Gun Safe question

[Agent Orange]

For those firearm owners:

Im in the market for a gun safe. My question is recommended placement. I live in a 1 story house, and my garage access faces the street where anyone driving or walking by can easily see the contents of it. Its also the point of entry where I think thieves may break is seeing as how I live on a corner property and the door to the backyard is on the other side of the house. If I place my safe here, it'll allow me to bolt it down and save me space from having it take up any room in my closets. The downside is that anyone visiting or even just casually walking by will know I have valuable contents inside the vault unless I cover it with something. It'll also be harder for me access my guns in a situation.

My other option would be to leave the safe in one of my bedroom closets.
But, it'll take up a good chunk of space and I doubt if I can bolt it down seeing as how I have hardwood floors. Any suggetions?

 

[bruceflinch]

My main safe is in the garage, side wall, under a shelf. Someone has to be 5' into the garage before they can see it.
I have a built in pistol vault in my bathroom.
I can open the vault in 1.5 sec.

What is your main HD weapon?

They make rifle vaults that will go between interior studs if you prefer long gun for HD

 

[tuxumino]

how big a safe do you need?
I have 8 gun stackon safe takes up about a square foot. hides in the closet well.
how much protection do you want?
My stackon safe looks like it could be opened with a crow bar in 5 minutes but it's in a closet bolted to the wall and there isn't any room to get a crow bar in there, an angle grinder on the other hand could probably get in to it in 15 minutes.


youtu.be/B8ViUdd-2LM

 

[Agent Orange]

My main HD weapon will be my G19. For that, I plan on getting a simple lock box that I can stash somewhere in my bedroom. My main concern right now is to prevent theft.

I was looking at the Field and Stream 10 gun safe at Dick's. I thought about just getting a gun cabinet, but I hear those don't take much effort to get through if any at all.

 

[motomania2007]

My gunsafe was in the garage, inside a purpose built cabinet at my previous house.

 

[mototireguy]

+1 for bolted to the floor.

You can build a camouflage something around the safe for when the garage door is open.

Simple set of curtains or flags or thin painted plywood should do the trick of blocking prying eyes.

 

[Eldritch]

For those firearm owners:

Im in the market for a gun safe. My question is recommended placement. I live in a 1 story house, and my garage access faces the street where anyone driving or walking by can easily see the contents of it. Its also the point of entry where I think thieves may break is seeing as how I live on a corner property and the door to the backyard is on the other side of the house. If I place my safe here, it'll allow me to bolt it down and save me space from having it take up any room in my closets. The downside is that anyone visiting or even just casually walking by will know I have valuable contents inside the vault unless I cover it with something. It'll also be harder for me access my guns in a situation.

My other option would be to leave the safe in one of my bedroom closets.
But, it'll take up a good chunk of space and I doubt if I can bolt it down seeing as how I have hardwood floors. Any suggetions?

1) You can bolt it to a wall.

2) Even more sexy, they make some models meant to be recessed into the wall between studs. The have a face flush with the wall, so take up minimal closet space. These are not options for someone who wants a 4' x 5' serious stock cabinet.

3) You could keep a stock cabinet in the floor level, with a hidden cabinet in the Bedroom upstairs for your personal choice.

https://covertcabinets.com/covert-cabinets-hg-21-gun-cabinet-wall-shelf/

 

[russ69]

I can't tell you what room to put it but the garage is the worse storage environment in a house.

 

[NorCalAthlete]

You can take an old refrigerator and gut it, then secure the fridge panels to the outside of the safe for camouflage.

Garage in Daly City though....would not recommend. Dampness, temperatures, etc.

 

[Inkman]

My safes are inside my house.

A friend of a good friend had a safe full of guns chained up and dragged from his garage while bolted down and put into a panel truck, never to be seen again. All while they were at work. Two neighbors saw the panel truck and the guys but figured they were just working on the house. This was late last year in a pretty nice, newer neighborhood area.

Garages are too easy to get into and provide too much privacy to work on getting into a safe compared to inside of a house armed with an alarm system at minimum (most automotive garage doors are not wired into a security system). Multiple layers of security are better including dogs as a deterrent. As always the saying is true though that if they want it bad enough, they will go thru whatever they have to to get it including any alarm system, dogs and people as needed. All you can really do is make it as difficult as possible so a crook will move on to easier pickings.

Al

 

[carries an axe]

Got to go John Wick and put four inches of cement over it

 

[Godsdarling]

I bolt mine to the wall. The one at Costco is awesome and you get more for your money. But it took 4 of us to get it in lol

 

[Agent Orange]

My safes are inside my house.

A friend of a good friend had a safe full of guns chained up and dragged from his garage while bolted down and put into a panel truck, never to be seen again. All while they were at work. Two neighbors saw the panel truck and the guys but figured they were just working on the house. This was late last year in a pretty nice, newer neighborhood area.

Garages are too easy to get into and provide too much privacy to work on getting into a safe compared to inside of a house armed with an alarm system at minimum (most automotive garage doors are not wired into a security system). Multiple layers of security are better including dogs as a deterrent. As always the saying is true though that if they want it bad enough, they will go thru whatever they have to to get it including any alarm system, dogs and people as needed. All you can really do is make it as difficult as possible so a crook will move on to easier pickings.

Al

holy shit, good to know.

 

[sanjuro]

 

[Eldritch]

Yeah, again, it depends on how many long guns he is trying to store.

 

[CABilly]

I'd say inside is better than the garage.

I have a few safe options in my home. One is a flush between-the-studs wall safe with a mechanical Simplex lock, with a wall art thing I rigged up to slide on a file cabinet drawer rated for 50 lbs. It is completely concealed and accessible within seconds. (I chose the Simplex lock because there is no chance of it failing. Fewer options and costs more than fancy fingerprint ones, but I like the fast analog action)

Another is more obvious box with an electronic lock that releases a gravity-powered door and presents the pistol ready to grab.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B006OGNLK...nt=&hvlocphy=9032274&hvtargid=pla-83845031846

But, I haven't brought home my real safes. One is at my dad's house, one is in storage. My plan is to have one in the bedroom and one behind a false wall in a room upstairs. Both will be mounted to the floor and the wall.

 

[littlebeast]

OMG kids - it's the internet. why you would provide any sort of public detail regarding your security situation is beyond me. first lesson my SO ground into my head - stealth. and no observable value (everything looks like shit from the outside).

 

[Eldritch]

OMG kids - it's the internet. why you would provide any sort of public detail regarding your security situation is beyond me. first lesson my SO ground into my head - stealth. and no observable value (everything looks like shit from the outside).

Well, granted, security through obscurity is essential, but most these kids really haven't given up very much here.

 

[asdfghwy]

Why don't you just build a facade so people walking buy wouldn't see a safe at all. Maybe hollow out an old beatup dresser/storage from craigslist

 

[Paulo666]

My friend does general contracting and he has a huge gun safe in a walk in closet. To make it really secure he cut a hole in the floor and poured cement connecting it to the houses foundation this way the safe cannot be lifted up at all it's cemented to the house. Solid wood doors for the closet just for added security and a good lock.

It's also bolted to the wall, he put an LED light inside so when the door opens it automatically turns them on and you can see the guns nicely so pretty sweet set up.