A Friendly Reminder

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This is just meant as a friendly reminder to you all that a 16.5" barrel AR-15 may not reach all the way up to the supporting notch in your gun safe. Furthermore, if it's dark and you've got an SKS near the front of your safe, it may obscure the AR-15.

Hopefully this will prevent you tearing your apartment to shreds while trying to find a carbine, all the while thinking "How does one lose a rifle in an apartment?" only to find it having been sitting in your gun safe the whole time.

I wouldn't say that I was the one to do this, but let's just say that a certain OP of this thread isn't always the brightest light on the porch.
 
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I built a wooden shelf to set in the bottom of my safe to set the shorter long guns on so they will reach up to the cross pieces where the end of the barrels rest.
 
I made a little thing that goes on the bayonet lug that makes it reach. Just put a notch in the end of a piece of 1/2" pvc pipe.
 
What's embarrassing is to only find it after looking in the same spot 3 times.:eek:
 
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For short rifles, fix the bayonet to make it fit the rack.


You do have a bayonet, right?
 
I have a bayonet but I store my rifles muzzle down and I don't want to poke holes in the bottom of my safe. Some AR's don't have the lug but I guess you could just stick the barrel into a piece of pvc. Or just drop it down the hole in the end of the stock if it is the telescoping kind.
 
Really nothing to it.

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My CAR15 will only fit the notch in my gun cabinet with the collapsible stock fully extended.

On the same note as you Tribal, I once spent the better part of a day looking for my car keys only to sit down and discover that for some strange reason I had put them in my back pocket. :eek:
 
I did walk around my station one day looking for my cell phone (with the phone in my hand, along with my gear bag). One of the wiseguys who works for me called my phone, instead of simply pointing out that it was in my hand.:eek:
 
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