There many ways to keep your guns safer, from simple trigger locks to disassembling the firearm to where it will not fire or discharge. We all want to keep unauthorized people and children from accidentally firing any rifle, shotgun or pistol.  Eliminating their ability to get access to any firearm is best, by locking your firearm in home gun cabinet, gun safe, pistol lock box or even a locked closet. If eliminating access to that rifle, shotgun or pistol is not possible then you could attach a trigger lock, cable lock or disassemble the firearm to where it cannot be fired.

There several different types of trigger lock show below.

These are very inexpensive less than $15 dollars and for the package of six I have found them for under $30 dollars.

The most appealing features are they are widely available from your local hardware store to any Wal-Mart store. They may prevent discharging the firearm but it cannot prevent someone to loading the gun. The first rule for gun safety is never leave a gun loaded and always act as if it is loaded, never pointing at anyone. Caution should be taken never load with the trigger lock in place  under certain circumstances the gun could fire a trigger lock cannot be used on a lever-action  rifle or shotgun, keys and combinations must be kept away from children and other unauthorized persons.

Cable locks are another way to make your firearm safer it is a gun lock system that disables the firearm from being fired.                   They can be used on wide variety of firearm from bolt action to semiautomatic. The cable gum lock is very available and be found in the same places as the trigger locks. You can use this style of locking system to lock the gun to a solid object. Caution should be taken to insure to install according to the direction, not around the trigger and keys and combinations must be kept away from all unauthorized persons and the cable could be cut with a hacksaw or with a set of cable cutter.

Disassembling the firearm to create a condition with that firearm to a state that the gun cannot fire or be discharged is another safe way to insure peace of mind on keeping unauthorized persons from firing the firearm. On a bolt-action rifle the bolt can easily remove and stored somewhere secure. On semiautomatic the trigger assembly can be remove with simple gun punch and stored in a secure place. On a revolver the cylinder can be remover and place in safe keeping somewhere secure. The goal should be to make firearms safer.

Comparing Gun Safe to a Gun Cabinet which is better? There many answers to that question. The best way to find out that answer would be to determine the individual’s needs and how much they can afford to spend purchasing a gun safe or gun cabinet.

 A gun safe is made of metal and most gun cabinet are made of metal unless you purchase a wooden gun cabinet for the living room or den to show off you gun collection. Now days you can find a large metal gun safe that will accent that same room style an elegant. The wooden gun cabinet may keep you firearms safe from being damage by keeping them in a secured place and out of unauthorized little hands and locked.

Gun cabinet or gun safe being made of metal will detour would be thieves from coming into your home a breaking out the glass in your wooden gun cabinet take the rifles, shotguns and pistols that think they can sell or use. Making it harder for someone to just come and quickly walk off with your firearms is what you should be looking at. Gun safes are heave, making simply picking it up and walking out the front door with the guns almost impossible.  The home gun cabinet is lighter in height but are designed to be fastened to the floor of studs in the wall from inside the lockable cabinet out so, that there is no visible anchor points to dismount the cabinet and use it as a carrying case for your own gun for the would be theft.

You want to detour unauthorized person from getting to you rifles, shotguns and pistol but, you also want to access your gun safe or gun cabinet as quickly as possible. Location is one of the things that could hinder you from getting that pistol out for security reason to protection of you, your property and family’s safety.  The type of lock could make a different; a combination lock is quick as long as you do not forget the combination code. A typical key lock style is good if you know where you hid the key, it’s not going to keep Old great grandpa’s shotgun safe from thieves if you leave the key in the door lock.  There is a third type of lock for your Gun safe or gun cabinet it is a biometric lock, basically it uses you finger print to activate the locking mechanism. Not  too similar with the last style of lock but, I understand that it takes a computer chip to read your finger print and process that data to determine if it is your finger print so  the faster the chip the better you are.

Determining how much to spend on a gun safe or gun cabinet depend on your individual finances. You could ask yourself how much do I have invested on the guns that I already have, what guns I may purchase in the future and what the most practical way to protect my investment is.

Stack on Gun cabinet and Pistol boxes

Stack On Gun make a wide variations of  gun cabinets, gun safes and pistol boxes to meet your needs. I have an 8 gun cabinet the fits nicely in my master bedroom closet.  The location is idea for me, if late at night while I’m asleep, I know where the key to the gun cabinet is hidden and I can quickly have access to whatever firearm that I deem necessary.

We use the Pistol box to keep our important document that we have at home secured. My wife keeps some of here jewelry that does not wear very much or just could not replace if she wanted too. She would not forgive herself or me if something happen to her great-grandmother ring and necklace for one.

The gun cabinet not only keep my rifles, shotguns, pistol and ammunition secured and safe from damage from not being stored properly dings, dents, scratches etc by having all of my firearm lock away it keeps my family safe from inquiring little minds and hands.   I used to keep them locked up from my two children, now I keep my rifles, shotguns and pistols secured away from my two grandsons. It is amazing how just in a matter of a few minutes where and what those two boys can get into. If I could bottle up that energy and put it on the market place that will be another post. My point being we have peace of mind thanks to the Stack On Gun Cabinet that we have in our home.

The cost of our peace of mind verses the cost of replacing my grandfather’s double-barreled shotgun, my wife’s ring and necklace from her great grandmother, our passports and other items we want to keep at home and safe make purchasing a Stack On Gun Cabinet economic sense to us.

The next new gun cabinet that we purchase will be a larger model because my needs have change and Grand-dad might have to purchase an extra rifle or shotgun or two for those grandsons of mine. The upstairs bonus room that grand-dad get to claim as his, would be a nice place to have a stylish gun cabinet, gun safe or maybe a wooded gun cabinet beside the deer mounts and Ruffle grouse and picture of Zak my bird dog a German short hair pointer and pictures of the two grandsons.