What to do with your guns when showing your house for resale?
We are about to put our house on the market and we don’t want to leave the guns in the house, any idea’s on where to store them?
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Some firing ranges will rent gun safes.
I have friends who I trust. I would buy a portable gun safe. Store them, and take them to a friend’s place.
We are required to have a secured – bolted down – gun safe as a part of our licence requirements. They are not expensive and an average handyman can install them.
You would leave them in the safe area , why would you having guns be a problem to the buyers ?
@sandystrachan, some folks find guns a turn off, even if they’re not going to be in the house should they buy it. In this market, you don’t want ANY turn off. Also, there are a lot of nuts out there. In my mind, it would be unwise to advertise to total strangers that I kept guns.
Gosh I find this question quite scary. We can’t and don’t keep guns in our homes, it is illegal in the UK.
@partyparty From what I understand, since gun control became law in the UK, knife crimes has gone up significantly, but nobody seems to know how to do a proper survey of this, so it’s impossible to know. Here’s one link I found.
@partyparty We can’t and don’t keep guns in our homes, it is illegal in the UK.
No, it isn’t, at least it wasn’t – handguns are difficult to obtain a license for, but long arms aren’t. We always had rifles and shotguns when I was a kid in Hampshire. The last time I visited we went skeet shooting – so nothing appears to have changed.
I agree you should not advertise to total strangers that you have guns. Prospective buyers will look in all the nooks and crannies of your house. I’d bring them to a friend’s place.
Point it at the head of a puppy and shout, “Buy this house or I’ll shoot my dog!”
I agree you should store your guns our of sight. Even if they are secured in a case, I think that should be out of sight. If the buyer is not a gun person it could hamper their ability to picture themselves living in that house. Plus, anything worth any significant value you should put away, and I would assume the guns are expensive.
@snowberry Yes knife crime is bad in the UK.
Almost every day on the news there are reports of someone having a knife pulled on them. Very frightening
Put it in a safe or other firmly locked place where no one can recognize the presence of the gun(s), or store them somewhere other than your house like a friend’s or relative’s.
@partyparty: It’s hard to say. Appears that officials in the UK are fudging on the truth because of their reluctance to produce decent statistics. Even with the meager stats we do have, and common sense dictates that folks who want to hurt someone will do it, gun or no gun. In that sense, outlawing private ownership of guns has driven knife crime higher. So no, I’m inclined not to agree with you.
But there sure is no easy answer.
Let’s try and be helpful and stay on topic here folks.
Store them in a safe or at a trusted friend’s house. If a potential buyer asks about the safe, tell them it is for storage of valuables or machine parts.
@DarkScribe Yes you are indeed correct, sorry. Here we can use licenced rifles for hunting. I was thinking more of unlicenced guns which are used to harm and kill people. Some countries are allowed to carry licenced hand guns, we are not. That was my initial point.
@snowberry Thanks for your comment. What do you not agree with me on? I don’t think I made any statement which could be contradicted. Harming people is awful whatever method is used.
@partyparty I live in the US. I absolutely agree that harming people is awful, no matter how it’s done. My point is that folks should be able to defend themselves. If guns are outlawed, then how do they do it? Doesn’t make sense to keep a big old knife on my bedside table. If someone is so inclined, it makes sense to me to have a gun to use for self defense in your own home. I suppose another option might be to become a blackbelt, but still…
@snowberry Yes I agree with you totally, but wouldn’t you be frightened of actually using the gun on someone? I couldn’t harm anyone for ANY reason. Perhaps I am being too caring of other people by saying this.
I suppose we have to rely on the police here in the UK.
@partyparty, That’s a pity. I’m sorry those folks lost their son, but that boy DID BREAK IN. It’s not like he was invited. The man should have had (IMHO) every right to defend himself and that which was his. It’s too bad.
That’s one of the differences between the US and the UK. I hope we don’t end up like that too, but there are many who seem to think it’s a good idea.
@snowberry Yes when Tony Martin was jailed for life, there was total mayhem in the UK, calling for his immediate release. I think he was totally right to defend himself, but perhaps not with a gun. How he should have done it I really don’t know. The only option we have here is to telephone the police, but by then it might be too late.
I am sitting on the fence here about guns, I really don’t know what the answer is.
@partyparty I think it is awful he is in jail for life. I do think the US is too “gun minded” but how can they fault someone for reacting to people breaking into their home? If someone decides to be a criminal they take their chances.
@partyparty, I don’t know-I don’t think any of us know what we’d do in a situation like that until and unless it were to happen. A lot of it might depend on the adversary, environmental conditions, and my opportunity, as well as my state of mind when it happened.
@partyparty I really don’t know what the answer is.
Verdicts like that are what has created a deliberate response that involves placing a weapon in the dead person’s hands. It does little else. Even many Police officers carry a spare weapon to justify a shooting if they have made an error and shot a person who they thought was armed but who turned out not to be so.
@DarkScribe You are entitled to your own opinion, but don’t be so aggressive with your answers. It is nice to discuss, not argue, perhaps you should learn that!
I merely follow the laws of my country, nothing more, nothing less.
@partyparty _You are entitled to your own opinion, but don’t be so aggressive with your answers. _
What are you on about? I wasn’t disagreeing with you – I fully agree that he had a right to defend himself. Perhaps you should learn a few things about “discussion”. Like actually read what was said before responding.
As for my manner – I pose my opinion. You can take as an argument, as a discussion, a debate or even as a fudge Popsicle, it matters little. It is still just my opinion.
@partyparty Well try to be more polite please.
No, I don’t think that my normal attitude needs changing. Perhaps you shouldn’t take the comments and manner of people on-line so seriously. You certainly won’t have success lecturing people and demanding that they align themselves with your standards.
@DarkScribe….. “As for @DarkScribe , he tends to twist almost anything he comments on” ... (these are not my words). Go argue with someone else. bye
@partyparty Go argue with someone else. bye
Were we arguing about something? I must have missed that. (I thought that you were trying to tell me how to behave. Maybe it was just someone who looked like you.)
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