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gorfle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 12:24 PM
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Bought a gun safe today.
Well, all thanks to Iverglas, who changed my mind on storing firearms, I went and bought a gun safe today. Thanks to a recommendation of a user here on DU, I bought a Stack-On 14-gun safe from Dick's Sporting goods. As luck would have it, it was on sale for $150. It's very basic - not much more than a lockable office cabinet, but it is California Department of Justice approved for storing firearms.

I've owned firearms all my adult life and never had a gun safe. Our oldest is now three and a half, and mostly I wanted to make sure curious hands stayed off of them.
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 12:35 PM
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1. Great! Be sure anchor it to the flore though.
Some crooks will cart off a light weight safe only to open it later as time allows. Did you get a key lock or a combo lock?
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gorfle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 04:09 PM
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7. It's bolted to the wall.
I bolted it to the wall with 4 lag bolts, but frankly, I think anyone with a crowbar could rip it from the wall with little effort. It's definitely a light safe, as I could pick it up when it was empty.

It's a key lock safe.
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Hoopla Phil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 06:44 PM
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10. Yeah, that may be but nothing is 100% secure. It's all about making it
too much trouble for the bag guys so they go elsewhere.
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iverglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:51 PM
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18. the bag guys

with their swag in their swag bags.





Could not resist!
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jeepnstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 12:37 PM
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2. Good for you!
It's money very well-spent. I'm a safety fanatic when it comes to firearms. They're great tools. But they're incredibly dangerous tools.

Kids are exposed to so much violence and gunplay in the popular media these days they really don't have a proper frame of reference for firearm safety. It is up to us to see to it that our children are safe if we choose to own firearms.

Once that bullet leaves the barrel, you can never put it back.
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stuball111 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 12:54 PM
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3. Smart Man
Safety first!
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Oceansaway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 12:58 PM
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4. i agree...n/t
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 01:24 PM
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5. If you put it in your garage, make sure you keep a desiccant in it
A safe can get damp inside in wet weather so you'll need something to keep the moisture down. Remington makes a plug in rechargeable dryer that sells for about 20 bucks. It takes about 8 hours to recharge and keeps working for a week or two depending n outiside temperatures and humidity.

It works too. I can store black powder substitute in my safe (very hygroscophic) with no problem.
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gorfle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 06:10 PM
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9. It's in the master bedroom closet
I would never store firearms in a non-air-conditioned space.
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 07:18 PM
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22. Why in the fuck
Edited on Tue Aug-04-09 07:19 PM by AtheistCrusader
are you telling people what you have, what model safe it's stored in, and the specific location?

Its not impossible to discover who someone on the internet is.

Edit: I mean fuck, an angry beaver could break into that gun cabinet.
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 01:58 PM
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6. Not really a safe, but very useful for keeping kids and opportunistic thieves from getting your guns
Edited on Sat Aug-01-09 01:59 PM by aikoaiko
Right now, I have a handgun lockbox and the others are locked in cases. A stackon would be an improvement.

And you get a recommend from me for being a responsible gun owner.
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 04:09 PM
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8. Good decision
:hi:

Now baldguy can't say you are irresponsible, at least in the eyes of the state of California.
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Tim01 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 06:44 PM
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11. It's always hard to tell with kids that age.
At about that time my boy burned his hand on the stove, cut himself on a razor, and stuck a wire in the outlet all in the same week.
The guns had been locked as soon as he started to crawl. He had a habit of heading directly for trouble as soon as my back was turned. Very inquisitive.
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proteus_lives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 07:59 PM
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12. Safety always comes first! Great decision!
I don't own a gun safe (I only have one gun in the house and no kids) but you can't be too careful with kids that are too young to understand how dangerous weapons are.

I'll inherit my dad's gun safes along with his collection and they are the right step for any owner.

:toast:
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nilram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:01 PM
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13. RIGHT ON!
I'm sure it was expensive, but a lot less costly than than any outcome of an accident.

And thanks -- I'd rather read this than any newspaper story about a gun mishap.
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gorfle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:28 PM
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15. $150.
It was only $150. I've been putting off buying one because I figured I'd be spending at least $800. Thanks to someone here on DU, I learned about these Stack-On safes. $150 is just about all our disposable income for the month, but my wife and I are both happy that the guns are now locked up.
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 08:26 PM
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14. I have the same cabinet..
.. no kids, it's more of an organizer than a safety feature for us.
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burrfoot Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:47 PM
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16. Well done! n/t
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iverglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:48 PM
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17. see??

and they tell me I never persuade anybody of anything. ;)

Congratulations on the new thingy.

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spin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 03:36 PM
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31. Good job, Iverglas ...
Congrats to you also.
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iverglas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 10:53 PM
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19. oh yes - recommended, of course!
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oneshooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-01-09 11:12 PM
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20.  Just remember
that as your collection grows, both in number and value, you will want to invest in a larger, stronger safe. Mine did and now I have 4 safes. They weigh 650lbs each empty and are bolted to the floor.

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas
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SsevenN Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 03:13 PM
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21. Awesome!
I got my safe at wal-mart, I think it was 350....

It's mounted to a stud in the wall, and has just about filled its self up!



My HD shotgun resides out side the safe at night...
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PavePusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-04-09 09:07 PM
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23. Nice! I need one of those...
Are they tall enough for a Moisin-Nagant 91/30?

By the way, nice AR, shotty (Mossberg or Remington? Inquiring minds...), and is that a Saiga in the center? .308 or Russki?
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SsevenN Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 09:59 AM
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24. Thanks!
Yeah I'm pretty sure you could squeeze a Nagant in there, but don't quote me on it as I haven't handeled one in over a year....

From L to R in the safe: Cetme .308 (HK-91 clone) Saiga .410 (local pest control) and a Romarms RPK (Heavy barrel/Bi-pod/lots of 50 round mags :))

The shotgun pictured below is a Moossberg 500 'rolling thunder'

It's currently set up with a colapsible stock...
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burrfoot Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 10:17 AM
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25. Beautiful shotty!
I've got a Mossberg 500 "Persuader"; a little simpler setup but otherwise identical. F#@king love it. Real KISS gun.

Is that a silencer on the end of yours?? Do they make them for shotguns???
Also, just out of curiosity, is that the shock absorbing stock or just a straight collapsible?

Sweet rig, brother.

:toast:
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SsevenN Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 10:22 AM
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26. Thanks ; )
Edited on Wed Aug-05-09 10:23 AM by SsevenN
The giant tube over the muzzel is a 7" ported compensator, it's designed to reduce the muzzel whip when being fired from the hip. I figured it was about the perfect HD set up, as that is what it was designed to do :)


I WISH the stock was recoil absorbing, heh. I went skeet shooting with it a couple times and it definatley puts your shoulder in place :)

But at the moment it serves the function I bought it for ;)
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burrfoot Donating Member (801 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 01:25 PM
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27. Sorry about the hijack, OP...
but I'm curious SsevenN- do you find that when shooting from the hip you have to compensate for a tendency to aim too high?
I'm back and forth about this- right now I've got a regular stock on it, the pistol grip is sitting in my safe.
I guess with your setup, though, you have the choice at any time. I may need to pick one of those up.

My shoulder feels your pain. Down here in Sarasota we have a nice skeet/trap range set up as a course in the woods. One trip through is 100 shells, and damn me if I didn't bitch about my sore shoulder (with a smile, though) for at least two days after!

B-)
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SsevenN Donating Member (153 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-05-09 01:58 PM
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28. Well for me....
The benifit is the ability to shoot in a small roomed apt. There are areas in my home where drawing the shotgun to my shoulder would be difficult if not impossible. While I would rather shoot that way, the ability to fire from the hip if need be is important to me. No one knows how a home invasion will play out, or how much time, space or distance will be involved.

My Shotgun is set up to hopefully give me the best of both, it's the kind of flexibility you cannot attain with a pistol or a rifle.
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spin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 03:33 PM
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30. I also have one of those Walmart safes...
It's also secured to the wall.

It may not be the best in the world, but it should keep amateur thieves out.

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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-16-09 03:25 PM
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29. The State of California approval for things related to firearms is a racket, but having them secured
is a good idea.

The NRA has some very good child training classes aimed at gun proofing kids. Get yours in them when they are the right age.
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