To insure that you keep you rifle, shotgun, pistols or any other firearms secure from damage to a from your favorite hunting spot or shooting range a gun case is an necessity that you cannot afford to ignore.  The days of have that rifle or shotgun hanging in the back of your old pick-up is just about history. Unless you are at the farm or ranch hunting groundhogs or coyotes whenever one show his carcass in that open field or fencerow. I am not sure that I like the way we are headed as far as the way I can carry my firearms. I guess there is a different in the term hand carry and transporting but that is a different subject to talk about at another time.

I first started this site to inform people about home gun cabinet and securing their firearms and family’s safety by purchasing something they can use to secure the rifles, shotguns, and pistol in their homes. I was surprised to have found so many styles and models available that a wide range of prices from the small budget of the average working man to whatever price you want to pay.

While looking at the gun cases that I purchased over the years there only two that are the same. I have hard plastic cases, cloth cases, aluminum case and a wooden gun case for my double barrel and over and under shotguns. To determining what style of gun case you would need you will have to ask yourself some questions. Where am I hunting? How many guns will I need when I get there?  How will I be carrying my firearm by hand, four-wheeler, jeep or horse back?

The cost of a gun case is considerably less than a gun cabinet but, I have seen a few in my day that cost more than most of the guns that own. The wide availability of gun case makes it very easy to purchase a gun case. Cabela’s have one of the best variety of gun cases in one place that I have found. The price ranges from under $20 dollars for a soft cloth gun case and hard plastic gun case to $ 100 dollars. I have even found a $10 dollar soft gun case there.

The Aluminum gun cases and the wooden take -down gun cases cost a little more but, you will be surprise that these gun cases are not that expense compared to the gun that they are designed to protect.

 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.