Do we all keep ammo in gun safes??

Installed moveable shelves in it.
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I found a very small gun cabinet that fits in a little 12"x12" corner (SentrySafe G0135) but it's pretty expensive for an ammo cabinet and it's designed for guns so it only has one shelf.

How did you install movable shelves in your cabinet?

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FLChinook said:
Do we all keep ammo in gun safes??
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Unpossible.

If I bought enough gun safe volume for all my ammo, I'd never be able to afford to buy (or build) more ammo.

When we were adopting a couple of years ago, the adoption social worker who did our home study about had a cow when she found out that I not only own a gun, I actually own GUNZ! (plural). We got through that, then she started on the, "You have to store all the ammunition in locked containers." I pointed out to her that there's no state or Federal law requiring this, and she defaulted to, "But we do."

I picked up a couple of (ab)used steel office-type storage cabinets and slapped padlocks on them. It got us through the home visit/inspection ... I didn't have the heart to tell her they weren't enough to hold all the ammo. I'm sure to her what she saw was an "arsenal" anyway.
 
The reason to lock up the ammo separately is the thief will have to break in two locks to shoot you with your own gun and ammo. We leave no unlocked guns or ammo out. I think that far and away the best practice , if you have a way to lock it up. As pointed out , plywood cabinets are pretty economical to build. One more obstacle.
 
Just me and the dogs, and I don't think they've figured out how to load magazines or use guns...yet :eek:

As such the ammo just hangs out with the safe, not in it.
 
I keep most of my ammo in a cabinet in a separate room from the gunsafes. It does not lock, but is a good way to organize everything. The kids are grown and gone so I'm not too worried about them getting into it. I used to keep the ammo in the walk-in closet off the master bedroom, but it was not well organized and took up a lot of space. My wife found this cabinet at a discount store just to keep my gun-stuff in so she could have more room in the closet.

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Too much in inventory to store it all in safes.....but I do keep a small sampling in the safe for quick accessibility.

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This allows internal pressure to build up to extremely dangerous levels. The term commonly used for a strong and sealed container that contains gunpowder is a BOMB
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so my ammo in a 50cal can stored in a gunsafe must be close to a nuke:rolleyes:

I can fit 1k plus in that wasted space below the bottom shelf of my gunsafe
 
No ankle biters running around our place and all ammo is in my gun room which is locked. Of course we have ammo for SD scattered around the house.
 
I keep the guns in the safe and ALL of the ammo in GI cans in the garage. I do not want mass quantities of ammunition stored in my house.
 
I'm neglectful of my ammo storage. Most of it resides in the factory containers in empty shotgun shell cases under my desk or in the closet behind my rubbermaid tub that masquerades as a footlocker in ammo cans. I barely have enough room in the gun safe for my guns, much less my ammo
 
I used to keep mine locked up in a cabinet, not the safe. The powder has always gone in a cabinet. The ammo won't fit in the cabinet anymore, so it's on shelves.

My kids are older now anyway. They know better than to do something stupid like chock a round up in a vise and hit the primer with a nail. Which brings me to this:

I don't see why ammo would need to be locked up. It is not going to do anything by itself. We never had an issue with our kids, or when I was a kid, by having ammo stacked on shelves or in unlocked cabinets.
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Nothing happened in our house either, because Dad told us what happens when you chock a shotgun shell up in a vise in the basement and hit the primer with a hammer and nail- he learned from experience when he was 7 years old.

If you want to know happens, apparently, it's a ringing in your ears, a torn pant leg, and a whoopin'. Didn't sound like fun to me, so I never tried it for myself. :D
 
Didn't sound like fun to me, so I never tried it for myself.
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You clearly have never met my three Houston grandsons, any two of whom are easily capable of goading the third into doing almost anything :o
 
I was asked above why a separate locked container in another area of the house. There are a few reasons...
1) Habit. It is what my dad and Boy Scouts taught me. I've done it since childhood.
2) Foster Care. Even fostering in a rural area where the Social Workers (both men and women) hunted, they wanted the ammo locked and separate. I didn't need guns in a safe, but I did need to use trigger locks. I totally agree with the policy for a number of reasons; but mainly because it is such a simple and effective accident prevention measure. I also think it is appropriate for any home, anytime. It may not be "needed", but it might help prevent accidents.
3) My wife. For the accident prevention reasons stated above. (We still "borrow" children all the time, we have ankle biter aged grandkids and great-grandkids, and we commonly care for the handicapped that have limited understanding.)
4) Organization. I have a 4'W x 2'D x 5'H four drawer heavy steel office filing cabinet. Top drawer has camping and outdoor stuff. Next drawer has shooting stuff (including ammo). Next has computing and office parts. Bottom has fishing supplies. I won't say the drawers are organized, but at least the equipment is grouped.
5. I don't want guns and ammo immediately visible - to anyone, especially BGs. If a BG does get in then at least they will be slowed down in needing to find it and then getting access.

Andrew

NRA Life Member
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"There are some ideas so preposterous that only an intellectual will believe them." - Malcolm Muggeridge
 
I think it is essential to keep ammo locked up, just like the guns themselves. Everyone knows that guns and ammo can get up, usually in the middle of the night when no one is watching, and run out into the street and start killing people. If this wasn't the case why would there be so many laws restricting guns and ammo? I actually have a small safe that I won at a trade show, the kind that you sometimes see installed in a hotel room. Its secure enough to keep the grandkids out but my guess is that with a crowbar it could be popped open easy enough. Sometimes I wonder why I bother to keep more than a box or two of each caliber, then I end up going out and buying more.
 
Before I bought a gun safe, I used a Stack-On cabinet for storing guns. Now it serves a a place to store ammo.

Safe space is too valuable to use for ammo storage, in my opinion.
 
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