Keep It On The Down Low: Top 5 Ways To Hide Your Guns and Gear

Guest Post by Mac Slavo

For those who store food, preparedness supplies, gold, guns and ammunition, one of the most immediate concerns is keeping your investment safe. Naturally, given our reasons for stockpiling to begin with, the last place we want to be storing anything is with a “trusted” third party. Thus, things like safe deposit boxes are out, as are storage facilities unless you are using them as a secondary backup. Burying a cache on your property or in the wilderness is great, but there are certain things you’ll want to keep close by, especially as it relates to self defense or emergency cash.

This, of course, presents a challenge, because every time you leave your house you’ll wonder if the thousands of dollars you’ve invested in emergency supplies will be there when you come home.

The following video from the Bug Out Brothers provides some creative ways for you to keep at least some of your belongings relatively safe. Nothing is 100% foolproof, but we can certainly make it difficult for thieves to find and take what we’ve spent so much time earning.

From a simple bookshelf to a standard wall outlet, here are the Top 5 Ways To Hide Your Guns and Gear:

(Via the Bug Out Brothers Youtube Channel)

Here’s another short video with ten survival tips and tricks that just might save your life:

You can follow the BOBs at their web site, Facebook page and Youtube Channel.

Feel free to share any ideas, tips or strategies in the comments below…

Related:

How to Hide and Recover Your Survival Cache

3 Ways To Hide Valuables At Home

The Gut Wrenching Reality: One of the Best Bug-Out Strategy Guides You’ll Ever Read

The Prepper’s Blueprint: Prepare For Any Disaster

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Chicago999444
Chicago999444

A lot of those not-so-original ways to hide valuables at the SHTF site have been around for years, and the housebreakers are onto them. They’ll shake out every book in your personal library, and dump every container in your kitchen onto the floor in a quest to find the cash and valuables you have oh-so-cunningly, har har, concealed in them.

Agree with the site on safety deposit boxes at banks. If you rent a safety deposit box, the authorities will know about it, and can find a variety of reasons to seize it.

Nothing is foolproof, especially when disorder and mass violence are rising and everyone is on the move, but the best thing you can do is make your dwelling a less likely target. If you can afford it, a house that is concealed completely from view is best, with no external windows- build it around an interior atrium garden for light and air. If, like me, you cannot afford a really secure set up, be on an upper floor behind heavy, solid core doors and dead bolt locks- the old fashioned kind with the big vertical bolts, and when you leave the house, look very ordinary, so no one will suspect you of having anything worth kicking in your door for.

If you’re rich, get your vanity under control. First, get rid of servants and do your own housework. Servants are a major security risk. If your house is too big to maintain without household help, you might want to consider downsizing. There are better uses for your money than running a large, showy house that draws all eyes, anyway. Women who clean house for a living have VERY BIG MOUTHS, and oftentimes, sons who are thugs. Many people who live in very protected circumstances because their maids mouthed off on the bus about the $500K worth of jewelry under the table skirt in the master bedroom. God knows how many people are listening. If you have a really drop dead fantastic houses that appears in Architectural Digest or some other mag, do NOT let your name or address be mentioned, especially if you have a collection of art or guns or other valuables.

The more hidden or anonymous your dwelling is, the better. If you can spot your house from the highway, it is much too visible. If it backs up to a highway, sell it and move. I don’t understand why people buy houses that back right up to a major road, at least without a high wall between them and the traffic. It just staggers me to see all the houses with glass doors opening onto decks, and no fences, on properties that back right up to the tollway. They are the easiest targets in the world.

SSS

“Servants are a major security risk. If your house is too big to maintain without household help, you might want to consider downsizing.”
—-Chicago999444

Check. Currently, there are two servants in our way-downsized home, my wife and I. She does the floors and dusting (I HATE to dust, and she’s anal about the job). I do the vacuuming, and we share cooking and laundry duties.

After nearly 49 years of marriage, I think we have the “security risk” reasonably covered.

yahsure
yahsure

If you’re not already there, You’re screwed. All the articles i see about people ready to hike to some place far away are good for a laugh.

Maggie
Maggie

I just have to show you where we put the cash we paid our Mennonite log cabin builder while he was living in the little house on stilts. It was in PVC sealed and buried about a foot beneath the old toilet. When Omer and the boys were up at the log home working on Friday, I’d get the post hole digger and get their pay for the week, carefully making sure to replace all the boards and trash on top of the toilet. Now, of course, it is sitting pretty. I learned that from my Aunt Martha when we traveled together in an old station wagon in 1976. Nobody touches dirty laundry or old toilets.

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overthecliff

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