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Agree, but see post #25, below yours.
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Mine is in the living room. I don't want to hide it. I like to play show and tell with guests.
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I'm in humid sw florida and my safe is in the garage. I have a three car garage with a two car door. The third bay is a workshop. The safe is draped and has misc stuff stacked in front so is not immediately obvious. I have a heat stick in it that keeps humidity at bay.
I figure the camo for the safe is really more for me than the thieves.....as soon as they see the reloading equipment in my hobby room, the search will be on!
Jim
I figure the camo for the safe is really more for me than the thieves.....as soon as they see the reloading equipment in my hobby room, the search will be on!
Jim
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in my opinion , when the value of your guns amount to more than double of a good safe you should thinking of buying one. I bought a safe big enough that with the shelving removed I could sit inside in a chair comfortably.Took 3 of us the better part of the day to get it in the house. Anchored it to my concrete floor and installed a separate alarm for the safe itself. I have it in a spare bedroom and out of sight of most who enter my home....
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I think the security of any object is something that must be done in 'layers' if you will. Position your safe whereby it can only be discovered after first permeating numerous layers of defensive measures. Start with an alarm system (observant neighbors are priceless--I love retired folks!), a Big Pup that loves you but knows a bad guy when he or she sees them and so on and so forth (YMMV as no two properties are the same). In essence and not to sound too paranoid, but look at your castle as "The Compound" and the necessary mentality will follow.
Also, I know of a story whereby an older gentlemen (in a rural area nonetheless--many people think that stuff doesn't happen in 'the country' but it does just not nearly on the same scale as the corrupted urban environments) that did not bolt down his safe but literally had a ton of ammo in it as well as his collection of nice but not classic firearms. Long story short, the perps were able to drag it across the room but unable to get away with it as the weight was simply too much (granted they were amateurs thank goodness). This is also a case where observant neighbors were of major significance.
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Also, I know of a story whereby an older gentlemen (in a rural area nonetheless--many people think that stuff doesn't happen in 'the country' but it does just not nearly on the same scale as the corrupted urban environments) that did not bolt down his safe but literally had a ton of ammo in it as well as his collection of nice but not classic firearms. Long story short, the perps were able to drag it across the room but unable to get away with it as the weight was simply too much (granted they were amateurs thank goodness). This is also a case where observant neighbors were of major significance.
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I have a Arms Room................OK, I'll bite
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Living in the humid Gulf Coast of Texas I would never give serious consideration to placing a gun safe in the garage.
The garage is the place meant for hot water heaters,washer and dryers,cars,motorcycles,and lawn equipment.
Not my safe or guns.
If the garage was my last and only option I would build a storage closet around the area the safe would be placed and would insulate it,run power to it,and drop a small A/C vent tapped off my main A/C trunk to isure a normalized interior humidity of my own living quarters.
The garage is the place meant for hot water heaters,washer and dryers,cars,motorcycles,and lawn equipment.
Not my safe or guns.
If the garage was my last and only option I would build a storage closet around the area the safe would be placed and would insulate it,run power to it,and drop a small A/C vent tapped off my main A/C trunk to isure a normalized interior humidity of my own living quarters.
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Why therein lies the explanation you lucky dog
! Haven't heard of such since my Father's days on the force (I remember as a kid getting an 'unauthorized tour' and to this day can still remeber it in vivid detail (talking 35 yrs. back).-Cheers
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Spend another $100 dollars on 2X4's and drywall and conceal your safe in the back of a closet or someplace where service people will not see it and a thief will not find it.
An acquaintance had his safe out in open view in his basement playroom. Just a couple of weeks after he had his house sprayed for termites thieves broke in.
No, they did not breech his safe but they ruined it trying. They walked right past his big screen TV and never touched his wife’s jewelry. They must have known about the safe because it was their only target. They did not get it open but ruined it with a cutting torch and ended up welding it shut before they left. He had to pay a locksmith big bucks to get it opened. The whole house smelled like a welding shop and he had to get most of it repainted as the entire basement and downstairs were smoked up. He was convinced (but could not prove) that the exterminator was either behind the attempted theft or told whoever was about his safe. He would probably have been better off hiding his gun collection under the couch than having a big expensive safe out in the open for everyone to see and talk about.
Again, the safest safe is one nobody knows about.
An acquaintance had his safe out in open view in his basement playroom. Just a couple of weeks after he had his house sprayed for termites thieves broke in.
No, they did not breech his safe but they ruined it trying. They walked right past his big screen TV and never touched his wife’s jewelry. They must have known about the safe because it was their only target. They did not get it open but ruined it with a cutting torch and ended up welding it shut before they left. He had to pay a locksmith big bucks to get it opened. The whole house smelled like a welding shop and he had to get most of it repainted as the entire basement and downstairs were smoked up. He was convinced (but could not prove) that the exterminator was either behind the attempted theft or told whoever was about his safe. He would probably have been better off hiding his gun collection under the couch than having a big expensive safe out in the open for everyone to see and talk about.
Again, the safest safe is one nobody knows about.
I know somewhere on the internet I saw, step by step, how to make a safe hidden in a old 70's-80's Pepsi machine in a garage. Lots of photos for each step too. Lots and lots of work taking out the can hopper though.
Here's one. Different from the one I saw though. Definitely security through obscurity though, but so clever 95% of crooks would miss it unless they tried to buy a soda and got suspicious.
Also, very not fire-resistant but would make a good "outer shell" for a real safe. Though in a bad fire, the vending machine might melt and encase the safe inside (hurt the fire rating or improve it?), but that's what metal saws are for.
http://www.gunlistings.org/arizona-.../gun_safe_made_from_a_coke_soda_machine_safes
Here's one. Different from the one I saw though. Definitely security through obscurity though, but so clever 95% of crooks would miss it unless they tried to buy a soda and got suspicious.
Also, very not fire-resistant but would make a good "outer shell" for a real safe. Though in a bad fire, the vending machine might melt and encase the safe inside (hurt the fire rating or improve it?), but that's what metal saws are for.
http://www.gunlistings.org/arizona-.../gun_safe_made_from_a_coke_soda_machine_safes
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