How do you secure your firearms?

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FUD

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I was thinking about this the other day when I thought that my house was being robbed and I'm curious as to how you secure your firearms? Most of my firearms are locked away in a hidden 450 lbs. safe which is bolted to the ground. If anybody breaks in (unless it is a very professional job and I don't live in a neighborhood that would attract that level of thieves), they will not be able to get it open or carry it away.

However, some of my firearms are stored in security boxes in various parts of the house. This is done so that I have quick access to a firearm in case I need it in an emergency instead of spending five minutes trying to open the safe. The strong-box secures the weapon from unauthorized users (adults & children) being able to get their hands on it but it really doesn't prevent them from being stolen as with some effort, the security-box can be ripped off from where it is bolted to.

When I go on extended trips, I secure everything in the big safe but I don't do that on a day-to-day bases. Should I and what do others do?

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Consider yourself lucky! Right now, I don't have my weapons secured in any manner and it annoys me no end. Hopefully, I'll have a stack-on cabinet before too long and that will make a difference.

Any box will work, whether it's a deadbolt on a closet door or a steel box screwed to the underside of your bedside table. I think the important thing is to make it less than easy for the average fool/burglar to get the weapons. Impossible, with a vault, is nice, but a lot of people can't afford them. Anything that makes it even moderately difficult or time consuming is a good thing.

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All of my firearms are either:

1) on my hip
2) in my safe

CMOS

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FUD, if you don't mind my asking, how do you hide a safe? Feel free to be vague, or decline to answer altogether.

Right now I've got nothing in the way of security except the door to my apartment, and I'm still debating about how much safe to get, and where to put it.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Jeff, CA: FUD, if you don't mind my asking, how do you hide a safe? ...[/quote]It's off to the side surrounded by "items" which are normally found in that part of the house. If you were to walk in and just look around without touching anything, you wouldn't see it. If you moved one item slightly out of place, it would be visible. Was that vague enough? ;)
 
When I'm at work I keep my firearms in a safe. Dont know how heavy it is but took four people to carry it inside my house. Just like FUD, its also surrounded by "items" normally found in that part of the house.

vega
 
I keep all of my guns at my shop, in gun cases. My shop is in the same building as an armored car company that stores millions of dollars in its vaults, and the building is patrolled by armed guards. At night and on the weekends the cops sit in the lot, writing their reports. I have a good security system for the shop, and there's lots of good fenceable stuff in plain view if thieves did get in. Seems like this is secure enough.

Dick
 
Safes. Unfed dobermans. Nasty neighbors that will do some target
practice as soon as six guys want to get my safe.

Or even nastier - one neighbor secures the main exit, another closes
it, and then we have the burglars trapped in a big air raid bunker
they won't get out. Some people would call that 'the LEO convenience
food'. :)
 
On my nightstand with a round in the chamber.
I also have continuously patrolling Doberman!

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Mine are not as secure as I'd prefer. I just moved in and we're not rich. One is next to the bed and loaded, but not obvious to the "untrained eye."

I've been wondering if a cheap semi-solution for the long guns would be a small fire safe I could bolt in (I have a very nice landlord) and put small parts such as bolts into. Then they could steal my shotgun and my .22, but they couldn't shoot the damn things. Both pistols would fit whole.
 
After buying my house, I started thinking about this. Has anyone ever considered reinforcing a closet with metal sheeting on the inside of the door and walls and adding a deadbolt? Just an idea. Is it a stupid one or a possibility?


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Don,

Wal-Mart has cheap metal gun cabinets (Stack-On brand) with a 4-point locking system for under a hundred bucks. Since upgrading to a real safe, I use the metal cabinets for ammo storage. Those metal cabinets can be bolted to the floor or walls, having holes already pre-drilled for this purpose!

You can hide the cabinets in a guestroom closet and no one will be the wiser--out of sight-out of mind! The close confines of the closet also make it a bear to try to get any leverage on the cabinet to rip it out.

I also use a GunVault quick-access 'safe' bolted to the bedframe for my 'defense' gun. It has a touchpad for quick access and and the mechanism 'goes to sleep' for 30 minutes if five consecutive wrong attempts are made. (you can still use the key lock anytime) Price~$150 Anything you do to keep your guns away from prying eyes will help!


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Remember, just because you are not paranoid doesn't mean they are not out to get you!
 
I did a couple of different things to secure my guns prior to my safe. HTH

In a walk in closet I ran two big eye bolts into a corner with the threaded portions at right angles. The "eyes" were as close as I could get them and they over-lapped. Distance was about three inches. I looped a short peice of aircraft cable through them and cinched it down with a cable clamp. Ground off the slots on the tensioning bolt with a dremal. Idea was to make un-screwing them very difficult. I then threaded a bicycle cable lock through each guns reciever or trigger guard and through the two eye bolts. Ugly, but secure. (we had some teenagers in the 'hood hitting houses)

This is way eaiser to show than tell. :)

I also would secure rifle bolts, handgun slides or cylinders and shotgun forends in another container and when on trips, take it with me.

One thing to think about - my dremal and tools that a BG could use to pop my security system are also locked up. No use giving them the means to get your stuff.

Giz

[This message has been edited by Gizmo99 (edited June 24, 2000).]
 
Weapons are locked in the Liberty safe or in the trunk of my car or within arms reach always.

Ammo is padlocked in gym lockers.

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Byron Quick
 
All guns in National Security safe, except the one I carry. Everything goes in the safe. If neighbors come over there are no prying eyes.
 
Sentry Fire Safes are available for under $200; will hold all your pistols and long-gun bolts.

Any safe is better than no safe..........but best is one of the big gun safes from Fort Knox, Liberty, Browning, etc...

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