7 Years Ago I Walked Off My Day Job As A Museum Guard To Make Hollow Books For A Living

Anet, while I understand your concern about guns falling into the hands of children, not all gun owners or people who would purchase this type of gun book, even have children, or regularly come in contact with children. I do understand your concern though, and IF a person has guns and children in the same environment, it is most definitely important to be responsible about proper storage and teaching children about proper weapon safety, and why the shouldn't ever play with a gun, etc.

Little kids will definitely get into this and start shooting each other. You must know how formally bound books about constitutions and related writings are all the rage with kids nowadays.

replying to Anet Arteacher: I wholeheartedly agree. It must not even be a child, but any idiot in your house might find the book, think "Oh, interesting!!" and out falls the gun. Which in itself would be dangerous. I will not change the US's love for private firearms, but guns aren't toys, and they shouldn't be treated like toys. A book with a magnet is not a place to store a gun (same goes for under-the-pillow or in-the-nightstand, btw, but not the topic)

I’ll answer for her. Your suggestion of hiding a loaded gun in a book with a magnetic closure is irresponsible gun ownership. Guns are to be put into lockboxes when not in use. I have no problem with guns but I do have a problem when the only thing between a child’s hands and a gun is a magnetic lock. And I don’t care if everybody down votes me. This needed to be said.

How you don't tell these people to just shut the f**k up is beyond me (I'm guessing it has something to do with a little flask of your own, haha). I guess that's why you have a successful business and I don't.

Glad to hear that. But those Gideon Bibles should never be for sale. They are given freely. I know many Gideons and their work is very special to them and the stories they tell about their work is amazing . I am hoping that was wine in the flask.

Eva, while I understand your concern about guns falling into the hands of children, not all gun owners or people who would purchase this type of gun book, even have children, or regularly come in contact with children. I do understand your concern though, and IF a person has guns and children in the same environment, it is most definitely important to be responsible about proper storage and teaching children about proper weapon safety, and why the shouldn't ever play with a gun, etc.

Hi Kara, I really believe that it is irresponsible to store a gun in such a manner where a child could come across it. Perhaps you do not intend for this to happen, but I don’t think a responsible gun owner should keep their weapon with an extra clip under nothing more than a very strong magnet. I guess your work is not irresponsible per se, as it can be used as the purchaser sees fit, but I don’t care for the ease with which the weapon could fall into the hands of a child. Thank you for taking the time to ask. I hope you have a nice Thanksgiving holiday.

I thought such destruction was very disrespectful of literature, and reminded me of the book burnings, churches being remodeled into warehouses in the Soviet Union (antitheist here, but still) and such... but you're certainly right about that supply and demand thing :|.