ideal gun safe / gun room

[Highspeed]

Having lived in a country where gun safes are compulsory I don't have much time for them. I want my guns where I can get at them quickly, if you can't do that then they are about as much use as a balloon on a stick.

My idea of a gun safe is a plastic pipe buried somewhere in a field with the directions as to how to find it encrypted.

[randy]

In tornado country, my gun room would also be a safe room/shelter. Below grade, solid concrete slab overhead, etc.

HS, for me a gun room would be storage for any toys not actively being carried as a CCW piece, or on alert in other areas of the house. As well as ammo and accessory storage.

Ideally big enough for a reloading bench and a workbench as well.

[randy]

high PSI 'crete walls

What's considered High PSI in the current civilian building trades?

Structures I used to study were made out of 5,000 PSI concrete. Usually with a 6 foot thick slab between the roof and ground level.

I figure the burster slab is probably a little excessive, but then it would hold up well to an EF5 tornado!

It's amazing how much difference there is in discussing your tornado shelter with some folks vs your underground weapons storage bunker.

[rightisright]

What's considered High PSI in the current civilian building trades?

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Standard for house/addition/deck footings is 3000 here in NJ.

We can bump up to 5000 psi from most plants (although it's almost always overkill).

Above that, it's specialty stuff and the price rises accordingly. In 25 years, I've never used anything over 5000*. The higher stuff is heavy duty military, hi-rise, etc. applications.

*My work is exclusively residential/light commercial.

[cu74]

In tornado country, my gun room would also be a safe room/shelter. Below grade, solid concrete slab overhead, etc.

Well, here in Kansas I do have a gun cabinet down in the below grade, solid concrete slab overhead, etc. safe room. Sadly, the gun cabinet is small....

[arctictom]

I lost all my firearms in an awful fire , I only have the one hand gun.

[arctictom]

AND, if I had any firearms , and if I built my own house , their would be a false wall or perhaps a trap door to a double pored wall concert room with a serious safe door and lock.

[Catbird]

With my lottery winnings, I will build a house with a finished basement. Adjacent to this basement will be a reinforced concrete box with a bank vault door hidden behind a sliding panel. Above this gun room/den will be a garage or warehouse with a removable floor panel which can be winched out of the way to allow access for large items such as a leather couch, widescreen tv, or 105 mm howitzer.

If there's money left over, there will be an escape tunnel leading beyond the treeline to an exit hatch concealed in a tree stump a la Hogan's Heroes.

[Yogimus]

My ideal "Gun room" would be every room in my house. With guns in it.

[Netpackrat]

My ideal "Gun room" would be every room in my house. With guns in it.

Buy a holster. Then every room you are in can have a gun in it.