W.R.Buchanan
10-12-2013, 04:16 PM
I have a nice gun safe that I have had for nearly 30 years. It has been full for maybe 29.9 years.
I have several other guns that I want to lock up and CA has recently passed a law that if a gun is stolen from you because it wasn't locked up, and the person commits a crime with it, you go to jail and he goes free! or some BS like that.
I really only wanted to deter any amateur theft attempts since we live out of town and police protection is spotty at best.
I started looking for some kind of a locking metal cabinet instead of another safe that I had no place to put.
I found an outfit that makes a pretty good product that I'm going to tell you about.
The companies name is Stack On, and their products are well made in the US and affordable by anyone who shoots.
http://www.stack-on.com/categories/security-cabinets-gun-cabinets
I really wanted two cabinets, one for my garage shop so I could lock up my project guns, and another one for inside a closet to lock up my less expensive guns. All the really good stuff stays in the safe.
I found out that "Dick's Sporting Goods," a large Sporting goods chain, carried this product so I drove over to Oxnard and checked them out.
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=4414541
I was totally and pleasantly surprised at both the quality of the product, and the prices. I got two cabinets, a 10 gun (17" wide 13.5 deep and 53" high) for $119.95, and a much larger 18 gun cabinet (21"w 18" deep and 55" high) for $199.95. ( I couldn't have bought even a small cheap gun safe for $350.
Both of these have Regular Key Locks so they are easy to get in and out of, and they are made out of 18 ga steel and powder coated black. They are both very good looking cabinets and the workmanship is excellent!
One thing that must be said is that 18 ga steel is just under 1/16" in thickness, so these cabinets could be breached if some one knew what he was doing, however they will keep just about any less determined amateur out for sure.
The other thing I found was that the cabinets are not designed to be free standing The small one only weighed about 25 lbs. and the large one was around 50 lbs. so you could conceivably pick one up and run with it. However as I said above they are not designed to be free standing, they are designed to be lag bolted to a wall or floor, and all hardware to accomplish this is included. You could also put a bunch of lead shot bags in the bottom to deter any junior weightlifters new to the burglary business.
I mounted the small cabinet on a wall in an available space in my Machine Shop. I chose to mount the cabinet about 6" off the floor in case there was any flooding in the shop which can occasionally happen. I have to tell you once this thing was stuck to the wall it became pretty solid. IE; it ain't going anywhere! Any flimsiness was gone since the stud wall now is a part of the cabinet. I was really impressed.
The larger cabinet is in one of my closets. It has a lot more to it than the smaller cabinet does as far as configurations, gun racks and shelving options. All are included. You can have one shelf at the top with gun racks all around, which is what I chose to do. Or you can have multiple shelves on one side with a vertical partition and long guns on the other side, they have got you covered however you decide to go.
I have got to tell you, "These things are really worth the money!" They are affordable to anyone who is a shooter. You can get into them pretty quickly because of the key lock, and they will deter all but the most determined thieves, not to mention your kids.
This is a really good product and you should have a look. :bigsmyl2:
Randy
I have several other guns that I want to lock up and CA has recently passed a law that if a gun is stolen from you because it wasn't locked up, and the person commits a crime with it, you go to jail and he goes free! or some BS like that.
I really only wanted to deter any amateur theft attempts since we live out of town and police protection is spotty at best.
I started looking for some kind of a locking metal cabinet instead of another safe that I had no place to put.
I found an outfit that makes a pretty good product that I'm going to tell you about.
The companies name is Stack On, and their products are well made in the US and affordable by anyone who shoots.
http://www.stack-on.com/categories/security-cabinets-gun-cabinets
I really wanted two cabinets, one for my garage shop so I could lock up my project guns, and another one for inside a closet to lock up my less expensive guns. All the really good stuff stays in the safe.
I found out that "Dick's Sporting Goods," a large Sporting goods chain, carried this product so I drove over to Oxnard and checked them out.
http://www.dickssportinggoods.com/family/index.jsp?categoryId=4414541
I was totally and pleasantly surprised at both the quality of the product, and the prices. I got two cabinets, a 10 gun (17" wide 13.5 deep and 53" high) for $119.95, and a much larger 18 gun cabinet (21"w 18" deep and 55" high) for $199.95. ( I couldn't have bought even a small cheap gun safe for $350.
Both of these have Regular Key Locks so they are easy to get in and out of, and they are made out of 18 ga steel and powder coated black. They are both very good looking cabinets and the workmanship is excellent!
One thing that must be said is that 18 ga steel is just under 1/16" in thickness, so these cabinets could be breached if some one knew what he was doing, however they will keep just about any less determined amateur out for sure.
The other thing I found was that the cabinets are not designed to be free standing The small one only weighed about 25 lbs. and the large one was around 50 lbs. so you could conceivably pick one up and run with it. However as I said above they are not designed to be free standing, they are designed to be lag bolted to a wall or floor, and all hardware to accomplish this is included. You could also put a bunch of lead shot bags in the bottom to deter any junior weightlifters new to the burglary business.
I mounted the small cabinet on a wall in an available space in my Machine Shop. I chose to mount the cabinet about 6" off the floor in case there was any flooding in the shop which can occasionally happen. I have to tell you once this thing was stuck to the wall it became pretty solid. IE; it ain't going anywhere! Any flimsiness was gone since the stud wall now is a part of the cabinet. I was really impressed.
The larger cabinet is in one of my closets. It has a lot more to it than the smaller cabinet does as far as configurations, gun racks and shelving options. All are included. You can have one shelf at the top with gun racks all around, which is what I chose to do. Or you can have multiple shelves on one side with a vertical partition and long guns on the other side, they have got you covered however you decide to go.
I have got to tell you, "These things are really worth the money!" They are affordable to anyone who is a shooter. You can get into them pretty quickly because of the key lock, and they will deter all but the most determined thieves, not to mention your kids.
This is a really good product and you should have a look. :bigsmyl2:
Randy