I'll have a go at dragging this back on track:
Do you think no one knows the navy uses weapons? Do you think the whole world is stupid except for you? You may want to see a doctor about that. One of those doctors that uses a couch that is. And I can guarantee that studying history in a classroom (among other places) will give you a far greater knowledge of the role that navies play in the world. It's silly to think otherwise. You have a very limited perspective if it's all based on your experience. So what, all that stuff they taught me was lies? Being a non-comm gives you very little exposure to overall role of a navy. Believe it or not I have known people that served in the navy. My uncle was in a battle before he realized he was even in dangerous waters. They don't exactly discuss strategy with non-comms. My brother in law didn't know what part of the world he was in half the time. He scraped paint for a living. Yeah he would surely know what size guns the Missouri had or what ship is called "Old Ironsides" and why. He would know that ship is still sailing 215 years after it was commissioned by George Washington. Yeah serving on a ship gives you a complete command of what the navy is all about. Just like me shooting squirrels makes me master of the gun world.
The old "Ironside Series" safes would be an excellent choice over wood in terms of security. They are also very huge capacity, with the ability to store up to 120 long guns in the I-95 safe while providing fire protection up to 1500 degrees F for 90 minutes. Also, the I-95 is the only gun safe manufactured capable of housing a 2/3 scale replica of a 24 pounder off of the original "Old Ironsides", provided the barrel is stored vertically.
http://superiorgunsafes.com/products/theironsideseries.html
Gee I wonder if I can move my house with me. The area has become ground zero for the prescription pain killer abuse epidemic. It wasn't like that when I built my house 25 years ago. Now there have been two network documentaries about the "Hillbilly Heroin" epidemic centered exactly where I live. It has become the 10th highest crime rate area of the entire nation. ~ 3 drug dealers were shot with shotguns about 2 miles from my house all in front of a 5 year old boy. A woman who went to my Sunday school class was convicted of that crime. A dead body was found about a mile from my house after it had been there almost a year. I picked up a guy who had been carjacked and had a baseball size knot on his head which is just conincidental to the fact he was hit with a baseball bat. Not more than a quarter mile away from that a man was killed. And that doesn't include the intimidation I've suffered from the local drug dealers. And keep in mind there are that many people living in my area yet all this has happened in recent years.
Though it is possible to move your house nearly anywhere you wish, it would be far more economical and practical to simply buy a decent sized gun safe, sufficient to meet all your needs.
The Ironsides Series I-95 safe, for example, offers extreme flexibility. In addition to the storage of extreme numbers of firearms, it would also more than adequately store huge quantities of prescription pain killers and baseball bats, effectively making it very difficult for Hillbillies to gain access to such items.
Additionally, the wide open layout of these safes makes them convenient for storing large quantities properly preserved/cured deer meat. They can even be used as a "safe room" in the event of a home intrusion, though air supply would be an important problem. Luckily, there is also plenty of room for one or more large oxygen tanks. Add a phone line, and you can call for help while waiting out an attack.
Yes my neighbors asked me to watch out for them because I was the only decent man left in the area. And I had the power to do it. Your smug suggestions show what a total uncaring human you are. You don't know my situation. I guess I should just surrender to the evil scum in my neighborhood. The people cooking meth the next house up the hill or the gang of drug dealers above them should just be ignored even when they threaten me because they are scared I might rat them out. I don't know why they worry because they have the law enforcement bought off. Yeah you know my situation better than I do. You go ahead and make that assumption. Maybe I should just sell out and let some unsuspecting people find out what they got into. Some of us don't like doing things that way. You arrogant... I guess all the dead deer dropped off in front of my house were nothing. They just stunk for a week before I could get the county to haul them off. I guess all the times my mailbox was knocked down was nothing. You stupid... You have no idea what I deal with. And by God I know I would be worse off if they thought I was unarmed. Everyone else in the neighborhood moved out and abandoned their houses. I'm not going to do that. The meth cooks sold their house to an unsuspecting young couple who ignored my warning about what they were getting into. Yeah it was big funny that they asked me to help. People like you...
I would also highly recommend safes to your neighbors, what with the evident lack of effective armed security means (LEO or otherwise) as evidenced by numbers of neighboring homes that have been broken into and the gangs of drug dealers and meth houses in the immediate area. These would go a long way in protecting their valuables.
Look hot shot, there are lots of things that aren't going to be mentioned in this thread. You have no idea what you're talking about. I still own that house and my daughter lived there until recently. I don't need to be dragging her or the rest of this story into this stupid thread. You just go on assuming you know everything and I'll continue to know that you don't. My daughter is safe, my house is safe and I want to keep it that way. That's all I'm saying. The last thing I need is for some drug dealing jerk to figure things out so there's no way I'm telling the story here. Got it? If I told you everything I know they could be at my house within an hour. I'm NOT going to do that. So just relax with your smart a__ attitude and go ahead and think you know things you don't. For all I know you're one of that gang of drug dealers that lives close to my house and has harassed me for years. You really don't get it and you won't get me to say it so go flame someone else.
With all the mixing up of present tense with past tense, it's getting mighty difficult to figure out who's living where.
However, one of the advantages of buying a safe is that if your daughter has any valuables she would like to have protected, then purchasing her a decent sized gun safe would surely provide a modicum of security when she's not home AND they have the added benefit of being able to be moved to wherever she may currently choose to live.
This way, even if any of your drug dealing jerks in the neighborhood DOES figure out this story nobody has asked you to bring up, at least her valuable property would be somewhat protected.
BTW why don't you tell the folks here how a .45 auto is never used in actual combat and I'll tell the story of a guy I knew well that was a forward artillery spotter in Korea that dropped in by parachute to call in artillery strikes and he carried 2 45's with him and nothing else except his radio. Being the genius that you are for knowing things you can't possibly know you will instantly realize that yes a .45 can most certainly be used in combat. The guy dropped in with a Colt in each hand to carve out just enough space to call in the big guns for everything else. So I guess, since we're dragging other threads into this one, I'll just go ahead and prove how wrong you were in that assumption. I'm guessing it wouldn't be hard to do this a lot. You on the other hand don't have a clue why someone might leave out information that might lead to a very bad situation. You don't even have a clue what a horrible thing it would be to point these things out. You could ruin a person's life by shooting off your mouth in some forum that doesn't amount to anything but hey, you get to score "I am so smrt" (i.e. Homer Simpson) brownie points. Think about it. You might get a clue. And if you do, keep it to yourself.
I'm not sure exactly how we got off onto the .45 auto never having been used in actual combat, but it's a safe bet that if the guy you're talking about was parachuting down in an Ironside Series I-95 safe, it's a pretty "safe" bet that he would not have suffered any injuries from being shot at by a .45 pistol. The same could not be said if he had parachuted down in a wooden gun cabinet.
This would be another demonstration of the superiority of a steel gun safe over a wooden firearms cabinet.
