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When you hear about pickup trucks and guns, you likely think of America. But Switzerland is another country where a robust hunting culture coexists with 4x4s, and Zurich-based Black Sheep Innovations serves both markets. The company specializes in modifying the kinds of pickups common in Switzerland (VW Anoraks, Toyota Hiluxes), and offers this unusual taillight-based hunting rifle storage unit:
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It can also be used as a minibar…
…and, this being a Swiss company, a Nespresso machine.
I'm not sure why you'd go to the trouble and expense of storing a rifle back there, but this is the country that gave us a knife with 61 tools.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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Hidden Rifle Storage Compartment Behind Pickup Truck Taillight
VW Amarok - not Anorak, which is a type of cheap, waterproof but not breathable rain coat.
Anorak, from Greenlandic anoraq: A hooded pullover jacket originally made of fur and worn in the arctic, now made of any weather-resistant fabric.
Cheap is not part of the definition, though - anoraks are as diverse as standard jackets.
Great use of space, as long as locking is good and the firearms are stored unloaded then that makes sense. I like the idea of hidden firearms while travelling, a fear of mine is people stealing hunting rifles while someone is getting something from a gas station.
"I'm not sure why you'd go to the trouble and expense of storing a rifle back there" ... , I wouldn't want to sit shotgun with a (not on purpose) loaded gun in that secret compartment.
... not to imagine driver-side :-O