Gun safe or hide them?

[Buzzard II]

SaxonPig-Sorry to hear about your loss. I say buy a safe. Buy the biggest one you can fit through the door of your house. Lap top, valuable papers, valuables in general will take up the balance of the space. When it comes to safe size, remember that a little safe is good, a lot of safe is better, and TOO MUCH safe is just enough. Buy the best you can afford. Forget the cheap gun cabinet. Some safes have removable doors (when the door is unlocked and open only) Browning comes to mind-check others. It makes moving a safe easier/lighter. Good luck!

 

[C96]

Get a small narrow safe that will fit in the end of one of your closets NOT in your master bedroom. Bolt it to all of the walls that you can as well as to the floor. If need be get two or three of these depending on how many closets you have.

The bad guys almost always start in the master bedroom and will strip it completely before moving on to other rooms.

Don't give them a target.

 

[Owen Sparks]

If you can't justify buying a safe because you only have a few guns you can come up with some really clever and inventive ways to hide them between floor joists, rafters in the cealing or between the studs in the walls if you are handy at carpentry. Theives are just not going to have time to tear our all all the walls and floors in your house. I once helped a buddy construct a secret compartment to hide a coin collection behind the medicine cabinet in the bathroom and a trap door in the floor under the refrigerator.

 

[devans0]

I am looking at plans for a safe room/vault. My main reason is that I live in tornado country. FEMA has plans online for basement vaults that are pretty reasonable especially if somebody is willing to put some work into it. I am sure that I could "harden" a safe room with out spending too much.