The Gun Counter

No pics, since it's a bland old safe. The only fun part was watching three of the six over-280-pounds-each delivery guys place the safe on the landing to my basement steps, then climb over it so they could get into position to ease the safe down the steps. The two biggest guys stayed behind the safe to act as counterweights by attaching loading straps to themselves and the safe, two of them held the safe from the front while the third braced against one of the pillars and acted as a brace for those two. The last guy was the one who held the appliance dolly and guided the safe down the steps.

The process was more impressive than the safe, to be sure. It's a 24-gun safe, which means "24 long guns or 12 long guns and storage." With everything I've got, I'll have enough space for the FUDD-15 if it ever gets done, Dad's 870 and four other rifles. The handgun collection is a different matter, though. The shelves are going to get crowded.

I hope there's in internal release mechanism in case you ever get shoved inside and the door closed!! That's a decent-sized safe (one I'd LOVE to have in my house). What'd they do, assemble it in your house while you weren't looking???

It's not that huge... I have enough space in the long guns section for three more firearms. Why? I just brought over my remaining AR & upper, the Marlin 60 and Iver-Johnson Champion .410 that Dad gave to me a couple of years ago... and he also gave me the 870 he carried in his patrol car while he was a police officer.

Jaw drop? YES. VERY. YES.

There won't be pictures of the safe, but here's some pics of the 870...





And a closeup of the work on the slide. This was stock for his shotgun.

Very sweet, but where's the pictures of the SAFE????? I want to see the SAFE.

I FIRMLY understand now that buying a gun safe is very much like buying a street motorcycle. It won't be very long before you realize that you bought too small and wish you'd bought something MUCH larger (after all, you know realize that getting something intermediate is only going to satisfy you for a little bit).

After I bought my safe, it wasn't even SIX MONTHS before I figured out that I needed a much larger safe - even if my gun purchases hadn't kept up with my storage capability. After all, we use our safe for MUCH MORE than simple gun storage (we also keep some ammo in there to protect it in case of fire - but it's nothing compared to the rest of our ammo storage in the garage).

I wish I'd bought a MUCH bigger safe (double size would have been reasonable now - but I bet I could fill that one too!!).

YMMV