Posted on 08/03/2014 10:42:06 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The four-peg hardwood coat rack doesn’t call attention to itself. But if you know which peg to remove and how to use that peg as a magnetic key, a hidden drawer drops down, giving you quick access to whatever you’ve hidden there, be it a pair of mittens or a loaded 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
This item, designed and built by Dan Ingram, 39, of Perryville is one of about a dozen products offered by his company, New Jersey Concealment Furniture. His furniture is good for hiding jewelry and other valuables, too, but for the gun owner, a hidden compartment is something “between locking a gun in a safe and keeping it under your pillow,” he explains.
“I love making this stuff,” he says, and his stuff is sizzling on the Internet. His website has gone from 25 visitors a day to 4,000 to 5,000 a day, with 30,000 clicking in last Saturday, he reports. And the orders are starting to come in, too. His big sellers are the above-mentioned coat rack, which can be yours for $165 plus shipping, and a similar wall shelf.
But he also offers a corner hutch that starts at $1,595 in pine or $2,145 in cherry. It has three shelves for display. But for hiding things, there are three more shelves and a couple of drawers, plus two side compartments, each large enough to hold three rifles or shotguns. Shipping is extra. He’s had more than 2,000 emails inquiring about this item.
Right now he works alone in the shop behind his house with occasional help from one man, but now he wants a bigger place and more help, as he works to meet the sudden demand that is depleting his inventory and increasing his workload.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
While armed robbers are unfamiliar with the house, they are also generally rushed. What is of concern these days are home invaders who are thorough, determined, violent and willing to spend a day destroying your home for their purposes.
What was unsaid was that your even having a basement is unknown to them, much less a safe room where you could comfortably stay for some days. A passive, fiber optic surveillance system to tell when your home was no longer occupied would also be valuable.
Soup recipes?
Good reference
The wild mushroom soup is awesome!
Get a quiet alarm clock, though.
Multiple shotguns that are stashed throughout the house would be my choice of dealing with home invaders who are thorough, determined, violent and willing to spend a day destroying your home for their purposes. Various types of ammo from slugs to 00 buck will handle everything.
One problem with that idea. If the invaders are armed criminals, you are good to go. But if they are LEOs, who look and act just like criminals, you will have committed armed homicide of an LEO, and will either be killed, or sent to prison for life.
So the best initial course of action has to be discretion, with the idea of preserving life and limb, even if you have superior firepower.
Holy Crap... this guy was in my brother’s class from K-12.
Probably cheaper to design your own and take it to a local reputable cabinet maker.
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