Gun Safe Disguised as a Refrigerator

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Well, if were talking about hiding the guns, why not convert a pool table? They're big enough, and they're very heavy, and you can still use it for it's intended purpose, which will disguise it even further.
 
A lot of dopers hide their product in the refridgerator. It's usually the first place I look when serving warrants and I know most burglars probably do the same thing. A chain around a fridge would get my attention wondering what was so valuable inside they had to chain it up. Time and noise are usually factors for burglars unless your home is remote enough. A good alarm system is best but a large high quality safe properly secured to the building will usually be too much trouble to mess with. Some of the rural meth head burglars are getting very creative and bringing welding tools with them to get into almost any safe, gate, or any other barrier. It's a whole new world folks.
 
We did a dope raid one time and didn't find the stash, an informant later told me the stash was in the broiler under the oven, one of our guys looked in the oven but not the broiler underneath!

Got a good laugh out of the Porta Potty idea! :D
 
Use a hollowed out hot water heater. Run wires and pipes so it looks functional. The wiring and pipes have to look real. Build a false wall in the garage. Have real cabinets full of garage stuff in front of it with a large one w/shelves to use as a door. Open the cabinet door, remove stuff, slide out shelves, open false wall door. Four feet by eight will give a lot of storage room. A buddy of mine lives in a standard 12x60 house trailer, no storage room at all. He bought a junker car, had it towed to a place where you would put a car that doesn't run on his property, put it up on blocks, covered it with a tarp, and filled it up with guns and ammo. Another buddy uses the refridgerator set up behing his workshop out of sight, is also fenced in with his German sheperd and doberman.


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That suggests another possibility: building a gun safe into a hidden "basement" of your rottweiler's dog house. Of course, you have some humidity issues to deal with.

Going one step further: leave some clues indicating that the goods are hidden in a chamber hidden below a local outhouse. :)

Isn't synergy wonderful ? :D
 
Well, if were talking about hiding the guns, why not convert a pool table? They're big enough, and they're very heavy, and you can still use it for it's intended purpose, which will disguise it even further.
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Ant,

Don't go giving away my secrets! :uhoh:
 
This one is pricey, but not a bad idea, or maybe do it yourself if you have carpentry skills:

Amsec HC1854

Attractive optional tan cushion and oak cabinet conceals the HC1854 discreetly and can be used as a comfortable bench seat in a bedroom, office or den. Assisted by two hydraulic gas pistons, the door opens and closes gently
 
CGofMP, I like the thread about the pop machine converted to a gun storage more than the fridge. Of course I would like to be able to push different buttons and have different pistols come out in the tray below.
 
Would burglars break into an old coke machine in a garage, if it was not plugged in?
I was thinking that would be a good place to store ammo, to hide it from thieves.
 
Or depending on what all is in your garage. A old freezer box put around the safe (that is bolted down) might not be noticed if the running fridge is next to it. (and there is junk piled around the cardboard box.)
 
Pistol Whipped starring Steven Seagal. Many guns hidden in refrigerator in garage.

Ceiling panels?
 
My big safe is in the garage, bolted to floor and so tight in a corner a chain would not go around it. I got a piece of a curtain rod, basically an aluminum I-beam , the kind that is made for mounting to ceiling in recreational vehicles, and cut a few notches so it would bend and mounted on ceiling of garage so curtain would surround two exposed sides of safe. Now my garage is heated and cooled as my woodworking shop/ reloading shop so the overhead door is rarely opened, this is a double sided insulated steel door, and yes I know the steel is very thin, but it stays locked all of the time so my safe is not in view as a safe even if garage door is open.
 
Once it became popular or well known, every thief would look in the "refridge"! It would be as common as hiding cash or jewelery in your freezer..... that's a 'first place' to look for burglars.

We had a cop hosting a neighborhood meeting for CrimeWatch and as we all sat there listening to him he said, "Now don't react to my next statement because you don't want to give anything away. If you own guns, you're 'hiding them' in your master B.R. closet. Your extra cash is safely out of sight in the husband's top dresser drawer and all jewelery is in the wife's top or second drawer." He went on about hidden keys and other things but it was quite the revalation!! Everyone knew where all our stuff was "hidden".

This was back in 1970 and very, very few people had gun safes back then. Thieves knew exactly where to go.

So, like I started out saying, the 'fridge' would only be safe until several people had them.
 
You need to put two signs on the refrigerator used as a gun safe. Just above the hazmat sign should be one that says, "Danger: Biological Specimens." The hazmat sign and the written warning sign should pretty well keep even criminals out of the frig...
 
You may want to try a Chest type freezer and install a rotary or removable shelf system. Alot of people have old freezers in the basement and will give them away to get rid of them. Most of them come equiped with some sort of lock, to keep kids from falling in, that shouldnt be to hard to beef up.
 
If I had a safe that looked like a fridge my friends would destroy it thinking there was some special beer in there, then when they got it open and found no beer they would probably raze my garage.:neener:
 
I have seen a refrigerator box put over a safe to hide the fact. There are lots of places to hide stuff, just gotta get creative. I used to keep a cheap .38 in the "attic" of a mean dog's house.
 
BTW it would probably be better to disguise the thing as a septic tank. Nobody ever goes nosing around in a septic tank, looking for stuff to steal.
 
Where I grew up ... refrigerators were on the front porch ... guns were in the house :D

Seriously it's not a bad idea. Yes the experienced bad guys will look in stoves, refrigerators, microwaves, etc., for peoples "stash".

Taking the idea a step further .. how about a false front that makes the safe appear to be a freezer or refrigerator ????
 
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