Its America, people joke "don't let infants have access to arms without adult supervision or training", because we are all taught how to safely use them since young children. But lets say a child does get it, the good news is most shotguns in the US are 28" barrels, the distance from the trigger to the tip of the barrrel is about 35" (about 3ft), its actually really difficult for a child to injur themselves unless they are trying to on purpose using their toes to push the trigger down (minimum height would need to be about 40" to bend your neck to move your head in front), so its really much safer than handguns which is why children are taught to use rifles first (they are also much easier to use). Also depending on the weight it may be another challenge (many adult females significantly struggle lifting a shotgun, which is kind of pitiful but its why its often not a great choice for females either, not that I haven't shot skeet with an 8 year old girl in our 4-H youth club, but you probably need to be at LEAST 5 years old to be walking around with it and by that age you probably know how to safely use it).
As a seasoned burglar, this has been a major setback to the theiving community. This has been a huge hit to us, an endemic, forcing us to get jobs. It's a shame. I miss the olden days before the bedside shotgun rack.
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Except for the people who constantly fear for their lives as their homes are targeted by criminals and thugs where they have no other option than to live in fear, typical critical fans bunch of privileged assholes who have never experienced fear because they live in a nice town where inocente people don't get shot or robbed every single day like in Chicago or Detroit so they view a product like this as a "American thing" and a huge joke LMFAO 😂
I like how it's *specifically* it's used for shotguns and not anything else. I might buy it and place my favorite pool cue in case I wake up with the urge to play billiards
Imagine breaking into a house expecting some good loot out of it, and you find a 50 year old man laying down on his bed with the "I've been expecting you" look on his face, while pointing two shotguns right at your dome.
When i served in the military, we’re supposed to “sleep with your weapons”. Basically a ahotgun rack at the base of the bed is what they were referring to…. The males in my company took it literally and 80 dudes were caught actually cuddling their rifles (in BCT) 😑
Lol thats great nothing quite like the curves of a m4a1 to make you cozy in bed and the gentle hum of a 5.56 nato round whizzing by your head to energize you in the morning
"I don't know how many god-fearing americans are out there cuddling their shotgun in bed" **moves the comforter down slightly to let some light in** *don't cry, mr. shotty, charlie didn't mean it*
Growing up my dad was (and still is) a gun nut, and I always got home late from work in highschool. Like 6 different times I walked in the house to be staring down the barrel of his handgun. Shit wasn't even scarey the last few times, I was just pissed
To me, the most outrageous thing about this is that they charged $40 for it. This is a 5-minute DIY project that could be done for $10 or less depending on what you already have on-hand.
It is a nice 2 piece bent metal welded with bracing in the mid section and finished well enough. I think it should have pads so it doesn't scuff the finish of the items being placed on it, but really for $40 who else is going to make it? Sure I could, but besides adding pads to it, I don't see much improvement that it needs and that's not terribly expensive plus most people don't have a welder (I do of course, but metal is EXPENSIVE! especially when you aren't just buying random metal scraps from the junkyard at scrap iron prices)
I can't believe Charlie hasn't seen the gun holder that hides it in a hollowed out hole above your bed and you press in your bedboard and the shotgun just lands in your arms, ready for you to fire. Charlie needs to see that one, if this impressed him then he *_needs_* so see the bedboard one.
Watching this gave me a second citizenship to America. I don't even know how that works. Though this is probably responsible for like 50 dead kids who had nightmares or wanted a snack or something
30 seconds in and I'm already standing up and saluting the nearest American flag. This video is almost 9 minutes long and just the visual of a bed with a god damn _shotgun rack_ is all I needed to be convinced that this is the most American shit of All Time.
"But my grandpapi use to take his shotgun to school in the back of his truck in case of coons. He said they would show their teachers their new shotgun". "What? Where was your grandpa from?" "Mobile Alabama" ....
Now charlie, imagine if a bat flew into your room. In those few extra milliseconds you spend getting the shotgun off the floor, the bat will bite you. With The Backup, you could blast not only four holes in your walls in your sleepy stupor, but five and still get bit.
Fun fact: most rabies cases in humans are from bats whose bitten them in their sleep (bites usually don't cause enough pain to wake someone up and small enough to be undetectable)
I love how people always think of bats as rage filled beasts that will try to bite a chunk out of you at any chance they have, most bats eat fruits and bugs and the ones that don't are basically giant mosquitoes, they try to be sneaky to get on you without you noticing and then start scratching you with their teeths until you bleed
“I don’t know how many god fearing Americans are cuddling their loaded shotgun, next to them, like a body pillow” Let me just tell you that as a red blooded, god fearing, depressed American I always hug my loaded shotgun like a body pillow while I sleep.
I dont know why but Charlie seems like the guy to never run out of words when writing an essay, including never having to split words like Dont into Do and Not.
Finally, a completely unsecured way to store loaded guns within easy reach of the grandchildren! Looks like I'm buying at least one less Christmas present this year!
i can just imagine little timmy trying to crawl into bed, getting a toe jammed into the trigger guard, blasting a hole in the bed room door and causing grandpa joe to have a ptsd attack and he starts screaming that the japanese are back.
My grandfather did something like that once. Mom was coming home late and he had just gotten a gun. He was itching to use it so bad he totally forgot he had a kid and next thing mom knows she has a pistol pointed in her face. That was the angrier she'd ever been from what I understand
Sounds pretty cool tbh. Wonder how much time it took them to make it, like depending how big it is, if they bought multiple baseballs for the color or if they bought a fuck ton of baseballs and just painted them
As a non American I thought that was absolutely shameful over there to keep a shotgun attached next to your bed...if you don't already have one mounted above the head of the bed displayed proudly.
I agree with the thought of this product being a *hard no* for people with children. When I was younger my mom had a gun for when she had to take my little brother to his dad's farm for visitation, because she was worried he might get violent with her again. But, she wanted to make sure we couldn't hurt our selves with it, so she kept the cylinder locked with a gun lock, in a locked gun case, on the highest shelf of the pantry, with both keys stored in two hidden locations, and the ammo was stored in her closet. There was no way we could get at any of it. If you have a shotgun rack on the bed and shells in your nightstand, anyone who has access to your room has the ability to handle your shotgun, and children don't know the risks involved, it's just a bad idea.
I think it’s situation dependent. My father introduced me to firearms at a very early age. First, I learned gun safety with empty firearms and the chamber exposed. Then, I learned how to clean them. Then I finally got to shoot for the first time. By the time I was at the range for the first time, safety was of no issue. When I joined the Marine Corps I soon realized that 18 year olds who have never shot a gun in their life are more dangerous than 7 year olds who have shot multiple times.
@@Pepe-ts9ec No. There is literally no scenario where a bedside shotgun rack is anything but an utterly retarded concept. If your point is simply that some kids can be taught how to handle guns safely, no shit, but that doesn't resolve the issue of needing to have the firearm secured so it isn't easily stolen or misused. We certainly have more than enough examples in the news of kids who knew all too well how to handle a firearm, and had parents or relatives who didn't mind leaving a gun easily accessible to anyone in the house.
Well you were both raised wrong. My daddy got me a back up as soon as I was born. Right there on my cribside was my very own genuwine back up with my daddy’s 12 gauge right there. My first words were Shawty. I learned to shoot fore i could walk. My daddy dressed up as a burglar and kicked in my door as a test when I was bout 3. I shot him 9 times in the chest fore he hit the ground. When i pulled off his mask i realized it was my daddy and I was struck by how good a lesson this was. Man really knew how to teach. 3 years old and he still taking me to school. And after daddy passed, i took my shotty every which way. Hunting, fishing, kindergarten. Shotty got a lot of use over the years let me tell you boy. Anyway, I spend my nights in a cell now, but the warden let me keep my trusty back up and my shotty attached to my bedframe long as i promised it weren’t loaded. Heh heh. What a chump.
Nah i remeber once i watched that the bed frame above your head keeps the shotgun in like a type of header chest and you knock the bottom of the bed chest and slides right in your hands and ready to shoot
Imagine a time when people had common ground to normalize our differences. I think it’s almost to the point where it’ll have to get a lot worse before it can get better, at least for the people.
I needed this back when i lived in NYC! I could have placed a broomstick on it and be ready and able to smack the ceiling with said broomstick everytime my upstairs neighbors had guests after midnight.
This looks like something you could make yourself within one hour after a trip to the hardware store, but they're charging $39.95 plus shipping and handling for it. I realize that's not the point, but I wonder how much overlap there is between Back Up customers and people who claim Americans lack the "get up 'n go, do it yourself" kind of attitude our forefathers had.
During Charlie's stream while he was in Texas, Charlie was taking a piss or something and after making a funny joke accusing Charlie of secretly vaping off camera, Matt revealed that Charlie "hates vaping" (yeah... you read that right) DESPITE us vapers being THE MOST oppressed class in society next to gamers. We fight tooth and nail to just SURVIVE this oppression and here you are praising him for doing exactly what he want's the media to see! (bruh smh) Charlie has been playing us like a fiddle this whole time, he thinks he's immune because of his breakout role that made Officer Greg a household name but at this point he is literally promoting anti-vaper propaganda and almost straight up encouraging anti-vape extremists to target us, we cant and we WON'T stand for this any longer
If you want a more incognito spy tech gun storage solution check out the headboard gun deploying safe thing. The commercials were ridiculous and the whole movement of pushing the headboard and a gun falling on you was wild…
I remember watching a crazier version of this when I was a kid, and I'm sure it's not a fake memory but what it was is that there would be a hidden storage inside the Headboard and you would hide your shotgun inside, and at an emergency you would put both your hands through an opening that would make the shotgun fall over your hands without the need to even get up from your bed
The "how are they gonna get a good shot while lying down?" thing is actually a funny thing. Shooting whilst lying backwards is something that was quite common in WW1 and WW2, especially with long barrels, as your feet could be used as a makeshift pod.
Your life hacks video is what helped me discover you and this video had a similar vibe. Hope you do a few more for old times sake like the infomercial ones or something lol
How TF is this “patented” 🤣 bro it’s literally two hooks you could buy at Lowe’s stuck between the mattress! I love how they always say patented…. I’m guessing some of these companies just do that to avoid other people from copying it even if it’s not true
There's no better feeling than being woken from your sound sleep to a strange noise and rolling over and putting your hand on that shotgun knowing that you can handle whatever is coming through that door
I really missed your infomercial dubs, that's how I was able to discover your channel. I'm not sure if infomercials are still a thing in American TV today. If it still is and there's a new one airing on TV, I hope you do another one for everyone's entertainment especially for your long time viewers.
I also remember seeing an ad for a hidden trapdoor at the head of the bed, you just reach up, push in the door and that 12 gauge just slides down into your hands and you can deliver a smackdown
I wonder whos scared more, the burglar who gets pointed at with a shotgun by a half asleep 350 pound american reeking of plastic cheese, or the wife who gets woken up by a double barrel blasting 50cm from her eardrums.
the kid's gonna steal the gun and take it to school at some point anyway so I think it's more the other students who are most scared. I especially love how it's perfectly in reach of toddlers, what a great invention
don't know why everyone's assuming you're British, considering the only things to suggest that are the facts you used centimeters and speak English through the power of checking your about page I can confirm to everyone that this person is German
Even though a vast number of people have problems performing in the bedroom, projectile dysfunction is no laughing matter when it comes to the Back Up shotgun bedside holster.
Here's the thing: because of this commercial, the person who breaks into a house is going to be looking for this exact thing. All they have to do is stay quiet and before you know it, you're defenseless
Jaw dropped a soon as I saw the man place a literal pump on the side of a bed hanging like my switch pro controller on my $14 switch stand I got from amazon
In all seriousness though, having a shotgun hidden by your bedside like that, just in case of an intruder is extremely situational, but it can actually work out and seems somewhat practical.
For me personally the product could work fairly well if the bed is against a wall. An intruder coming in wouldn't know its between the bed and the wall. Though at that point I would lay my firearm on the floor in that case. Also the metal frame slides underneath the mattress, I wouldn't doubt it if it was uncomfortably sleeping with metal flats underneath
In all seriousness if someone broke into your house and made it all the way to the bedroom with such efficiency that you wouldn’t have time to grab a gun from the nightstand drawer or under the bed, you deserve to get burgled
Having gun is illegal in my country unless you are specially licenced for gun-handling. So I don't know what you guys are talking about. Knife is fine tho or a sword.
I saw an ad for a hollow bedhead that has the room inside made to hold a shotgun and you push the wall of the bedhead and it dropped your gun in your hands
It's one thing to like guns and enjoy them properly, it's another to poorly praise a huge problem that even kids in schools have to fear? Edit: my point is other countries have figured out how to have guns without the mass shootings... but only in Murica is any sensible gun regulation never allowed, why do i want joe schmoe, who drinks, to be allowed to have such power and responsibility but no training or education just an inherent "right" to end another's life whenever YOU think you're doing it for what YOU claim is "Good" see it from other Perspectives
I swear infomercials are like an SCP. They’re just an anomaly that shows up out of nowhere with no explanation and are just nonsensical enough to where you ask yourself if you saw something that was never meant to be seen.
Hasn't he already made a video about this over 5 years ago? I know this commercial and could've sworn he already made a video about it, I just can't find it.
Charlie. In a fight for your life, in the middle of the night, groggy from being woken up, scared of what they're doing your house, milliseconds are literally the difference between life or death
Reminds me of the guys who turned their living room into a hiding place for like a million guns and when they tell the Alexa they have they pop out like a goddamn display show
yea no….As an american AND a Texan I’d like to say gun in the car, gun up high on a wall or in a cabinet/drawer. I personally and the people I know would never leave a gun that low/close to the ground additionally imagine you or your buddy just puts their legs off the side of bed and knocks the gun. Also that specific shotgun is a little big for home defense
The thing is, this does absolutely nothing that just having the shotgun near you in a safer position doesn't do better, without the immediate safety hazard this thing gives.
It's also a child safety hazard, I always find it funny how people in the US buy every shitty product to Baby-proof they're house, but putting your Freedom Blasters into a safe position? Now thats too much
@@rettichdergeile9361 yeah, I'm super pro gun and everything, but it's flat out dumb when people leave their guns lying about when they have either untrustworthy people living with them, or children that haven't been taught diddly about their safe use, storage and due respect.
…..my friend has this….more than one. He made one for his couch for a handgun….and for his recliner….and open carrys at all times. He said, “I want to be ready wherever me or my family are.” I don’t know if it’s specifically “The Back Up” but yeah.
I practice Archery. Having something to auto string my bow at a moments notice would be amazing. Bow on the left, arrows on the right. Auto stringer activates, ready to fire.
Those have been around for 20 years. I recall seeing that product when I was in college. Also, other than ones with a short barrel, shotgun recoil isn't that bad.
Lol my older cousin had a "bed rack" like this but then his grandson was trying to climb up the bed to sit with him and one of the hooks broke so they're not that sturdy. He was worried about replacing it and it breaking again so instead he bought a whole new bed frame to get one with drawers underneath and that's what he keeps all his guns in now. He's even got custom cut display foam and everything (gotta make sure your guns are tucked in for nighty night I guess) Edit to add cuz the replies brought up good points: we've all told this story so much over the years it's almost a family tradition but it's *only* funny because nothing bad happened and the first thing he did after getting the bed was install a lock on the drawers. Seeing Aiden laying on the floor next to a firearm, even if it was unloaded, was a major wakeup call for him that if kids were going to be visiting the house again he needed to start locking his weapon collection up again.
I remember seeing this thing about a bed back where you reach back pushing the backboard and the shotgun comes down into your hands so you can then sit up and start blasting.
