Cleaning Guns in Back Yard?

rob-cubed said:

Where I live, my neighbors would probably freak out and call the cops if I handled firearms in my yard. I had a safe delivered a while back and one of them ran over and said "Hey, it's your nosey neighbor... what's in the box?!" I looked her in the eye and said "A safe" and watched the color drain from her face. I told her my wife would be thrilled to have a place to put her jewelry, but she knew what it was for.

Toting all those shot-up targets to and from my truck... I'm pretty sure everyone in eyesite knows. But OPSEC, I have no need to advertise nor go out of my way to upset the neighbors. Same reason the stickers on my truck are only recognizable to those "in the know".

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BigSteve57 said:

^This.

We have a side entry garage - garage door & garage contents are not visible from street and a row of Leyland cypress between me and my neighbor. It is VERY private. But I always clean my guns in the garage with the main door open. My wife hates the smell of solvent in the house for some reason. So it's not like I'm in the back yard exactly but someone walking up my driveway and turning left to enter the garage would get an eye full.

Anyway, I was cleaning several guns in my garage, door open, and my nosey neighbor walks over trying to get his little s**t Dachshund that escaped and yells in a rather accusatory tone: "I hope those are unloaded".

With my back turned and extremely startled, I turn around and say "You know, I forgot to check if they were unloaded. Here, why don't you come over and verify they're unloaded" or words to that effect.

He just turned around & walked.

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lilmike1464 said:

Haha I'm sure you guys are now in a best friend relationship now. When I moved to my house last year in West Baltimore, almost at the county line, one of the neighbors saw me and my grandfather moving a big safe and came over to compliment and give us a hand. Most of my other neighbors are nice, but they don't seem like the type who would enjoy seeing me out on the back porch with an AR lol

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