Out in the garage, Bill, his 17-year-old son, Billy, and Cristian Figueroa (Samantha’s boyfriend) produce Bill’s double-use designs. The little company is a family business, with Bill’s wife, Sandy, running the office side of things and daughter, Samantha, on social media in the house. That review helped kick Top Secret Furniture into overdrive. “The secret compartment, located under the fully functional and visible storage drawers, locks with a steel pin and is accessible to you via a wireless keypad and remote locking mechanism that only needs four AAA batteries.” “Although they offer a wide variety of end tables, media centers, bookshelves and nightstands, I zeroed in on the High Caliber Coffee Table because it sits where many of us spend the majority of our time at home: in the living room, right by the couch. “The folks at Top Secret Furniture offer an approach designed to be part of your family’s life for decades to come: hand-crafted hardwood pieces built to last,” raves the reviewer. One of the five options was a Meginnis design. recently had a story highlighting five gun-hiding options to hide your home defense firearm in furniture or decorative objects. Though ironically, the word is getting out about his Top Secret Furniture. Of course, Meginnis is a trusted sort who can keep a secret. “I tell them, ‘Don’t tell me, I don’t need to know!'” Apparently, he’s even had some people find More information on the Truthaboutguns and other websites to determine the size of the secret storage compartments they’d need for their firearms, to then relay the same information to Meginnis to start the project.
“People tell me these things they want to hide,” the linebacker-sized Meginnis says, from his New River garage/workshop. Or bonds, cash, wills, and other important documents. That coaster? It holds a strong magnet which, when attached just like so on an end table, pulls open a hidden drawer to reveal a gun. Inspired by a client’s request that sent his mind spinning like a combination lock, Meginnis is now making furniture that doubles as safes, with hidden drawers opened by clever keys.
In Chicago (where he often made basement bars for his cop buddies) and here in Arizona, turning raw wood into tables, cabinets, shelves and chairs was a tremendous release from his day job.
He learned the craft of carpentry at age 10, taught by his father and grandfather. They didn’t lock them up.”įor a few decades, Meginnis – now an investigator for Maricopa County – has been escaping from the gritty, bloody, depressing world of law enforcement by coming home, hitting the garage and firing up the power saws. “He had a gun, but it was in a safe in the back of a closet, and he didn’t have time to get it,” he says.Įven worse: “People would leave guns lying around. He would answer a home invasion call, and the guy would be all beat up. When Bill Meginnis was a cop in the Midwest, one scenario used to drive him nuts.
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