Where is your gun safe?

Same as the reloading bench, My gun safe is in the garage and has been for around about 2 yrs. I have most of my firearms, ammo, holsters and paperwork in it, i have 2 desiccant packs in it and have never had a problem with anything at all

Bought one yesterday. Put it in my basement. I keep the air circulated (central heat and air) in my basement. Also 2 desiccant packs in it

Garage. Same with loading bench and all components. Dry it is...cool is subjective in W. Tx.

My new safe will go in my new shop (house burned) which has HVAC.

My safe is in the spare bedroom we use for an office. All my reloading stuff is in a separate room in the garage.

Corner of the living room between the entertainment stand and sliding door.

Spare bedroom downstairs.

Behind me and my shotgun JK, its in a junk room closet.

Regardless of where your safe is, go to Walmart and buy you a hygrometer (humidity gauge) and monitor the humidity in your safe....I have one in my safe that is an indoor/outdoor thermometer. I put the display in the safe and the outdoor transmitter in the room the safe is in. When I open the safe door, I can compare the two temps and see what the humidity level is.

FWIW, my safe is in my living room. I consider it a piece of furniture. I keep my accessories like holsters/slings/cases in a wooden trunk next to the safe. I keep most of my ammo in a rolling tool chest under my reloading bench.

http://www.heirloomsafeandchest.com/heirloom2009/03_chests/chests.htm makes nice large safes that look like armoires .there's another company that makes a large kingsize bed frame with 2 flat safes built into it that uses the safe as the box spring,just put the mattress right over it.just an fyi

My Amsec BF is in my middle bedroom where the camping gear, deer mounts, and motorcycle riding gear is located.
Austin has humidity issues at times but is not and never will be the Equatorial Hell that Houston is.
Although on my on personal note I would never store my gun safe in the garage,if that's all you can muster then better there than not at all.
You can always build a sheetrock area around it turning it into a small looking storage closet.

Edit to add...Yes accessories such as holsters,knives,etc. are also kept in the safe.
At present I have 1300 rounds of .380 ammo stored inside as well because a year ago or so it was a precious commodity deserving to be locked away,however I am in the process of looking for a small used Knapp or Greenlee tool box to store ammo in to free up what is now starting to get to be a crowded safe interior.
I definitely should have bought the 72x40 instead of the 66x36.

Our safe is in the bedroom. I may need to put a second one in the basement.

Mine is in a spare bedroom I turned into a gun room.

What do you guys think of the idea of a strongroom? Something with solid cinder blocks and a heavy duty steel door.

heeler said:

the Equatorial Hell that Houston is.

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Due to the above, both safes are in the house, have to be due to the humidity. Accessories such as holsters and magazines are in a set of plastic pull out drawers the wife found. Ammo is currently in a locked closet but am thinking of putting it in one of those sheet metal cabinets stack on makes.

Woody,even if the builders put insulation above the ceiling in the garage which in all honesty is not likely in a southern Texas home,it is even far more unlikely the walls are insulated behind the sheetrock.

Put your foot down and tell your wife the safe and reloading equipment are going inside, lol. Seriously though I live along the gulf coast so it is very humid and I would never put my safe or reloading equipment in my garage. If it was an issue of lack of space... I would sell, store or move other things until there was enough room inside. I keep my ammo indoors in ammo cans with desiccant packs and my holsters and magazines in a storage box above the safe.

Dehumidifier? I run one most of the year in my basement.

I know someone who bolts moderately sized gun safes (RSCs) into unused corners of bedroom closets. The idea has its attraction; they are in climate controlled space, and it should take longer to find them and longer to compromise them.

Mine is in a study room that was made out of a spare bedroom. It figures that the wife gets the study room and I get the garage to do my handloading. I might would put a safe in the garage, but there isn't any room.

No gun safe here. Built my own gun safe. 5\8 fire rock laminated over 2x4 walls with 5\8 plywood. All glued and nailed. Fire rated steel door with 6 deadbolts set around the perimeter.
If you want my guns, you better bring lots of tools with you......

BTW, it's air conditioned and heated.

my uncles has been in MN weather. out in the garage inside the house didnt seem to do anything going from sitting in a house for a few years den a cold garage for a year den another cold garage for another year den into a storage garage for another year which i wuld assume is worse and lastly into another garage LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! his guns are fine, we moved alot!

No gun safe here. Built my own gun safe. 5\8 fire rock laminated over 2x4 walls with 5\8 plywood. All glued and nailed. Fire rated steel door with 6 deadbolts set around the perimeter.
If you want my guns, you better bring lots of tools with you......

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You don't really think thats going to keep anyone out for more then a minute or so, do you?