Ways to store your home defense long gun

Kvon2 · August 31, 2016, 09:52 PM

Exciting news - I'm under contract on my first house and the girlfriend and I are moving in together.

Bad news - the gun cabinet is not on the list of furniture she wants in the bedroom.

I typically keep a shotgun cruiser read in the cabinet and I would like to keep my shotgun as my HD weapon but I don't want to leave it in a corner or under the bed.

We don't have kids but there will be children around every now and then plus friends, family, and possibly a dog walker.

Anyone have any safer storage ideas?

Doyle · August 31, 2016, 10:02 PM

Most convenient is to abandon the shotgun and go to a handgun that you can keep in a drawer lockbox. Stackon makes a nice vertical opening drawer box that you can open via push button even in total darkness.

Old Bill Dibble · August 31, 2016, 11:00 PM

A swing out panel panel over a hollow in the closet wall will work but won't stop a good thief. If you want to lock it there are tons of long gun locks that will secure it to something heavy.

Koda94 · September 1, 2016, 01:10 AM

get a second cheap small slender safe and bolt it in the bedroom closet bebind the clothes.

really though Im not certain what the delimma is... when you get home take the gun out of the safe and put it in your bedroom, then just put the shotgun back in the safe when you leave the house. Keep it there when the children and other company comes over.

Bartholomew Roberts · September 1, 2016, 07:19 AM

They now make at least five or six different quick access gun safes that are designed to fit under a bed and still give you access to a long gun in seconds. Most of them are fairly affordable too (more gun cabinet than safe really).

FITASC · September 1, 2016, 08:30 AM

https://www.amazon.com/Shotlock-Shot...t+shotgun+lock

kilimanjaro · September 1, 2016, 09:40 AM

A handgun and safe seems to be in order, here. You can tell your girlfriend it's either that or the gun cabinet, if she asks.

The shotgun can go in the closet, in a locked case, like it should be, seeing as how you will have guests.

g.willikers · September 1, 2016, 10:07 AM

Hmm, I don't recall asking my better half for permission for doing something similar.

jaytothekizzay · September 8, 2016, 06:30 PM

Ditch the girlfriend, keep the shotgun... seriously

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zoomie · September 8, 2016, 07:07 PM

Two VLine options.

Mount either one in the closet, or mount the second one in the bedroom with a full length mirror over it.

August 31, 2016, 09:52 PM	#1
Kvon2 Senior Member Join Date: January 4, 2016 Posts: 757	Ways to store your home defense long gun Exciting news - I'm under contract on my first house and the girlfriend and I are moving in together. Bad news - the gun cabinet is not on the list of furniture she wants in the bedroom. I typically keep a shotgun cruiser read in the cabinet and I would like to keep my shotgun as my HD weapon but I don't want to leave it in a corner or under the bed. We don't have kids but there will be children around every now and then plus friends, family, and possibly a dog walker. Anyone have any safer storage ideas?

September 1, 2016, 01:10 AM	#4
Koda94 Senior Member Join Date: November 25, 2012 Location: Cascadia Posts: 1,294	get a second cheap small slender safe and bolt it in the bedroom closet bebind the clothes. really though Im not certain what the delimma is... when you get home take the gun out of the safe and put it in your bedroom, then just put the shotgun back in the safe when you leave the house. Keep it there when the children and other company comes over. __________________ lightweight, cheap, strong... pick 2

September 1, 2016, 08:30 AM	#6
FITASC Senior Member Join Date: December 6, 2014 Posts: 6,446	https://www.amazon.com/Shotlock-Shot...t+shotgun+lock __________________ "I believe that people have a right to decide their own destinies; people own themselves. I also believe that, in a democracy, government exists because (and only so long as) individual citizens give it a 'temporary license to exist'—in exchange for a promise that it will behave itself. In a democracy, you own the government—it doesn't own you."- Frank Zappa

September 1, 2016, 10:07 AM	#8
g.willikers Senior Member Join Date: September 28, 2008 Posts: 10,442	Hmm, I don't recall asking my better half for permission for doing something similar. __________________ Walt Kelly, alias Pogo, sez: “Don't take life so serious, son, it ain't nohow permanent.”

August 31, 2016, 10:02 PM	#2
Doyle Senior Member Join Date: June 20, 2007 Location: Rainbow City, Alabama Posts: 7,167	Most convenient is to abandon the shotgun and go to a handgun that you can keep in a drawer lockbox. Stackon makes a nice vertical opening drawer box that you can open via push button even in total darkness.

August 31, 2016, 11:00 PM	#3
Old Bill Dibble Senior Member Join Date: July 25, 2016 Posts: 802	A swing out panel panel over a hollow in the closet wall will work but won't stop a good thief. If you want to lock it there are tons of long gun locks that will secure it to something heavy.

September 1, 2016, 07:19 AM	#5
Bartholomew Roberts member Join Date: June 12, 2000 Location: Texas and Oklahoma area Posts: 8,462	They now make at least five or six different quick access gun safes that are designed to fit under a bed and still give you access to a long gun in seconds. Most of them are fairly affordable too (more gun cabinet than safe really).

September 1, 2016, 09:40 AM	#7
kilimanjaro Senior Member Join Date: November 23, 2009 Posts: 3,963	A handgun and safe seems to be in order, here. You can tell your girlfriend it's either that or the gun cabinet, if she asks. The shotgun can go in the closet, in a locked case, like it should be, seeing as how you will have guests.

September 8, 2016, 06:30 PM	#9
jaytothekizzay Senior Member Join Date: February 4, 2008 Location: st. louis Posts: 450	Ditch the girlfriend, keep the shotgun... seriously Sent from my SM-G935V using Tapatalk

September 8, 2016, 07:07 PM	#10
zoomie Senior Member Join Date: January 23, 2006 Location: GA Posts: 1,863	Two VLine options. Mount either one in the closet, or mount the second one in the bedroom with a full length mirror over it.