Scully Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Builders often have big mouths about how rich one of thier clients is. How remote they are or that they have a lot of guns Word spreads However if you left a person with all the kit required to open your safe and left for the day If they broke in you will loose your cert. I think we're getting a bit carried away now really. Have you seriously thought through what you've just suggested? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davewh100 Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 yeah mite be time to put this fret to bed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 If you have a mate local to you put them in his cabinet. If not and you're living there, do as others have said and cover and taped up that way they won't get nosey without you finding out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rich1984 Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 do as others have said and cover and taped up that way they won't get nosey without you finding out. Thats what i'd do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman Posted May 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 do as others have said and cover and taped up that way they won't get nosey without you finding out. Agreed... Sorted thanks all!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElvisThePelvis Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Another plus of disguising in is that it won't make anyone nervous, most builders see, pretty down to guys,but the media does portray us lunatic wannabe terrorists to the general public. You could always write on the box to distract them, when one of my best friends moved house one of her friends wrote 'Sarah's Dildos, large and extra large' on a packing box, when the removers turned up and found the box they nearly passed out through laughing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bostonmick Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Builders often have big mouths about how rich one of thier clients is. How remote they are or that they have a lot of guns Word spreads However if you left a person with all the kit required to open your safe and left for the day If they broke in you will loose your cert. Sorry but this is rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorfolkAYA Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Builders often have big mouths about how rich one of thier clients is. How remote they are or that they have a lot of guns Word spreads However if you left a person with all the kit required to open your safe and left for the day If they broke in you will loose your cert. This is absolutely nonsense, you would not loose your ticket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDAV Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 Builders often have big mouths about how rich one of thier clients is. How remote they are or that they have a lot of guns Word spreads However if you left a person with all the kit required to open your safe and left for the day If they broke in you will loose your cert. They would have all the kit to open the front door too! Cabinets are designed to prevent "unauthorised access" not be the Fort Knox of armouries........ You go to work come back to find cabinet in bits on the floor oh I wonder who could have done that....... Even our police should have half a chance on that one...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted May 5, 2016 Report Share Posted May 5, 2016 (edited) Well how many realise how many homes I have worked in and how many times I have heard talk from others There is even a post talking of someomes box of adult toys right here on the thread Why do you think the question is raised about other persons in the house or with access to it at interview? If your guns go proving you took all reasonable precautions is down to you Edited May 5, 2016 by kent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAsh Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 Put a sign on the door saying DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE EQUIPMENT INSIDE DO NOT OPEN Plus maybe one of those discrete XXX alarm company stickers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 On another note tho I wouldn't have any builder in my house I didn't trust 100% That is my first thought when reading the OP. If you think they would go.for the cab whats stopping them going for tv, or jewellery etc. You need to trust them else you'd never get anyone in to do anything? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fortune Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 However if you left a person with all the kit required to open your safe and left for the day If they broke in you will loose your cert. This is a bit over the top isn't it? How the hell do you sleep at night knowing that you have those terrible high powered weapons AND All of that lethal ammunition under your roof? It's a well known fact that the local power mad terrorists are just waiting for the opportunity to get their hands on these so that they can go and threaten the local burger wagon for an extra slice of cheese on the burger that they don't want to pay for. I'm sure that everyone does a varied route back from shooting and goes half a mile up the road just to make sure that no one is following them back home. And the land owner might spread the word that you were at point B. He might even come and steal them himself and then he could go and shoot the pigeons himself and cut you out of the frame! It wasn't all that long ago that blokes used to walk along the road with a gun and prop It up in the pub with a few head of game. I have never heard of anyone having their guns taken from the cabinet and even if they did the clause "reasonable precaution" would come in to play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 Just depends on how lucky you feel in having to defend your decision to leave them there for 3 months? Your first line of security having gone when you leave them the door key? My best guess you won't be happy chappy if something goes wrong? I do know of some one who let decorators in while he was away for 2 days, he thought he knew them as trustworthy? Some one associated with them wasn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scully Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 Well how many realise how many homes I have worked in and how many times I have heard talk from others There is even a post talking of someomes box of adult toys right here on the thread Why do you think the question is raised about other persons in the house or with access to it at interview? If your guns go proving you took all reasonable precautions is down to you Oh come on, pleeeaaase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandalf Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 (edited) Amazes me that some of you lot are allowed to have guns in the first place. Are you all stressed out and popping pills to cope with the anxiety and worry of owning lethal weapons? Just cover the thing up and get on with it. The bank has cash in it. So does the 'hole in the wall' in the high street. The Chemist stocks drugs and the pub keeps booze in the cellar. Now here's a surprise - Shooters have guns - at home - in a tin box! Edited May 6, 2016 by Grandalf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
millrace Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 . Now here's a surprise - Shooters have guns - at home - in a tin box! brilliant......... well summed up sir!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimpleSimon Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 I really wonder about the content in some of these threads. The other day a bloke came to my house to read the meter. I blindfolded him and walked him to the corner with the meter in so he wouldn't see my gun cabinet on the other wall. I also took down all the photos of gundogs, pheasants and other country scenes from the walls before I let him in, and hid my dogs under the bed, in case he made any connections. When the bloke delivered my cabinet and said "New gun cabinet, is it, I bet your wife's thrilled" I told him a pre rehearsed lie about my sentimentally valuable but totally worthless collection of vintage feather dusters that I would be keeping in there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ph5172 Posted May 6, 2016 Report Share Posted May 6, 2016 If you are really that worried, Get some coat hooks and place them above the cabinet and hang all your winter and old coats draping over it, and infront put a few pairs of wellies and boots. will look like a cupboard corner rammed with winter stuff. If it was me that's what i would do then stop loosing sleep over it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShootingEgg Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Thd last three builders/plumbers /electricians ive had in all shoot so when going past my cab struck up conversation about where and what they shoot.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flynny Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 I wouldn't won't to use guns for building work!!!!! Firing a few hundred 308 rounds thru walls to form openings is not very safe and will cost you a fortune!!!!! Sledge hammers/lump hammers and bolster chisels , man even sthil saws should be used, I suppose a 12g would be suitable for forming socket holes in stud walls, lol lol Seriously mate , leave em where they are a crack on, Stop worrying over nowt, Atb Flynny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadkill Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Amazes me that some of you lot are allowed to have guns in the first place. Are you all stressed out and popping pills to cope with the anxiety and worry of owning lethal weapons? Just cover the thing up and get on with it. The bank has cash in it. So does the 'hole in the wall' in the high street. The Chemist stocks drugs and the pub keeps booze in the cellar. Now here's a surprise - Shooters have guns - at home - in a tin box! perfect answer, makes you wonder how they get the gun from the house to the car, maybe they work under the cover of darkness or army roll to the car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 Amazes me that some of you lot are allowed to have guns in the first place. Are you all stressed out and popping pills to cope with the anxiety and worry of owning lethal weapons? Just cover the thing up and get on with it. The bank has cash in it. So does the 'hole in the wall' in the high street. The Chemist stocks drugs and the pub keeps booze in the cellar. Now here's a surprise - Shooters have guns - at home - in a tin box! Hold your horses there Mr Grandalf The forum is not just for those who know everything is it? The OP obviously wasn't sure what to do and asked a perfectly sensible question, better safe than sorry and all that!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted May 10, 2016 Report Share Posted May 10, 2016 years ago i had them in,just left it as it was and all was ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingman Posted May 12, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2016 The OP obviously wasn't sure what to do and asked a perfectly sensible question, better safe than sorry and all that!! That was exactly it, a very simple request for opinions and views from this community as I haven't been in this situation before. I was NOT in anyway intending to start a debate over the relative moral values of the building trade! I wish I hadn't asked now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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