Vertical Shotgun Floor Safe-Did I just invent something?

[trevorthebusdriver]

So I've been thinking about getting a shotgun for home security and was thinking about where I could keep it with fairly easy access, but safe from the kids, and I thought "How about a vertical floor safe?" You know round or rectangular top, going down about 3 feet into your crawlspace, or in concrete if you planned ahead...So I do some googling and email several safe companies and they say they've never even heard of such a thing. They did have cylindrical floor safes, but not long enough for a rifle/shotgun... Surely, I can not be the first person to ever think of this? Has anyone ever seen/heard of a safe like this?

 

[Exmasonite]

hmmmm... interesting idea but would only work on the first floor of a house with a crawl space. might be some merit in it but definitely a limited market.

now... a vertical WALL safe, say something behind a mirror or particular painting, for a long gun would probably catch my eye. something shallow enough to put on any wall.

 

[rcmodel]

No, you didn't invent the idea.

There was an outfit called Survival Vault Co. that sold floor mounted vertical safes about 30 years ago.

You could bust through a concrete floor in the bedroom, garage or basement, dig out the hole with a post-hole digger, and cement the safe in. Then cover the lid with a throw rug, or anything else.

They even had one model that was huge, and contained a Lazy Susan gun rack. The safe lid was just big enough to get a gun out of it, and you turned the internal rack to bring up the next & the next gun.
Like a revolver cylinder.

Back in the day, it was not uncommon for survivalists to bury a steel or PVC sewer pipe with a screw-on cap under a concrete floor, or horizontally sticking outside through a basement wall.
And the cap didn't even have a lock on it.

Even the dumbest crook in the world knows better then to un-screw a sewer clean-out cap to see whats in there!!!

rcmodel

 

[trevorthebusdriver]

Thanks for the info, rcmodel! I also thought of the PVC screw top idea or even just drill a hole and drop in the tube that the Mossburg Persuder JIC comes in, but I was looking for something a little nicer than a hole in the floor.

 

[a1abdj]

I have seen safes installed on a lift system so that when lowered, they are not visible. You push a button, and the entire safe lifts out of the floor.

a vertical WALL safe, say something behind a mirror or particular painting, for a long gun would probably catch my eye. something shallow enough to put on any wall.

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