Way OT Home Made Gun Cabinet

Anyways, I've found plans for a gun cabinet that I think would be neat to build. We could use a better place to store firearms. Trouble is, we've been juggling around the idea of an actual gun safe. That would solve our storage problem, but then I'm out of something to do. Here's where your opinion comes in...

I could build the bottom part of the cabinet, then wait and see what the call is on a safe, and proceed from there.

I would have to modify the design a bit. We have several long guns, so the right hand shelves probably would be converted to more long gun racks. Or possibly racks on either side, with a set of shelves right down the middle?

But then if we get a safe anyways, I could just make the top racks all shelves and have a really nice book case or shelving.

Thanks, and I apologize for the OT post. If there's a better spot you can direct me to, that would be great also.

Kevin

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Other safes are much heavier but I think it was a good deal and serves it's purpose.

Bill

Well, it looks like a nice project - how about adding a few shelves, lights and giving it to your wife for a china/curio cabinet?

As far as guns, in today's society, last thing you want to do is put them on display in your living room in a easily breached cabinet. Too many folks are out there who will be casing your place, looking for your valuables. You can't afford to have your guns stolen and end up in the wrong hands. Not only is there the obvious $ loss, but there are liability issues - the way juries and lawyers look for scape goats today. Then what if someone were to be injured or killed with one of your stolen guns? Wouldn't that bother you the rest of your life? Your best option is a locked gunsafe, hidden away where it isn't obvious to the burgler who's doing a fast grab & get. Gun safes range from $100 on up, and you get the security that you pay for. Better the safe, longer it will take for them to get into it - more likely they are to give up and go elsewhere. If you have some special guns with sentimental value, like grandpa's old double barrel, etc, this becomes even more important, because such items are irrepacible.

Kevin

Back in the early 60's we went to the grocery store for an hour and when we came back the garage door and the doors of the house were standing wide open. The thieves took a TV and the guns out of a cabinet that looked similar to the one in your plans. Those cabinets look nice but are not very practical.