Home gun safe

Liberty Fat Boy Extreme with golden rod and light kit. Perfect size for me

I'm here for the comments. Academy has some small long gun safes 18-26 guns for decent prices but they're all out of stock. I don't need anything fancy or huge. I know the cheap gun "cabinets" would be better than nothing but a crack head could basically get into them with a Bic pen

Here's a couple links. They're cheap and probably shitty brands but I really don't GAF and wish they were in stock

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Get the biggest one you can fir and afford. They don't hold as many guns as advertised unless each gun is the perfect size, and your collection will likely grow rather than shrink. There may also be other items (jewelry, cash, financial docs) that you'd like to keep in it.

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All of this ^^^^^

While the quick access of an electronic lock is appealing I prefer a good S&G dial lock as it has no electronics to fail. In a perfect world, I'd like to have both but those are uncommon.

When looking at fire ratings remember that those are for a certain temperature limit and duration, it's not absolute. Consider where you plan to put your safe from a fire point of view. For example if it's going to be in the basement and your home is fully engulfed in a fire, the contents of the safe probably won't survive. Consider putting it next to an outside wall which, in a fire, would collapse and expose the safe to outside relatively lower temps. Finally on fire rating, consider how close you are to the nearest fire station.

Make sure you use some good lag bolts to secure the safe to the floor, otherwise it's easy for a thief to tip it over and take a grinder to the thinner back/side panels or just cart if off completely for those I've seen put their safe in the garage. If you have the space, and you're putting it next to an outside wall, put another partial wall on the other side of the safe so it's only exposed on the front and maybe top. Making a little cubby area for the safe.

Lastly, the line about "buying bigger than you need" gets a lot of play but I'm much more of an advocate for instead of getting one really big safe, get 2 or 3 (or more) mid-sized safes and put them in different locations to distribute your risk. Because if someone DID get into your one big safe they've got everything.

One of my safes has that fancy shite. Wifi or Bluetooth with some app to your phone. It was too complicated for me. So I just use the keys.

My shite only gets locked up if I'm away for the weekend or whatever. I keep my firearms positioned in every room of my house and readily available to shoot a coyote, squirrel or whatever else finds itself in my optics. We just had new windows installed and I'm not getting screens put in. I want to be able to shoot effectively from any window and angle.

I live out in the sticks and I don't have kids, so I don't have any firearms that don't get handled and used on a semi-regular basis. Front room has plate carrier, molle drop leg rig with my 10mm Glock in it and a rifle. Bedroom has a 18" shotgun, 2 handguns and a rifle. Living room has a 12 gauge and 2 rifles. Kitchen has one handgun. Spare bedrooms have rifles. Haha. frick em.

That's safe for a child, a honest thief, and your drunk arse when you can't remember the combination

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I added a Golden Rod in it

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Is that necessary?

Curious as what are some really needed safe accessories and what are some things that are "nice to have".

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small long gun safes 18-26 guns

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Which maybe will hold 6 rifles. The other 12-20 guns must fit in the small pockets located on the interior of the door.

I have a Winchester from Tractor Supply. It does the job and doesn't cost a fortune. Still heavy as hell, though.