One of the things you begin to notice as you collect firearms is theamount of space they begin to take up. Soon enough, you start to see why gun cabinets are so large, and why most of them are so damned expensive.

My biggest problem wioth most gun cabinests was their sheer size, followed closely by their cost. A decent gun cabinet cost as much as a decent used car, and the cheap ones might just as well be made out of tissue paper. A cabinet big enough for my (albeit small) collection with enough room to grow was going to take up a 3 foot square space. I needed a place to keep the growing oglet out of the collection as well, so something had to be done soon.

So i put a heavy door on my closet and a deadbolt, and stored the long guns amid my trousers for a long time. Worked ok, but I got tired of having to dig for keys every time I wanted a shirt.

So I started looking around. There were a lot of small safes with room for several guns but nothing in my price range that wasn’t made like a glorified filing cabinet.
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