Anyone find it depressing keeping your guns in a safe?

[Gunsnrovers]

It's sad because they're all wearing hoods!

I like having my stuff organized. I would feel better if I could have the safe in the house and had a gun/war room/library, but that's not in the cards now. With two bedrooms, 1000 square feet, and a 3 year old, all I get is a "war shelf" and the rest is banished to the garage or, as my wife calls it, "the other women".

 

[WhoKnowsWho]

Yes, it is kind of depressing, but I can live with it with the extra security it affords. And with my secondary cabinet, it usually is so buried behind stuff, a thief probably won't even see it! But man, it takes a while to get it all out.

 

[Gewehr98]

Mine don't see much daylight while in their safes...

But when kids were busted for looting on my street during the recent hurricanes, my collection was secure. The room around it was basically an open-roof atrium, but the safes were still solidly mounted to the cinder-block walls.

My go-to guns are stashed elsewhere in the house. I let the Chow-Chow guard them while I'm at work.

Speaking of dogs, P-95, sorry about the one that piddled on your boots and stained the carpeting in your last picture. You may want to get the rifles off that wet carpeting, before the buttplates and stocks suffer.

 

[Ohen Cepel]

Yes, it does bum me out that I have to lock them all up. Grew up in the country when things were a bit better and the guns were out more. Sucks when you want to get to one in the back of the safe or want to show one off, takes 5 minutes to dig it all out.

Would be better if we locked up the theives and scumbags so that we didn't have to live with everything locked up.

 

[P95Carry]

Speaking of dogs, P-95, sorry about the one that piddled on your boots and stained the carpeting in your last picture. You may want to get the rifles off that wet carpeting, before the buttplates and stocks suffer.

- that last pic actually shows a ''retired'' carpet protector .. moved from service by computer to door into office - to reduce carpet soiling! Does look a bit like a huge puddle (piddle!? ) .... but you knew that really!

Rembrandt .... I do declare - you have it seems done a better job of ''squeezing'' than I have!

 

[Mulliga]

Well, I just got a gun cabinet, and I actually feel better with all the guns (except, of course, the home defense pistol and the AR) being safely stowed away. We all have a responsibility to make sure criminals don't steal our guns.

P95Carry's collection is impressive, but, after all, he is a THR moderator. There must be something in the forum rules that requires all THR mods to have enough firearms to take Panama.

 

[M2 Carbine]

On the door of my safes I have,
"There is nothing in here worth your life. Think about it."


One safe is in the walkin closet.

I thought about putting on the door,
"If you are going to try and force this safe door, would you please remove my clothes from the closet. I don't want your blood on them".


I've long since run out of room in the safes. I'm thinking about getting another one but I would still have loaded guns scattered all over the house.
(no kids, etc)

 

[HankL]

It really depends on the size of your safe. I'm not depressed at all when I walk into mine.
Chris, I'm on the same side of the Mississippi River as you are.

 

[Kramer Krazy]

I used to have all my guns scatteed in the corners of my room, under the bed, in the sock drawer, and anywhere else.....until my parent's house was broken into and they lost all their guns, jewelry, and some other items. I bought my safe the same week to keep my guns safe. I keep one or two out for protection, but the rest are safely locked away.

I also have modded the inside of my safe by getting longer bolts for the interior door panel and rigging up a pegboard by using washers/spacers to move the pegboard off the door panel. I got some utility hooks and put rubber hose over the contact points of the hooks to protect the pistols. Also, my safe is positioned in a corner of the room where the door opens toward the room (away from the wall) and can be used as a shield if someone is in the house or happens to catch me offguard and is standing there "making" me open my safe. Then, on the inside, at least 3 pistols on the door are loaded, chambered, and ready for action.

I feel much better with my guns locked and safe from the hands of others.

 

[Jubei]

Yeah, having to lock all my guns away is kind of depressing, but not nearly as depressing as coming home to find all of them missing. I don't have any children running around so it's not a safety issue. I would just rather have to dig my guns out, than arm any street punks.

Jubei

 

[grnzbra]

I keep mine in a safe in the bedroom closet. I unlock it as soon as I get home and lock it before I leave.

What I find really depressing is those rare occasions that I come home, go to unlock the safe and find that I never locked it.

 

[TheOtherOne]

It's sad because they're all wearing hoods!

Yeah, after seeing pictures of everyone elses safes, I think that has a lot to do with it. It would be a little less sad if there was at least alot of nice gun colors showing up when I opened it. It's way too easy to bump into everything when pulling the rifles out though so that's part of the reason they are covered.

 

[Kenneth Lew]

Plus, it makes it alot harder to show them off.

I would not suggest showing them off to people unless you can secure your firearms adequately. Loose lips from yahoos will lead to lost firearms. Friends were blabbing to others that I had a nice collection of HK rifles during college. Well eventually the house was broken into, and I lost everything, but the firearms since it was transported to another city for VERY secured storage because of the yahoo.

I think I would rather have a nice display cabinet for my better guns.

Cabinets make it easier to break into.

Yeah, it's making it that much easier for theft but what's the point of having something if it spends it's life in the back corner of your safe?

Ever been cleaned out of $20k in stuff? Once you loose something your paid your hard earned money for, you will be a little more careful about your stuff.

 

[Herb Fredricksen]

Cheap vertical storage for locked handguns

It's not so much depressing as irritating. Since I've gotten my C&R I've assembled a fair sampling of vest pocket and pocket pistols and breaktops and Velodog type small revolvers. The more you acquire the more small differences make in what to buy next. Collecting is a real education, a learning process with no end in sight!

When I see a new old handgun of interest to me on an internet auction site I often pull out what I have to see what I need, by difference, to make the collection grow intelligently. Budget is tight so everything matters and I can't afford needless duplication.

The guns are upstairs in three small Stakon pistol cases in a closet behind shirts and slacks, not only locked but out of sight. The PC/work station and internet stuff is downstairs. Half of the irritation is running up and down the stairs for every research effort and the rest is opening and closing one to three cases to fetch and return the items in question.

A big help is storing handguns vertically on the Stakon's three shelves instead of storing them on their sides. I use a variety of small vertical racks you'd normally use on a desk, like those used for 3x5 cards (vest pockets) or file folders (medium frames) and plate/lid holders (large frames) like those you'd use to let things dry on a kitchen counter. Being plastic or rubber covered the handguns are protected from scratches. They're also easier to ID and handle. Vertical storage puts 15/20 items per shelf vs 6/8 stored flat. Big improvement! Brand names are Avery, Rubber Maid, etc. You'll find them at Office Depot, Home Depot, Lowe's, etc.

Herb Fredricksen

 

[RevDisk]

My collection is still rather small, but I do have a small safe. I epoxied weights to it. It's still technically portable, but it'd likely cost any thief more in medical expenses for their back injury than they'd get from inside the safe.

Hey P95, can I come drool over your collection sometime?

 

[P95Carry]

Hey P95, can I come drool over your collection sometime?

Rev ... feel free!! Even better, swing by sometime and we'll go shoot a load of em!

I have no idea (or can't remember) where you are in PA ... so not sure if distance a big or small factor. You would indeed tho - be well welcome.

 

[Satch]

Guns in safe

Not really. My wife babysits for some young mothers in our house and our grandkids are at our house almost everyday.While those conditions are going on during the day the guns are in the safe. I don't clean or work on the guns until our house is empty of the "little Ones" for the day.

 

[Art Eatman]

I'd sure like to live in a world where certain guns could be left out on a sort of display where friends could admire them without me having to root stuff out of a gunsafe.

The Jim Bridger rifle that's now in the museum at Cody, Wyoming, was once mine. I've parted with some other collector-type critters on account of value and danger of theft. Most of what I have now is "using guns" which are locked in the safe.

I still have a number of "sorta rare" samples of barbed wire, and some old spurs. I once had a 98% Model 92 in .44-40, and was looking for a high-grade Colt Frontier .44-40. I wanted to put a glass-fronted display together to hang on the living room wall. We started having daylight burglaries in rural Travis County, Texas, so I gave up on that idea...

For all the good times I've had in my decades, there are times when I really don't like this world we're living in...

Art