Red6 - I honestly don't understand the vehemence of your arguments. What is so difficult to understand regarding my decision?
I live in a prety safe area, HOWEVER as I stated I have over $12,000 worth of firearms, optics, another $3500 in NV optics soon to arrive, and invaluable files, pictures, etc. that cannot be insured.
4 of my items are NFA (that's Class 3 to some of you) weapons that the ATF does NOT want to get stolen, and neither do I.
If I want to spend $200, $2000, or $10,000 to protect my investments, my irreplaceables, and to prevent my firearms from being used to commit crimes, then that is my decision. Sort of like my decision to buy a Suburban instead of a Yugo to drive my family to and from the store or on vacation. Hey, the chances of getting in an accident are "x"%, so why spend all that extra money on a big hunk of steel with airbags when for so much less money I could get a cheap Yugo?
Honestly, all I wanted was some advice on how to handle humidity, not some diatribe about how stupid I am for buying a safe.
And you are wrong - MY safe is a BURGLAR and FIRE rated safe. It has 1/2" steel plate on the front door, and the LAST thing I have to worry about in my neighborhood, on a corner lot, near a busy street, is some professiona safe-cracker and a plasma torch or drill-rig spending an hour inside my house. I think the burglar alarm, dogs, neighbors, video surveillance, and other security products in my house (not to mention professional burglars and safecrackers don't break in to $100,000 houses) will deter them. Smash-and-grab burglars are my concern, and a 900 pound safe (1200 pounds when full of my stuff), lagbolted to the concrete, is going to keep them from my collection.
Let's see your cabinet do that.