Gun Safe or Gun Cabinet

The way things are today how do I keep the investment of my firearms safe and secure? First ask yourself what are the chances that someone will break into my home? I know that right after I write this and you read it that breaking news on TV will be how someone home in the city next you had their home broken in to. Even with that said I Keep my home locked up that best that I can and feel confident that if a thief really wants in he is in I am not going to make it easy for them but other than have someone on guard twenty four seven. I feel safe in my own home and area.

Even though I feel this way in my home I have two types of gun storage in my home. I have a wooden gun cabinet in the den that the rifles, shotguns, pistols and other firearms that I use often are kept there. In a Wooden cabinet with elaborate etched door so that when you walk by it catches our eye to look at the gun cabinet and gives me a chance to unlock the doors and pull off a piece of finely crafted work of steel and wood, be it The 458 single shot rifle that my nephew made in Wyoming or the Old side by side that I hunt pheasant with in Iowa, it is nice to know that I can have them close at hand. The house is locked and the Gun Cabinet is Locked and the neighbors all know that a there more than one gun in that house. So if you are breaking in to steal something or one of MY GUN’s you better make sure that I or any of my family is not home. Anyway that is another Post or article down the road.

Those guns are all safe in the Wooden Gun Cabinet in my den. Good manufactures’ of wooden gun cabinets are: American Gun Cabinet, Sedona Gun Cabinet, American Furniture and Scout Products to name a few.

I stated that I have two gun storage systems in my home the other is a Gun Safe. I have that hidden gun storage in my master bedroom closet. I would devastated if any of the guns in the gun cabinet came up missing  so the guns that are irreplaceable I keep in the gun safe. We also keep other irreplaceable item in the Gun Safe as well Passports, deeds, birth certificates and my wife’s great grandmother’s jewelry.  There is something you cannot replace. I could go out and buy a new 54 cal Hawkins but it in no way replace the Hawkins that my farther given to me to deer hunt with it would be a 54 cal rifle how can you out a value of some things it was given to my freely.

These items are safe in my Gun Safe Locked in my home, hidden in the master bedroom and locked in a gun safe. Good manufactures’ of Gun Safes are:  Liberty Safe, Sentry Gun Safe, Browning Company and Cannon Safe to name a few.

Buying Gun Safes or Wooden Gun Cabinet online or shopping at a sporting goods store can be done look up some of related resources at this site you will find some great place to purchase your next gun cabinet or gun safe.

For addition gun security a display case that doubles as a hidden gun cabinet. This curio cabinet is designed to add the touch of class or style to the living room or den in your home.

You can display your small family heirloom, those hard to find antiques that you have spent years searching for or your wife’s knick-knack that she wants the world to see her Hummel collection. The hidden gun cabinets that I recommend are made of wood Oak, Walnut, stained or natural. Best conceal that built inside this curio, knick-knack cabinet is a Gun storage section hidden from onlookers of novelty items being displayed.                                            

There are many different styles of hidden gun storage system.  The curio cabinet we have already discussed, the built behind the book case in the wall, behind storage closet at the end of the hallway or a hidden room is a few other ideas of way to conceal your guns in your home. All of these ideas and more can be GOOGLE and found on the internet.

Another hidden gun cabinet that I have found that can be displayed in your home, den or office is the ingeniously concealed gun cabinet in a well designed bookcase. To show off your hidden gun collection, unlock and swing open the single or double doors to you person gun exhibit.  Making it so difficult to detect as a gun cabinet that most people would not know that it is where you are storing your firearms and typical burglar would just walk by or take what was on the book shelf not knowing what was behind or inside the book library shelf. Glass door can also be added to the front of you book case or library to protect the collectable books, knick-knack or any item that you want dust free. Concealing even more that the on looker is also unknowingly looking at a Gun cabinet as well.

In today’s state of wanting to be politically correct and secure in your own home, if you feel that you want to have your shotguns, rifles, pistols or any other firearm in your home but, out of site, then have a hidden gun cabinet that accents your home and keeps your firearms safe and the safety of your family as well is the choose for you.

 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.