[gspn]

I've alway heard the advice that you should buy the biggest gun safe you can afford...and I've come to see the wisdom in it.

I went to shut the door on mine last night and it wouldn't close (a 51 gun safe). I could rearrange some things to make more room but it's getting crowded. I mentioned getting another safe in front of the wife and that led to semi-joking comments about getting a bigger house to accommodate another safe. :what:

Who on THR has the record? How many gun safes do you have?

[303tom]

None...................I have a Arms Room.

[jcwit]

I'm with Tom.

[12131]

None...................I have a Arms Room.
Like a vault room?

[medalguy]

We built a custom home and had a Browning Pro Steel vault door installed during construction, anchored into the concrete slab, with an arms room behind it, with 3/8 inch steel plate welded all around and on top. Nobody is going to get in that one very easily.

Too bad all my guns fell into the lake during that horrible accident a few years ago.....:cuss:

[gspn]

DANG! I shoulda thought of that! A WHOLE ROOM!!!

[O C]

If you stay into the gun game long enough, you'll aquire enough guns/reloading/cleaning/gunsmithing gear to warrant a room or two for your "stuff". It's the same logic women use to get a "Walk In Closet".
Who in their right mind has enough clothes/shoes to justify a WHOLE ROOM. And besides, how much money would you get back if you sold every thing in the closet. (And if TSHTF, is that new blouse gonna protect you?)

[303tom]

Like a vault room?
Yes, Basically.............It is just a very reenforced room.

[Chevelle SS]

just two safes :D

[Swichblade]

After reading these posts I feel that my family and I are doing it wrong. We just have guns in various places around the house, with no locks on them.

[Shadow 7D]

well, first off what type of "safe"
cause most aren't actually safes, they are RSC
secondly, after so many, mightn't just make more sense to harden an interior room or basement room and just use the safe for stuff out of the room or special stuff in the room?

[Rembrandt]

Two for now.....in need of a third.

[Reloadron]

One large safe in the gun room. I try to limit it to guns and only my higher end guns with several loaded magazines. The remainder of lower end guns is in a locked cabinet. I may add a lower end safe for that stuff and the ammunition is separate.

Cost justification to my wife was pretty easy as all our important papers as well as her jewelery collection has a section in the safe devoted to those things. :)

Ron

[Bubbles]

Next house plan has a vault designed into it.

Safes - two of the big ones for business inventory, several smaller ones for personal stuff. I like having several smaller ones better, as I don't have to pull out a dozen guns if I happen to want the one in the back.

[Lex Luthier]

Two safes, two load out closets, redundantly stocked and prepped.

[browningguy]

I have just 3 and they are all small, the largest is 20 guns.

[JustinJ]

Unless you fill it with 22 bolt action rifles i think the number of guns indicated by safe manufacturers is BS. I had to upgrade to a much bigger gun safe but assault rifles and guns with optics take up lots of room. Currently i have a good safe for my more valuable guns and a metal gun cabinet for the cheaper guns, mags, accessories, etc. If you do start out with a smaller safe you can always sell it down the line and upgrade but its cheaper just to start big.

[scaatylobo]

Only 2 and they overflow now.

But if you want to see THE ultamate safe/gun room ?.

Google Charleton Hestons gun safe/room.

Promise its worth the search.

[silicosys4]

first one was a 24 gun safe. Bear in mind that when they say "24 long guns" they mean 24 .22 chipmunks, lol. I've never been able to put more than 18 full size rifles in mine. The 24 gun safe has been sufficient for 5 years. Next one is going to be 50+ guns...the 24 gun safe will be the ammo dump, lol

[waterhouse]

I have to give credit to Sturdy Safe. Mine easily holds more long guns than they advertised, and none of the touch each other, and scoped rifles and ARs fit just fine. Kudos to their design.

I have one main safe, plus a few smaller specialized safes for keeping handguns close by while still being locked up from the child.

[jmr40]

3, trying to sell off a few and get down to 2.

[TIMC]

None, had a vault built in my house when we built it. You ain't loadin this one up and hauling it off! ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/timc/Vaultdoorinstalled.jpg

[FROGO207]

Seven of them.

[Elkins45]

None, had a vault built in my house when we built it. You ain't loadin this one up and hauling it off! ;)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/timc/Vaultdoorinstalled.jpg
I don't mean to be nosy, but I'm assuming that isn't just 2X4 studs and drywall on the exterior walls?

I'm on my third (and last) one, all of which are located in different structures. I had to get a new one (Cannon from Tractor Supply) when my father died a couple of years ago and I inherited his guns. I'm feeling a little bit like a crazy hoarder, so I'm getting ready to sell off any of my guns that can be replaced by the ones I got from him.

I still have a motley collection of sheet metal RSC's from K-Mart bolted to the basement floor from before I bought my big safe. I can't decided whether to sell them on Craigslist or to use them for tools, etc.

[berettaprofessor]

3, trying to sell off a few and get down to 2

Now why would you ruin a happy thread with a sad thought like this?

I've got too many guns but I learned long ago, the only guns I regret are the ones I sold.

[essayons21]

I only have one small safe which holds guns with collectible and sentimental value. Hopefully the burglars will have their arms so full of unsecured and replaceable guns they won't bother with the safe.

I had ceased all gun-buying in order to save for a safe, then took a big pay cut, and then inherited about 15 more guns. I need to sell a few just so I can secure the rest.

[Fishslayer]

I have a pretty small basic unit that has been outgrown. The WIFE actually brought up the subject of a larger, proper fire safe. :eek: Even went down to the LGS with me to have a look.

She wants to keep her jewelry in it but I can live with that. ;)

[alsaqr]

i have two gun safes and a combination tornado shelter/gun vault. The buildings exterior dimensions are 8'x10'. The walls and roof are 8" reinforced concrete. The wood roof is for looks and is not yet finished. The built in gun vault is 6'8" wide by 3' feet deep by 8' high. The interior wall of the vault is also 8" thick. The vault door weighs 1,200 pounds.

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/7866/dsc01360pf.jpg

[jrdolall]

I have one quality gun safe (50 gun I think) and two of the metal gun cabinets that anyone with a crowbar could break open. All pistols and military style rifles are in the quality safe with my heirlooms as well as important paperwork and jewelry. Older, easily replaceable guns are in the two cheap safes that are bolted to the floor but, as I said, could easily be opened. Old worthless shotguns and 22s are in the back of the closet so maybe a thief will spend his time with carrying several $50 guns and not have time for the valuables:)

If a talented thief has the time then it does not matter what you have. Remember that bank vaults can be broken into so pretty much anything you do at home could possibly be defeated. What our gun safes/vaults will do is keep about 99.9% of people from accessing our valuables. I try my best to keep them away from my house and then out of my house. If they actually get into the house then I am probably going to be filing a large insurance claim and will be classified as an armory by some news outlet.

[Shadow 7D]

Look around here for idea, one of the members actually used (I think) the sloped area to access the foundation for an addition, at the end, the finished digging it out and put on the vault, I think he said he paid cash for that part, and it's outside the foundation line, under his front porch, with a concealed entrance.

best safe is one they never find.

[Trent]

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the story about "Charlton Heston's Gun Collection" thing is bunk.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/gunvault.asp

The photos ARE real, someone DOES have that collection, but it WAS NOT Charlton Heston.

[mrcooper]

When it came time for my friend to buy a gun safe ( i don't own any guns ) he decided to buy 3 small ones instead of one big one, puts shot guns in one rifles and hand guns in the other 2 and bolts them together, they are easier to move just unlock and unbolt and he can add another one at any time at less expense, and the 3 together is bulkier than one big one would be harder fer a bad guy to steel.:cuss::cuss:

[TennJed]

I don't mean to be nosy, but I'm assuming that isn't just 2X4 studs and drywall on the exterior walls?

I'm on my third (and last) one, .
Did you say that after #1 and #2? ;)

[Ignition Override]

A friend who buys guns but never sells has a vault room.

It is plenty large enough for his twenty five (+) milsurp rifles and about 30,000 rds. of centerfire rifle ammo, most of which I've seen.