Sunday afternoon my house was destroyed by a EF3 tornado. Luckily my family wasn't home. I live in Gifford IL. I would like to share my experience with my firearms. I have a modest collection of a few rifles, a couple of shotguns, and a couple of handguns. My house was roughly 1200 square feet. Half of it was blown inside the neighbors house behind me. The other half flew over their house and landed in their front yard. My guns were stored in a a large security cabinet. It had been secured to the floor and wall with lag bolts. I found my gun cabinet on the road behind my house roughly 75 yards from where it was in my house. The guns inside only received minor scratches. Now for my losses. Most of the shotgun shells that were in boxes are now spread around my neighbors yard. I lost quite a few boxes of .22 and those are also sprinkled around. I had purchased some of the plastic ammo cans and had them full of various calibers. Out of the 6 I had one stayed together the rest were broken open. I lost quite a few magazines for my Glock 19 and browning buckmark. I did find most of my ar magazines. I did have one surplus ammo can. It made 75 yards over my neighbors house with no damage to it or the ammo in it. After this experience I think I will buy more metal ammo cans. The most important thing to survive through it was my 8 month old boxer puppy. We found him 4 hours later in a void in the pile. He was roughly 20 feet under a combination of my house and my neighbors.