Underseat organizer long gun storage

[Twg1]

Tried to find and aftermarket solution, came up dry. Wanted a way to take 1-2 long guns without them banging against each other. I also didn’t like the pressure on the optics with the factory contours.

Actually sourced the foam from packing material from a new toilet. Easily shaped with a steak knife.

I used two anchor blocks at the ends, and smaller ones as spacers. If only taking one, the anchor blocks are all thats needed. To take two, a few extra blocks allow you to stack without any metal-metal contact. Hard to tell, but the FDE is actually floating over the black one in that pic. Seat fully closes without contact.

These foam blocks are press-fit, so I can use them to segregate other items as needed.

Disclaimer: I do not leave guns unattended; this is a solution to get to hunting and range properties for me.

Perhaps this will help some others out there.

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[amschind]

My solution is far more janky. I just keep my guns in Pelicans on the floor for no longer than I have to, and I have the back of my camper shell plastered with gun control stickers. You might think that I'd get looks and questions, particularly in Texas, but thus far the only folks who have ever even asked were my uncle and an old buddy, both of whom at least agreed that the strategy makes sense in principle. At crowded USPSA matches, I made it a point to park with the stickers facing everyone, and even then nobody asked. A locking center console is also a must have, but does very little even for big pistols. I can barely get an X5 inside, and my scoped Super Redhawk simply won't fit.

My argument is 1) if my truck and another one with pro-2A stickers are parked beside one another and a meth head only has time to pillage one of them, meth head is gonna pillage the truck that he believes to be filled with goodies and 2) who has ever even heard of a person having their mind changed on ANYTHING by a bumper sticker?

 

[Twg1]

I just keep my guns in Pelicans on the floor for no longer than I have to, and I have the back of my camper shell plastered with gun control stickers.

Thats a clever idea! I don’t do bumper stickers at all, but if I did; that makes sense.

 

[22Platinum]

Also there's the Du-Ha

https://www.du-ha.com/du-ha-cab-storage/ford.html

 

[Viper]

Nice!!!

 

[Twg1]

Also there's the Du-Ha

https://www.du-ha.com/du-ha-cab-storage/ford.html

doesn’t work with the factory storage option as far as I could tell.

 

[HammaMan]

My solution is far more janky. I just keep my guns in Pelicans on the floor for no longer than I have to, and I have the back of my camper shell plastered with gun control stickers.

Honestly I'd go sticker free. Even anti-gun-nuts understand this. Some guys went around trying to get some of those fools to put a sign in their yard along the lines of 'gun free home' or something along those lines and NONE of them wanted it. Even they understood signals of easy prey are counterproductive. You may be inadvertently placing a target on yourself. After all the #1 thing all violent felons fear most by a large margin is an armed mark. I prefer to hide in plain sight.

 

[Highway 11]

To be fair, I've never seen a gun control sticker on an F150.

Now a Subaru Outback on the other hand...

 

[amschind]

You make a good argument, and I think that for "I don't want someone to attack my person", that works. I think that the "I have nothing of value" signaling could be much more effective at deterring folks who want to pillage my unattended belongings, particularly a vehicle. A thief going for an unattended vehicle is counting on stealth, not force, and as such signs that the vehicle isn't a favorable risk/reward (per criminal brain calculations) can be effective.

I think you're right that for a house, my menagerie of stickers would probably be less helpful because there is a considerable population of thieves who expect to find folks home and enter anyway. There is a solution for that problem as well, and it's similar in principle to the solution to muggers/armed robbers. To that point, concealed carry (even to the exclusion of open carry) confers a benefit far beyond its actual scope and to folks who would never touch, much less carry, a firearm. A vaccine needs maybe 60-80% saturation depending upon its efficacy and the virulence of the target organism, but a "behavioral vaccine", in this case the fear that a target could be armed or otherwise offer harmful resistance, can become effective even with far lower levels of participation because it operates via the psychology of fear. It's an entirely different discussion, but I'm not a huge fan of open carry (in practice, legally I like to have the option) because I think that it dilutes the broader societal benefit of CC.

 

[Travis9935]

Also there's the Du-Ha

https://www.du-ha.com/du-ha-cab-storage/ford.html

That's what I have on the way. $300 can't go wrong... Or is it not that great? Lol

 

[22Platinum]

That's what I have on the way. $300 can't go wrong... Or is it not that great? Lol

I dont know yet...

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