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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: gun in an apartment
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- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:09:56 GMT
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- -> If you are talking about storage when you are not home and the gun
- -> is, a good place is behind the air conditioning vent (assuming you
- -> have air conditioning). Few thieves remove the vents when robbing a
- -> place.
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- I have the impression most robberies are pretty quick in-and-out
- routines. Check the cookie jar, under the mattress, bureau drawers,
- top shelf in the closet; grab the most expensive/portable entertainment
- equipment and scram. At least, that's the impression I get reading the
- police report section in the paper.
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- Unfortunately, many apartments either have the vents on the ceiling,
- which would make things awkward, or run small-diameter ducting to the
- vents. It'd be hard to hide a decent-sized handgun in a 5" diameter
- flex-duct, and after a while it'd be a pain in the arse to remove the
- screws to get to it.
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- I'd suggest a stout metal box and a chain wrapped around the plumbing
- under the sink, a water pipe, or other relatively immovable object. If
- your thief is bringing his hacksaw or bolt cutters he'd still get it,
- but your typical smash-and-grabber probably wouldn't.
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