. Then I’ve got a Saiga semi-auto HOG that I may just leave in the safe.  Also I have my home EDC that is equipped with a laser/light combo that is next to me usually in whatever room I’m in. I also have an AR and an AR pistol.  Right now I only have the Shockwave in my former office where I spent most of my time before retiring. Ind really appreciate and suggestions you guys have.

i figure if the zombie apocalypse happens, ill need a different strategy for external defense, but I’m good on my plan for that, so just needs ideas for hoods/methheads breaking in that will probably run away after a few shots from me, if they can.

[RED333]

Good luck on the pistol thing.

[Gurn]

Sounds like some good planning. In every room in my house I have at least one gun hidden away easily retrievable by my wife and I just in case.  Don’t forget to have something in the bathroom easily accessible. 

[Erich]

I can’t believe your timing! Not to steal your thread. I started to look thru my list for the next item I need to sell and realized it was missing a as couple things. 

I was going to post a question here, “when is the last time you invented your safe “

I decided to verify serials,  record missing,  and take pictures. That last thing hung me out since I was not going to use a mothership scanned smartphone. Dug out my retired  old digital camera, hunted down its proprietary charger to revise long dead batteries…..

It was most of 8 hour, what a chore. I can only imagine you guys with 40+ years worth and multiple large safes.

I definitely found somethings I’d forgotten about.  Glad it’s done. 

On the downside, I was able to reorg like a great game of tetris (good) and made room where there was none before (bad, very very bad). Somehow having space makes one less inclined to sell. But I picked another hard one for me to let go to keep it “easier” to proceed. 

Good luck in your search @Defender, I feel your pain!

[pop pop]

I keep guns staged in my house but when we travel, I lock them in the safe or take them. I pocket carry on person most of the time even at home. 

[FrankD]

 

4 minutes ago, pop pop said:

I keep guns staged in my house but when we travel, I lock them in the safe or take them. I pocket carry on person most of the time even at home. 

everytime I leave the house I swap out the firing pins on all my firearms, the ones I swap in are just barely shorter would need a micrometer to tell they've been modified.

[peejman]

37 minutes ago, FrankD said:

 

everytime I leave the house I swap out the firing pins on all my firearms, the ones I swap in are just barely shorter would need a micrometer to tell they've been modified.

Was your Dad a cop in Arkansas?

[Gurn]

1 hour ago, FrankD said:

 

everytime I leave the house I swap out the firing pins on all my firearms, the ones I swap in are just barely shorter would need a micrometer to tell they've been modified.

Sounds like a lot of work

[papa61]

I'm working out a staging plan. I'm considering hidden shelf type pieces and magnet mounts. I'm never far from a couple as it is but one never knows. 

[Garufa]

34 minutes ago, papa61 said:

I'm working out a staging plan. I'm considering hidden shelf type pieces and magnet mounts. I'm never far from a couple as it is but one never knows. 

Be careful hiding guns like that.  When it comes inventory time you might end up wondering where some things are.

Edited January 13 by Garufa

[Thearmededucator]

Staging is intimately personal, and has a lot of factors. 
 

As a general rule I would want to stage one in the bedroom, one each in the two rooms you spend the most time in. 
 

Another consideration I suggest is to make sure all authorized family members can run each weapon type effectively. I don’t know your personal situation, but my wife is familiar with ARs and Pistols. Therefore, an AK pattern gun wouldn’t be in the rotation. 

[papa61]

1 hour ago, Garufa said:

Be careful hiding guns like that.  When it comes inventory time you might end up wondering where some things are.

As long as the Mrs doesn't put things away I tend to know where they are. LOL

[Defender]

12 hours ago, Garufa said:

Be careful hiding guns like that.  When it comes inventory time you might end up wondering where some things are.

Exactly!!!

[pop pop]

I have holster mounted to the walls in my cabinet, in the kitchen, and have others stashed in areas we spend most of our time. One is within arm's reach of "Big Red" all the time. Big Red is the name my grandson gave my Lazy Boy.

Like I stated I do carry on person after getting dressed. I have these guns for me when I am in my PJs, and for the misses as she does not carry on person although she has her CCP. She carries when we travel in our RV. 

It is a personal thing, stashing firearms. We are empty nesters. 

Edited to add; I will say the best thing to do is to harden your entry to your home before anything happens. I have also lit up the outside of our home really well and keep lights on, at night, both inside and outside. All my windows have storm windows plus the house windows have nails on each side of the middle divide that can only be removed from the inside.

We also have added hardened Larson triple lock storm doors with substantial locks and double pain glass with the 3M in-between the double glass panes so one can't bust through the glass to enter.

All this is done so if a determined intruder tries to force entry, they will need to make a lot of noise so my little yappy dog will wake us and "HOPEFULLY" we will have a little time to prepare. 

Also installed a driveway alarm that chimes when cars come up our long driveway. 

This plan is better than no plan at all. It cost real money and takes a lot of labor to really harden one's home. I look at as investment in personal safety, but IMO it is necessary this day-in-time.

My experience of being chased/attacked in my front year, by 3 thugs, a few years back, gave me a whole new perspective. Young men beating up old physically impaired men. Don't want it to happen again, if I can help it. YMMV

Edited January 14 by pop pop